In “You Survived For A Reason,” Pastor Steven Furtick teaches us that the letdowns we’ve faced that didn’t destroy us are what God wants to use to give us victory over our enemies. This is an excerpt from “Come Through Drippin.” To watch the full message from @elevationchurch, click here: 
• Come Through Drippin | Pastor Steven … #faith #peace #hope #stevenfurtick #elevationchurch Chapters: 0:00 – There’s An Update Available 2:04 – I Don’t Know What You Dealt With 4:09 – Is There Something Wrong With Me? 6:15 – You Survived! 8:31 – Why Did I Go Through This? 10:46 – Let God Use It
now you can’t see wind you can only see
the effects of the wind you ask me how I
know God is real I can’t point to his
nose or his ears I’ve never heard his
Audible Voice but there are just some
things in my life that don’t make sense
unless there was a wind
blowing there are just some things how
about you there are just some
things that I went
through that I know me and I would not
have had the grace to go through it if
there hadn’t been something working with
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me now let’s get into the text this a
good part touch somebody say come
through so Moses is stretching out his
staff so the people
can I’m trying to get you
tonight I’m trying to get get you
tonight
to to come through I think it would be a
shame for you to be stuck in an inferior
version of yourself clutching onto a
beta blessing when there is an update
available in this house tonight by the
spirit of
God so I’m trying to get you to come
through but by the time verse 26 hits
they’ve already done that
they’re already on the other side I mean
you already you already made it through
2018 you don’t have to come to church
for that the odds are good you wouldn’t
have died over these three hours that
you’re going to be in church you were
good that’s not why you came that is not
why you
came and sometimes we get so focused on
whatever we went
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through and it it makes sense because
it’s
traumatic I I get it well I really don’t
I shouldn’t say that that’s not fair for
me to say cuz I don’t know what you went
through so how how dare me stand up here
and say I know what
you I don’t
know I know what I went through this
year and it wasn’t all stuff that you
could see like this water that was on
either side of the
Israelites to me it’d be easier if
everybody could watch you go through
what what you went through so they could
have some pity on you and be extra nice
to
you give you extra sprinkles on your
cupcakes because after all if I went
through what you went through I’d be in
a bad mood
too wouldn’t be cool if everybody could
see what you went through and they could
experience you know it’ be it’d be be
nice but every storm that we survived
this year wasn’t something that other
people could
see
it’s one thing when you walk through
something physical like certain things
you go through people see you going
through it it’s like man I I heard your
husband has cancer we got you we pray
for you we’re going to going to get
through this together you’re going to
come through this we’re going to do
it when when you lose your job you know
people hear about that maybe you don’t
even want them to but they hear about it
and then it’s kind of embarrassing on
one hand because everybody’s coming up
to you we’re praying for you if you need
anything let us know I know you’re going
through right now
and although that’s a little humiliating
on one hand it’s helpful on the other
because then you get to be the
beneficiary of other people’s empathy
and maybe even their material
support what’s a little
different is when the thing that you
went through isn’t something that you
can point
to and directly
name because sometimes I find myself
going through
things that that aren’t like the Red
Sea it’s not something I can exactly
describe to you did you ever go through
something and while you were going
through it you didn’t even know what it
was
just just a
phone just a thing just some
stuff just I’m going through I I I even
tell some people that from time to time
that that pray for me I’m like I’m just
going
through I can’t say what I don’t even
know it’s like it’s like a it’s like the
the Bible describes the Arrow by day or
the Terror at night and sometimes the
think about what you go through in the
night is you can’t exactly see it to
name it or to know what it
is and in the passage that I’m preaching
from tonight they were they were going
through what they went through was able
to be seen visibly but maybe what you
went through this year wasn’t maybe it
was a divorce maybe it was just a
Loveless home but you’re so good at
faking other people out that they’re all
praying they could have a marriage like
yours meanwhile yours is falling apart
some of the things that you go
through what happened to the praise
party some of the things you go through
aren’t so simple now although this is
dramatic one advantage that they had is
they went through it together by this
time the Israelites are are millions
strong and to go through something with
others who are going through the same
thing that you’re going through is one
thing when the stock market sucks it
sucks for all of us we get to go through
that together when the government is out
of control we all go through that
together but there’s something about the
things that you go through that nobody
is going through with you that makes it
difficult for you to know is there
something wrong with me am I the only
one who feels this way am I the only one
who wants to quit am I the only one who
wonders God are you really even there or
is this thing I’ve been believing my
whole life just a fairy tale that my
parents told me like Santa
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Claus some of the things that we went
through this year were
invisible some of the things we went
through this year were emotional states
and it wasn’t even always something to
cause it it would be nice if there was
it would be better if I did lose my job
I have a reason to be pissed off come
back next week and I won’t say pissed
off it’s just late and I’m unfiltered
and unhinged and
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unplugged but watch
me the miracle is in what they went
through the proof that you belong to God
is not that you didn’t go through but
that what you went through didn’t kill
you I’m going to need you to shout right
here on this point whether you feel it
or not on every
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location come on tell somebody I went
through I went through I figured if I
stand here in front of this Red Sea I’m
going to die at the hands of the same
Egyptians that have been terrorizing me
but I’m not going to stand here and die
if I’mma die I want to drown I’m going
through I’m going through if I’mma die
I’mma die on my feet I’m going
through
now
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now
now oh I love the word of
God I love the fact that they went
through but the point of tonight is not
what you went through
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it’s not what you went through as much
as what you went through is important
and as much as what you went through is
is is is is indicative of of some of the
things that you might need to deal with
I’m not saying that it’s not important
what you went through I’m saying that
that’s not what God told me to talk to
you about tonight on this auspicious
occasion at Elevation Church praise
party
2018/29 as we are 31 minutes away from a
new year Eastern Standard Time United
States of America
God said don’t you spend this whole
sermon talking about what they went
through he said right in the middle of
the sermon I want you to shift it from
what they went through to why they went
through and now we need to go back to
the text because remember there’s water
on their right side water on their left
side for their enemies it was a trap but
for them it was a
path
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and now they’re on the other
side and so it seems strange that God
would tell them to do anything other
than
run but he tells Moses to do
something that God wants you to do
tonight and he says I want you to take
the instrument in your hand that is a
symbol of your
past that is a symbol of the mistakes
that you made when you killed the
Egyptian Moses and ran and hid him in
the sand and then hid
yourself the staff that is the symbol of
your
potential the same one that you used
to turn the Nile
River to blood in those 10 plagues of
Egypt I want you to take that that same
instrument
and before you leave
Egypt stretch it back
over what you just went
through and when you
do you will understand the purpose of
what you went
through God brought you here tonight if
I can be so bold as to say that I
believe this applies to everyone in the
room who will have the faith to receive
it because he wants to use what you went
through that’s the good
news gotta tell you the whole
thing God wants to use what you went
through and so does the
devil and the question in this
moment is will you allow
God to use what you went
through watch this and when he had
finished leading an entire nation all
night long in the dark with with with
water that could collapse on them at any
moment don’t you think they moved fast
through this tunnel of Supernatural
miraculous potential death that at any
moment could sweep them away and they
make it to the other side and God says
stop before you take another step I need
you to stretch your hand back back over
what you just went
through the water that you just went
through was not sent to destroy you can
I tell you something everything that
made you afraid this year was not the
devil everything that made you cry this
year was not the devil everything that
broke your heart this year was not the
devil everything that you lost this year
was not the devil everything that didn’t
go according to plan this year was was
not the devil some of the stuff that was
sent against you was not sent to destroy
you at the time it felt like it would at
the time you felt like you would never
be happy again at the time you felt like
you would just drive away and never come
back at the time you felt like you would
never find that love that passion that
feeling again at the time it felt like
it would kill you but the thing that you
went through was not meant to destroy
you and when you stretch your hand over
what you went through what you went
through is going to deliver you from
what you just came out
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of let me see if I got this
right what I went through could have
killed me but it
didn’t hit somebody say but it didn’t
didn’t it it it didn’t I I could have
laid down and died in what I went
through touch them say but I didn’t I
didn’t tell them I could have lost my
mind my mind but
I I don’t know maybe you did but here’s
the point of the message here’s the
point of the message whatever you went
through that did not destroy you God is
now going to use to deliver
you come to this side to see if you
believe the word of God it’s in the bib
he said what you just went through if
you will stop at this moment at this
juncture in this time in this season and
stretch your hand over what you went
through it’s not meant to kill you it’s
meant to kill your
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