God, help me see where the enemy is attacking me. In “Hey Devil, The Attack Didn’t Work,” Pastor Steven Furtick reminds us that God is guiding our steps — but it’s our responsibility to guard our hearts and minds with His Word. This is an excerpt from “Protected By God’s Presence (Praise Party 2019).” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch, click here: • 123119 PraiseParty Youtube #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – Proof You Can Make It 3:03 – Faith Or Fear? 4:43 – Hey Devil! It Didn’t Work! 7:04 – God Will Send A Word 9:07 – Help Me Recognize The Attack 11:59 – Areas You Need To Stay Away From Scripture References: 2 Kings 6, verses 8-12
and I want to help in this new year to
set a trajectory for your faith that you
can believe that God is going to use you
to make a difference wherever you are
tell somebody next to you uh you’re a
big
deal ask them can I get a selfie with
you in fact pull out your phone right
now would you do that just real quick
real quick pull out your
phone pull up your camera
app put it in selfie
mode
and point it right at that beautiful
face of
yours and when I say three I want you to
take a picture are you ready come on
we’re going to do this together and
there’s a reason for it um when I say
three I want you to get a picture real
quick are you ready on every location if
you’re ready say
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ready one two
3 cool put your phone
up
I just wanted you to have
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proof I just wanted you to have
proof because all this year the enemy is
going to try to get you to think that
you can’t make
it and that your faith isn’t strong
enough and that you don’t have what it
takes and that you can’t survive the
storm and when he does that I want you
to pull that picture up and remind him
that he told you that same BS at the
beginning of
2019 I’m sorry it’s late my filter comes
off at
10:30 and I want you to have
proof that the weapon may be
formed but it didn’t work last time and
it won’t work this
time and so when he comes in your face
trying to make you think this is the end
and you can’t do it and you’re not
enough and you are not significant I
want you to show him that selfie how you
were in church for the last hour of
2019 and all through the next 10 years
just flash it at the Devil and say I got
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proof you know we so easily
confuse the presence of God with the
absence of
problems the goodness of God with the
absence of problems I’m preaching
already and I haven’t read my verse 2
Kings chapter 6 verse 8 how many of you
this is your first New Year’s Eve ever
in
church how many of you if I knew what
you were doing last New Year’s Eve I’d
be really proud of how much progress
you’ve
made
wow you’re my my
favorite in 2 Kings chapter 6 there is
an
illustration of what happens in these
moments where we must make a decision
whether we are going to view our life
through faith or through fear and I want
to share it with you from 2 Kings
chapter 6 beginning in verse 8 and
please pray for me because I take these
moments seriously not so much just to
give you a lesson where you can write a
few things down or a few tweetable
quotable lines but to really speak
something over your life that will bring
to closure some of the conflict that
you’ve been going through so that you
can transform it and convert it into
power for what’s ahead of you that’s why
we came tonight and that’s what we
intend to do in 2 Kings chapter
6:8 the Bible says now the king of Aram
was at war with Israel after conferring
with his officers he said I will set up
my camp in such and such a place the man
of God sent word to the king of Israel
beware of passing that place because the
arameans are going down there so the
king of Israel checked on the place
indicated by the man of God time and
again Elisha warn the king so that he
was on his guard in such places
this enraged the king of Aram he
summoned his officers and demanded of
them will you not tell me which of us is
on the side of the king of Israel do you
know how mad you made the devil just by
showing up
tonight I mean he set so many traps for
you this year tried to make you bitter
tried to make you envious of others
tried to keep you in a depression
ression I know you’ve been going through
things he tried he couldn’t get you to
go crazy so he started messing with your
kids he thought if he could get your
kids to go crazy enough maybe you would
lose your hope in God even some people
in your life left this year that you
were counting on and after all of that
here you are the Bible says it enraged
the enemies of Israel because no matter
what they did to try to bring down the
king God had someone on the inside to
warn them about it tell the person next
to you I got somebody on the
inside and it makes the devil mad and it
makes him a little bit confused and
honestly it makes him nervous to see you
praising God like you’ve been praising
God
tonight I mean this that some of you
just by lifting your hands tonight you
caused all kinds of confusion in
hell not only have Angels been watching
you this year but the demons have been
watching you too the ones that were
assigned to wreak havoc in your mind and
they thought surely by now you’d be
tired they thought surely After all
you’ve been through you would skip
church and sleep in but look at you in
the presence of God to confuse the
enemy now we need to take 19 seconds and
embarrass the enemy to let him know that
what he
did it didn’t
work then what he did it hurt but it
didn’t
work you still got 11 seconds on the
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clock read my
scripture I’m reading my scripture this
is a dignified moment
you chaotic church
members well he was mad because
everywhere he wanted to attack Israel
God’s chosen people there was a there
was a
uh I don’t want to call him a spy he was
a prophet
Elisha he had an ability to see things
and you think Siri is
scary
really Alexa scares
me how stuff starts showing up on my
phone and I think Alexa is talking to
Siri and Siri is talking to Google and
Google is talking to Instagram and I’m
terrified that they’re listening to me
now watch this this is
interesting because the spirit of God in
Elisha would give him a a location where
the enemy was going to attack God’s
people and when they called together all
of the the different high-ranking
officials to see who is the one who is
spoiling our ambushes and causing our
attempts to attack the people of God not
to work the response came in verse 12
none of us my Lord the king but Elisha
the prophet who is in Israel tells the
king of Israel the very words you speak
in your bedroom
yikes so everywhere
that Israel
travel God would send a word through
Elisha to tell them where they needed
verse 10 says to be on their guard in
such
places tonight I want to tell you that
for this year
2020 you know like 2020 Vision yeah for
this year you need to see some things
with your
spirit that you cannot see with your
senses come on and the reason this is so
important is because if you don’t
recognize where the enemy is attacking
you the most frequently and ask God to
give you insight into the places of your
greatest
vulnerability you will spend all of your
energy this year fighting battles that
you could have avoided if you would have
learned the lessons of last
year
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y’all don’t like this part of my
sermon I know makes you mad when you
realize that a lot of the battles that
you fought you could have
avoided if you had listened to what was
on the
inside instead of responding to what was
on the
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outside so I I want to spend this year
with what Paul called Open Eyes in my
heart it sounds grotesque when you
describe it like that but he was saying
that there is a kind of sight that does
not revolve around external
stimuli and it is more based on internal
processing if I could break it down even
more for you I would I would use this
phrase on his guard in such places to
describe how I think God intends to
protect you as you go into this next
season this next decade of your life and
that requires
self-awareness there’s a theological
term progressive
revelation it means that while God never
changes our understanding of him unfolds
over time not necessarily
chronologically but as we experience
different things in our life we come to
see God in different ways even the Bible
is constructed with the progressive of
Revelation in mind so that you see
Concepts introduced in the Book of
Genesis that are mirrored in the Book of
Revelation that’s the first and the last
and by the time you get to Revelation
you get a full picture of what was
hinted at in
Genesis so you see types and shadows in
the Old Testament which ultimately point
to Jesus Christ but they’re pointing to
something that you have not clearly seen
yet life is this way it is that many of
us in this season of our life are going
to see things that we only saw a shadow
of in a previous season of our life
progressive revelation means that God
wants to show you some things about
himself and even about you that will
cause you to be able to avoid what I
call
unnecessary roughness it’s a football
term but it also applies when we’re
going up against the devil
and let me help you with something real
quick some of the battles that you
fought last year were in places that you
never should have
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been I know it’s supposed to be a praise
party but before we party can I preach
for a
moment I got 24 minutes to tell you
about this that there are certain places
that you need to stay away from this
year because if you go there and then
ask God to protect you in those
places I don’t I don’t know whether to
start with
Facebook or whether to start with CNN or
whether to start with Fox News but we
have to be very careful about where we
go watch this not just with our bodies
but with our
minds
because it is very possible that God is
trying to warn you about certain places
that every time you go there you start
feeling judgmental or every time you go
there you start having comparison or
every time you go there you start
feeling like your life is missing
something and if I were you I would put
that Bible app on the front screen of my
iPhone this
year for those of you who aren’t saved
yet you might have an Android but you
could put the Bible app on there
too and I would find that thing that
deletes some of the other apps and can
we all just make a covenantal agreement
in the presence of God on this the last
sermon of
2019 let’s all not post our workouts
until we have been doing them
consistently for at least four weeks
this year can we do
that
now look at somebody and say I don’t
have to post it to prove
it cuz if I do the work you will notice
the
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