Where God guides, he provides. In “Bring Jesus Your Fear,” Pastor Steven teaches us that when struggle with thoughts of not having enough or not being enough, we can put our trust in the One who guides our every step. This is an excerpt from “Navigating Not Enough.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch, click here: 
• Navigating Not Enough | Pastor Steven… #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – Fear Of Running Out 2:04 – I Don’t Know Where I Am 4:23 – Needing Guidance 7:30 – Stay With Jesus 10:07 – Jesus Won’t Leave You In Lack 12:44 – How Jesus Guides You 14:30 – It’s About People, Not Crowds
here are my two primary fears in life
all in one Bible verse and the first one
is the fear of running out which runs
deep for me I don’t know if there’s any
scarcity mentality in your life or some
kind of like deficit oriented way of
thinking where you wake up each day at
zero I don’t know if you ever do little
fire drills to try to figure out how you
could sell everything and live in live
underground live in a tent somewhere if
it came to that but the fear of running
out I can’t can’t tell you how I I I
can’t explain I cannot explain to you
how important it is that my phone is
completely charged 93% is not 100% I
cannot run out of battery what would I
do if the phone died I would die it’s a
fear that runs from everything from
iPhones to sermon material a lot of
times when I preach too long it’s
because I was scared I’d get up here and
have nothing to say so then I went and
messed around study too long and kept
you 3 hours but my heart’s in the right
place I don’t want you to show up hungry
and collapse when you leave because I
was watching the game instead so I
really really really relate to this
thing of where could we get enough the
fear of running out and then what makes
it even worse put the scripture back up
where could we get enough bread in this
remote place did you notice that so now
not only do I not have enough that’s my
first fear in life but I don’t know
where I
am and I need to know where I am and if
I don’t know where I am I need to be
with somebody who knows where they are
and that’s where you’re like but the
disciples had
Jesus so it really didn’t matter because
if you’ve got Jesus you’ve always got
enough and isn’t it interesting how
confidently you say that about them back
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then but if we followed you back into
your neighborhood of not
enough and you know when you get a
little older you don’t even really know
if you can depend on your body in the
same way that you you could and I know
I’m not old or anything like that still
I’m still
vital but yo I I pulled a muscle when I
woke I thought I pulled a muscle when I
woke up this morning and I was like oh
no for about 5 minutes I was like who’s
going to preach and the worst part was I
pulled it yawning
not not lifting weights I wasn’t doing
yoga or anything I just yawned and
something pop just to remind
me just to remind me you know two
extremes that we get into I think when
we look at what we don’t have and what
we need there is an extreme that we go
into which is
denial you know no I’m good I’m good I’m
good until you completely
crash and then the other one is despair
where you are so aware of what you don’t
have that you don’t realize what you do
have
and so yes the disciples have Jesus and
yes he has all knowledge and yes he is
omniscient and he was and is and will be
all of those things for you but it does
not change the fact that they are in a
remote place with limited resource now
that’s who I want to speak to today you
are in a remote place with a limited
resource either of those is
Scary Just to be somewhere that is
remote I’m not talking about just
physically you know that I’m talking
about emotional states that you’ve never
experienced I mentioned stages of life
that you’ve never experienced it could
even be you know beyond just the
psychological it could it could be just
beyond the chronological it could be
that you are dealing with a series a
combination or a sequence of things that
you’ve never experienced quite like this
everybody say remote place remote place
now say limited resource limed resource
so I don’t have enough and I don’t know
where I
am and I don’t know enough to get where
I need to go to get what I need and I
don’t know where I am and I don’t have
what I need and those are my two biggest
nightmares in life so I decided to
preach about it
navigating not
enough if you are under the age of 20
you will never know the terror of
navigating by map
not an app called maps not an
interactive satellite guided device like
a map map I went in the gas station
yesterday and I was going to buy one to
bring out here and unfold it and like an
icebreaker for the crowd and say y’all
remember
these everybody who pulls a muscle when
you yawn y’all remember
these and I was going to they didn’t
even have a map at the gas station what
is the world coming to I can’t get a map
at the gas
station Elijah asked me before he went
to college he said how did you used to
do it how did you get anywhere I said
Son it was
traumatic your mom isn’t great at
directions but she was better than me
when we first moved to Charlotte it was
the biggest city I’d ever lived in and I
would go have appointments with people
all through the highways and the byways
and the Mean Streets of Weddington waaw
Mint Hill
and I kid you not there was not a single
meeting that I took that I would not end
up on the phone with
Holly and she would be at the house and
I’d be on the road and she would be
guiding me the Holly Spirit would be
guiding
me and I don’t know we just celebrated
21 years of marriage I don’t know if we
would have made it don’t clap too quick
I don’t know if we’d have made it 5 if
we would have kept having to go that way
because you know the thing about us
communicating in this way is she had
never lived here
either so it all sounds good while she’s
telling me what to do from the house
with the map from two years
ago it changed everything you know
people say I would have loved to have
been a disciple and followed Jesus I
wouldn’t back
then you wouldn’t
either you know you might have you might
eventually have loved it but not in the
moment because I want you to think about
this they’re in a remote place they’re
they’re healing people who knows how
long he’s going to keep doing this it’s
been 3 days and he doesn’t seem tired
yet because he’s fully
God and now he pulls them to the side
and this is verse uh 22 cuz it’s all
really well and good as long long as
he’s doing the work but then he called
the disciples to him and said I have
compassion for these people they’ve
already been with me now that phrase
been with me in the original language of
the Bible doesn’t just mean they hung
out it means that they’ve been cleaving
to me they’ve been staying with me
they’ve been hanging with me they’ve
been pulling on me they’ve been pressing
toward me they’ve been receiving from me
so Touch Somebody real quick and say
stay with him stay with them if you feel
crippled in an area of your life if you
feel lame in an area of your life if you
feel blind in an area of your life if
you feel like you’re muttin and area of
your life I got some good guidance for
you stay with Jesus good things happen
when you stay with them good things
happen when you stay with them and I
don’t think it’s a coincidence that they
stayed three
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days read something in the Bible about 3
days I was just thinking about
that it it’s it’s really it’s really
wonderful to think about how you know
this this thing we say where God guides
he provides have you heard that one
where God guides he
provides I fully attest to
that I fully believe in
that my
life is a trophy of the grace of God
that everywhere he has led me he has
provided for me where God guides he
provides but the thing that that lean
leaves out if you just put it on a
bumper sticker that where God
guides he provides is that a lot of
times we are guessing about where he’s
guiding
us I know you don’t want to admit it
especially the men cuz you don’t want to
admit you’re lost you rather drive in
circles
seven
years I’m I’m not like that I would call
Holly I I would call her in a heartbeat
I didn’t I I had a girl who could read a
map and I was determined to tap into her
full resources there’s no male ego on me
I don’t want to be lost I’m too scared
for
that and you know if you get lost enough
in your life you will humble
yourself to the point where you say well
I don’t normally like to ask for help I
don’t like to admit I’ve never done this
before I don’t like to say I wrong I
don’t like to ask somebody that I need
them to show me in this area of my life
sometimes we just aren’t hungry enough
yet lost enough yet but there’s somebody
in this room and you
are and you are navigating a not enough
in your life in this season that has
brought you to the precipice where
although you have pressed in to Jesus
you are in danger of collapsing on the
way that’s what Jesus said I don’t want
you to collapse along the way and I’ve
got good news for you the Bible says
that Jesus has
compassion thank
you if God gave you a new car would you
praise him for
it paid off nice one fast one sexy one
yeah would you praise him for a new car
if God paid off your house would you
praise him for
it if God said
I’m giving you my compassion thank you
Lord there’d be nothing greater you
could Praise Him
for than the compassion of a
Christ who is fully
God fully God enough to meet all of your
needs fully God enough to stop a storm
fully God enough to heal somebody who
couldn’t walk and they go dancing out
fully God enough that the one who
couldn’t speak left shouting fully God
enough to do all of that and fully man
enough that after all is said and done
pull his disciples to the side and say I
have compassion for what they lack I
don’t know if there’s anybody in here
who’s in religious rehab you grew up
with a God who was waiting to crush you
underneath the weight of what you were
not yet but we meeted Jesus in Matthew
15 come on get glad about
it who has
compassion for what you
lack so the Lord is my shepherd I shall
not want that does not mean I will never
lack but it means that in every area
where I lack the Lord is faithful and
loyal to me that he will never leave me
in my lack and turn a deaf ear to me
when I call him
let’s praise God not for a car not for a
house that’s fine I got a car I got a
house but he has
compassion that he looks on my
weakness with
compassion that he looks on my lack with
compassion I don’t know I just noticed
that this week I noticed that Jesus said
I have compassion for these people verse
32 and the disciples answered the
request that Jesus made about feeding
them with logic and calculation you know
like men often do like like mankind
often does where can we get enough bread
there’s no door Dash on my phone we
don’t have an app you know some people
would say that Jesus is better than a
GPS but I don’t think he
is because when you use a GPS you get to
select the
destination but when you follow
Christ he will get you where you need to
go he’ll get you there turn by turn step
by step he’ll do better than reroute you
he will pick your big behind up and
carry your dead weight if that’s what it
takes but one thing about this savior
imagine a GPS that you didn’t get to
tell it where you want to end up that’s
Jesus Peter’s got this boat
right they’re going all around
ministering to people and uh and Peter’s
the one that’s driving okay but the one
who is driving the boat doesn’t get to
decide where it
docks I don’t think you heard what I
just said because I’m describing what a
life of following Christ
feels like
sometimes I’m driving this boat I’m
living this life I’m making decisions
I’m the one having to make these moves
I’m the one having to show up for these
things but ultimately I don’t get to
decide where this boat
docks Jesus
does God does that either brings you
great comfort or if you’re control
freak it really starts to mess with you
especially when you end up in a remote
place and Jesus starts healing people
and he shows no signs of stopping and he
wants the people to be fed and he pulls
the disciples to the side and says I
have compassion for these people and the
disciples answered verse 33 where could
we get enough bread in this remote place
to feed such a crowd now I need to slow
this down and we can study it go to
verse 32 again Jesus said I have
compassion for
these what did he
say I have compassion for these people
what did Jesus call
them look at the disciples in verse 33
where are we going to get enough bread
in this remote place to feed such
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a it’s all about how you see
it the deciples see
crowds Jesus sees
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