Invisible Prisons | Maybe: God | Pastor Steven Furtick 

How has this message challenged your view of expectations? ^EC Team

I just want to appreciate everyone at Elevation who work to ensure that we have these services available here on RU-vid. I appreciate you for bringing your church closer to us who are far and I thank you for allowing yourselves to be vessels of God in your own capacity. Thank you Pastor Steven for another amazing word. I feel blessed in my spirit.

"I thought You were gonna" ...... I believed my husband would be healed of stage 4 pancreatic cancer. When he died, I was terrified that although I had loved and followed Jesus since I was a child, maybe I didn't know HIM after all. BUT Father God is loving, patient and ALWAYS GOOD.... In the midst of the deepest darkest pit of grief, Holy Spirit delivered me to see the Savior as I never knew before. 5 1/2 yrs later I see, agree and declare........God's purpose is greater and HIS plan is bigger!

What if God isn’t meeting my expectations because He wants to EXCEED them?! My God!!!!!! 🙌🏾

When i feel like giving up,depressed,i always listen to your preachings and i always get encouraged and motivated ,God put something special for you to give to the nations...God is so real People

I want to move to Charlotte for this church. "Wtf- where's the fire?? 😂😂 God fulfills his promises not our preferences"💗

I had lost my hope on humanity. Looking at Elevation Church, Pastor Steven, my best friend, and the Church of Jesus Christ in general and also other Pastors and Leaders, my hope is being restored. Thank you.

THIS has to be one of my favorite Elevation sermons, today i was feeling extremely down because I had an expectation on how God was going to deliver me from depression and before i watch this i prayed that even if things don't go my way, i will still praise him. After i watched this, i felt like God was definitely speaking to me through Pastor Steven! Telling me not to rely on my thoughts, feelings or emotions but to know what God has prophesied about me, his child! i feel a million times better than i was!! i praise God, he's so amazingggg!!!

Thank you for this:-) When I thought God was gonna... make my brother breath after a car accident. He didn’t, when I asked God why didn’t he take him in another accident before he had his children, He told me that was what he was here for. Peace and comfort was with me. God was with me. He never leaves.

The message is straight up fire. And the man that yells “amen” with his very distinct voice in so many of Furtick’s sermons makes me so happy. No reason. Just does lol.

My husband and I watch every weekend pastor!!!!

My expectations need to be in line with God's character.

Pastor Furtick this message didn't fall on deaf ears here. I have set so many expectations for myself and for other people; so I have lived in a prison of resentment and bitterness in my mind my whole life, until the Lord Jesus came into my heart and gave me liberty. Therefore goodness and Mercy does follow me all the days of my life. May God continue to shower you with his wisdom. understanding, grace, and favor. He makes you a blessing to be a blessing and every sermon you preach administers grace to my ears. I continually praise God for your service!

THIS GUY,, if I lived closer I can almost gurantee that I would be sitting front row err sunday.

I'm currently in a battle with addiction. One I denied for years and buried under other addictions. I've been having trouble because I've been wanting God to heal me on my terms, on my time, and my needs. I've learned that releasing the control I think I have to God, He will heal me in ways I could never see before.

yesterday I attended a Bible Study session where I learnt that life is spiritual. After listening to this I realized sometimes we miss God's will because of having Physical expectations.

FURTICK ON FIRE!! Thank you Elevation Church for all that you do to make things possible. Thank you Pastor Steven for such a powerful word! God bless the ministry. Love from Cape Town, South Africa.

I am happy to know that God delivers from every prison even the invisible ones.Hallelujah.

20yrs. ago God came to me when I was a child and told me that when I turn 32yrs. I will go through the most difficult struggle I would ever experience in my life. Then even after that struggle, there will still be some hurt and pain that I will still be trying to get pass. But soon after all of that, I will experience a happiness unlike I have ever come across in my life. Then he told me I won't be able to understand it now(child me) but when I turn 32 I'll quickly understand what the struggle is that I will be going through. Sure enough, the day after my 32 birthday, the struggle became a reality. It's been almost a year since then and I'm still hurting but not like I was. I kept making so many assumptions of how he was going to help me through all of this but nothing would happen in the way I kept expecting. And then after all the intense struggle, I finally reached the lesser pain that he had mentioned. The struggle is more calmed down. So because of that, I keep expecting this ultimate happiness that was promised to me, only to keep getting disappointed when it still hasn't happened yet. These past 5 weeks I straight up gave up. But these past few days, there's been this pull in my heart to not give up yet. So I've been struggling with myself to not give up and just believe what god has promised me. When it comes to my own life I seem to put a great limitation on what I believe he wants to do for me. Not that I believe he can't, just that maybe he just doesn't want to. But lately I've come to realize that he wants all his children to be happy and on top of that, he literally came to me and told me himself that he was bringing happiness to me. So, This evening I prayed and he said " Now I'm coming to set you free.'' About a half hour later I saw this sermon. Not long after starting through this struggle, I came across this pastor's sermons. This has helped me through this hard time so much. This message was truly so powerful. My mind was blown. All of them are great! But I truly needed this one ! Thanks so much! I hope in a couple of months I can come back to write what this ultimate happiness will end up being. I've waited 20yrs. so what's a few more months of waiting on this. There's also another promise he gave me 12yrs. ago that I'm also waiting on. Crossing fingers and trying hard to keep on believing in those wonderful promises that he has for us all!

“Get around other people who are EXPECTING” love it!

That's crazy!! I literally had a conversation on ME needing the power of God to show up in MY life, as it did for Elijah today. And wow! I picked this sermon, not prompted my anyone else. And BAM! I get hit with truth n revelation. Good stuff God

😭😭😭😭😭😭I am 60 in July. The spirit of the living God from this messenger!!!! Hallelujah Hallelujah!!! Yrs of constantly asking......."why God? Again??"... knowing I'm too old to start over and too wise to want to. I almost can't breath. 🙏🙏🙏

Letting go of my need to control things and how my deliverance should look like 😭 It’s you I’m looking to Jesus... have your way!

God was just on me about loving him for who he is ,not what he does for me .love is Unconditional. 🙌🙌

These past 2 years have been the hardest in my life, these sermons are the only thing that keeps me focused on God and reshaping my perspectives. Thank you so much!

My motto this year is let go and let God. I was tired of doing it on my own, so in 2019 I decided to follow God's lead in each and every area of my life.

I'm walking into work listening to this people think I'm nuts because I am clapping and amening. Sooooo Good

There is way more depth in everything that happens in our lives than we realize.

I’m expecting my breakthrough, Amen 🙏

It's alright to love Jesus to lift up my eyes to the hills from where my help comes from⬆️

This sermon is going down as One of Pastor Furticks ALL TIME BEST SERMONS. Now time for me to listen again!!

Blessed are the ones that hear your words😇😇

Ahh, so timely! God gave me "imagine" as my word of the year. Ephesians 3:20: "Glory belongs to God, whose power is at work in us. By this power He can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine."

Im free from the prison if MY expectations! His Grace and mercy opened my ears and soul to another level....i can breathe again! Thank you Lord for using this mans gift of visual words it has drawn me closer to my faith!

Trust God that he will give you the words to say and however he wants to use you

Thank you so much father God for delivering this message to me all the way in South Africa. Pastor Steven you are truly blessed for I was trapped in my expectations of the Lord and when my plans failed, when I was disappointed just a few days ago I felt pained... But the Lord relieved me of my pain as I gave my expectations, my worries and my life to him as I give it to him everyday. And he delivered me as he does everyday... And now I accept that he doesn't follow my expectations, he goes beyond me and blesses me with so much more than I expected. Please EC Team, continue to make expand the kingdom of God.

The 4th part of Maybe God was so powerful. I watched 4th time and learn each time something new. I was on my tears when Pastor Steven said: The way God grows my faith it is usually to disappoint my expectations. It is so true because sometimes I am praying for something but The opposite just appears. And I will be in that place where I am questioning God or just give up. My prayer today is That Please God set me free of my invisible prisons 🙏🏽

There is a purpose that is greater and there is a plan that is bigger👐

Furtick bumping Hezekiah Walker on Sunday morning got him LIT like whoa!

So greatful I have this on my lunch break at work to be able to hear God's word

Thank you for this powerful message!! Last night I prayed long and hard. I was bursting in tears of grief and sadness but after waking up and watching this sermon this morning I was bursting in tears of gratitude and relief. The more you spoke the more I began to feel the weight of my expectations that I set too high or too low lift off my shoulders!! Thank you Steven for your honest words and thank you god for answering my prayers in such an unexpected way and broadening my mind. “There is a purpose that is greater, there is a plan that is bigger!! Zoom out, zoom out, zoom out, zoom out” ......... I TRULY felt that!

watching this today as a new RU-vidr. Understanding that my obedience to God brings about God relationship as a friendly.

Thank you HOLY SPIRIT for revelation!! A sermon from 5 years ago! So good to me!! 🥹🙌🏾💛

LOVE THIS PASTOR AND THIS INCREDIBLE CHURCH!!! 💚💚 THANK YOU PASTOR STEVEN!!! ❤ FROM 🇦🇹

God was TOTALLY TALKING TO ME IN THIS MESSAGE! ALL THROUGHOUT OF IT! Thank you, pastor, for this message, it spoke to me on many levels. (I'm 19 btw and in my second year in University in CA). I felt the Lord when Pastor said, "What if God did not want to meet your expectations BECAUSE HE WANTED TO EXCEED THEM" AND the way "he grows my faith is usually to disappoint my expectation". I've had several expectations from God, to turn someone I've loved to Jesus so I can have a future with him, healing for my eyes, and healing from anxiety/depression, however, God may have something better in store for me, a better purpose and plan which is why I should not interpret God through the lens of him not meeting my expectations. This message was amazing and I just needed to thank Elevation Church for posting it! I don't want to be in this prison of thoughts, I want to be a part of what God is doing!

What if God didn't meet your expectations,to exceed them. Hallelujah. Loved it. Blessed word Pastor.

Thank you past Steven whatever you preach we can believe Jesus is our Savior and the son of God we come to took our sins away so that we are really children of the Father amen Maggie NZ

Expecting something???? I know it! I feel it! Amen!

It's amazing how I just share this message in our sharing yesterday. Talking about how I always dictates what God should do and now I realize about why am I doing that. The expectation of my own plans that I couldn't help but seek in God's plan. "He's fulfilling the prophecy not fulfilling their preferences" for "God didn't want to meet your expectation because he wanted to exceed them".

Thank you guys for posting this video! I watched yesterday via Facebook live and I must say this message really spoke to me directly! I can totally identify with John the Baptist at times and I have also been in that mental/invisible prison that he speaks of. This message has challenged me to let go of my expectations and allow god to work his prefect will in my life! Thanks Furtick for preaching such a powerful word!!!

This is so powerful, how many times we limit God! God has indeed so much more in store for his children. Powerful word!

What if??? O my God, what if??? I cant wait to see you what God is going to do!

It's you Jesus that my family needs for deliverance from that which is not of you Amen

I gotta make that trip to Charlotte! His energy ! His word ! 🗣👌🏽 ✍🏼

As long as I'm in a prison of what I thought, i can't be a part of what God is doing". I pray that God set me free from the prison of trying to figure things out on my own and if you reading this and you're in a prison of self I also pray God gets you out from that prison and let His glory shine up on us.In jesus name Amen🙏

Your massages are just awesome I'm growing in every area thank you so much God bless you

Pastor Steven I just want to say thank you for your teachings. I've been watching you for 2 months straight everyday, and I've been to different churches and heard other pastors but You have been such a blessing in my walk with the Lord. Your messages hit me every time and the fact that you break down these parables from the bible and the power of your prayers and the Holy Spirit just washes over me every time I listen and watch you. I love you so much and elevation is so amazing! Praise God for bringing you into my life right now that I needed Him more! Hallelujah!! 🙌🤍👑 He crowned me his princess and j learned a woman of Faith Walks with Authority here on Earth. I've had breakthroughs, revelations and his graces are upon me. Thank you Jesus! I love Jesus ❤

This has helped me so much. I definitely need to study God's word more and learn what He said and His promises so that my expectations match what He said abd not what I think they are. This works for relationships too. I'm ready to break free from the thoughts and unmet expectations that have weighed me down.

Just in time! Debt after debt bill after bill Time is going by so slow cause im still broke looks like theres no way out.. Lord are you gonna get me out of this Lord where are you?! ❤ Thank you lord!🙏

I just love this Pastor, and the joyful energy of this church!

Today I was expecting God to do something and would've been terribly disappointed as it was not answered. Thank God for this message coming to me at the right time and I feel I am set free. Amen!

I Love this message!!! this might be my 3rd time around listening....GOD spoke and is speaking still...May He continue to pour into you and your ministry.

I can hardly Breathe right now.. Steven u r speaking specifically to me. I am pausing n typing as it hits me...

He is sooooo much greater than that"

Yes Lord I am expecting that my husband Carlton to receive Jesus as his Lord and saviour and deny worshiping mother Mary and other saints he will receive a breakthrough from Catholicism bondages in the mighty name of Jesus christ amen and amen thank you lord for answering prayers and all praises to Jesus alone amen

And God whispered "Be brave" 💚💜❤

Really needed this today and searched for this specific message🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽When I first heard it, I was so broken because my expectation of God was shattered because I was so dissapointed by a situation but now I will expect to see a victory, expect to see God move - I will not doubt or fear but I Will look up and see the victory of the Lord. Thank you Pastor Steven ♥️🙏🏽🙏🏽

Amen, Pastor Steven Furtick Preach the word of God...👏🙌

Thank you Elevation & Pastor Furtick for these deep life transforming sermons. We love you!! All the way from Rwanda(East Africa)

Such a great message..whatching from Albania, Europe. Blessings!!

This truly spoke to me. Whenever you asked whether things in my life turned out differently than I expected them to and if the fact that they turned out differently affected my faith, I had to pause the video for a bit and just reflect. Past disappointments, past failures, and ruined relationships have changed my faith. Some made my faith stronger after time - but all put a damper on my faith. Momentarily for most, which gives me hope for this current struggle of mine.

Thank you for everything you do. ❤️

Just wanted to say thanks no matter what I have and will be loyal

My second time listening to this and I will probably replay it again after this. This really blessed me thank you so much!!

I'm expecting something and my Jesus answered my today 🤗👏👏

This message is EPIC

am walking around rhe park and.wild...yes i can. walk with ➕ AMEN praise the lord amen

Almost died lol...Been anxiously waiting...Had to constantly check my wifi router if it's on you know*😉

I want to thank everyone that has pray for me God bless you all

Was an awesome preaching amen 🙌 🙏

Amen God will complete whatever He began in you

Amazing Sermon!! Watching multiple times 🙏🏽❤️ thank you for Gods Word!!

Your always talking to me but my faith in God stands strong faith in me is were I lack 🙏🎉🎉

This message is piercing my soul. I'm meant to be getting ready for work but I'm crying on my knees. Scared. Disappointed. Scared to let go of my expectations 😢 Disappointed because sometimes I feel God should have at least ...... Lord set me free from the need to control my life. Help me to let go. Set me free from this disappointment messing up my faith and trust in you. Set me free from the torment of fear. Father God your daughter is scared and tired and has little or no fight left. Set my heart alight again because there's no other God but You. I cannot see or understand the 'bigger picture' and this is why I'm tired and anxious. Thank You Lord for Your word. Amen. God bless Pastor Furtik and Elevation Church for these messages.

it you god it yiu it you lord it yiu lord it u lord. looking. foward...it your grace n help my trust is in your name Lord..amen

I ask for prayers that i set myself free bring myself out of the pit of the past i pray to be present work toward my future have the life that GOD has promised amen

I’m expecting something!!!!!!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. 1 Corinthians 1:25 NIV

I needed it .... I had questions about ....but there is greater purposes be blessed man of God

That was me you were talking to Pastor. I recently suffered what I thought was a disappointment that got me questioning God and His love for me , but this right here was Him speaking to me and setting me free. Thank You Lord for always letting me know that You love me beyond words. God bless you pastor🙌🙌

Just, WOW!

I love when the message is for me every time I come

I'm excited.

God's hatred for me and merciless vengeance upon me have killed all expectations I may have had. For me, he is now the promise breaker. Not the promise keeper, because he has never kept one to me.

I'm in an invisible prison now I need prayers for myself in my prison n prayers for my expectations my plans

Been waiting for this to drop lol

God chose this man to preach his word. He has written and preached 1h 30m long sermons for 13 YEARS! No human can do that.

All my greatest lessons, all my turning points and the strengthening of faith has always come from disappointments....and i get to learn the God in the hill and in the valley...my greatest strength , even in my lowest moments i always turn to Him...the author! God bless you Pastor Steven. Be blessed ( In swahili we say "Mungu akubariki sana.") Keep being the vessel you are....His plan is BIGGER!

When I meet you in heaven one sweet day, I will thank you for this message. God Bless You,your family and ministry.

This is such a core principle not many people think about. This helped me so much to free myself of the expectations and just love God for the life He’s given me.