Delivered Daily

0:04 Hey, this is Steven Furtick. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church, and this is our podcast. Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these new sermons every week. Hope you're blessed today. From the front to the back, say hallelujah. Lift your hands, say dance to something. Dance to something about your name. Dance to something about your name. Dance to something about your name. It makes me cry holy. Jesus, be the name. Jesus, be the name. Luke chapter 11. A familiar scripture for our Bible study today.

1:07 Remain standing for the Word of God. I want to welcome you from wherever this message is finding you. I pray that this Word today finds you blessed, and if not, maybe it'll leave you blessed when we get done. I found out God never leaves me like he found me. He meets me where I am, but he loves me too much to leave me there. So however you came in today, go ahead and say goodbye to it right now, because you are not returning to that state of mind when you leave this church today. In Jesus' name. Are y'all all right if we just sing a bunch of new songs all month of September? We're going to declare it New Song September, and then we will culminate on September 26th with a big old recording. You're all going to come in here singing at the top of your lungs. September 25th.

1:59 If you come on September 26th, you're going to be singing solo. I'm a happy man. I have a full phone. We have so many new songs to share with you, and I thank God for it. Today the word of the Lord comes from Luke chapter 11, and I thank him for the deposit and the download that he gave me. I want to share it with you now, just like he gave it to me. Luke chapter 11, and you'll recognize it once we get to verse number two. One day Jesus was praying. In a certain place, when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples. I'm going to read this. That was in the NIV version where I normally read. I'm going to read this in the New King James Version because it's more familiar to many of us who heard it growing up. So if you're confused looking on your Bible, this is a little different translation than we normally use.

2:52 So he said to them, when you pray, say, our father in heaven, hallowed be your name. There is no other name. Hallowed be your name. There is no other name. Your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us day by day our daily bread and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. How many want God to do that for you today? Deliver me from the evil one. Somebody shout, deliver me.

3:47 Yeah, deliver us from the evil one. I really read all of the scriptures to get to that part. Deliver us from the evil one. The title of my message today is Delivered Daily. Delivered Daily. Put that in the comments, please. delivered daily. Say it out loud. Say, delivered daily. And turn around and tell three people, God can get you out of this. Come on, tell them with some confidence and charisma. Tell them with some eye contact. Say, God can get you out of this. Put it in the comments. I don't care what it is. I don't care if it's a financial mess. I don't care if it's a relational mess. God can get you out of this. If it's in a pit with a snowy day and a lion, God can get you out of this. If it's in a lion's den, God can get you out of this. We thank you, God, for your deliverance now in this place. In Jesus' name, amen. You may be seated.

4:58 I believe God can get you out of this. Well, you don't know what it is. You don't need to. I checked his resume. He got some people out of some stuff sometimes in the Bible. God can get you out of this.

5:20 Maybe your mom can't. Maybe she's broke too, but God can get you out of this. Maybe your husband can't. Maybe he's depressed too, but God can get you out of this. Maybe your staff can't. Maybe they're overwhelmed too, but God can get you out of this. Maybe your business partner can't. Maybe he's worried too, but God can get you out of this. Nobody said amen.

5:46 All right, well, let me give you a testimony then, since you're going to do me like that today up here. I'm privy pastorally to a lot of people sharing more extreme situations than the average bear. People walk up to me and tell me stuff that, honestly, I don't have a license to hear. I mean, you get everything, and I mean everything. Everything. Don't we? Holly was standing there eating an ice cream cone one time in downtown Charleston, and a lady came up crying. Holly was stuck because she was really hot outside, and she was like, do I… Thank you. What? The other day, a man came up to me at Abbey's soccer game. He blessed my whole day, and he helped me figure out how I wanted to preach this message to you. He was very emotional when we met.

6:38 He said, You don't know what this means to me. I never thought I'd get to tell you. Your ministry saved my life. I said, Thank you, man. That means a lot. Praise the Lord. He said, no, you don't get it. You don't understand. I mean, I'm sorry. I'm kind of… I'm former military, a lot of PTSD. My daughter is about to go out there and play soccer. Am. I'm talking about I went from a gun in my mouth to watching my daughter play soccer. Thank you, man. Then I gave him a bigger hug. I said, Bro, the whole soccer season was worth me getting to meet you.

7:34 He said, Yeah, I didn't know whether to come up. At first, I didn't recognize you with your beard. Now, that threw me, because I hadn't had a beard for a minute. I had a beard for about a decade. I said, I thought you went to the church. I said, do you still go to the church? Now we're laughing, right? We already had our emotional moment, so I could pick on him a little bit. I said, bro, you ought to know I have a beard. You ought to have seen me since I had a beard. What happened? I wanted to bring my teaching screen, because I think this is going to be the most helpful if I make it visual. If you think about what he shared with me when we met, it had a very dramatic sound to it. I believe God does miracles. I do believe people flush the pills instead of swallowing them when God brings them out.

8:33 I do believe God can take away the taste for alcohol, and you say, I don't even know how I drink it. It feels like urine in my refrigerator now. I don't want it. I believe God can do that. ain't going to clip me for talking about urine in the refrigerator, but I'm good with it. The main thing I want you to know is that God can get you out of this, but I want to be very careful with my summary. I believe the reason some of us are slow to applaud when I say it is because you've heard it before, and he did, and then it didn't. The way I saw it as I was breaking down what he said to me. He said, I went from… a very low place, a horrible place, the worst place. I wanted to end my life from the things I've been through and the things I can't forget.

9:27 Now God brought me to a much better place. Look at us out here on the soccer field. But that beard made me ask him, what's been going on in between from and to? And he said, well, I kind of been going… through some things. I realize that when God brings you from something to something, It does not always feel like a straight line. Sometimes it takes you through a Red Sea that is even scarier than the slavery God brought you from.

10:30 I realize that not only he, but everybody in this room today is not only going from something to something, but there is something you are going through as you are going to. Say, from. Say, to. Say, through. No wonder Jesus told the disciples, when you pray… Not if you pray. You better pray. When you do, pray like this. Elbow your neighbor in their ribs and say, you better pray. Tell them, I looked at your TikTok. You better pray. I saw your Snapchat. You better pray. I met your wife. Don't say that to them. I met your kids. You better pray. Put it in the chat. You better pray. Because it is just not that simple. When God delivers you… You see how Jesus says it in verse 3. I want to read it again. He says, But deliver us from the evil one. I was talking to another friend this week, and they said, Oh, I've got great news about our friend. Our other friend was someone who had really, really damaged a lot of relationships and disappointed a lot of people. The amount of dysfunction and betrayal was incredible with this person. My friend was telling me, Oh, it's all better now. They got delivered. I smiled, but I doubted it.

11:59 I doubted it, and I felt bad that I doubted it. Because why do I believe it when it's in the Bible, but I don't believe it when it's somebody that betrayed me? And when Jesus talks about forgive them and freedom, there are three elements to this model prayer. We call it the Lord's Prayer, but it's really just Jesus pulling his disciples aside and saying, here's how you do it. When you pray, you want to know how to do it? You want to know how to avoid the things God wants to take you over, and you want to know how to rise up above the things you're crushed up under. When you pray, pray like this. Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done. So first it's about his priorities. But then when you start praying about provision, I want you to think in three terms. He uses food.

12:51 He uses forgiveness. And LB, he uses freedom. He says God's going to give you bread. God's going to give you the ability to forgive, and he's going to give you forgiveness for your sins. You don't really get to experience one without the other. Jesus says there's going to be food. There's going to be forgiveness. Then he makes this promise. He says, deliver us from the evil one. Now, when you were saved, you were not just saved by God through Jesus from your sins. You were saved to walk in the newness of life. I said you weren't just saved from hell. It's not just so you won't pop like Orville Redenbacher's one day while a guy with a pitchfork stands over you. Burn, burn, burn. I'm not just saved from something that's going to happen one day.

13:46 I am saved today to walk in the newness of life, not one day when, but here and now. Matter of fact, this is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. God saved me from, and God saved me too, but that does not negate the fact that I am going through. He told me I went from wanting to end my life to standing here with my daughter. But to be honest with you, this is what he said next. He said, I've been going back to some things.

14:24 I've been going back, and I didn't embarrass him. I said, I get it. We all go back sometimes. I will embarrass you if you keep looking at me like you're so holy you never go back sometimes. The Lord will give me the spirit of prophecy, and I'll call out your sins so specific, and I'll alphabetize them, and I'll say them in Greek. I've been going back, he said. That made me think not only about the Lord's Prayer where he said, "'Deliver us from the evil one,' and when he said, "'You should pray this.'" It made me think about the central story in the Old Testament to the people of God. I want to give this to you as quickly as possible. How much do you know about Moses? Do you know that he lifted up his staff and parted the Red Sea and the people went through? Do you know that the people had to walk through walls of water on either side, probably terrified that they would collapse at any time?

15:31 So you know that when God brought them from Egypt to the Promised Land, they had to go through something to get there. They had to go through something they had never been through before and that people normally didn't go through. The good news was they made it through, their enemies didn't. The good news is God used what they went through to free them from what they would have been tempted to go back to. Is God using what you're going through? I believe that he is. I believe that not only can God get you out of this… How many have been praying the prayer lately, God, get me out of this, in an area of your life? God, if you get me out of this, I promise I'll take notes. I promise I'll listen to Elevation Worship. I promise I'll listen. I promise God, if that pregnancy test could just come to God, if you could just get me out of this, because I did not mean for it to be a lifelong commitment. God, get me out of this. I will never sign a lease again on a car that costs me $17,000 a month to look stupid driving down the road in traffic. People aren't paying attention, and I got ulcers. God, get me out of this. Get me out of this, God, if you will get me out of this. We were in the hospital with Elijah earlier this summer, and I'm like, God, if you get me out of this, I'll take the whole church on a mission trip.

16:59 God, we'll go to India. I'll launch Elevation Calcutta. God, whatever you do, orphans, widows, beggars, whatever, bring them on, God. Ten minutes after you get out of it, you're eating ice cream. Sometimes deliverance isn't always dramatic. That's what I want to say to you today. I think you've been discouraged because you've been thinking, oh, I thought I was through with this, but now I'm going back. If we ask you, you'll share your testimony that you went from death to life. But sometimes… Where is my pen, Jesus? Huh? I put it on the thing? Yeah. Sometimes I find myself going back to what he brought me from.

17:58 Don't you? I met a lady who was telling me she lost 80 pounds. I said, congratulations. She said, Don't congratulate me so quick. I said, 80 pounds sounds like a reason to celebrate. She said, No, because 10 years ago I lost 110, and I put it all back on. I went back. No, no, no. That's not funny. I don't say that as a joke. I don't say that to shame her. We all have things we thought we were through with.

18:23 We all have places we thought we had arrived to, but now I want to go back. Isn't it amazing with the Israelites? You know, it's a crazy story. God brings them from Egypt. They were enslaved for 430 years. They pray for God to bring them from that place. "'Deliver us, Lord.' God sends a deliverer, and they're in an interesting predicament. They are out of Egypt, but they have nothing to eat because they are going through the wilderness." Isn't that tricky when you're out of Egypt, but you have nothing to eat? If you go to Exodus, chapter 16, verses 2 through 4, it gives us an interesting glimpse of what happens in our life. Somebody say, God, get me out of this.

19:18 I know I'm asking you to multitask and look up the Scripture at the same time you say something, but say it again. God, get me out of this. God, if you get me out of this, I'll give you all the glory. I'll tithe 25%. God, get me out of this. So they prayed, right? They prayed for years and years. God, deliver us from Pharaoh. Pharaoh was the one who was making them make bricks without straw. Just get us out of this. God, if you get us out of this, we'll serve you. In fact, when they crossed over the Red Sea, they were shaking tambourines and singing about the horse and the rider. The original diss track was sung by the prophetess Miriam in Exodus chapter 15. That's a true story. Just after they made it through the sea, they found themselves not in Egypt. God delivered them from Egypt, but they are not yet to the Promised Land, and they have come through the Red Sea, but they are now in the desert, and they are starving, and they are hungry, and they are uncomfortable, and they are disoriented, because the desert is disorienting. It's not where you're going, and it's not where you came from, and you don't know what to do in this season, and that can cause tremendous anxiety. So they begin to grumble.

20:45 Look at Exodus chapter 16, verse 2. Can I teach the Bible today? In the desert, the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, If only we had died by the Lord's hand in Egypt. There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the carnivore diet we wanted. but you have brought us out from this land into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death. Today, I'm speaking to somebody who feels like you are dying in a desert. You are not in the from, you are not in the to, you are in the through. God did some amazing things from you, and he delivered you from some evil things, some wicked things, but you kind of go back sometimes, don't you?

21:48 Some scholars say it should have taken them three weeks to go through the desert, but they got stuck there for 40 years, because what should have been a line through the desert turned into a loop. and around and around they went and around and around we go and god saved me but i still struggle with that and god healed me but i still have some pain from that and i forgave them but i wanted to flip them off when i saw them the other day and it came out of nowhere because i have been praying for him. I was almost two. Come on. Y'all help me shout. I'll preach quicker. I'll have you out for lunch if you will help me shout. You know there are some bondages that keep pulling you back, that keep pulling you back, because I'm not in heaven yet, and I am saved. I'm healed. I'm delivered. I'm redeemed. I am cleansed. I am washed by the blood of the Lamb. I'm a child of God. I'm the righteousness of Christ, and all of that is true. I am brought from the dominion of darkness and saved to the kingdom of his marvelous lights to declare the praises of him who brought me out of darkness into his marvelous light. But on my way into the marvelous light, I am going through some darkness that I thought I was done with, but I wound up in this desert, and now I'm kind of hungry, and I have nothing to eat, and I'm kind of mad about it, and I'm kind of wondering, would it be better for me to go back? But if I keep going back to what God saved me from, I'm going to spend 40 years. I'm going to spend a whole lifetime, and I've been going around this mountain long enough, and I do not intend to get stuck in this same place that my mama was in, that her mama was in, that her daddy was in. I intend to break a generational chain in the name of Jesus. Chains break. Dry bones wake. I do not intend to name every bone in the valley. I intend to go through it. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie

23:58 down in green pastures. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, this is not a place for me to build a house. This is not a place for me to build an identity. This is not a place for me to lay down and die. I'm taking this gun out of my mouth, and I shall Live! God can get you out of this. I'm not telling you what I think. I'm not telling you what I feel. I'm telling you what I've seen. I'm telling you what I know. God can get you out of this. But he wants something more when he does. He wants glory out of it.

24:58 And so the Bible says that they grumbled, and we would too. Y'all are kind of mad right now because I'm preaching a little long. There's air conditioning in this building, and they're in the desert with nothing to eat and no idea where it's going to come from. Now watch this, because I am about to set you up. And even when I'm telling you that, you're going to shout when I read this verse. But I am setting you up, so I advise you not to shout when I read the verse. But you're going to shout anyway, because you're too good. Then the Lord said to Moses, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. See? Impossible. Try not to shout challenge. Did you hear what he said, Jethro? He said, He's going to rain down bread from heaven. Your kingdom come. Your will be done. On earth as it is, he's going to rain down bread from heaven. Real quick, GT. They would have known this story when he was teaching it to the disciples. When he said, Give us this day our daily bread, that triggered a memory for them, not one they lived through, one they heard about.

26:20 Because they heard about how the Israelites went through the Red Sea, from Egypt to Canaan, through the Red Sea. The Egyptians drowned. They didn't. Got in the desert, wanted to die, God said, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The Lord is your provider.

26:43 The Lord is your sustainer. The Lord is your satisfier. The Lord is your fulfillment. the Lord is your deliverer. God delivers on his promise, and I am happy for these people. Did you hear what? He's going to rain it down. Now, the last time they saw something raining down out of the sky was in Egypt when God started dropping frogs to get Pharaoh to let his people go. But now God said, when you look up, you're not going to see frogs. You're going to see manna. Do you know what manna means? What is it? You're not going to know what it is, but it's from me. I don't know what it is, but it's from God. I don't know what to call it yet, but it's from God. I don't know how to label it yet, but I don't even want to label it, because if I label it, I limit it. I don't know what it is, but I'm going to give God time to show me what he's doing in my life. He said, I will rain down bread from heaven for you.

27:50 Don't you know they wrote a song about that? Different denominations had different versions of it, but they're all singing about the bread, the rain, and the food. Stay with me now. He said, I'm going to make it rain. It's going to be amazing. But there is a condition on this provision. It's going to rain down bread from heaven for you. He's going to provide for you. I'm saying this to you now. I'm not talking to them. I'm talking to you. God is going to provide for you, but there's going to be a condition on the provision. Here it is. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way.

28:46 In what way? By gathering enough for this day. Everybody say, this day. God said, I am going to make it rain so much bread from heaven for you that it's going to feed millions. but the bread that comes down from heaven that's the promise the provision is going to be set with a certain condition the people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day in this way that's how god's going to do it you are going to open up your tent tomorrow morning and there will be manna, and it will be enough for you and your family that day. It will be enough for you that day. But if you expect there to be enough manna to fill your pantry, you're going to be disappointed, because I am going to provide for you in such a way that makes it impossible for you to You depend on the supply more than you depend on the source.

29:58 So it's going to be enough for now. And that's what God has given you. Enough for now. You're not supposed to do all of your breathing by 9 a.m. Imagine if you tried. What are you doing? I have to get my breaths in. It doesn't work like that. You get one breath, then another breath. And when you go through something so terrible you can't even talk about it, your job description gets really simple. Next breath. I'm talking to somebody who it is so terrible what you're going through right now you have no idea what to do.

30:51 I came to give you clarity. Next breath. If he fills your lungs with the next breath, then you say hallelujah. That's your response. If he fills your lungs with the next breath, then you move forward. That's your response. If he gives you the next breath, why not give him the best praise you can give him with the breath he gave you? If it works with the breath, watch this. It will work with the bread, because Jesus said, pray like this.