Feeling stuck in the past? Discouraged by small progress? You’re not alone. This clip will lift your spirits and give you hope for the future. This is an excerpt from “Stop Crying, It’s Coming!” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch, click here: https://www.youtube.com/live/SmhH89V_… Want to watch part 2 of this sermon? Click here to watch But Now Be Strong: https://youtube.com/live/WgrTJj9Emxc #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – Why The Enemy Wants You Crying 1:49 – Don’t Give Up 3:56 – Let Go To Receive 6:16 – God Is Calling You Out 8:20 – Stop Crying, It’s Coming! 11:06 – What Voice Will You Listen To? Scripture References: John 11, verses 38 & 43 Ezra 3, verses 10-12
if the
enemy can keep you
crying he can keep you from
seeing what’s
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coming ha gu said I know what you’re
thinking I’m thinking it too this is
nothing compared to
that I saw pictures of Solomon’s Temple
on Pinterest it was
expensive about know it was the same
place Solomon’s temp W but what made the
same stuff cuz God is reforming
it he’s reforming it wow he’s reforming
it he’s reforming your life he’s shaping
it like a Potter in the clay he’s
reforming it that’s what it is is his
hands not the
devil’s when we write
songs they always the worse they suck
when we start them the better they get
when we finish
them but then we take it home and we
have the
demo which is like the rough version and
there’s this thing called
demoitis and it’s when you listen to the
first version so much that you start
thinking it’s perfect but it really
needs a lot of
work the devil has some of y’all in
demoitis you thought the first
version was the only version
of who you are of what you do of what
your gifts
are but the Lord
said I can’t make it better if you keep
going
back stop
crying I know it sounds insensitive
Pastor Steve Jesus wept didn’t you see
that yeah I’m the one who told you about
that but that’s not all he
did look at John chapter
11 verse
38 it says after Jesus cried which is
important you know trauma is trauma is
real 70 years in Babylon will make you
cry it’ll make you forget to
sing when you find out what your kids’s
been doing behind your back it’ll make
you
cry when you and your husband don’t even
look at each other except when you’re
around people so you can fake it real
good
it’ll make you cry
alone God doesn’t correct the sisters
but I’m glad he didn’t stop there and
you can’t either okay because in verse
38 John 11:38 it says not Jesus cried
but Jesus once more deeply moved
came so he
cried and then he
came stop
crying it’s com
coming I don’t want the old Temple to
keep me from seeing
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Jesus
seriously you know how it said in the
verse in Hagi that from the day I
brought you out of Egypt till now did
you catch that really small thing in
verse five I didn’t make a big deal out
of it but it is a big
deal because they thought that Pharaoh
had to let them go for them to leave
Egypt that wasn’t their biggest problem
their biggest problem was letting go of
Moses because see Moses gave them the
law and they were so committed to that
that when Jesus came who is the true
image of God to show them what God is
really like not to break the law but to
fulfill it when Jesus came they could
not recognize
better because they were stuck in
before so while we’re fighting like hey
Pharaoh let me go hey I let me go hey
Temptation let me go God’s like the
thing that you’re holding on to is the
former
glory I don’t know who it is if it’s
three people it’s we it’s saying you got
to let go of former
glory to receive present
help now that means a lot of
things it means that the same Jesus who
cried at the gate came to the tomb it
didn’t stop him from doing what he came
to do cuz he didn’t come just to cry or
give him a Hallmark card he didn’t just
bake them a roast so they could eat it
three days later he came to show them
who he
was he came to reinvent their concept of
God and to switch their template of
truth that not only am I a Healer I am
Resurrection he came to prefigure what
he would do he
came so he cried everybody say he cried
he cried come on don’t tap out on me
this is the best part of the sermon I
know y’all aren’t going to listen to a
sermon about the glory of the ladh house
and skip the end of the sermon this is
the part I wanted to preach us to
because he cried and you’ve been crying
and you have a Christ who cries so
that’s fine he will cry with you but
then you have a Christ who after he
stopped crying he came to the tomb so
he’s coming to the tomb he’s coming to
the part that’s buried he is coming to
the park that’s broken he’s coming to
the park that’s dead he’s coming to the
park that stinks he’s coming to the park
that’s rotten he’s coming to the park
that’s given up on he cried he came but
that’s not the good part the good part
is verse 43 put verse 43 on the screen
quickly quickly quickly quickly and when
Jesus has said this he called so he
cried he
came and then he called in a loud voice
and I hear that voice calling today
through the halls of history from the
pages of Hagi to this very moment in the
house of God
Lazarus come
forth come
forth he’s speaking to your joy he’s
speaking to your peace he’s speaking to
your strategy he’s speaking to your
spirit come
for
so you cried a while it’s all right I am
convinced that the sufferings of this
present time are not worth comparing to
the glory that will be
revealed so did you catch that whole
sermon he
cried he
came he
called you got to call some things out
today
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah they’re
not going to come just
automatically you can cry over it as
long as you
want but I believe that something deeper
is calling from the inside wow what the
prophet told the people
was you got to do the
work you got to do the
work is wishing for something that you
don’t have keeping you from working with
what you do
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have I don’t know maybe it’s just me but
I needed this
word that the Lord
said you can
cry but eventually you got to come and
you got to call those things that be not
as though they
are beneath your feelings
and the promise is it’s a covenant not a
commitment commitments can be
broken yeah covenants
cannot especially when one of the
parties is the one who cannot
lie so it’s a lot of
pain you know when they laid the
foundation Ezra showed us
something give me Ezra 3:10 when they
got that Temple started and I think I’m
going to pick this up next week for real
y’all cuz y’all got one
point it’s your fault you were shouting
and and and receiving and glorifying God
I didn’t come to get through my
points I came to give you this word stop
crying it’s
coming it’s
coming cuz the Bible says in Ezra
3 that when the builders laid the
foundation of the second temple the
priests and their vestments with their
Trumpets the Levites the sons of Asaf
with their symbols took their places to
praise the Lord like David told him to
with praise and thanksgiving they sang
to the Lord he is good his love toward
Israel ures forever probably better
Melody than that but that was the words
they saying he is good his love for
Israel endureth forever and all the
people I want y’all to do what the text
says stand up gave a great
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Shout a great shout of praise to the
Lord because the foundation of the house
of the Lord was laid now that’s where
I’m going to pick up next week because
some of us are comparing our foundation
to somebody else’s Finish
Line and that’s why we’re
discouraged and next week if you will
give me the opportunity and God gives me
the strength I’m going to preach about
how to shout about
foundations
I’m going teach you I’mma teach you how
I’m I’m going to teach you how to do a
dance when the scale drops one
pound I’m going to teach you how to
dance on the scale and I’m going to
teach you how to do it cuz when you lose
a pound you don’t celebrate by eating a
cookie when you lose a pound you buy
some
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shoes but if you’re getting out of
debt you don’t go buy shoes you eat
cookies so I’m going to teach you about
how to shout over little stuff next week
week and just redistribute the balance
of it so you can keep your progress
going oh I love y’all we’re going to do
it next week but but I got to show you
this because this is this is really what
started me to teach this message they
were shouting about what God was doing
the new thing wow we’re going to have a
temple I’ve heard about this one
generation was saying but it’s not like
the old one and watch what the Bible
says in verse 12 but many of the older
priests and the Levites and the family
heads the ones who should have been
leading the ones who should have been
known that God is with us and we can’t
fail he’s going to do a new thing it’s
who he is is what he does he’s reforming
us but when they
saw the
foundation they had seen the former
Temple they had the old
template this is what it has to look
like this is what I thought marriage
would be
this is the city I thought I would live
in
Forever This is How old I thought my mom
would be when she died this is how I
thought it would be when they saw the
temple it didn’t match their template
and watch what happened they
wept they
wept and and and the sounds of
Celebration the shouts of Joy While
others were
shouting one generation is
weeping over what it was
and one generation is shouting over what
it will be when God gets done with
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it what I want to
know what I want to know is you going to
keep
weeping or start
working because you have forgotten who
you are working with the Lord Almighty
is in you it’s by his spirit that you’re
building you are not building this by
yourself and you’re not going to build
it like
before he is able to do exceeding
abundantly above all you ask above every
template he transcends
that
so within the same body you got shouts
of joy and
weeping which one will you listen
to
which one will you
obey he who will begin a good work in
you will be faithful to complete
it but you got to be strong and do the
work well you’re not working on your own
it is God that works in you to Will and
to do according to his good
pleasure so maybe God brought you here
to remind you what you’re working
with huh that there is a
remnant that God has left everything in
your life that he intends to use in this
next
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soon