There’s so much more to the story. In “A New Point Of View,” Pastor Steven Furtick teaches us that trusting God requires us to view our current situations from His point of view. #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – Point Of View Is Everything 2:16 – Context Changes A Story 4:06 – Getting On The Same Page As God 6:52 – Seeing Yourself Through Their Eyes 10:16 – The Point Of Your Life Scripture References: 1 Peter 5, verse 6 Revelation 4, verse 1
since I’m saying there’s so much more to
the story I just want to point out that
so much more to the story may not just
mean that it isn’t finished yet like
that there’s more to come but it also
as a phrase could mean
the story as it has been so far is much
different
than what you’ve been told about it
because in storytelling point of view is
everything so I want to talk about that
point of view is everything
point of view is everything have you
ever had a situation that felt really
big to you in one moment and really
small in the next what was different
you know the situation obviously can
change but let’s say it didn’t have you
ever had a situation that felt in the
moment like the biggest thing in the
world
later you saw
that kept me up at night that
okay
is probably
that the point of view changed
the point of view changes
sometimes because of you changing
sometimes the point of view changes
because of you
as you change the way you see things
changes as you mature as you grow
as you get tools
you should be able to look back over
your life and go oh wow I was a jerk
there and you don’t even have to
necessarily call the person and say I
was a jerk four and a half years ago
but at least to know it moving forward
and sometimes you make
repairs in relationships and sometimes
it would do more harm to open an old
wound
but see the point of view changes
because of you changing and if you don’t
let God change you that’s where you get
stuck in a story you go oh man this
always happens to me and never gets
moved my way and everybody always
picks on me
what is the uh
why is everybody always picking on me
character maybe you can put it in the
comments for me I don’t remember
but you know point of view
is everything
when it comes to
not only how you tell a story to a
friend I was telling somebody the other
day
about working with a certain individual
and I was like that was awesome they
came in they gave their all it was
incredible
person sitting in the room didn’t look
like they were on the same page as me
this person who had come in and worked
with me I had seen right they were they
were all in they were going hard the the
person in the room had been involved in
the lead up to the person coming in to
work with me and in the lead up the
person was really difficult
non-committal indecisive
I put a lot of extra strain on my team
who was helping to arrange all of the
details and so
you know in that particular situation
the person that was sitting in the room
with me had information
that changed the way that I saw the
story
there will be times in your life where
either an outside
Observer
or an inward witness will call to your
mind something that you just know
happened this way I know they took
advantage of me I know I did 97 of the
work and got three percent of the credit
and then
time shifts the story
because of you changing growing
evaluating
experiencing life gaining ability for
empathy
Because of You changes your point of
view changes
now
I’m gonna bring this to the gospel real
quick because we could do Joshua and
Moses but we could also do Jesus and the
disciples Moses discipled Joshua Jesus
discipled Peter imagine the difference
of Peter telling the story about Jesus
in The Garden of Gethsemane before and
after the resurrection
imagine he’s telling the story they came
up to get Jesus he was praying we were
sleeping maybe he leaves that part out
of the story
he was praying we were sleeping
and
um
I was trying to help
because when Barabbas came to get him I
cut his ear off
and Jesus didn’t even appreciate what I
did for him
he put his ear back on he undid the work
I did and then all of a sudden you know
at the cross when when he denies Jesus
in the courtyard and then isn’t there at
the cross and then he’s out fishing and
Jesus comes to get him and talks about
feeding my sheep and he goes on in his
ministry in the light of the empty tomb
rather than in the shadow of the cross I
believe he told a different story
after
he had lived through a few stages of
life and you will too
you will too maybe at the
at the time he wrote first Peter because
he was older then he’s he’s saying
humble yourself
like you don’t know
what you don’t know point of view is
everything I was young and now I’m old
but I never seen the righteous forsake
Him
and
you know we are not always on the same
page with God we’re not always on the
same page with God’s spirit
it may be helpful for us today sometimes
to
find those points of communion in
contact with God so we can get on the
same page so that we can have
his point of view
you you know that God has a purpose
in the Earth
and he’s working that purpose in your
life and there is a bigger picture
than any particular incident or
preference
there’s a bigger picture than your past
up to this point or your present pain
and to get into that place with God
where you can say all right Lord
I want
you to be my new point of view
and that means
allowing him to speak things about you
how he sees you because God sees you
different than you see you your
situation
you struggle
the injustices that have been done to
you the mistakes that you’ve made and
what you need to do next and what you
can do next
point of view is everything
the same Peter
that was saying never Lord telling Jesus
what to do but saying humble yourself
because of you changing because of view
because of you changing as you change
your point of view changes point of view
is everything in the story so a little
exercise that I was introduced to
recently
um
it was saying
how would somebody
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who admires you describe you
try seeing yourself Through The Eyes
of someone who admires you now that’s
hard for me because I am very
self-critical
I have a hard time giving myself credit
and because of that I probably don’t
encourage others as much as I should but
I’m working on this
and the advice see yourself Through The
Eyes of someone who admires you
sounded good to me and a little fluffy
if I’m honest but
in the process of considering it I
realized that my wife Holly
sees me through eyes of admiration
and it’s not the kind of admiration
that’s based on a lack of information
where she she doesn’t know me really
well and she only sees a certain side of
me
so she admires me she sees
everything
she sees the days in the past where I
couldn’t get out of bed because I was
depressed
she sees the days where
I go hide out in my man cave mind and
barely engage with the family she sees
the days that I’m irritated she sees the
days
then I’m short-tempered she sees the
days that I doubt myself
you know on an even more practical level
she sees the messes that I make she sees
the slob that I can be
and
yet even today
as I was waking up
I opened this letter that she had
written me
she gave me a stack of letters for
Christmas and
there are only about four or five of
them but I was on the fourth one
and she put a picture of me with a
little note about me and it was a
picture that she took of me getting
ready to preach in Los Angeles last year
and in the picture I’m kind of like
sitting there with my head in my hands
with my Bible in my hand
and uh I know how I felt in that moment
which was like
I’m not the man for this
who do I think I am going out to preach
to 12 000 people at the Forum in LA
you know I feel all this self-doubt and
I can almost see the self-doubt when I’m
looking at the picture but
she wrote me a note
saying thank you for working hard thank
you for not just relying on your gift
strictly
but seeking God to preach to us
and she said I hope you forgive me for
taking this picture without asking your
permission
and I thought
man I need to see myself sometimes
through her eyes because
all I see in those moments
is what I don’t have when I’m afraid I
can’t do
but she saw
a man who was trying to seek God
and lean into him
point of view is everything
point of you
the point of you the point
of your life
is not just to be self-serving the point
of you the point of your life
is to not just be a consumer who eats
all the messages that professional
marketers send to you every day the
point
of you
is to glorify God
and to know him
and to make him known
and so when God says to Joshua you will
lead these people
to inherit the land which I promised
their ancestors
Joshua is getting God’s point of you
point of view
what is the point of you being
in this marriage what is the point of
you being in this family what’s the
point of you being on that job what is
point of view being in that City Toronto
Wichita
Houston
Charlotte
what is the point of you being there
is so the glory of God can be revealed
he told Joshua you are leading these
people into the promise and God
is fulfilling
his purpose
and from God’s point of view it didn’t
start with you
so don’t start with you how could it
stop with you
begin to get work in you’ll be faithful
to complete it
God sees the end from the beginning
that’s his point of view
point of view
everything
I believe
that God can take you
into the future do you remember
the Apostle John he said after this I
looked and there before me was a door
standing open in heaven John Revelation
4 1. yeah
yeah that was different point of view
right
the voice say come up here I’ll show you
the things that much must take place
after this God said I’ll show you
get with me
get around people
who will not flatter you
not just gas you
and not only admire you in an empty way
but people who God can put in your life
to see
the things that God put inside of you
a view point of view
Kingdom of Heaven is in you
living from the inside out looks like
trusting God
even when you can’t see what he’s going
to do
getting his point of view his promise
and walking in it
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