Today i was going to commit suicide... Alot has been happening to me that i am unable to bear and i tried everything to feel ok but each day it gets worse. Coming home from work yesterday i told God give me a reason that i should be alive because this was the last of it ...and i woke up today and saw a clip of this vid on instagram, didn't know who this preacher was but someone commented his name and now im here. I think i needed to hear this message. God is so good, he's just reminding me that he still listens even though no one else did and i thank you for this message. You have no idea how much u saved a life today
God is great indeed! I'm glad you're still alive and found this message. It's so timely and such a great inspiration. If you ever need to talk, I'm here 💞
The one man I trusted the most has betrayed me and I am now lost. I pray God guides us all to a blissful future. Who ever is reading this I pray for you.
You know I truly believe that cuz the more that I grow with the Lord how true it is it is personal so awesome really he feels every single thing void whatever you want to call it that I have if I bring it to him he will fix me. You got to BELIEVE to RECEIVE 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
I was attacked/raped. That situation gave way to a beautiful child. Me and my Son have healed together. My God...thank you for changing the ashes into beauty in my life. You are so good Jesus. You are the way truth and Life. You guide every conception. You have been so so kind to me. You saved two lifes that day. Our refuge and high tower. Were safe and blessed in you.
It's very ironic that as Christians in good faith we're always been hurt in relationships,marriages friendships n a whole lot....but at the last minute of it all God shows us that he is with us....so my brother's n sister if ur going through something like how am going through a marriage breakdown know that GOD IS FAITHFUL...be glad that IT HAPPENED....AMEN
Ik you said this a year ago but I just scrolled quickly thru comments and it stopped right on this. God just used your year old comment to reassure me of this. My husband wants a divorce after he fell into the world and chose to live that life instead. I have been asking God why but He just used this sermon and your comment to let me know ❤
"Dear GOD, I know I'm a sinner, and I ask for your forgiveness. I believe Jesus Christ is your son. I believe that he died for my sin and that you raised him to life. I want to trust him as my savior and fallow him as my Lord, from this day forward. Guide my life and help me to do your will. I pray this in the name of JESUS. Amen."
This is the message that just came on my TV when I had given up on life. I was trying to what I thought was made a deal with God. I had failed in life my childern. I ask God if he could help. I would end my life only because I didn't know what else to do. I ended up in the hospital for 10 days and when I got out I turned on the TV and this was on 6 years ago. I just wanted to let Paster Steven know how much hear the Word of God through him has changed so much for me. I have been to church off and on my entire life and even know the stories but never have I really been able to apply them to my life or situation until listening to Pastor Steven. I love to listen to his sermons. He always says I don't know who this is for and I want him to know... me so many probably every one. I know many by heart. Thank you. I know God and how He is working in my life now. Praise God❤❤❤❤
“It had to happen” is my favorite sermon, it opened my eyes about a recent breakup. My hope and faith in god is restored thank you for your preaching pastor
Linda Olivares does the pain of a breakup you thought was the one for the rest of your life ever get better? It’s only been two weeks for me but I feel like I’m having a heart attack every night and break down daily. Please tell me it gets better .
In just the first 10 minutes I’m already crying. My mom is unfortunately in critical condition due to covid 19. I keep finding a reason as to why this is happening and i keep thinking of ways we could’ve prevented this. But in the end, we need reassurance from God and have to understand that this had to happen. Thank you so much Pastor Steven for the words that i needed to hear.
@@Jay-or5ex it gets better. It really does. God led me to this sermon the DAY I last spoke to my ex-fiance. I felt like I was dying. But God has used every thing I went through in 2017 to build me and transform me in 2018. You'll be stronger. Than ever. Cling to Him.
i am currently going through the hardest breakup of my life. i found out i was cheated on after more than 2 1/2 years of a relationship and living together. i’m going through the sadness of the breakup and it feels like i don’t know how to live or go on with my life. even though i feel such deep emotional and physical pain, i know God will help me through this
I was asking God so much lately why did this happen to me. Struggling with the pain from the heartbreak and divorce after 17 years of marriage my husband gave our marriage up to be with a women I knew and had a child. It’s been over a year and I asked God but why I don’t understand I loved him I was faithful did my best and could not understand why this happened. This message has really touched my heart, this was a God send message to me.
I had an anxiety attack the other night & wasn’t able to stop crying, questioning everything i was going through & out of no where i felt a warm presence & a calm. I then realized i kept seeing Jeremiah 29:11 thought out that day (about 4times) but didn’t pay attention to it until after my anxiety attack. I grabbed my bible to read it & i realized no matter what i was going through & how i felt god had a plan for me & it wasn’t to hurt me so i shouldn’t stress worry nor feel anxious about anything but to trust & have faith that he has a greater plan.
This is so powerful. I'm going through a terrible season and all i've been doing is asking why? But lately I've started realising the Grace of God and how he would never leave me. This video was so empowering and reassuring. Our God is capable of doing ALL things and all of our seasons are temporary. God Bless you all !!
Today I woke up feeling broken. Helpless and so alone. Myself and my young family have been battling a crisis which had had us loose everything from our home to our jobs due to an unfair justice system. I've held on to God for so long but this morning I wept and my soul groaned in agony for all we have had to deal with and how we have become shadows of our actual selves. I cried out to God. I asked him for mercy for reason to hold on. I've done all the right things and cant understand how this is a part of his plan. Then after I prayed it was silent but I still believed like i always do. Then the notification for this message pops up on my phone and I know it's for me. Thank you pastor Stephen. I felt like our destiny had taken such an unfortunate detour and this message has reminded me that no matter how broken I may feel, am not alone and God is taking me somewhere. I just have to keep trusting even if I now live in a spare bedroom with my family from a 5 bedhouse - it had to happen!. Thank you God for not leaving me alone.
Father, send revelation to this person so that they know what to do. 1st. Stand firm in The Lord God Almighty, believe Psalm 91:15. Also, What the enemy has stolen from you will now be returned to you 7 fold.In The Name above ALL names ! Amen.
Thank you for sharing. You've really blessed me - my prayer for you is that our Father will show you His peace in a greater measure and that your family will become a beam of light to many. Remain strong. Debbie from the UK xx
I think it’s about time for “I’m bit but I’m not bitter” Pastor Steve!!! You said it yourself you’d preach it in three years in the last ten of the sermon!
Good is still good..my husband went to mexico for visa interview and was denied....my husband is stuck at the Mexican boarder.....but i know it had to happen.....if the Lord be for use the Government cant be against us.. Hes not stuck he stationed..Glory be to God.....my two children and i are he still waiting with faith although its heartbreaking.........keep us in your prayers ..
This touched my soul... I just had a bad break up and I wanted to know why and compromise but after hearing this... the burden was immediately lifted. I’ll stay my term on Malta and do the work of God. I’m not stuck I’m station for a mission. Amen🙌🏿
Going through a fresh painful break up,am losing my best friend and lover and I just need strength to get through this...my heart is shattered 😭,Lord Jesus help me
This is my favourite sermon ever. It has touched my life in ways I can’t even describe. I’ve watched it several times in the last 5 years as I fight a battle that has completely broken me. I pray that one day I can look back and say it had to happen because right now I feel like it shouldn’t have happened and I keep reverse engineering every decision that has led me to this point and every day I’m in mental and emotional anguish and I’m begging God for a miracle. I pleading with God to rescue me from this because I have no one and nowhere else to turn. I’ve done my best and I’ve given my all and I’m tired.
What we go through is evidently nothing compared to what God has in store for us, if only we rely on one thing that, that God's hand is in our favor... This sermon is top notch!!
This is my multa! God do a miracle in your mission for me! Use me to do your Will and let me rejoice with a NEW SONG in my heart and NEW LIFE IN MY PURPOSE!! Amen 🙏
I am clinically depressed and I was admitted for it for 2 weeks. Every day is getting better but tonight, I’m a little down. I came here to find peace.
My dad is in the hospital he broke 8 ribs and punctured his lung. Pray for his recovery please! Thank you God for his life! I lift my father up to you God bless him and bless his recovery. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.
"I wish another snake WOULD bite me... if that much anointing and power come from the pain I experience." The devil will see how I bite back--God's way. You cannot keep God's woman down. People thought there would be backsliding, despair, and destruction... but they were wrong! God's plan is to purpose our pain in order to bring breakthrough to generations and nations. Seeming setbacks actually strengthen God’s people. Glory! Glory to God! JEEEESUS!
My son and I are going through a serious storm right now and hoping for a miracle. I am doubting that our Lord sees my tears, hears my fears, and I ask why in 22 years of being a single mother with no help from the father why I don't deserve a happy and good life. All I have done was financially struggle and have never gotten paid my worth and value with anything I have ever done. I raised my son with a learning disability, left a domestic violent marriage, and went through stage 2 colon cancer. I go to church, I pray on bended knee morning and night, and now we have to find a new home. Why don't my son and I deserve a good and happy life? Lord Jesus hear me, see me, shield and protect Cody and I, and please allow me to bless lives through this storm.Amen
Every year I've watched this sermon about 6 times or more. I can't really explain how much it saved me but God knows that this was perfectly delivered.
My fiancé left me for the SECOND time yesterday. My heart has been emptied. God has helped me heal my past traumas to better the relationship with myself and others but he did not let God in. He refused to accept his flaws and all the blame was placed on me. Steven, you are helping me so much with your preaching and I can’t thank you enough for all that you do. It was supposed to happen. Amen
Rye J I'm trying to get there he have saved me through alot 🙏and I've falling but I keep coming up I wish that god make me stronger because I don't want to fall and meet the devil😭
I have been in Malta in my marriage life. What I did not expect has happened to me. The words of God are powerful. I didn't stay in Malta, I was stationed there; because what the devil meant for evil God has turned it into a blessing. Please pray for me to forgive those who harm me. I love this ministry, may the blessing of God continue to follow you, Pastor Furtick!
@Marie Lamartiniere, thank you for joining us and for sharing some of your story. We agree with you in prayer, asking God to come along side you and see how much forgiveness He has to pour out on you.
Musawenkosi, we are so glad you tuned in to this message! Thanks for sharing this with us! Please talk with family and friends and visit this link www.iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres/ The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. If you like to connect with us for prayer and guidance, email us at: online@elevationchurch.org. You are not alone! We are praying for you! 🧡
In the last 10 years I lost my husband and my mother within 3 years then had a toxic relationship with whom I was gonna marry, and have been disowned by my son's( hopefully not much longer). But today I was Blessed by my Father God and got a message from my youngest. They don't want to talk still but the fact that I have been praying about them and God blessed me once again! He is my Rock and he hasn't left me or forsaken me. And if he did that for me, he will for all who Believe on Christ Jesus! Thank you Lord for all your many blessings! Amen!
Thank you for this sermon. It touched on the season I'm in in my life right now. After 3 years in a toxic relationship asking God why!!! I am starting to see the reassurance and not the reason. It HAD TO HAPPEN. I have to release it. I haven't let the brokenness doubt my faith. This season has brought me closer to God. Stronger in my faith!!! Look at myself more and work on me. I've felt God's presence more in the last few years than ever before. Your words reached out to a tiny town in California and I am thankful for your sermons. God Bless you and thank you for preaching with such passion!!!!! It had to happen. I can't wait to look back and say "Oh, ok, this is why this happend"!!!!!!!
your story is just the same with my story, just waiting to see why it had to happen. I have prayed like never before and I am so loaded with the word. so strong in faith. Thank God for his Faith fullness
yes. this is my 3rd time and i be very honest to you. it spoke to me as if it was the 1st time im listening to it and revelation upon revelation just overwhelmed me. Praise the Name of the Lord
I love the sermon so much! Also when Steven furtick was preaching about when the snake bite Paul, and 3 days later the healing came from the same hand. (After jesus suffered. 3 days later he rose from the grave, to bring salvation and healing to everybody) In the old testament we have the same picture with moses, when the Israelites disobeyed God and snakes came to kill them all, moses talked to God asking for Forgiveness, so God Gave a way of healing through the eyes of a snake in a rod. (Sorry for my English) If they were bitten they had to see the rod to get heal. That's the representation of jesus. In the 2 circumstances. Jesus is the representation of The forgiving of our sins, and healing from our sins I love how God is so almighty and will bring so many different revelations, out of one single passage is true that the word is alive.
I am so thankful for the break ups in my past because I wouldn't have gone through the shelter to get on my own two feet for the first time in my life. I'm 40 years old. What the enemy ment for evil God turned into good for me. I have been through so much in the last year overcoming addiction from drugs, and homelessness all in one year. God is so faithful and he has given me strength to see myself today. I was also contemplating suicide a year ago. I never thought I would have my own place but Look at God! He is so merciful and He gives strength.
This is honestly the best thing I have heard in my entire life, I cried so much because I did go through a LOT but now I finally understand why. Finally I have peace in my heart. Thank u SOOOO MUCH for bringing peace to me, y’all are the best. Keep doing what y’all are doing, you guys are changing lives. 🤍✨ god bless u!
The scripture of this sermon I read it too many times but the way he explained it and what he understood from it is awesome. He has a particular way of understanding the bible! When listening to his explanations I'm asking myself am I really reading the bible or I'm just putting my eyes on it? I like also his preaching style: energetic, humouristic, using his home's experience... Be blessed Pastor Steven!
This message really came in at the perfect time. I’m going through a break up with a close friendship who I was building a relationship centered around God with. I’m struggling with the reason why this had to happen but I felt it when he said you can’t always know the reason why. We have to just have faith it’s for the best
Hi Elevation can we send out prayers for the 414 👎for God so love the world he gave his only begotten son...Thank you ELEVATION...AMAZING GRACE...THANK YOU...I SEE THEE LIGHT...BLESSED IS HE/SHE....AMEN...
"Have you ever been to Malta?", that is the word. It never ceases to amaze me how God can grab a passage and show it to you, and it does more for you than you could have expected.
I am A 28 year old mother and I just got divorced today . I am behind on my bills and don’t have the money to catch up and my roomate is moving out in a week with no notice , I can’t afford this house alone . I have just been praying and thanking God that my bills are paid and my needs are met , then in the midst of my financial struggle this divorce blind sighted me . But it had to happen because I know that God has a bigger better plan for my life and my daughters life and we will never have to struggle again
It had to happen. A bit but I'm not bitter. Please pray for me as I go through a divorce battle, a storm that I wasn't prepared for. Endless crying sleepless nights. This is my Malta and I'm stuck.
All my opportunities are ONLY DUE TO the adversities I'm living through. But but now I understand and saw how God used my brain injury for greater glory! I'm in AWE! The very place I was bite, will be the same place my purpose come from!!!! Your words always come into formation for me!!!
If I could explain what bought me here. You would think I'm lying. I never knew I was this strong, I never had a purpose. I still feel like I'm only getting to know myself. I'm in pain but I made the decisions I made and it doesn't help to keep regretting and hating myself. What I've learned in a short space of time is healing comes from you, not others. I totally hold myself accountable and I will continue to.
I WAS MEANT TO HEAR THIS AT THIS EXACT TIME! GOD IS SO GOOD! “It had to happen”... ty Jesus for everything, I love you soooo much, and know I am also loved more than I can imagine, I give you my life and my will. Direct me to which way to go!! Amen 🙏 ❤️
BRUH. IF this aint the best message I done ever heard.......I am so glad I came across this!!! No more will I be stuck in WHY land.. driving myself crazy trying to figure out the reason! TUH!!!!!! #destinationREVELATION!!!!!! ALL ABOARD!!
I'm stuck in place, but I'm on my way out & I'm bringining my friend Morgan with me as soon as Jesus wakes her up from this coma. Your coming home baby! And were gunna change the world together. Please pray for her healing 🙏
I wasn't going to church today. I'd set in my mind that I wasn't in "the mood". So I figured I'd listen to one of your sermons as my church today. In listening, I started putting on my makeup and pulling clothes out of my closet and made my way. And my pastor preached an almost identical sermon. Your ministry is outstanding and I just want to thank you for sharing your ministry with us.
God allowed me to go through it to reveal to me that his power is made perfect in my weakness.. And that through me, my family, friends and everyone around me will get to know God. And be saved. 💕❤️💕
You preached this in 2013 and part 2 was published on July 24,2017 and TODAY December 18, 2018 it's reached Me....in the middle of Malta. I've been stuck for a long time since the loss of My Daddy in Sept 2015 and 11m later My Ma in Aug 2016. I'm a Minister but even us in the pulpit get stuck! It's been one thing after another after another...after another. I'm so glad on God's appointed callander HE visited Me on Malta through Social Media, through Elevation Church! I'm so glad his Mercy Endures FOREVER!
