The blessing of letting go is grace. In “Let Go! You’re Not in Control,” Pastor Steven Furtick teaches us that there are some blessings that only come from releasing our control and holding on to God. This is an excerpt from “The Blessing Of Letting Go.” To watch the full message from@elevationchurch, click here:    • The Blessing Of Letting Go | Pastor S…   #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – You Can’t Control God’s Will 2:17 – It’s Time To Let Go 4:22 – God Has A Blessing For You 6:39 – Stop Disguising Yourself 8:54 – Yes, I’m Blessed! 11:07 – Keeping Your Blessing In Balance 13:33 – You Don’t Need Approval From People Scripture References: Genesis 32, verses 26-28 Genesis 27, verses 18-19 2 Corinthians 12, verse 9

and for all of the Christian control

freaks which is an

oxymoron CU God I give you my life as

long as I’m married by age 23 God I give

you my life as long as this job

opportunity opens up in the right market

and I like the climate as well as the

School Educational

scene God here’s our children we devote

them to you and Lord Jesus I believe

that she would make a great worship

leader in the church just like that girl

Tiffany and she should sing just like

that I know she’s not blonde but will

dye her hair Lord and she could be just

like that Tiffany that would be

wonderful but I give them to you

Lord and so the interesting thing for me

has been in my life how to have a real

commitment to

Christ without trying to

control his will in my

life how to how to be

serious about my relationship with God

while staying surrendered to The God Who

I’m in relationship with this is not as

easy as it

seems because you will find yourself

often really really committed to trying

to get God to bless you committed to I’m

really going to get my life together

committed to I really want to be free

from these patterns committed to I want

to be an example make a difference have

an influence make a mark fulfill a

purpose really committed to that but

then

commitment becomes

control and you cannot follow Christ and

have

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control I’m

sorry I want it to be where you

can I want it to be where Jesus lets you

code

him where you get to give him the

commands and you get to give the thing

but I every time I read in the Bible

he’s given the

commands every time in my my life he

brings me into something new he takes me

through something

scary every time in my life he sets me

free from something that I don’t want to

give me something that I do want I

cannot reach toward what he’s giving me

without letting go of what I

held and there are a lot of us who are

not going to get what we need from God

in this

season until we let go of what we held

to in the

previous there are some blessings that

only come through holding on I’m telling

you sometimes you have got to get around

a promise from God and say I don’t care

how many things blow against it I don’t

care how many things shake it up I don’t

care how many years pass I am holding on

to what God

said there are blessings that only come

from holding on that’s Jacob he’s like

no you’re not leaving until you bless me

I need a blessing I got a fresh battle I

need a fresh blessing I got a fresh test

I need a fresh blessing you are not

leaving I am not going to let you go

unless you bless

me and then God

says but I cannot bless you unless you

let

go let go

of the way you thought it was supposed

to

go let

go of your comparison to other standards

that have nothing to do with who the

Sovereign God called you to be let

go of the expectations of perfection

that you have for yourself that can only

be satisfied through the perfect work of

Jesus and has already applied to your

account let

go there are some

blessings that you can get by holding on

oh yeah Jacob was blessed his father

blessed him he got the blessing of the

firstborn double inheritance the

blessing of the firstborn the naming

rights of the children the patriarchy of

the whole nation he got blessed by

Isaac but he didn’t get blessed

yet as who he really

was so you say wait a minute you read me

a scripture and you said that the key to

being blessed was holy

on and sometimes that’s true but I want

you to read just a little bit further In

this passage and see what the real

blessing that God wants to give you in

this season I believe God has a blessing

for you in this season that your eyes

haven’t seen yet that your ears haven’t

heard that hasn’t entered into your

hearts that you will be speaking about

for years to come but watch

this there is a blessing that comes from

holding on

persevering there’s a blessing that

comes through tenacity then the man said

let me go for it is Daybreak but Jacob

replied I will not let go unless you

bless me now watch this on the surface

so far it seems like that Jacob got this

blessing the way that he got every other

blessing and maybe right now you’re

trying to do it like you always did it

and it’s not working and you’re trying

to face it like you always faced it and

it’s not working but watch what the

angel said and this is the turning point

in this transform transformative

experience

for Jacob and for you but Jacob replied

I will not let you go unless you bless

me and the man asked him what is your

name

Jacob he

answered then the man said your name

will no longer be Jacob but Israel

because you have struggled with God and

with humans and have

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overcome when he said what is your name

it reminds us of 20 years ago in Genesis

27 when Isaac called his son to bless

him he thought he was talking to Esau

because he was blind and he said who are

you and the voice came back saying I am

Esau but it wasn’t Esau it was Jacob in

two days there will be enraged

Christians on social media arguing about

Halloween is it right or is it not right

to celebrate Halloween we will not

discuss that in this Pulpit today that

is not the purpose for which God sent me

but I will tell you one thing that God

is very concerned about anytime you

dress up as something that you’re

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not come on Church anytime you start

putting on clothes anytime you start

putting on personas anytime you start

putting on something that doesn’t come

from who God made you to be anytime you

start dressing yourself disguising

yourself trying to gain the acceptance

or the approval is always a trick and

it’s never a treat and God says I don’t

need you to be Esau to bless you cuz

when I bless you I’m going to bless

you the real

you the short you the tall you you the

old you the new

you God said when I bless you you won’t

have to pretend about anything you can

just praise me because I am the source

of your strength and the strength of

your

life high five three people say yes I’m

blessed yes I’m

blessed and so Jacob was already blessed

but he didn’t know who he was and God

said after all I’ve done for you do you

still not know who you are you’re my

child you’re the head and not the tail

you’re blessed you are redeemed from the

pit you are blessed you are chosen and

loveed as the apple of his eye you are

blessed you are an overcomer you are

blessed you are the purchased of God you

are blessed you are blessed you are

blessed to be a bless

and now shout like you know who blessed

you cuz when you know who bless

you you know who to go back to when you

need some more of it hey God it’s me

it’s your boy it’s your daughter it’s

your child I need

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you I 5 11 people say yes I’m

blessed I’m not bragging but I’m blessed

I’m not perfect but I’m blessed I’m not

100% honest all the time but I’m blessed

let me just be real with you he has

blessed me with every blessing in

spiritual places I got it in the

Heavenly realm now I just got to bring

it in my

life the Bible says he blessed him there

in the place of his real name you know

what God wants to give you today a

surrender of who you thought you were so

you can receive who you really are I

wonder is anybody ready to receive who

you really

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are I gotta warn you Z man I gotta warn

you it’s not like changing your name to

Hollywood Hogan it’s not like changing

your name on wrestling it’s not that

kind of wrestling match sometimes oh God

this is so difficult for me to

communicate to you but I hope that you

can hear it sometimes it is a letting go

that feels like

death but it’s really a

blessing and I confer upon you today and

impart to you in the name of Jesus

Christ your savior the

blessing of Letting

Go Letting

Go not when you’re driving

home that’s not the time to let go

that’s the time to drive the

car

and I going to say that there are some

of us in

here that are saying I won’t let go till

you bless me God I won’t let go till you

bless me I hear the Holy Spirit saying I

can’t bless

you until you let

go you hear it you hear it you hear it

when God showed me that it was like oh I

don’t want to really admit that that’s

the way it works because this goes

against my control freak Christianity

that I invented that is nowhere in the

Bible

I want to achieve this thing I want to

earn this

thing and that’s why God gave us the New

Testament example of

Paul because he said man I was stacking

stuff that I

did I was stacking successes in a

spiritual religious realm that amounted

to status that you wouldn’t imagine a

Pharisee of Pharisees a Hebrew of

Hebrews of The Tribe of Benjamin

circumcised on the eighth day I studied

under G or

what but all these things I count as

loss and yet in order to balance these

great Revelations that God gave me I was

given a thorn in the flesh a messenger

of Satan sent to Buffet

me you’ll always have a buff butt to

Buffet you and the bigger the blessing

the bigger the

buffet to keep in

Balance so you know where your source

is as a matter of fact Paul said I had

the storn in My Flesh and three times I

asked God to take it away three times I

asked God to do it you’ve been asking

God to change something in your life and

he won’t do it this is your verse right

here 2 Corinthians 12:9

but he said to

me Paul the great Apostle who took the

mission of Jesus Christ to sites that

had previously seemed too distant

who spoke with eloquence and yet

Simplicity Christ crucified but did it

in a way that the philosophers were

confounded Paul said I was given a thorn

in my flesh along with all my blessings

I’m blessed don’t get me wrong I saw

Jesus on the road to Damascus I preached

with such power that people were

converted that people that cities went

into Riot I was so blessed to be able to

do that yes I’m blessed but I had a

thorn and I asked God to take it away

and he said no

but my

grace is

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sufficient

that’s the blessing of letting

go of the way you thought it was

supposed to be is that you get the grace

to accept what it

is and that’s where the transformation

is that’s where the power is that’s

where the Revelation is is what is your

name he said Jacob I’m not pretending to

be something else anymore I’m not

striving to be something anymore I’m not

going to dress up like anything anymore

for all of you that think you need

approval from a person you don’t need

approval from a person if the person

gives it the person can take it but if

you get it from God it can never go away

let them say what they want think what

they want do what they want write what

what they want take what they want leave

what they want I’ll never be alone not

when God is with me I might look alone

but I’m not

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alone the

blessing of letting go is Grace can you

imagine all your life like Jacob you

have been running to chase something

that you thought you needed to be to be

successful that you thought you needed

to be to be whole that you thought

thought you needed to be to be worthy

that you thought you needed to be

because your father didn’t give it to

you that you thought you needed to be

because nobody ever spoke it over you

can you imagine the moment of release

when the angel said all I want is you

what’s your

name and when you say your

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name when you say your

name you

receive his

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