We serve a mighty God, with a mighty calling on each of our lives. Are we living out God’s vision for our lives and community?

Pastor Steven Furtick of Elevation Church explores what it means to be Greater.

There is a distinction between the greater God calls us too and human greatness. Being greater means letting God show his greatness through us, not showing off our own greatness. We have the wrong picture of greatness. Greatness is in the messy, crazy brokenness where God breaks through.

Being greater doesn’t have anything to do with where you work.

So why do so many live in fear and apathy in the Church?

According to Steven it’s because either we think we are great on our own even though we aren’t. On the other hand we can settle into good enough, thinking that what we’re doing now is sufficient.

“It’s often in our weakest moments that God’s grace shines through in the most brilliant ways.”

To be greater requires close intimacy with God. There, in close intimacy, he cares for our hearts, guides us into his ways and equips us for everything.

This can be a hard message to stomach if we’re in the middle of trials and hardship. How can we be greater when surrounded by the terrible? But, maybe the path to greater goes through terrible. Steven encouraged us to remember that God has a plan, even when all seems pointless. While he may not be working things out the way we think he should, he has a plan that is ultimately the best for us.

When God places a call on our lives he will make sure it happens.

“It’s not according to our ability, it’s not according to our past, it’s not according to our  upbringing, it’s according to his power.”

Key Scriptures: Ephesians 3:201 Kings 19:19-212 Kings 4:8-37John 14:12

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