In “Let God Be Your Guide,” Pastor Steven teaches us how to make God’s word our true north and never turn back to the old patterns that are keeping us stuck. This is an excerpt from “Now Turn North.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch, click here: 
• Now Turn North | Pastor Steven Furtic… #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – Let God’s Voice Be Your Guide 2:42 – You Are Called & Chosen By God 4:49 – Why Did Jesus Choose Him? 7:42 – Walk In A Word From God 10:12 – Grace To Get Up 12:17 – This Is Your Second Chance
I think that until what God speaks to me
becomes my true north
I will always be lost
in my life
the law forbids you to carry your man
you can’t do that your your anxiety is
always going to tell you what to do
until God’s word becomes your true north
so that you realize that he’s greater
than any storm of fear that you feel
is your true north your feelings or is
your true north your faith
we live in a time where people do not
know the difference between truth and
belief
belief is not necessarily truth
when you say the phrase that’s my truth
you would be better served to say that’s
my belief
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because it might be your belief but it
might just have been what you believe
based on did you notice what the Bible
said about the man who was lying down on
his mat it said that he had been lying
had been
past tense
his situation changed
so can yours
his perspective changed so can yours if
anyone is in Christ he is a new creation
the old is gone the new has come
and part of belonging to God and part of
becoming what he has called me to be is
is realizing
that sometimes I have circled around
something so long
that it seems to me like my natural
habitat
but the Wilderness was not meant for you
to live in it was meant for you to pass
through
there come moments in your life that God
will call you out of wilderness thinking
out of wilderness living out of isolated
patterns you had to do that for a season
let’s praise God for what he gave you to
survive in the wilderness
but then God will speak to you and say
now turn north whose word is this today
God is saying where I’ve had you is
where I’ve had you
where I put you is where I put you and
thank God that you made it as far as you
did as long as you did without what you
had
but what the man said in John chapter 5
I have no one to help me
is no longer true
it had been true
for 38 years
for 38 years it was all he could do is
wait for somebody who never came to help
him and that’s all you can do with the
law you fall you get up you fall you get
up you fail you feel ashamed you try to
make it through another day you cope you
hide it you numb it you do whatever you
can to get through it that’s all you
could do
cause I have no one to help me
Moses can only take you so far
the law will always have its limits
and that is what the man in the text did
not realize
is that while he was saying I have no
one
and feeling like I am no one
standing right in front of him was the
one who singled him out
who picked him out who of all the people
now you got to get this you got to get
this of all the people that God could
have put in that family and that
business and that job and that role in
that season in that church in that
Ministry in that seat of all the people
that God could have put there you were
the one he put there
that is my true north that I’m called
and chosen by God regardless of what I
feel
now turn north
that’s the direction of the Promised
Land
because you’ve circled around this long
enough
you have convinced yourself that you are
alone
until your loneliness has become a lie
I know the feeling of loneliness is real
but sometimes just like the man in John
5 you can’t see what’s right in front of
you
because of pain you carry inside of you
and Jesus
when he learned
it had been 38
years I think he took a survey I do I
think he asked around how long you’ve
been sick how long you’ve been there how
long seven years not long enough how
long ten not long enough
18 not long enough 25 not long enough
32 not long enough
37 not quite long enough
39 too long
it had to be 38. somebody said had to be
38.
it had to be 38 it had to happen right
when it happened it had to happen right
where it happened it had to happen
through whom it happened
because if you read down to Deuteronomy
chapter 2
verse
number 13 Moses goes on somebody say now
turn north
and the Lord said now get up and cross
the zarad valley so we crossed the
valley they’re moving forward into the
promised land now they’ve been in the
wilderness for so long they’ve been in
the wilderness a long time they’ve been
living off of manna and water from rocks
for a long time they’ve been bitten by
snakes for a long time they’ve had shoes
that didn’t wear out but never got
replaced a long time it’s been a long
time how long verse 14 38
years past
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from the time we left kadish barnia
until we crossed the sarad valley
38 years
past
Jesus walks up to the pool
and he says I need somebody to use
as an illustration
of what I came to do
because my people are lost
in a Wilderness of religion
and my people are paralyzed
under what the law is powerless to do
and they keep trying and falling short
and trying and falling short and they
are slaves to things that they are
supposed to rule over and they are
servants to think that they are supposed
to be Masters over and so I need
somebody I can use as a tool to show
what I came to do how long 38 years
you’re a perfect illustration because
I’m about to show you what I can do to
bring you out of a Wilderness with one
word get up with one word pick up your
mat with one word walk I came to declare
when God gives you one word you can walk
in it for the rest of your life one word
from God can get you up one word from
God can make you whole one word from God
can turn it around
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now turn north
the man is sitting there lying there one
moment and walk in the next moment and
the only difference was what he looked
to
as long as he was looking at what was
around him he stayed stuck in what he
had
but now turn north I lift my eyes to the
hills where does my help come from my
help comes from the Lord
do you all know that scripture
the maker of heaven and Earth so God is
saying you’ve turned to everybody you’ve
turned to everything you’ve turned to
drugs you’ve turned to sex you’ve turned
to Compulsive work ethic you’ve turned
to success you’ve turned to status
you’ve turned to buying stuff you don’t
need to impress people you don’t like
who aren’t paying attention anyway
you’ve turned to everything else now
turn north you’ve turned to self-help
and you couldn’t help yourself if you
could have helped yourself you would
have been in the pool by now but I see
you trying to get to the pool and you
couldn’t get to the pool so I got good
news summer is over but the pool is
coming to you the pool is open you can
come to this water and drink from this
mountain
I don’t know who needed to hear it
but your Wilderness season is over
lift your hands and worship for 20
seconds now turn
no
I release you from regretting the spirit
I release you from the bondage of
yesterday’s decisions I release you from
inferiority caused by the patterns of
sin I release you now turn
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foreign
not gonna be lost forever
God gave me Grace to get up
now turn north
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when they asked
oh
God showed me I’m telling you while I
was praying God showed me somebody you
are going to walk in a completely
different direction and manner of life
because of this word
today
you know something interesting happened
when Jesus healed that man
the religious leaders didn’t like it
and the man didn’t really even
understand it
because the Bible says that when they
when they asked him verse 12 John
chapter 5.
who is this fellow who told you to pick
it up and walk
the man answered
I have no idea
for Jesus
had Slipped Away
into the crowd
sometimes God is trying to bring you
back to your North and you don’t even
know it you don’t even know it’s him
God uses certain seasons in your life
even certain setbacks in your life and
yes certain blessings in your life
so that you will know your North
so you won’t be like me
with no sense of direction
just going through your life
and I’m grateful that Jesus didn’t just
let that man walk away
because it was one thing for the man to
see Jesus
but it was another thing
for the man to look at verse 14.
to see why Jesus had seen him
because later Jesus
found him at the temple and said to him
see
you are well again
I gave you a second chance
I’m gonna give you five seconds to
praise God for every second chance he’s
given you in your life
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one six five four
see you are well again
stop sinning
or something worse
may happen to you
I love that the passage didn’t end
when the man got up and walked
I loved it before Jesus let him go
he told him why he raised him to begin
with
he told him
you were lying in your excuses and now
you are risen by my power
now that you know the truth
now that you know you’re North
I want you to head in the direction of
your future and never come back to your
past
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who’s this for you can’t go back
you can’t go back
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I don’t want you to hear a word from God
that turns a direction in your heart and
then you just go right back to the same
patterns of sin and isolation
that you came from
that’s why Jesus told him to take up
your mat
because I want you to make a statement
I won’t be
back
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