People can’t define your value.
In “If They Walk Away…,” Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church reveals that our confidence doesn’t have to be dictated by our relationships with others, but can instead be determined by our relationship to Christ.
i am confident for you in what you
can’t even believe about you right now
because we’ve never been through
this before so he’s saying borrow
my confidence you know you can do that i don’t
know what your philosophies are on borrowing money
this is fine i don’t care us we all think
different things so you’re dave ramsey you
don’t borrow or you do or whatever i don’t care
rich dad poor dad dave ramsey i’m not a money man
i’m a preacher all right so i’m not talking about
borrowing money talking about a different currency
called confidence and what you believe about
what you can be and what you believe about
what you have inside of you and what you
believe about what god called you to do
and what you believe about what you’re
going through that’s what i’m talking about
the currency of confidence
so when you’re young you start borrowing
confidence from the wrong places
you borrow confidence from sexual attractiveness
did you hear the decibel level sink down beneath
the floor it’s like oh my god he’s preaching like
it’s 20 21 it’s like people really run around to
different sexual partners partner after partner
after partner after partner after partner and
rather than ever being in a real relationship
the good part where you have to love somebody
for who they are not what they look like
you take this feeling of oh i have somebody and
you borrow the confidence of having somebody
but when you borrow confidence from the
wrong places the interest rate is ridiculous
that hit me right there
i’m talking about when you get in a relationship
where you have to compromise your values
to get your needs met y’all that’s
worse than the check cash in place
it’s an interest rate and let me tell
you another thing while i got you fired
up about all the people that you kept going
to because you wanted them to validate you
but they can’t because they’re not gone they
didn’t make you they don’t know you like that
and they have their own insecurities
so leave them alone and get it from god
hey you keep trying to borrow confidence
from people who have insufficient funds
they can’t do it they can’t they want
to they just can’t they’re flesh and
bone and blood and dirt and snot and
spit and human and stuff like you
so that’s why paul wouldn’t go into self-pity
nobody who me new blending praying for me he’s
like no i got a partner i got a partner
i’ve got a partner i’ve got a partner
i got a partner i got a partner i got a partner
saying right now i’ve got a partner wow wow wow
god gave me some people that were with me at
first god gave me some people who have been
where i’ve never been before you know when you go
through something challenging you can read a book
you are not the first one in
history who went through that
you know how many times i borrowed tom
lehman’s knowledge confidence wisdom
lisa every 9 30s that y’all would be at he would
text me before the 11 30. i would be back there in
the back trying to rewrite my message because
i would think that was horrible that’s awful
he would text me my pastor preach it just
like that again at 11 30. i’d be like huh
that was good
how many times carrie is it’s a little melody
in a songwriting session right and it’ll be like
and somebody goes oh that’s good and you’re
like it is that’s why you need partners
are you always the needy one
or can somebody else hold a little
bit of your faith for a while
are you always epaphroditus or
can you be paul sometimes too
i hope more than elijah borrows my my boosts
we’re going to get on that instagram page
with this sermon i can feel it already i
think that guy does we’re going to be on there
that’s all right but if he borrows
my shoes i hope more than he borrows
what’s in my closet
i hope god will help me get to a point kind
of where paul was in my life where it’s like
becoming confident that’s great to
borrow confidence you have to sometimes
but then there’s being confident it’s where this
is what god has called me to do this is how god
made me to do it this is what he’s given me to
get the job done this i keep hearing that this
this this this all the clothes in the world
all the money in the world i i i know that
sounds i know that sounds really like abstract
and spiritual but i promise you all of that
cannot compare
with one word from this
you forgot about david pastor no no i didn’t
because the people that
should have been his partners
the people that should have been his comrades
the people that should have believed in him
isn’t that awful when the people who should have
said you got something man keep going hey i know
that’s all right you don’t fit in but that’s
for reason you’re too big for that small place
just keep growing we don’t have
to fit in it’s all right right now
david the future king of israel comes
down to bring bread to his brothers
and his brother go back to the verse now i’m
really ready for it burned with anger and said
why have you come down here now i’m going to tell
you something david didn’t exactly know that yet
he thought he came to feed his brothers
he really came to fight for his nation
so his confidence is not in what he’s doing
his confidence is something different i will
remain confident in this that’s what he said
in psalm 27. now look at this incident it’s
not necessarily connected but maybe this
is where he started becoming confident
becoming confident becoming confident building
that confidence building the skill to walk into
a room and have enough confidence that you
don’t need to be the center of attention
building enough confidence to have people who
criticize the way you choose to live your life
and just keep on being true to what god
has put in your heart and yeah i’m going
to adjust and change but that’s a process and
this event in his life is is really indicative
of the integrity of what god was was was creating
in david because when eliab said you left those
few sheep in the wilderness he’s demeaning david
you see it you know shepherd you’re not a soldier
you’re too young for this you’re too small for
this you’re too little for this you have bad
motives all the things that people may say okay
he’s saying all of that and he accuses him and
belittles him he says you’re down there keeping
a few sheep you don’t you don’t belong here
i know how conceited you are and how wicked your
heart is you came down only to watch the battle
and david is is a little bit confused frustrated
for sure now what have i done can’t i even speak
and he turned away to someone else and brought up
the same matter and the men answered him as before
watch this his confidence didn’t come from his
big brother so his big brother can’t take it away
there needs to be a part in you that knows
i appreciate everybody and everything that
god sends me but if they walk away he
won’t if they fall short he won’t if this
brook dries up there will be a
bird in the sky an hour from now
and and and david is young but he’s confident
it’s not about the shoes it’s not about the swag
it’s not about the beliefs of other people when
will you stop borrowing other people’s bad beliefs
one that alive didn’t believe in
david elijah didn’t believe in himself
i don’t have to carry things that others
believe i don’t have to carry i don’t have
to carry things that culture believes i don’t
have to feel how culture feels about things
i don’t i don’t have to pay the interest
rate on a broken world system of thought
i don’t have to pay a
generational tax on what happened
in my great great i can break it in my
bloodline if i can believe it in my spirit
y’all calm down you’re pushing me but god
says some of you are built to break it
you’re built to break it what
they said is not your limitation
don’t let their limitation become your
insecurity
just because they can’t see it doesn’t
mean you can’t see it just because they
can’t believe it doesn’t mean you can’t
believe it and you’re like you sound kind
of cocky up here right now pastor i thought
we were supposed to be humble as christians
imagine what he took for jesus for the joy said
before him to endure the cross despising his shame
with everybody telling them come down and prove
that you’re god call the angels call your father
and he stayed up there confident on that cross
paul said i learned from the master i want to be
in the fellowship of his sufferings to participate
in his resurrection power it’s a partnership
it’s a partnership and david said i don’t need
to be partners with elia my partners with god
partners with god i have the name of the lord
and things start getting really weird after that
because saul who is the king that god is replacing
hears that david wants to go fight goliath
and he calls him over in verse 33 and said you’re
not able to go out against this philistine this
philistine this philistine what’s the philistine’s
name goliath this philistine this philistine
you’re only a young man he’s
been a warrior from his youth
his inexperience was his greatest benefit
everybody else knew too much
david was dumb enough to defeat the
enemy that they were running from
so stop saying oh i can’t
do this i don’t know enough
i got to show you something
david said to psalm verse 34
your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep
he starts reading his resume to the insecure king
and in it funny david put the same thing on
his resume that his brother used to insult him
the things that
the things that that you use to disqualify you
god’s like that’s exact that’s exactly what i
want to use that’s exactly why i want to use you
isn’t that crazy i’ve been keeping
sheep didn’t hear my brother
and watch this watch this when a lion or a bear
came and carried off a sheep from the flock i
went after it and struck it and rescued the sheep
from his mouth and when it turned on me i seized
it by its here instructed and killed it confident
your servant has killed both the lion and the bear
this uncircumcised philistine
will be like one of them
because i got a partner so what do you do
when your big brother doesn’t believe in you
and neither does your leader when you go to when
you go to get help and and encouragement and love
and support because some of you were there
man you’re like i don’t have anybody i’m not
like paul i don’t have the philippines i’m not
a puzzle it’s greece pastor steven i don’t have
holly on the front row she’s an encouraging angel
and she loves you and she does and that’s great
but since david couldn’t get it from
elia and he couldn’t get it from saul
he borrowed it from a bear
he said now wait a minute i never did this
before but one time somebody say one time
one time i was out doing my job and
there was an attack that came against
what i was responsible for and no it
wasn’t some big giant some philistine
army no i never been on this level before no
i’ve never been in this season before no i’ve
never dealt with this challenge before i never
passed her through a pandemic before but one time
one time i’m talking about first day thing one
time one time come on bring it all the way back
i know you never did this before but you did
that you did that put it in the chat i did that
i did that i did that i held on to god when i
had no job i held on to god when i hadn’t this
is for somebody this is for somebody who’s
up under a threat of intimidation right now
for something that you’ve never traveled
this way before but you did that
and the most annoying thing i read in a long time
is verse 36 this will be like one of them this
this this this god has given
you a this for every them
every enemy every insecurity every
question god has given you a this
now if you start getting distracted by them what
they’re doing where their life is how they’re
progressing what they’ve accomplished
your power is not in them it’s in this
and your confidence your confidence will follow
your focus your confidence will follow your focus
so you will start believing the fear report
like the spies who kept the whole nation from
going into the promised land because they
had a good land but they had a bad report
this is an amazing thing to realize the power
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