In “God Promised You More,” we’re encouraged to trust God even when the process He’s taking us through doesn’t meet our expectations. This is an excerpt from “Been Here Before.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch, click here: 
• Been Here Before | Pastor Steven Furt… #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – Why Didn’t God Do It? 2:32 – God Promised You More 5:24 – How To Receive God’s Peace 8:30 – It’s Going To Be Different This Time 10:52 – Getting Ready For What’s Next
sometimes God has to show us that not
everything we want
is something that he promised
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a lot of us lose our confidence in God
because we confuse our want
with his promise
this won’t take long but let me teach
this part and then I preach I preach so
good you’ll be so inspired but let me
dig into this for just a moment I said
something last week I said it so quick
and I moved so fast and I was talking
about weasels and I was talking about
the weasel and the word and the seed and
the dead thing and you’re not dead yet
and God’s seeds are still in you and
don’t give up on it just because
something died on you doesn’t mean God
isn’t you so I’ve preaching all that
last week and I said something like a
Flash and I don’t know if you heard it
but I thought it was really good okay
confidence in God’s promise how many of
you are confident in God’s promise
I am setting you up
dude I am about to knock you out with
this Hood
confidence in God promise
without
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is not dependence
it is delusion
I want you to write that down so it just
came up on the movie screen
you’re not going to do it huh
you’re not gonna write it down write it
down
yeah for real with the with on your
phone or on your notes or whatever write
it down
because I want that to be ringing in
your head
the next time you think why didn’t God
do it
why didn’t he answer why didn’t he do it
why don’t I have it
confidence
in God’s promise oh Moses in Deuteronomy
is is really reliving some of his own
regrets he is reminding the people not
only what God did while they were in the
wilderness but how they disobeyed him
and he is warning them that when God
brings you into this land
be careful that the you that he brings
into this land doesn’t think that you
are the reason that you’re there
because you’ll become arrogant
prideful and the moment that you forget
you will lose the war not because God
isn’t great
but because you forgot how to fight your
battles and you did it in your own
strength so the promises of God are sure
the promises of God are yes and amen the
promises of God no matter how many of
them he has spoken he will bring them to
pass the promise of God can come from a
Barren womb the promise of God can come
from a stable in Bethlehem the promise
of God can come in the darkest season of
your life
and yet
there is so much of what God has
promised me
that I don’t possess
yet
there’s so much
more
that God has promised me
that I don’t possess yet
I can make you a list
let’s do it as a exercise
do you believe God has promised to give
you peace
wave at me if you believe God has
promised to give you peace
how are you going to get it
that’s the question right
God promised them this land how are you
gonna get it
you’re gonna
start chanting peace peace peace give me
peace give me peace Lord give me peace
give me peace pretty please give me
peace give me peace peace peace
there is a process
by which God gives me peace
and is found in Philippians chapter four
look at this on the screen I want to
bring this into the New Testament from
the Old Testament where the Apostle Paul
says do not be anxious about anything
but in every situation by prayer
and petition
with Thanksgiving
present your requests to God
and the peace of God
the peace of God
wait a minute that’s the verse I like
I don’t like the first one because I
really feel like praying I don’t really
feel like being thankful I don’t really
feel like asking God okay you do realize
that in the original manuscripts of the
Bible there was not a verse seven and a
verse six it was just all one thing
so what he says in verse 7 follows from
what he said in verse six I know that
sounds basic but I think sometimes we
forget that that he says the peace of
God which transcends all understanding
will guard your heart and your mind in
Christ Jesus so there it is the promise
the peace the process prayer petition
Thanksgiving not sitting around thinking
about everything that could go wrong
would go wrong did go wrong might go
wrong possibly could go wrong went wrong
23 years ago that process will not get
you peace I don’t care you can’t cancel
out a bad thought life
with a good prayer life
and get peace just because you really
really want it
okay how many of you been praying for
God to give you peace
are you doing the process that brings
the peace
that’s the question go to verse 8. I’m
gonna really Hammer to this home I’m not
playing with y’all today finally
brothers and sisters whatever is true
whatever is Noble whatever is right
whatever is pure
whatever is lovely whatever is admirable
if anything is excellent or praiseworthy
think about such things then what
happens whatever you learn receive from
me or seen in me put into practice and
the God of Peace will be with you
oh wait I thought God was going to be
with me no matter what that’s a promise
right yeah he’ll be with you but you
will not receive his peace if you don’t
want to think his thoughts you just
won’t
you you can’t fill your head with
whatever and then Faith your way out of
what you filled your head with
you can’t just binge whatever and then
quote a Bible verse on top of stuff that
you binge and ask God to cancel it out
cause he can’t because it’s a promise
it’s not automatic
but God promise but it’s not automatic
one time I like tell stories about my
kids they were they had their hands
under this faucet this was when they
were real little I think it was Graham
and he was waiting for the water to come
on
and there was a knob
and I stood there and watched him for a
good I don’t know about 30 seconds
because I wanted to see how long will
you stand there and wait for something
to come out
and not do anything to produce it
he could have concluded there’s no water
because a five-year-old boy doesn’t want
to wash his hands anyway so he could
have walked away the water doesn’t work
I see people all the time who come to
church and go that didn’t work
that didn’t work
you know what there’s no water that
didn’t work I tried I tried to do it you
didn’t try to do it
you took the promise out of context and
popped it like a pain pill
it made you feel better for four hours
but it didn’t produce what it could have
produced in your life because the word
of God is not a pill to be ingested it
is a seed to be planted and if you plant
it the process will begin of producing
the potential of the seed not but we
give up too easily the first time that
we feel fear we let go of Faith the
first time that we get rejected we start
expecting more rejection so now we don’t
want to go now we don’t want to try now
we don’t want to do it now it’s just too
hard now I guess God didn’t really say
that I guess God didn’t really mean for
me to happen I guess I’m just never
gonna come into it that’s one way of
looking at it but maybe another way of
looking at it is you have not fully
allowed the process to complete its
perfect work in your life and if you get
back
in the process
you see
the promise come to pass
cause what’s crazy about it is
nothing has changed about the promise in
the 40 years since Moses last spoke it
he’s been here before
he’s been in this exact spot but now
because he struck the rock twice instead
of speaking to it like God told him to
God said you don’t trust me enough for
me to take you in
it wasn’t that he wasn’t enough to go in
he did not trust God enough to go in do
you see the difference
one is I just don’t have it
and the other is I just won’t do it
now we’re living in a Time
because this scripture is not good for
snowflake culture
where everybody wants God to bring
everything that he spoke to them and
this is why the generational correction
is appropriate in the scripture
this scripture is generationally
appropriate because only those who were
20 years of age or younger get to go
into the promised land everybody else
either died off in the wilderness or is
staying there so Moses this is so sad to
me he’s preparing them for something
that he won’t get to participate in
and as he’s doing it you can hear that
he’s giving them words of faith
I hear the tone of regret
resentment
he’s mad at them there’s there’s three
different speeches recorded in
Deuteronomy and all of them he said all
this stuff before but he’s saying it
again and now he’s saying it to them to
let them know that even though you’ve
been at this place before
it’s going to be different this time you
are going to do what we couldn’t do
because you’re going to believe what we
wouldn’t believe so you’re going to see
what we didn’t see
but we had the same promise
but you’re gonna do with the promise
what we could not do with the promise
what we would not do with the promise if
you keep your eyes on God
and if you go forward believing that God
is with you you’re going to see it in
fact he basically assumes that they’re
going to take the land
he just cautions them that when they do
they need to remember who brought them
into it
I love it
he said you’ve been in the wilderness
for a long time
and it’s funny about the Wilderness
because
A wilderness is a place like I said last
week between places
where God teaches you things
that you need to know for where you’re
going
the wilderness
the Wilderness is the place
where God gets you ready for what he has
next for you
the wilderness
where he brings you manna
to your tent
every morning
because you don’t have Farmland yet
the Wilderness where he brings you water
out of a rock
and there’s not even a knob for the
faucet
it just starts flowing out
the wilderness
there are wonderful things about the
wilderness
there are wonderful things about
loneliness
when you’re lonely
God will feel closer to you if you’ll
call on him
then when you’re real busy
yeah there are wonderful things about
when people tell you no because when
people tell you no God has this way of
putting a yes in your spirit
that you can’t even explain it’s a
wonderful thing about certain tears that
we cry
because God drives them
and you feel is touched like you never
did before it’s a wonderful thing
sometimes about you know when you’ve
done all that you can do
and you can’t figure anything out and
God just says I got this one watch this
manner open your tent every morning it’s
gonna be there brand new mercies with
every rising of the sun it’s a wonderful
thing have you ever been fed by the hand
of God where God just dropped something
off from you and you said oh this is
wonderful I didn’t even know how but God
did that for me I didn’t even know that
person they paid for my gas at the pump
I didn’t even know that person they
stopped me and encouraged me it’s some
wonderful things that happen in the
wilderness God just dropped stuff on you
in the wilderness God just gusts stuff
for you in the wilderness God just makes
sure that you have clothes to wear in
the wilderness you don’t outgrow it it
just keeps stretching with you in the
wilderness he makes sure your feet don’t
swell in the wilderness it is a place of
Supernatural provision but
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if you stay there too long
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you will become passive
waiting for a promise
that God wants to give you the power
possess by faith
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