In “How To Deal With Relational Resentment,” Pastor Steven Furtick shows us how to stop focusing on the disappointment and start focusing on the deposit. This is an excerpt from “He Was The One.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch, click here: 
• He Was The One | Pastor Steven Furtic… v #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – How To Deal With Relational Resentment 2:19 – Focus On The Deposit, Not The Disappointment 6:02 – What Will You Do? 10:40 – A Warning For Your Life 15:35 – That Is Not Your Legacy
there’s a lot of relational resentment
that can build up in your life
people that disappoint you
and
I’m no different than you I get
disappointed in people
the man that we’re reading about in the
scripture Uzziah
in many ways he was a disappointment
because he didn’t bring the nation back
to their rightful place and I’ll show
you in just a moment it even got worse
than that
but before I show you how bad it got let
me just talk about your disappointments
and people
because as Holly and I began to talk I
said
you know Jay Hardwick was the one that
kind of put us on that team what name we
never even thought about it
who was someone in your life that you
don’t think about and I’m not talking
about like the Hall of Fame like Mom and
Dad and all that stuff I’m coming up I’m
Billy Graham and the Apostle Paul and
Jesus
it’s going to be in the comments Jesus
is the one Stephen Jesus he’s the one
I’m gonna say for you
but you know moving us along from there
um
there’s people that you think they’re
going to be the one to be with you
forever but they’re not
but just because they’re not the one
that was with you for a little while or
just because they’re not with you
forever
doesn’t mean that they didn’t serve an
important purpose in your life
I know this is for but I really need to
say it some people in your life are Port
people
they move through
you move on they move on
just because they didn’t stay planted
doesn’t mean they weren’t important
[Applause]
and what this will help you do
when the enemy says you have nobody look
at how they let you down look at how
they didn’t come through for you look at
how they don’t get you look at what they
weren’t able to do look at how you
believed in them look at how you thought
they were going to be the perfect
partner look at how you thought they
were going to be I want to I want to
revisit this for a moment
so that you stop focusing on the
disappointment
and start focusing on the deposit
because I could tell you somebody right
now and you could do the same for me you
could say man she was the one that I
counted on and she let me down but if we
took it a little deeper
there was something God used that person
in your life for
and even if even if it was just a poor
Port moving through
you understand what I’m saying about
elast
we have elath relationships and they may
not last as long as we wanted them to
and they may not be everything that we
wanted them to be and if we’re
not careful so careful with our souls
the devil will set up camp in that
disappointment and say
you have no one
but they were the one
they were the one for a while
look at what they added to your life
yeah but they betrayed me
it was Judas that got Jesus
to the cross
he was the one that God used more than
any of the other disciples because it
was Judas that God used to get Jesus to
the place where he paid for your sins
and mine
even the people that hurt you God used
I don’t say that coldly
I don’t say that to celebrate abuse or
neglect or abandonment
I just know that someone has been living
in this place
for a long time I have no one
and you are so good at listing the
disappointments
that you’re missing the deposits
and not only those that are gone
not only the people that planted seeds
not not everybody that starts with you
is supposed to stay with you not only
that
but there are fresh people
that God is bringing into the port of
your life
and if you do not do the work in this
season
of setting free and forgiving the things
that disappointed you you will not be
open to the deposit
and so you stay poor and you stay sad
and you stay alone but if you will get
your eyes off of who left
and put your eyes on what they left that
God is still watching over in your life
to bring you to a new level
I declare and decree he will rebuild and
restore
everything that the Locust said every
year that the canker worm nod up
after all it wasn’t them that blessed
you anyway he was the one God was the
one his Mercy was the conduit his grace
was the power get ready to shout you’ve
had your eyes on people put your eyes on
Jesus he was the one
God
too focused on others got you focused on
stuff forgot that he was the one
somebody say he was the one
who brought me through depression say he
was the one
who forgave all my sins and healed all
my diseases he was the one
whose Blood Washed me clean he was the
one who knelt In The Garden of
Gethsemane with me on his mind and
pressed through to the Cross he was the
one
[Applause]
and that’s why I know he’s not through
with you
cause it was him all along
[Applause]
Uzziah rebuilt and restored the port I’m
gonna ask you a question when we write
your second Kings chapter 14 verse 21
and 22.
what are we gonna say
he was the one
he was the one
I know some of you in here
I want your I want your second Kings 14
22 to read like this he was the one
who battled through the addiction that
his dad couldn’t defeat and beat it for
his own kids he was the one
she was the one
who forgave her mom for never telling
her that she was loved for making her
perform and because she forgave her mom
she was able to face herself and love
herself and see herself as a daughter of
God she was the one
I’ll see crowds today I don’t know I
don’t know why God gave me this
anointing I just see once
I just see once
I just see once
one God one person
which one you want to be
because this can go the other way too
he was the one
who gave up on himself
because he really got tired
of making excuses
and So eventually he just brought his
lifestyle his belief in God down to the
level of his lifestyle rather than
bringing his lifestyle up to the level
of his belief in God
I want to tell you something about
uziah and we might want to sit down for
this
Uzziah did really good
in fact second chronicles 26
it kind of says the same thing about him
but it gives us a little more detail
and I bring you this in a spirit of
humility because
look I know
when you hear a strong word from God and
for some of you this is a strong word
from God and it’s not because of of me
it’s because of
the importance of your life to what God
wants to do through you
and so this word is hitting you right
now because
this is a
this is an e-lath message for you
this is a a port sermon for you
What Goes Forth from here is important
you don’t think it is yet
you don’t even know why you’re the one I
had I had a man come up to me after
um I preached one time and he said
preacher when you were preaching you
said this message is for someone I don’t
know who and he goes I just want to let
you know I was the one
and he said a little bit of what he was
going through
I said Thank you for telling me
then somebody else came up and they had
overheard
and it was a man and a woman and the
woman said she was really funny she said
um I didn’t mean to eavesdrop but I
heard that man that came before and this
is my husband Joe and I just want you to
know that man that was here before he
was wrong because uh he was the one you
were talking to and pointed at her
husband
[Applause]
somebody said I’m the one
see I’m the one that decides
which one I’m going to be
he was the one who rebuilt and restored
if your life is in Ruins right now you
didn’t control that you may have
contributed to it but
but will you be the one who rebuilds and
restores I know God wants to be the one
who helps you do that I know that
he’ll be the one that will Empower you
to do it
Uzziah does amazing things y’all
he um
for a guy who had to start being a king
at age 16. wow he defeats three of the
Philistine countries knocks down their
walls he puts these watchtowers all
around Jerusalem where they can see
where their enemies are coming from and
then after he builds the watchtowers he
puts these special military devices
where they can shoot the arrows and hurl
the stones and their enemies can’t see
them
he buys new military equipment for every
single one of the soldiers and there are
three hundred five thousand and seven
hundred of them
soldiers
he gives them all new equipment
he’s also a gardener he does amazing
things with agriculture this guy is
amazing
amazing
and so are you
in some ways
but the Bible says something really
scary to me
let’s look at it II Chronicles 20 6.
then all the people of Judah took uziah
who’s 16 years old made him King in
place of his father Amazon we already
read that
this is a different account of it
he was the one who rebuilt e-leth and
restored it to Judah after Amazon rested
with his ancestors we already read that
but this is a different account now
watch this Uzziah was 16 years old
when he became king and he reigned in
Jerusalem 52 years his mother’s name was
jacoliah and she was from Jerusalem he
did what was right in the eyes of the
Lord just as his father him as I had
done he sought God during the days of
Zechariah Zechariah was the one who
mentored him
who instructed him in the fear of God
and listen to this verse it’s going to
feel haunting
as long as he sought the Lord
God gave him success
the next several verses really break
that down all the successes God gave him
it says that God strengthened him God
helped him
God upheld him God resourced him
if you go all the way down
to verse 16 it says but after
Uzziah
became powerful
his pride led to his downfall
he was unfaithful to the Lord as God and
entered the Temple of the Lord to burn
incense on the altar of incense now
listen to this
azerai the priest this is a different
Azariah as if it wasn’t confusing enough
already there’s got to be two azarias
and one who isn’t going by the name
azeriah anymore
thanks a lot Chronicle writer um Azariah
the priest with 80 lettuce into this
back into the scene azerite the priest
with 80 other courageous priests the
Lord follow him and they confront King
his eye and said it’s not right for you
uziah to burn incense to the Lord that’s
for the priests
the descendants of Aaron who have been
consecrated to burn incense
leave the sanctuary you’ve been
unfaithful you might be honored by the
Lord God the Kings weren’t allowed to
burn this incense it was for the priests
to do
you know you always get in trouble
when you try to do what God called
somebody else to do
when you start wishing you could be this
one or that one
and see Uzziah was powerful God called
him don’t don’t get it twisted God
anointed him God put the crown on his
head no matter whose hands he used to
position it there it was God that did it
but then he got out of his place and
even when he was corrected he wouldn’t
listen now listen to this verse 19
because God is bringing you to this
point today and I want you to hear this
as a warning for your life
Uzziah who had a sensor in his hand
ready to burn incense became angry and
while he was raging at the priest in
their presence before the incense altar
in the Lord’s Temple leprosy broke out
on his forehead
when Azariah the chief priests and all
the other priests looked at him they saw
you had leprosy
on his forehead so they hurried him out
indeed he himself was eager to leave
because the Lord had Afflicted him now
listen to this I wish the story ended
different but I got to give it to you
how it is in the Bible because I don’t
write the book
I’m just giving you the mail the Bible
says King Uzziah had leprosy until the
day he died
he lived in a separate house
leprous and banned from the Temple of
the Lord
jotham his son had charge of the palace
and governed the people of the land
that’s in this the other events of
uzziah’s Reign from beginning to end are
recorded by the prophet Isaiah
the son of Amos
Uzziah arrested with his ancestors and
was buried near them in a cemetery that
belonged to the Kings for the people
said he had leprosy
and jotham his son
succeeded him asking
all he did
and the people said
give me verse 23 again
people said
you see that
I’ma wait for you to find it you see it
people said
he had leprosy
and he died like that
and he died like that
because he forgot that God was the one
and you die alone when you forget that
God is the one
and you live alone when you forget that
God is the one
and your worship gets weak when you
forget that God is the one
and you start running from what God has
called you to when you forget that
God is the one
and you feel cut off when you forget
that God is the one
how many are grateful
that of
all the kings
that are in Second Kings
14.
none of those kings
are the one
that we came to worship today
[Applause]
yeah
thank you
because people will disappoint you
but God will carry you
people will leave you
God never will
and the Bible says
that King Uzziah died with Leprosy a
skin condition that isolated him
but you don’t have to
you don’t have to stay away
you know why
because Isaiah prophesied
to Uzziah
but he did not prophesy about Uzziah
Isaiah prophesied about another king
a king that would come at a later date
a king that would not come through any
human father
but a king that would come not in a
palace
a king that would come in a Palestinian
environment that would have been unfit
for many animals
see the thing that I want you to know
today for all of you who feel alone I
have no one I am no one I can’t rebuild
can’t recover I’m down here and I have
to stay here and there is no more for me
and I’m not the one and the sermon is
for somebody else because I’ve tried
this before and it didn’t work I wanted
you to know this from the heart of God
today for his child
your leprosy
is not your legacy
this leprosy
this issue everybody has something like
that not a skin disease not something
that others can see on your forehead but
a label that follows you through life
a condition an issue a struggle a
tendency something that has been with
you and may even be consuming you but
somebody shout this leprosy
will not be my legacy
say it by faith this leprosy
will not be my legacy
one more time say this leprosy
this label
this limitation this loneliness
will not be my legacy
now look at your neighbor and say God is
not through with you
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