Even when you feel far from God, He’s always close — walking through whatever you’re facing with you. This is an excerpt from “The Lazarus Factor.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch , click here: 
• The Lazarus Factor (God Of The Outcom… #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – What Will You Do With Your Disappointment? 2:11 – God’s With You In Your Pain 4:14 – Take God To That Place 6:18 – Is Your Heart A Closed Tomb? 9:16 – God Loves You
God brings us to these points to see
what will we do with our disappointment
she met him at the gate and she
confessed faith in him even in the
absence of the miracle that she so
desperately needed
I believe that you are the Son of God
who is to come into the world and after
verse 28 she had said this she went back
and called her sister Mary a sigh the
teacher is here she said and he’s asking
for you and when Mary heard this she got
up quickly and went to him now Jesus I
love the Bible Jesus had not yet entered
the village but was still at the place
where Martha had met him he will stand
where you need him to stand and he will
come as far as you invite him so listen
what that means if you choose to keep
God at a distance
he stood at the gate
and Mary was mad too
I love how they were both mad but they
still got a miracle
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I don’t know how this is going to go
over but give God an angry praise
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Mary fell down at his feet not in faith
but in frustration
but she came to him
and everybody followed her out there
everybody that came around
Aunt Margaret
just started with the letter m
Mary Martha Martin
so
she said verse 32.
she reached the place where he was and
saw him and fell at his feet and said
Lord if you’ve been here my brother
would not have died
Jesus saw a weeping
the Jews who had come along with her
also weeping he was deeply moved in
spirit and trouble when he saw her pain
he participated in it
the Lazarus factor is not only
that God gives miracles in desperation
the Lazarus Factor says that he is with
us
in the pain of disappointment as well
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and he asked Martha do you believe this
and he asked Mary for a location
where did you lay him
take me to that place
not the place that you let everybody
else see
that place
that place where you kind of buried
your belief in God
it was a rejection
that place
it was a loss
that place
it was a betrayal
that place
it’s a place where you feel exhausted
and it’s sometimes a place where you’re
embarrassed of it
it’s not the rooms in the house that you
show the guests
it’s the other rooms
that place
what I couldn’t figure out
was why did Jesus wait when he could
have come and spoken a word
and if he could have come and spoken a
word
why didn’t he just speak it from a
distance
he didn’t even have to come to Bethany
to heal Lazarus
but I think he wanted us to see
that he likes to come close
to what other people would push away
everybody has a Lazarus
everybody has a turn that your life took
that you didn’t see coming and that God
didn’t prevent
and as simple as this message may be I
think it may be the deepest one that you
ever hear because God is saying take me
to that place
it is not a physical location
it is an emotional one
take me
to that place
where you laid him
where you stop being optimistic
where you started going through the
motions
swinging an ax with no blade
take me to that place
where you just learned to manage the
addiction rather than fighting it take
me to that place where you just decided
to show people a facade because you
don’t think they can handle what’s
really you in the core of your being
that place
everybody has a Lazarus
and the question is not whether or not
you have a Lazarus the question is
what are you going to do about it
now Jesus made the the trip to the tomb
and when he got there some of y’all said
you were going to memorize more
scripture this year I’m gonna give you
one to start verse 35. Jesus wept
so you can go home and tell somebody you
memorized the whole Bible verse today
that’s the whole verse Jesus web how
powerful that before he spoke the word
he wept
before he demonstrates his authority he
demonstrates his empathy he wants you to
know I’m with you while you’re waiting
for it I’m with you while you’re waiting
for it I’m with you I was with you when
you didn’t see me I was with you when
you didn’t feel me I was with you when
people couldn’t do it for you I was with
you
and he wept
and when they saw that verse 36 many of
the Jews gathered there said see how he
loved them
look how much he loved him
and then some of the other Jews said
verse 37. could not he who opened the
eyes of the blind man kept this man from
dying
so now I got one voice saying he loves
you so much
and then I got another voice saying if
he loves me so much then why
and the Bible says that Jesus once more
deeply moved did not respond to their
opinions but operated according to his
purpose
I feel the presence of God in this place
now watch this moment
and receive it for your Lazarus in your
life it says Jesus once more deeply
moved came to the tomb
it was a cave
but the stone laid across the entrance
Stone across the entrance means
nothing else is going in and nothing
else is coming out that’s some of your
hearts today
and then Jesus tells them something to
do that he could have easily done
without their help
take away the stone
isn’t that crazy he’s about to raise
this man from the dead
but he can’t push the stone
he could
but he didn’t
until the moment where you open yourself
to the possibility that God can do it
your heart is a closed tomb keeping dead
things in but here’s what’s beautiful
when when Martha responded to Jesus
command she was embarrassed because she
didn’t want to expose what was inside
she said Lord by this time there’s a bad
odor I don’t want anybody to see this I
don’t want anybody to know this I don’t
want anybody to go know what’s really
going on in my heart but then Jesus said
something did I not tell you that if you
believe you will see the glory of God
and get ready to praise them by faith
verse 41 they took away the stone and
Jesus looked up and said get ready to
praise Him Father I thank you that you
heard me I know you always hear me but I
said it for them that they may believe
that they may believe I sent you through
trouble that you may believe I sent you
through the sea that you may believe
that you sent me and then Jesus get
ready to praise in verse 30 43 come on
come on when he is at this he called out
in a loud voice Lazarus
come out
Lazarus
come out
44. when he said it the dead man came
out the dead tree came out the dead
thing came out the dead Place into life
the dry bones came together boom to Boom
here the word of the Lord Lazarus come
forth Praise Him
Lazarus
come
for
in a loud voice
he commanded that thing that was there
to come alive
and the Lazarus Factor says
you don’t always get Lazarus back
but his presence is always calling
something forth
[Applause]
come on let it sink in
you know I’m right about it
you know he’s the god of the outcome
you know he’s The God Who is working all
things together right you didn’t forget
that did you Martha
you didn’t let you didn’t let your
Lazarus convince you that he didn’t love
you
he loved Lazarus
he loves Larry Steven furtick Jr
he loves Holly Anna fertick
he loved he loved me so much
that he let something die
showed up at the spot
still showing up
at the tomb of every Lazarus
they didn’t want him to show up at the
tomb they wanted him to show up in the
hospital room
and this place I want you to know that
even though it’s not the place you plan
to be
he’s standing here
he has not forsaken you
he has not abandoned you
in Greek the word is ume
it means never
when he said never will I leave you
never will I forsake you it’s a double
negative ume it means never no never
father in the name of Jesus
I thank you that you heard us the first
time
I thank you that there’s nobody standing
before you today who cannot declare
that you are Weeping with us
in our disappointment
and your word is going forth into our
future
I speak to every Lazarus in this room
today in the name of Jesus
I called Joy forth in the name of Jesus
I call Peace purpose and Glory forth
for we know that this sickness
does not end in death
for the glory of God
the Lazarus Factor
he is getting Glory out of this
situation
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look at me for one moment I’m over my
time but I got to tell you something
it was the situation
that gave the opportunity for revelation
God is doing that in your life right now
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