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from “We Serve A Faithful God”

So glad you are here at every location. Stay standing for just a moment if you wouldn't mind. Love you all so, so very much. My better two thirds, my wife is not here with me. She's preaching back at our church today, but she sends her love. You already know this, but this is a very, very special place. What God is doing here at Elevation, it's not the buildings, it's the people. It's that God has been moving in everyday men and women, and you are a part of a much larger story that God is pouring out his spirit and his grace in our day and age. I'm so, so honored to be here today, but I wanna make sure, as you are in this church, you don't take it for granted. You don't take for granted all the team that showed up early to roll out the red carpet for you today. You don't take for granted all the people who are leading worship. You don't take for granted all the people that are watching your kids. Shoot, you don't even wanna watch your kids. But I pray that you definitely do not take for granted the amazing pastors that God has given you. Can we put our hands together for Pastor Stephen and Holly Furtick? Who they are and how they live their lives is quite remarkable. Humility, kindness, surrender, generosity, the team that you, you get all this love from the campus pastors and all the people who are volunteering and serving. It's because your pastors, your leaders, that's the heart that they have. So whenever you're being prayed for, just so you know, that's it, the culture and the heart that they set here. So this place is holy ground. Not a perfect church. There isn't one. But you're here, so it's not perfect. I'm here, it's not perfect. You're not gonna find perfect, but you found healthy. You found Christ-centered. You found God-glorified. You found Bible-believing. You found grounded in faith. So let's continue to see God do something transformational and powerful in our lives. I wanna read, while you're already standing, let's read our Bibles together. If you have your Bibles, turn with me to Nehemiah chapter one, and I'm gonna read these verses together. I like how holy elevation is, too. Y'all stand for the reading of God's word. My church, it's ratchet, so they're sitting. They're sitting when we read. We're gonna fix it, though. I think it's me, y'all. I think it's me.

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from “When You Want to Quit”

Great men of God. Anybody can start a business. Can you continue? Anybody can start going to church. Can you continue faithfully serving? I got to be honest with you. When I come to Elevation, I'm always blown away by just the beauty of this place and the people that come from all over the world and how this ministry touches the world. But the thing that I can't get over is a man and a woman, Stephen and Holly, some 20 years ago got a vision from God and they said, we're not just going to do it one Sunday, but 20 years later, we're going to continue to persevere because we believe God is watching what we do. Let's thank God for godly leadership. What a blessing. Wisdom will be proven right by all her children. I'm sitting here today. I got a vision for my life. My son Wyatt's with me, eight years of age. Billy Graham Furtick walked up here, I said, Jesus, I'm going to get Graham to lay hands on Wyatt after this service. Because it's people that are persevering, not just starting, but continuing. God keeps receipts on what you do. Even if you think it's small, even if you think it's insignificant, even if you think it's mundane, even if you think it's average, even if you think it's mediocre, he's watching. One of my favorite illustrations is the book of Nehemiah. If you know the story, Nehemiah, well, Nehemiah was living in a time that Israel had been sieged and they were no more. And he was actually a cup bearer to the king. Now, if you don't know what a cup bearer is, a cup bearer was somebody who would test the king's drink for poison. So you think your job is bad. Hey, Nehemiah, man, how's your job going? So far, pretty good. This dude was a cup bearer, and one day he hears the news that his walls in the temple had been destroyed. And although it had happened hundreds of years before, his heart begins to break and he finds himself before the Lord and a passion begins to emerge. And he has the desire to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the walls. I want to encourage some people out there that many times your burden is actually your assignment. The very thing that's moving your heart, the very thing that feels like frustration is actually vision in disguise. God is telling you that I put you on the earth to solve that. And the Bible says that Nehemiah, he goes back to Jerusalem and he begins to survey

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