There’s purpose to it all. In “When Life Pushes, God Pulls,” Pastor Steven Furtick reveals that God is positioning you for exactly where He needs you — trust the process. This is an excerpt from “The Power Of The Pull.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch, click here: 
• The Power of The Pull | Work Your Win… #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – Use What God Gave You 3:52 – Why Didn’t That Work? 5:44 – Pushing Only Gets You So Far 8:00 – Motivation Vs. Inspiration 10:06 – God Is Pulling You
I wonder what you’re sitting on that
you’re not using
today should have used all of your
arrows you should have taken everything
God gave you and kept striking until you
saw it until what you see in your life
reflects what God has spoken over your
life that’s good that’s good it was not
a deficiency in the artillery that
caused the king to be
defeated it was his lack of
Drive can I say that that he wouldn’t
Drive every arrow into the ground you
should have kept pushing you know we all
need to push every now and then don’t
we I mean we all come to the place in
our life where we need somebody to help
us motivate us that’s right to do what
we can’t do and to get us started in the
right direction on I feel like it’s my
job in some ways to give you a push as
you go into your week you know just a
little nudge just a just a little push
that’s what the worship leaders are
doing they’re they’re giving you a push
you know you come in some weeks and you
don’t feel like praising God right and
you know you cussed at your kids in the
van on the way to church and said praise
the Lord when you saw The
Parkers but what I’m saying today really
doesn’t have as much to do with that as
it
does with the other instrument cuz I was
praying you know we we’ve talked about
the power of
precision you have to aim at
something we’ve talked about the power
of
preparation that the ground must be
plowed for the Harvest to be
plentiful y’all miss that nobody wrote
that down in the whole church the ground
must be plowed for the Harvest to be
plentiful wow why are you move the
elevation pin
bro across the page back and forth
e even talked about the power of
potential and the power of
provision all of these things we’ve
talked about using these
arrows and as I was praying about how do
we close this series it was almost like
I heard the text talking to me it was
almost like the text was talking cuz
I’ve been preaching so much about these
arrows and how you can’t leave any of
them in your quiver you cannot quit with
arrows left in your quiver we’ve been
preaching so much about the arrows but
it’s like I heard the text talking to me
and it it’s as if the text said how
about the
bowo because the whole thing started
with a bow that’s right that’s right JJ
you got a
bow how about that he’s got a
bow and some
arrows now of course we work this out
ahead of time this is Graham’s bow and
he uh he didn’t even know where it was I
told him this week to get his bow that
Uncle Max gave him a couple Christmases
ago and he couldn’t even find it and I
thought well that’s a sermon
illustration in itself you’re like a lot
of Christians you wrote it down in a
notebook but you never anyway
uh
whoa
oh
um but he brought me the
bow and I was
thinking in the context of of what we’ve
learned about all of these principles
from God’s
word and uh just real quick I promise
you I know way better than to point this
at any of you so let me turn my back on
you for a moment she looks so scared I
promise I would never I would never I’m
extreme but I’m not
crazy get a bow get some arrows on the
count of three we’re going to shoot it
you ready you ready
LJ one two three
shoot well that didn’t go very
far let’s try
again count me down all right you ready
get a bow everybody say get a get a bow
a get some arrows get some arrows take
the shot take the shot on three here we
go one 2
3
you like
that I feel kind of stupid up here cuz
in my mind I saw the arrow flying
through the air you know the Lord’s
Arrow Victory I saw it like a great
illustration am I doing something
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wrong oh
so in order for the arrow to fulfill its
purpose the bow has to
be I want to preach today for 25 minutes
on the power of the
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pull because if you go out of this
series trying to live out these
principles in your own strength you are
going to look as stupid to the devil as
I
do with this little
Banshee but once you understand the
power of the
pull once you understand
that the power of God is not in your
effort it is not by your might nor by
your strength but by his
spirit
see it’s good to get a push it’s good to
get a push it’s really really good to
get a push and and some people like this
King they will do what they’re told as
long as somebody is pushing
them everything Elisha told the king to
do he did it get a bow he got it get
some arrows he got them strike the
ground he struck it but it was the
moment that Elisha took his hands off
the king’s hands see some people have to
be pushed to praise God other people
have something on the inside of them
that you don’t have to Pro oh God you
don’t have to PR
me I don’t need you to tell me to lift
my hands my hands are lifted
up my mouth is filled with
praise it’s the power
of the pul see before I was armed but
now I’m
dangerous the devil doesn’t fear you
with with your little I can see you
right now coming out of here you know
trying to push yourself to live for
Jesus come on devil I got something for
you and and and the devil isn’t scared
but I guarantee
you with a little bit of
Leverage I said all you need is a little
bit of
Leverage I said all you need is a little
bit of
Leverage come on how many are seated in
Heavenly places with
Jesus
somebody shout I got pulled I got pull
that’s what Paul was saying in 2
Corinthians 10 verse3 he said though we
walk in the world we don’t wage war as
the world wages War we’re not throwing
our own arrows we have Heavenly leverage
the weapons of our Warfare are not
carnal but are Mighty somebody shout
power but are Mighty through God to the
pulling down of stronghold
you’ve been pushing pushing pushing
pushing pushing pushing pushing pushing
pushing pushing pushing pushing pushing
and that’s why it’s not working but God
said if you would
pull it’s a big difference this is
motivation oh yeah
yeah it it’ll work if I motivate you in
church it’ll work till Wednesday yes
sir I mean the arrow went somewhere but
not where it could have gone not all the
way over arum not complete Victory
motivation but if there’s something on
the inside of you and that’s what
jehoash didn’t
have that’s called
inspiration I like that is something p
on me from the inside that made me want
to preach on my birthday I could be on
the
beach but something pulled me to this
Pulpit I wanted to do it not I had to do
it I want to do it I love to do it I
want to serve him I love to serve him I
want to worship him I love to worship
him I want him I need him I got to have
him
and I look back on my little life even
though it’s not been a long life
yet but God has
been yeah pulling
me according to his purpose now
sometimes I didn’t see it that way at
the
time sometimes it felt like life was
pushing me around
sir I don’t know if you’ve ever felt
that
way I don’t know if you’ve ever felt
like life had pushed you past your
breaking point so much pressure on you
that you didn’t know what to
do but I found out that the
power comes from the pressure
sir I could use a lot of biblical
examples of this but I chose Joseph
because he said at the end of his life
after he saw what God’s purpose had been
all along fully fulfilled and he saw the
the the portrait of it not just one
little part of it he saw the the whole
panoramic view he was able to say to his
brothers you meant it for
evil because see his brothers had pushed
him into a pit sir have you ever been
pushed around ever been rejected just
wave at me so okay so so you might need
to know this verse he said you meant it
for
evil you were pushing me but while you
were
pushing the hand of God
was
pulling he was he was pulling me that’s
right when when it didn’t go the way I
wanted it to when they talked about me
they were
pushing God was
pulling the hand of God has always been
on your
life while people were pushing with one
hand God was pulling with the
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other it’s the
power of the
pull to know that God was positioning me
for exactly where he wanted me to be and
when you understand the power of the
pull life doesn’t seem so Random anymore
you understand that there was a purpose
behind all of
it if you look out here you you can’t
see it but if you if you if you look
back if you look back you you’ll see
that your dad didn’t make you come to
church that
night you thought he made you come to
church that
night but it wasn’t your dad pushing you
to come to church that made you come to
church God
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was he used your dad your dad’s in
heaven now my dad’s in heaven now
they’re probably eating some some
carb-free angel food cake to celebrate
my birthday together 37 candles Jesus
name but but but Cody Cody bugged me to
get me to church the night I got saved
he was he was pushy about it too he
showed up in his pickup truck and in my
mind he was being
pushy but while he was pushing
me God was pulling
me that’s right on February
19th 19
1980 I came into the world
because she pushed
me is this too
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graphic but at the same time she was
pushing God was pulling I wasn’t born on
accident and neither were you God knew
you needed to be here God brought you
here right here right now it was his
hand your didn’t bring you to church God
brought you to
church get a
bow get some
arrows and let me give you an object
lesson on the way God works God is
pulling you God is drawing you to
himself God is drawing you into purpose
yeah sometimes it’s painful yes
sometimes it feels like you’re going
backwards but wait till you see the
trajectory of God’s purpose come on and
shout out to
God was pulling me he pulled me out of
some relationships I didn’t need to be
in yes he did he pulled me out of some
pits that I fell into with my own dumb
decisions how many are grateful for the
hand of God that pulled you out
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