Today, we bring you a message from Pastor Steven Furtick titled, “Feeling Like A Failure?”
Pastor Furtick teaches us in this message about feeling great and not like a failure. We have to know that God sees us as stronger, better, and healed. We have to learn how to see ourselves the way God sees us, and it is really important that we do that. The Devil will bring us situations that will make us feel like failures so that we will not see ourselves in God’s image. Pastor Furtick shares his experiences with us: I was thinking about how God sees you stronger on the other side. Yeah. And I remember a very unique thing that I heard when I was doing a workout recently with a bodybuilder: a bona fide certified Instagram verified bodybuilder came over to workout with me, and he was showing me some different things that would make me look like him. I guess if I did enough and took steroids, God was really strong. Elijah brought him over, and he brought somebody with him, and we were lifting together, and he said something to a spotter that I thought was a strange thing for somebody that strong to say. Listen to what he said. He kept saying to a spotter, Hey, come over here and help me fail. Help me fail. Now, technically speaking, what he meant was that just when I get past the point where I can do it, I need you to make sure that I get that rep after the rep where I would have stopped. Because if I don’t push past the point where I can’t go anymore, I won’t grow.
But see, Peter didn’t ask Jesus to fail. In fact, he insisted that he wouldn’t. Never. Lord, I will never deny you. And yet he did it three times, and Jesus knew that. Jesus didn’t predict that at the moment that He saw Peter’s faith getting weak. He knew that from the moment he got in Peter’s boat the first day he called him. So God is not surprised by Simon, and God is not surprised by you. And Jesus was not surprised by the cross, even though the disciples were, and they tried to do everything in their power to stop it. That’s what he came for. And yet it wasn’t a failure at all for him. It was the reason he came. If in your life and in mine, some of the times where we feel like we’re failing are some of the greatest times that God is building, then some of the times that we feel like we have nothing are the times when God is actually up to something.
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