Today, we bring you a message from Pastor Steven Furtick titled, “Did I waste my life?”
Pastor Furtick teaches us in this message about faith and anxiety. Most times, we are scared because we feel that our lives are not going well, which creates anxiety in our lives. You know, a lot of times, God does something in our lives on a physical level. You know, a lot of times, God does something in our lives on a physical level, so we don’t get the full benefit of what he did. Peter sees this man who gets healed, and he says, “This would make an excellent opportunity to preach.” There’s a man whose name is not known or mentioned who is healed by a name that is above every name, and the vessel for it is a man who really was an unlikely candidate, “The Unfolding Plan of an Unstoppable God Through Unlikely People.” Like Peter. Like me. Like you. They didn’t know it when they were in it. You don’t know it when you’re in it. You can’t see it when you’re in it. You’ll be grabbing your keys and grabbing your wallet and getting up to leave and starting to give up and thinking about quitting and thinking about walking away and turning to the person next to you and saying, “This is ridiculous. I wasted my money. I wasted my time. I wasted my prayers. I wasted my faith. It keeps hurting, and it won’t go away. I keep trying. It keeps hurting, and it won’t go away. I keep trying to understand who is, as Hebrews 12:2 says, the author and the finisher of our faith. Philip Yancey said faith is believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse. Faith for what you can’t figure out; faith for what frustrates you; faith for what has you tied up in knots; faith for what wakes you up in the middle of the night; faith for what makes you think you’re losing your mind; faith for what makes you wonder, “Am I going crazy?”; faith for what you’ve given up on the possibility of change. With that kind of faith, he says, we have to go all the way back.
Watch and learn from this sermon by Pastor Steven Furtick: Did I waste my life?” as we bring the latest messages from Pastors around the globe to you.
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