EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED I felt the Holy Spirit calling me to watch this and I hadn’t watched in months. Thank you for taking it there in every way, being open and transparent, it helped exactly where I needed it. ❤️🙏 THANK YOU!!!
I am 5 days clean now from addiction. I have been battling meth abuse as well as cheap motel rooms and even cheaper prostitutes. I have struggled to quit on my own several times with only to accomplish about 4 months clean time at my best. I am once again unemployed, another vehicle down, convicted felon, separated from my wife and kids and back at my parents house on an air bed at 38 years old. I am putting God first this time i was saved at around 12 years old and felt something i havent ever felt before or since that moment when Christ came to live in me. God has removed all of my distractions and humbled me to fix my eyes on just Him and know that all good things come from him. I have went weeks thinking i was about to die. Your sermons and teachings have been right on and line up with scripture they are getting me through this very tough time that seems impossible. Keep up the high energy and humor. I love how you deliver the message. May God bless you and your family. Thanks man, you've been a huge blessing for me in these hard times. Your brother in Christ Randy Lee
Hi, Kathleen! Thank you for being a part of our eFam from where you are. We're praising the Lord with you & believing that He's got good things in store for you in the days ahead! Jesus loves you! 🧡
Thank you for sharing your ups and your downs in the flesh … because I am afar from you and your enlighten of the word but thank you for our almighty using you to awake me these days were I am dark … deep in it
I just fully finished this and I am in tears! I needed to hear this. This has been the hardest year of my life but this reminded me that even when things are dark the lord has a plan and is always with me and my family. This truly brought me to tears but tears. I ended this having an overwhelming sense that everything is going to be okay and I haven’t felt that is a long time. I don’t know when things will get better BUT I know the lord is with me and everything will be okay. Thank you so much!
Every word you wrote Jenna is exactly where I am, what I am going through, and how I am feeling. Truly! You are not alone! After I first listened to this message today, a profound sense of peace filled me to overflowing. And I know for the first time in a very very long time that everything is going to be okay and exceeding abundantly beyond what I have even imagined! I am standing in faith with you that our miracles are in motion and on the way! Victory begins in the dark! God bless you! ❤❤❤
@@maryanne8452 amen I'm right with the both of you dear ladies but I'm believing that the pain of this past year will be worth it when God reconciles my fiancé and my relationship! God's grace, love, mercy & forgiveness will be ours and he & I will be married and do things the way God will be pleased!! I'm believing God is going to bring so much more out of the dark times for us and for you 2 ladies and ALL the glory will go to Jesus Christ to his father our heavenly father, God!!!! ✝️🙏✝️💜✝️🙏✝️
@@nenab1969 Your words have been a huge encouragement to me as I continue to resist the lies of the enemy and stand firm in my faith. Very soon we will be shouting in the Light about what God kept in the dark! I am in agreement with you for the restoration of your relationship and your truly blessed marriage in the near future. And I thank you for being in agreement with me concerning my miracle breakthrough! It is finished! Amen! God bless you sweet sister!❤❤❤
"then they won't realize God, when he has to show up at 4am" 😭 been struggling for a long time ,having the roughest nights and I am watching this at exactly 3:45am😭
Girl, I AM WITH YOU. God has come thru for me in ways that will skate u to the core. He pulled me out of some seriously dangerous places,JUST IN THE NIC OF TIME. If He did that, HE WILL CONQUER THIS AS WELL. It's hard, but God is SO MUCH GREATER. What the enemy meant for evil, God WILL turn it to good!!!
Its late in my life, but, Jesus sees me the whole time, my dumb decision and depression are not stronger than God's prophecy. Watch God turn this around and give me a testimony!! It will be so! GOD will use this very thing and turn it around! I will come back and testify of this here soon, thank You God so be it!! I receive this word!!!
Same here I made dumb decisions these past 5 years and depression broke me but I'm in the beginning process of healing and I need to take God's word to help.
My brother is currently in icu due to covid, doctors aren’t giving him much time but they don’t know the God that we serve! Prayers for healing, patience and strength please 🙏🏼
I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth that he break the spirit of unbelief and give us the spirit of faith to believe that the same spitit that raised His and lazarus from the dead is inside of us! Lord Rebuke and sever the spirit of Death over your brothers life, He will live and not die and declare the goodness of GOD, may the Lord strenthen his lungs give him breath of the Holy Spirit! make him Whole we declare healing in Jesus mighty name we cast out all spirit of defeat worry depression and fear, I pray for the peace that surpasses all understanding to guard your hearts & minds may he be in every physicians hand for he is the greatest physician! May he burn out and destroy all spirit of Covid In Jesus Mighty name Amen!!!!
My prayers go to your family! The God we serve is amazing. I pray that your brothers heals from Covid and walk out of the hospital with his hands raised praising him!
Please Lord,Another helping hand of your Almighty strength is needed...By the grace of your kind, caring,loving heart & sole,,,please help him fight through & overcome that terrifying beast that's stolen the lives of far too many already...Blessed Be...I pray he makes it through ok...Keep praying & praying hun...Put that chin up,them shoulders back & those hands in prayer mode...Lord,,I'm So Very Thankful for all of our many wonderful blessings,,even the ones we all take for granted far too much,like the air we are so blessed to be able to breathe...You're all we need...Thoughts and Prayers to you all...I'll continue to pray ❤
I want to say thank you for being so genuine so real and so transparent. It truly helps as a member of your flock to listen more closely to the Word and the revelations you have been gifted. Your church was introduced to me by one of my four daughters this summer. You and Holly have been a true blessing and you are a true role model for my 13 year old son Elijah who lacks a Christian man mentor. He looks up to you and your stories and your advice. We appreciate you and your family and your ministry more than you know.
@@camillecollins-martin1485 God is with you he’s listening just talk to him. He only wants you to trust him enough to give him every little or big thing your concerned worried about! He wants your trust and love! He is bringing you through the valley and the other side is worth waiting for!!
Natasha Frazier. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
When my husband passed away it took my faith away from God I was upset and angry that God took him away. But I found your ministry on TV one night a few months after my husband passed away. I was a mess before I found your ministry and I found help with David Kessler a grief specialist he helped me but your ministry gave me back my faith in God. Thank you Steven for your ministry!! God bless you !!
I’m up at 1:53am because I keep have night mares this is the first sermon I’ve watched in weeks and it’s the first one I picked to watch and oh Lord! God has given Steven a word for me. It’s me, God is with me he kept me he persevered my mind and walked with me through the shadow of the valley of death i will fear no evil he kept me! AMEN
My biggest takeaway? It would be that God is with me in the dark, I am not alone. He is with me, keeping vigil during the storms of life. He is my keeper, my protector, my shield, my buckler, my ever present help in times of trouble. He is fighting all my battles, destroying all my enemies. I need only to keep my eyes on HIM. And He sees me, (imagine that!! God sees me!! The maker and ruler of heaven and earth sees me!!) He watches over me, He is my Shepherd, to keep me in all my ways. GOD has KEPT ME! (in the dark) He is with me, He is for me, and He will fulfil HIS promise for my life and I need not be afraid. And in the light I will remember my God who has kept me and I will give him praise... in the light and in the dark because He is Abba Father, my redeemer, my hope, my Light and Salvation, my Lord and Savior and if I have faith and I put my trust and faith in HIM, nothing is impossible. He can move mountains and work miracles in my life, beyond that which I can fathom.
Ariel. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
Thank you so much, Steven! It's been a very dark year, so many dark, hard nights alone, but He has been so faithful. Even the darkness is not dark to Him. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. Ps 139:11,12 It's so good to be reminded that I've been kept in the dark by Him, with Him.
Thanks pastor Steven. I am José. I just found out about you over the internet and your messages have really blessed my life. I listen you from an island that you may have heard about, the island of Cuba, I studied English to be an English teacher now I am an interpreter as well. I am following you. Keep up the good work for the Lord. I loved your message R. U. N. control? Thanks again pastor. May God continue to bless you and your ministry.
Jose Giro. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
STEVEN! Gah GAHHHHHHH! This was so powerful that I can’t put it into words. But it’s like this every week. You make is SO EASY to feel confident to invite someone to our church- bc I know they are going to EXPERIENCE Jesus and hear the undiluted gospel from the most vulnerable and transparent man. Every time He takes you deeper… you take so many people with you. Oooof the more transparent you become- the more people can relate- and the more they are drawn to the Father, Son and Spirit. I love you deeply and am so ridiculously thankful for you!!!!
It's 2:50am and I'm watching this sermon for the first time and it is exactly what I needed!!! God DOES work in the dark! I have been renewing my faith and focusing on letting go and letting Daddy God fulfill His plan for my life, not mine, and I have been having horrible nightmares every night since I started my renewal and it's been making me scared to sleep. I know I don't need to be afraid!!!! It's proof I'm on the right track and Daddy is working hard!!!!! Thank you for your honesty and hope!!!!
WOW.... I could listen this child of God a million times over and never get enough! Thank YOU Jesus, Yeshua my miracle man! Best Christmas message in History!
I've watched this at least 5x's - this revelation blessed me so much! No one knew!! Just like us, they walked by faith and they didn't know as much as we do. Thank you Lord for encouraging me 🙏🏽
Amen amen amen!!! I have been in this dark place and have been living in fear these past couple of days but God has sustained me with his hand. Just how i got prophesied that the baby I am carrying (her name is Elizabeth) is prophetic and will bring so many blessings. Has been put in my womb from God for a huge testimony🙏🏻
I decree & declare everyone who watches this video comes closer to God for guidance in everything in their life In Jesus Mighty name.. For he will guide your way in the path he has for you full of clarity without confusion.
This was a GREAT WORD...God has been speaking to me at night in my dreams and this word is only more proof that God is leading me to his purpose...THANK YOU
Preston 808. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
This message feeds me every time I watch it! Thanks Be to God for Steven Furtick! I love you and your family and proud to be apart of this amazing church!!!!!❤
You legit feel just like family and I have never even met you! I along with SO MANY others can feel your love, anointing, and father like shepherding. It’s a beautiful thing to feel so loved and guided. Thank you!
How prophetic that I am literally watching this right now at 4:10am. I am so wrapped up in His perfect love IN THE DARK. I love how He uses all things to remind us that He loves us and these little coincidences are not coincidental at all. He’s purposeful and intentional as to why He wouldn’t let me sleep tonight. He knew I needed this.
Amen this word was for me!! I am in the dark right now and have been for months. I have felt Gods presence more in this darkness than I have my entire life thus far. He is in the dark with me and He is working!! He revealed somethings to me just before this dark time and “He is watching over his word”. I believe for greater things! I believe for the glory of the house He is building to be better than the former house! I will wait on Him and trust His plan!!
@Rachel Walkuw, thank you for joining us and sharing a part of your story. We agree with you in prayer asking God to build your faith and trust as you wait on Him.
Rachel Walkuw. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
Thank you God!! Woke me up on my bday 7-21-2022 early morning gave me this sermon He keeps me in the Dark!!! Praise God! Happy Birthday to me! Love this House and the anointing God has placed in the pastors and on the worship! Thank you God! This sermon was for ME! In Jesus name Amen!
He is my pastor. The pastor God talked about in Jeremiah 3:15. God bless Pastor Steven and his family. God bless the elevation family. Thank you for speaking the Word timely as always. Thank you Jesus.
This word is for me, my family. We’ve been in the dark for a long time. This word was for me. To know that god watches his word. That gods plan will prevail. That his word will come to pass. My heart is forever thankful for this ministry. Than you lord for elevation church!! Thank you for pastor Steven Furtick.
Wow, I'm glad you enjoyed the sermon and is ready to challenge your faith in Christ, never let the battle of the unknown to keep you down, you have all the power to resurface just like Job did, by the way I'm Michael and you are Addison if I'm not too far from the truth
Good day Addison, May the peace of the our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, I'm waiting for a response to the message I sent to you, I want to have a word with you, kindly write me back when you get this message, thank you and have a blessed day .
The Level of Contrast, Tension and balance PSF preaches in is absolutely insane, He does it every week and it absolutely blows my mind; How he went from being "Kept in the dark" as something undesirable and something we complain about TO being "Kept in the dark" as a promise from God that he will sustain us in our Dark, deep and unseen moments... 🔥🔥. My mind is blown yet again.
Precious 2. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
I’m a day late but Abba as always you are right on time! I had a moment before watching this, I was in a funk. All I kept thinking about is who are you, who are you, I couldn’t think of anything felt so much emotion but this just pulled everything In 🎣. Very powerful message Pastor 🙏🏼💯
There are not words great enough to describe my experience with God during this anointed sermon. Tempted to just put this on repeat for the next several hours ♥️
It was for me!!! Thank you Jesus for sending this message into the dark! For keeping me in the dark!! And for protecting my babies in the dark!! I am so grateful for the light you have always sent in to my darkest nights. To you be all the glory in the brightest of all my days to come!
I love my Elevation church family and how they continue to share the good news and help the lost discover the truth, the light, our salvation; Jesus Christ.
Rob Dog. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
Thank you for an early Christmas sermon! This was a powerful and moving sermon 🙌 God never stops watching, and keeps us in the dark because he is constantly working for us! Amen!
This message was directed for me to hear today / 2022. God is “keeping me” even in this dark season of my life. It was the whole message. Thank you for sharing it and than you Pastor Steven- for keeping it real - once again. God bless you and your whole family.
What a great teaching. I've been in prayer for my marriage my husbands rededication and my kids and family. I was so blessed that this teaching touched on all that I've been praying for . 🙏🙌💜
Thank you Jesus! I need you my Lord. I know you are there keeping me in the dark from my dumb decisions. Help my wife with what she is now going through! Thank you my Jesus, you are so amazing! I'm watching, and knocking on the door...
Amen. The Lord speaks once again. You will get me through this “dark” health season in my life. I don’t mind being in the dark so long as you are with me Jesus!
I can totally relate to what your saying… I’m dealing with health issues and I know God is walking with us… in the dark is when things get developed so I know that once we walk THROUGH the darkness we come out NEW and in the Light better than before ! Lord, I Thank You 🙏🏾
It's amazing how I just got turned on to you by my uncle 2 years ago. You preached things that always hit at home. It makes me very emotional. And 2019 July 3rd I fell into a coma for 49 days I died about three or four times I actually got to see what the actual life was like and I woke up on August 21st. I saw things beyond my wildest imaginations and my spiritual being has gotten so much stronger ever since. I'm actually on the verge of completing a book and a few months entitled The Miracle patient. The 49-day coma the afterlife and the life after to come. But I'll say all that to say that I love your preaching style and how it hits my heart when I hear you preach. I would love to meet you one day I'm located in Brevard county Florida if you're ever around this way 💖
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 no later than last week, I was wondering why God has been silent or why he doesn't answer me clearly on the matter of my current storm. I literally feel in the dark...and a week later I stumble upon this...wow, what a way to answer my cries and lamentations. I still don't know where all this is heading but I will watch God and trust him. Thank you Elevation Church, Pastor Steven your ministry has been my comfort in this particular season.
Tami Hegr. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
LUKE 18:1 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart PSALM 31:24 Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart, All you who hope in the LORD. Robert Clancy has lots of prayers on TH-cam that are in agreement with God's Word, if you desire, pray with him. This will be according to MATTHEW 18:19-20 19"Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."
Realest, most identifiable servent of the Lord and Minister of Truth I've ever had the pleasure of hearing. I am 48 and was raised in church, and as an adult I've membered a number of churches. Next to Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in California, stands the other best preacher my ears have ever heard! That is Steve Furtick of Elevation Church. Grateful for you both thank you! 👏
Ive been kept in the DARK WAY TO LONG....LORD PLEASE 🙏 shine Ur light on me unconditionally unrelentlessly until Ur all I see....till this darkness ive always known just fades away into non existence.....cause im ready to come home 🏡 🎶 ✨️ 💔 ♥️ 😌 🏡 LORD I PRAY YOU LEAD ♥️ 🙏 ❤️ 😢 💖 🎶 ♥️
Good morning Tracy, I'm glad you enjoyed the words of his Majesty Jesus Christ, By the way I'm Michael and you have a nice profile, you made a nice comment on here that shows your faith.. You're from a Christian family I guess,
At 38:01 I felt the Holy Spirit come upon me. At 47:49 my eyes swelled. This past year and a half has been the hardest of all the years of my life. And in the past month and a half I've been bitter and angry towards God for keeping me in the dark and allowing things to continue the way it has despite my faithfulness. I've been trying to claw my way out of this dry place with God, but I've felt stuck. Then along comes this spirt filled sermon, right when I became content with this valley being my new mailing address. Lord give me the strength to go these extra miles 😢.
Never stop believing Jesus. He said “I will never leave you nor forsake you, no never”! And when you can’t do it any longer ask for his grace to help you hang on to him. Never stop believing in Him. He holds you in his hands. Blessings on you. In Jesus name we all pray for you
Oh my word - this year, the word God gave me was "watch". I thought, that's a strange word, but wow! watching what God has done this year has been awe-inspiring. Watch God! Thank you Pastor for bringing God's word to me.
What a wonderful sermon, this is such a great word, this word is for every season in your life, this Sermon and so so many others, but this Sermon is special because we are always in the dark, FAITH TRUST AND SEEKING HIM IN THE DARK, SO WHEN YOU SEE THE VICTORY HIS GLORY WILL MAKE U TO STAY HUMBLE, THANK YOU PS STEVEN. BLESSINGS TO ALL OF YOU AT ELEVATION 🇿🇦
11:49 in all my years in church I've never heard anyone talk about the Magi's gifts financing the trip to Egypt. What a great insight. Symbolically significant and practically significant.
Jeremiah 10:2-8 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. 5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. 6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might. Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee. 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
I'm so speechless at this moment FATHER I receive every prophecy that YOU'VE spoken to me through pastor Steven Really GOD has used you to speak to me in this season of my life. Amazing GOD
OmG!!!!! THAT WAS FOR ME IM CRYING RIGHT NOW...I CANT EVEN TYPE THIS RIGHT NOW. I HAVE BEEN IN THE DARK AND I HAVE FELT LIKE GOD ISNT WITH ME LATELY, YOU SEE ITS 3:28AM oN A Thursday. Thank you and I receive this word. Amen!
@@elevationchurch It helped me realize that not only does God see me in my hardest times, but the most important things he’ll do in my life will be done when it’s just me and him. 🙏🏽
O Father, conform me to the character and compassion of your Son Jesus, to your glory and by the power of the Holy Spirit. I ask this in Jesus' name. amen.
*Heavenly Father, thank YOU for sending YOUR Son Jesus into this world. Our lives are forever changed. In Jesus Precious Name.Amen ♥️🙏🏽*
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It's 8/9/23, and this message speaks to me right where I am now.
EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED I felt the Holy Spirit calling me to watch this and I hadn’t watched in months. Thank you for taking it there in every way, being open and transparent, it helped exactly where I needed it. ❤️🙏 THANK YOU!!!
The Kingdom of God is near.. I ts time to clean up our hearts 💕 so we can go home. Repent believe Jesus is real He has Risen He is Alive IN ME!!!!
I am 5 days clean now from addiction. I have been battling meth abuse as well as cheap motel rooms and even cheaper prostitutes. I have struggled to quit on my own several times with only to accomplish about 4 months clean time at my best. I am once again unemployed, another vehicle down, convicted felon, separated from my wife and kids and back at my parents house on an air bed at 38 years old. I am putting God first this time i was saved at around 12 years old and felt something i havent ever felt before or since that moment when Christ came to live in me. God has removed all of my distractions and humbled me to fix my eyes on just Him and know that all good things come from him. I have went weeks thinking i was about to die. Your sermons and teachings have been right on and line up with scripture they are getting me through this very tough time that seems impossible. Keep up the high energy and humor. I love how you deliver the message. May God bless you and your family. Thanks man, you've been a huge blessing for me in these hard times. Your brother in Christ Randy Lee
One month later, how are you doing now?
How are you doing 💝
Is it weird that I'm watching this at night?.... Praise the Lord
Hi, Kathleen! Thank you for being a part of our eFam from where you are. We're praising the Lord with you & believing that He's got good things in store for you in the days ahead! Jesus loves you! 🧡
God has always been watching. Since the beginning. Hagar’s name for God El Roi
God keep using you I tithe faithfully but there’s time I don’t have to pay bills or eat I roam around like a savage
Please pray for me Ellen is my name! I'm in turmoil, the devil is here people, thank you.
God is a GOOD SHEPHERD. Amen 🙏🏾
Bet yes sir praise God whom keeps me as Jesus walks with me and He talks with me in Jesus name
Thank you for sharing your ups and your downs in the flesh … because I am afar from you and your enlighten of the word but thank you for our almighty using you to awake me these days were I am dark … deep in it
I am speechless. AMAZING!!!
It will be greater.
It will be greater!!!
Awesome what a message most needed thank you Jesus
Glory to god🙏🙏🙏🙏
Guide me lord 🙏 💖
I RECEIVE THAT
Thank you, I love you guys
I can relate to this.
Amen
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I know Joseph
I just fully finished this and I am in tears! I needed to hear this. This has been the hardest year of my life but this reminded me that even when things are dark the lord has a plan and is always with me and my family. This truly brought me to tears but tears. I ended this having an overwhelming sense that everything is going to be okay and I haven’t felt that is a long time. I don’t know when things will get better BUT I know the lord is with me and everything will be okay. Thank you so much!
Every word you wrote Jenna is exactly where I am, what I am going through, and how I am feeling. Truly! You are not alone! After I first listened to this message today, a profound sense of peace filled me to overflowing. And I know for the first time in a very very long time that everything is going to be okay and exceeding abundantly beyond what I have even imagined! I am standing in faith with you that our miracles are in motion and on the way! Victory begins in the dark! God bless you! ❤❤❤
@@maryanne8452 amen I'm right with the both of you dear ladies but I'm believing that the pain of this past year will be worth it when God reconciles my fiancé and my relationship! God's grace, love, mercy & forgiveness will be ours and he & I will be married and do things the way God will be pleased!! I'm believing God is going to bring so much more out of the dark times for us and for you 2 ladies and ALL the glory will go to Jesus Christ to his father our heavenly father, God!!!!
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@@nenab1969 Your words have been a huge encouragement to me as I continue to resist the lies of the enemy and stand firm in my faith. Very soon we will be shouting in the Light about what God kept in the dark! I am in agreement with you for the restoration of your relationship and your truly blessed marriage in the near future. And I thank you for being in agreement with me concerning my miracle breakthrough! It is finished! Amen! God bless you sweet sister!❤❤❤
When I am at my lowest, I try to remember all the times God came through for me. 🖤
Amen
I hope you preach in heaven... I've always wanted to come to one of your anointed sermons! GOD bless you and your family!
@Marla G, thank you for joining us and for your lovely comments. What was your biggest takeaway from this message?
The anointing can reach even online .💜🙌🙏
May God get us there to see you
@@elevationchurch So much more than words could say
"then they won't realize God, when he has to show up at 4am" 😭 been struggling for a long time ,having the roughest nights and I am watching this at exactly 3:45am😭
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Girl, I AM WITH YOU.
God has come thru for me in ways that will skate u to the core. He pulled me out of some seriously dangerous places,JUST IN THE NIC OF TIME. If He did that, HE WILL CONQUER THIS AS WELL.
It's hard, but God is SO MUCH GREATER.
What the enemy meant for evil, God WILL turn it to good!!!
I’ve definitely been having these nights. Hearing this word is probably what God wanted. He will shonuff show up and show out at 0 dark:30 😭😂
Please keep your faith. God always provides he hears our cries and cries with us. He will always come through no matter what
LITERALLY!!! It's 4:05 right now for me haha! But the Lord is so good and I'm happy to spend time with Him!!
Its late in my life, but, Jesus sees me the whole time, my dumb decision and depression are not stronger than God's prophecy. Watch God turn this around and give me a testimony!! It will be so! GOD will use this very thing and turn it around! I will come back and testify of this here soon, thank You God so be it!! I receive this word!!!
@Marthani Fick, amen! Thank you for joining us and for sharing.
Same here I made dumb decisions these past 5 years and depression broke me but I'm in the beginning process of healing and I need to take God's word to help.
Amen! Praying for you.
Glory be to God for it is already done receive it and it is yours Amen
God never stops waiting, he is with you. God bless ❤
My brother is currently in icu due to covid, doctors aren’t giving him much time but they don’t know the God that we serve! Prayers for healing, patience and strength please 🙏🏼
I pray in the mighty name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth that he break the spirit of unbelief and give us the spirit of faith to believe that the same spitit that raised His and lazarus from the dead is inside of us! Lord Rebuke and sever the spirit of Death over your brothers life, He will live and not die and declare the goodness of GOD, may the Lord strenthen his lungs give him breath of the Holy Spirit! make him Whole we declare healing in Jesus mighty name we cast out all spirit of defeat worry depression and fear, I pray for the peace that surpasses all understanding to guard your hearts & minds may he be in every physicians hand for he is the greatest physician! May he burn out and destroy all spirit of Covid In Jesus Mighty name Amen!!!!
My prayers go to your family! The God we serve is amazing. I pray that your brothers heals from Covid and walk out of the hospital with his hands raised praising him!
Please Lord,Another helping hand of your Almighty strength is needed...By the grace of your kind, caring,loving heart & sole,,,please help him fight through & overcome that terrifying beast that's stolen the lives of far too many already...Blessed Be...I pray he makes it through ok...Keep praying & praying hun...Put that chin up,them shoulders back & those hands in prayer mode...Lord,,I'm So Very Thankful for all of our many wonderful blessings,,even the ones we all take for granted far too much,like the air we are so blessed to be able to breathe...You're all we need...Thoughts and Prayers to you all...I'll continue to pray ❤
I Prayed for you
In Jesus name it is done🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I want to say thank you for being so genuine so real and so transparent. It truly helps as a member of your flock to listen more closely to the Word and the revelations you have been gifted. Your church was introduced to me by one of my four daughters this summer. You and Holly have been a true blessing and you are a true role model for my 13 year old son Elijah who lacks a Christian man mentor. He looks up to you and your stories and your advice. We appreciate you and your family and your ministry more than you know.
Am glad you came today
It will be Greater!
@@camillecollins-martin1485 God is with you he’s listening just talk to him. He only wants you to trust him enough to give him every little or big thing your concerned worried about! He wants your trust and love! He is bringing you through the valley and the other side is worth waiting for!!
It will be GREATER
Natasha Frazier. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
When my husband passed away it took my faith away from God I was upset and angry that God took him away. But I found your ministry on TV one night a few months after my husband passed away. I was a mess before I found your ministry and I found help with David Kessler a grief specialist he helped me but your ministry gave me back my faith in God. Thank you Steven for your ministry!! God bless you !!
God bless you 🙏🏽
Praying for you❤
I’m up at 1:53am because I keep have night mares this is the first sermon I’ve watched in weeks and it’s the first one I picked to watch and oh Lord! God has given Steven a word for me. It’s me, God is with me he kept me he persevered my mind and walked with me through the shadow of the valley of death i will fear no evil he kept me! AMEN
My biggest takeaway? It would be that God is with me in the dark, I am not alone. He is with me, keeping vigil during the storms of life. He is my keeper, my protector, my shield, my buckler, my ever present help in times of trouble. He is fighting all my battles, destroying all my enemies. I need only to keep my eyes on HIM. And He sees me, (imagine that!! God sees me!! The maker and ruler of heaven and earth sees me!!) He watches over me, He is my Shepherd, to keep me in all my ways. GOD has KEPT ME! (in the dark) He is with me, He is for me, and He will fulfil HIS promise for my life and I need not be afraid. And in the light I will remember my God who has kept me and I will give him praise... in the light and in the dark because He is Abba Father, my redeemer, my hope, my Light and Salvation, my Lord and Savior and if I have faith and I put my trust and faith in HIM, nothing is impossible. He can move mountains and work miracles in my life, beyond that which I can fathom.
@Arial Amen. He is with you always!! He is preparing you for His purpose!
Amen 🙏🏾
Amen 🙏🏼
Ariel. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
@@warriorforchrist5889 thank you.
Thank you so much, Steven! It's been a very dark year, so many dark, hard nights alone, but He has been so faithful. Even the darkness is not dark to Him. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you. Ps 139:11,12 It's so good to be reminded that I've been kept in the dark by Him, with Him.
Thanks pastor Steven. I am José. I just found out about you over the internet and your messages have really blessed my life. I listen you from an island that you may have heard about, the island of Cuba, I studied English to be an English teacher now I am an interpreter as well. I am following you. Keep up the good work for the Lord. I loved your message R. U. N. control? Thanks again pastor. May God continue to bless you and your ministry.
Jose Giro. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
STEVEN! Gah GAHHHHHHH! This was so powerful that I can’t put it into words. But it’s like this every week. You make is SO EASY to feel confident to invite someone to our church- bc I know they are going to EXPERIENCE Jesus and hear the undiluted gospel from the most vulnerable and transparent man. Every time He takes you deeper… you take so many people with you. Oooof the more transparent you become- the more people can relate- and the more they are drawn to the Father, Son and Spirit. I love you deeply and am so ridiculously thankful for you!!!!
It's 2:50am and I'm watching this sermon for the first time and it is exactly what I needed!!! God DOES work in the dark! I have been renewing my faith and focusing on letting go and letting Daddy God fulfill His plan for my life, not mine, and I have been having horrible nightmares every night since I started my renewal and it's been making me scared to sleep. I know I don't need to be afraid!!!! It's proof I'm on the right track and Daddy is working hard!!!!! Thank you for your honesty and hope!!!!
WOW.... I could listen this child of God a million times over and never get enough! Thank YOU Jesus, Yeshua my miracle man! Best Christmas message in History!
I've watched this at least 5x's - this revelation blessed me so much! No one knew!! Just like us, they walked by faith and they didn't know as much as we do. Thank you Lord for encouraging me 🙏🏽
Pastor Furtick I have felt such a blessing 🙏 from your sermons. I truly believe God uses you for his glory. Amen 🙏
Amen amen amen!!! I have been in this dark place and have been living in fear these past couple of days but God has sustained me with his hand. Just how i got prophesied that the baby I am carrying (her name is Elizabeth) is prophetic and will bring so many blessings. Has been put in my womb from God for a huge testimony🙏🏻
I decree & declare everyone who watches this video comes closer to God for guidance in everything in their life In Jesus Mighty name.. For he will guide your way in the path he has for you full of clarity without confusion.
Amen IJMN 🙏 Thank you for your prayers.
Amen! I receive it with my whole heart!
@@projecthayes_23 @Olakitike ❤🙏
Amen. Thank you. May God's light and favor be upon you.
This was a GREAT WORD...God has been speaking to me at night in my dreams and this word is only more proof that God is leading me to his purpose...THANK YOU
@Preston 808, amen! Thank you for joining us. God will continue to lead you as you take each step with Him.
Preston 808. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
I have been dreaming and i don't understand my dreams...yet. but I am still praying that God will interpret these dreams to me.
@WarriorForChrist, thank you I'll be sure to listen to it
@@kaykayella3922 I hope you start to understand your dreams more and continue to pray all day everyday it helps a lot
This message feeds me every time I watch it! Thanks Be to God for Steven Furtick! I love you and your family and proud to be apart of this amazing church!!!!!❤
This is a “tingly sermon”...one that reaches way down in you and tingles so strongly that the beauty of it comes out in praise and tears!
WOWWW 🤩!!!
Right I’m half way threw crying because I know we are going to be fine !!!!! PERIODT
You legit feel just like family and I have never even met you! I along with SO MANY others can feel your love, anointing, and father like shepherding. It’s a beautiful thing to feel so loved and guided. Thank you!
Beautiful uplifting sermon, as usual. We thank God for this blessing.
How prophetic that I am literally watching this right now at 4:10am. I am so wrapped up in His perfect love IN THE DARK. I love how He uses all things to remind us that He loves us and these little coincidences are not coincidental at all. He’s purposeful and intentional as to why He wouldn’t let me sleep tonight. He knew I needed this.
Same
Amen this word was for me!! I am in the dark right now and have been for months. I have felt Gods presence more in this darkness than I have my entire life thus far. He is in the dark with me and He is working!! He revealed somethings to me just before this dark time and “He is watching over his word”. I believe for greater things! I believe for the glory of the house He is building to be better than the former house! I will wait on Him and trust His plan!!
Amen, I feel you!
Amen!
@Rachel Walkuw, thank you for joining us and sharing a part of your story. We agree with you in prayer asking God to build your faith and trust as you wait on Him.
Thankful
Rachel Walkuw. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
Thank you God!! Woke me up on my bday 7-21-2022 early morning gave me this sermon He keeps me in the Dark!!! Praise God! Happy Birthday to me! Love this House and the anointing God has placed in the pastors and on the worship! Thank you God! This sermon was for ME! In Jesus name Amen!
He is my pastor. The pastor God talked about in Jeremiah 3:15. God bless Pastor Steven and his family. God bless the elevation family. Thank you for speaking the Word timely as always. Thank you Jesus.
“He keep me in the dark” For I am alive because of Him today!! He keeps me and holds me for He is good!! 🙌
This word is for me, my family. We’ve been in the dark for a long time. This word was for me. To know that god watches his word. That gods plan will prevail. That his word will come to pass. My heart is forever thankful for this ministry. Than you lord for elevation church!! Thank you for pastor Steven Furtick.
Thank you Pastor Stephen for always enrich us with powerful messages you filled us with living water which flows in our bellies 🙏🙌🙌🙌🙌🛐✝️🥰🔥🔥🔥💃💃💃🎺🎺🎺
Today's message moved me deeply. I received it and not going to lose my faith with battles in the dark. Thank you Pastor Steven! Hallelujah 🙌🏼
@Robin Addison, thank you for joining us and for sharing. Amen! Remember that God does some of His most perfect work in the dark.
Wow, I'm glad you enjoyed the sermon and is ready to challenge your faith in Christ, never let the battle of the unknown to keep you down, you have all the power to resurface just like Job did, by the way I'm Michael and you are Addison if I'm not too far from the truth
Good day Addison, May the peace of the our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, I'm waiting for a response to the message I sent to you, I want to have a word with you, kindly write me back when you get this message, thank you and have a blessed day .
The Level of Contrast, Tension and balance PSF preaches in is absolutely insane, He does it every week and it absolutely blows my mind;
How he went from being "Kept in the dark" as something undesirable and something we complain about TO being "Kept in the dark" as a promise from God that he will sustain us in our Dark, deep and unseen moments... 🔥🔥. My mind is blown yet again.
This Word is God!!!
I cannot even express with words.
God never stops loving me.
Precious 2. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
I’m a day late but Abba as always you are right on time! I had a moment before watching this, I was in a funk. All I kept thinking about is who are you, who are you, I couldn’t think of anything felt so much emotion but this just pulled everything In 🎣. Very powerful message Pastor 🙏🏼💯
It will be greater. Thank you, God and Pastor Steven Furtic 🙏 🙌 ❤️
There are not words great enough to describe my experience with God during this anointed sermon. Tempted to just put this on repeat for the next several hours ♥️
It was for me!!! Thank you Jesus for sending this message into the dark! For keeping me in the dark!! And for protecting my babies in the dark!! I am so grateful for the light you have always sent in to my darkest nights. To you be all the glory in the brightest of all my days to come!
I love my Elevation church family and how they continue to share the good news and help the lost discover the truth, the light, our salvation; Jesus Christ.
Rob Dog. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
GOD IS GOOD 🙇🏻♂️❤️🕊
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Thank you for an early Christmas sermon! This was a powerful and moving sermon 🙌 God never stops watching, and keeps us in the dark because he is constantly working for us! Amen!
This message was directed for me to hear today / 2022.
God is “keeping me” even in this dark season of my life.
It was the whole message. Thank you for sharing it and than you Pastor Steven- for keeping it real - once again. God bless you and your whole family.
What a great teaching. I've been in prayer for my marriage my husbands rededication and my kids and family. I was so blessed that this teaching touched on all that I've been praying for . 🙏🙌💜
Thank you Jesus! I need you my Lord. I know you are there keeping me in the dark from my dumb decisions. Help my wife with what she is now going through! Thank you my Jesus, you are so amazing! I'm watching, and knocking on the door...
Amen. The Lord speaks once again. You will get me through this “dark” health season in my life. I don’t mind being in the dark so long as you are with me Jesus!
I can totally relate to what your saying… I’m dealing with health issues and I know God is walking with us… in the dark is when things get developed so I know that once we walk THROUGH the darkness we come out NEW and in the Light better than before ! Lord, I Thank You 🙏🏾
Amen.
It's amazing how I just got turned on to you by my uncle 2 years ago. You preached things that always hit at home. It makes me very emotional. And 2019 July 3rd I fell into a coma for 49 days I died about three or four times I actually got to see what the actual life was like and I woke up on August 21st. I saw things beyond my wildest imaginations and my spiritual being has gotten so much stronger ever since. I'm actually on the verge of completing a book and a few months entitled The Miracle patient. The 49-day coma the afterlife and the life after to come. But I'll say all that to say that I love your preaching style and how it hits my heart when I hear you preach. I would love to meet you one day I'm located in Brevard county Florida if you're ever around this way 💖
Pastor Steven never fails always delivers with impeccable energy! Gods chosen😘
IT WILL BE GREATER!!!❤️🔥🙌🏽🙏🏽⚓️
IN JESUS NAME!!! AMEN!
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 no later than last week, I was wondering why God has been silent or why he doesn't answer me clearly on the matter of my current storm. I literally feel in the dark...and a week later I stumble upon this...wow, what a way to answer my cries and lamentations. I still don't know where all this is heading but I will watch God and trust him. Thank you Elevation Church, Pastor Steven your ministry has been my comfort in this particular season.
Thank you God and Pastor bless me cried like a baby I received that message 🙏
Dear God 😭 I believe that I’m about to give birth to something greater… I’ve been in the dark for too long but I trust you God🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I’m only 20 minutes in the sermon but I’ve already learned so much🤍✝️!
Be glorified God for this message 🙌 It was for me and I received it. Thank You, Jesus!!!!
I really needed this sermon! Hallelujah I haven't slept in 4 decades, and it gets Dark!
Tami Hegr. If you want to learn and understand more about God’s Word in depth. Listen to this podcast titled, Steps To Knowing God. It’s on all podcast platforms and it will help you grow spiritually. Blessings
LUKE 18:1 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart
PSALM 31:24 Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart, All you who hope in the LORD.
Robert Clancy has lots of prayers on TH-cam that are in agreement with God's Word, if you desire, pray with him. This will be according to MATTHEW 18:19-20
19"Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.
20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."
Realest, most identifiable servent of the Lord and Minister of Truth I've ever had the pleasure of hearing. I am 48 and was raised in church, and as an adult I've membered a number of churches. Next to Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in California, stands the other best preacher my ears have ever heard! That is Steve Furtick of Elevation Church. Grateful for you both thank you! 👏
Brother you are so anointed, I love what your doing ,thank you!
@Matt HWoodman, thanks for joining us. Amen! What was your biggest takeaway?
Ive been kept in the DARK WAY TO LONG....LORD PLEASE 🙏 shine Ur light on me unconditionally unrelentlessly until Ur all I see....till this darkness ive always known just fades away into non existence.....cause im ready to come home 🏡 🎶 ✨️ 💔 ♥️ 😌 🏡 LORD I PRAY YOU LEAD ♥️ 🙏 ❤️ 😢 💖 🎶 ♥️
Good Sunday morning eFam! So blessed to be serving you all today!
Good morning Tracy, I'm glad you enjoyed the words of his Majesty Jesus Christ, By the way I'm Michael and you have a nice profile, you made a nice comment on here that shows your faith.. You're from a Christian family I guess,
#NormalOriginalLadyCrystalOdoms41YearOldSingleFemaleIndividualSingleHumanBeingRootedInChristGroundedOnEarthTodayNovemberTenth2022
At 38:01 I felt the Holy Spirit come upon me. At 47:49 my eyes swelled. This past year and a half has been the hardest of all the years of my life. And in the past month and a half I've been bitter and angry towards God for keeping me in the dark and allowing things to continue the way it has despite my faithfulness. I've been trying to claw my way out of this dry place with God, but I've felt stuck. Then along comes this spirt filled sermon, right when I became content with this valley being my new mailing address. Lord give me the strength to go these extra miles 😢.
Amen
Just curious how much it's changed for you at this time hopefully things are way better
Never stop believing Jesus. He said “I will never leave you nor forsake you, no never”!
And when you can’t do it any longer ask for his grace to help you hang on to him. Never stop believing in Him. He holds you in his hands. Blessings on you. In Jesus name we all pray for you
Oh my word - this year, the word God gave me was "watch". I thought, that's a strange word, but wow! watching what God has done this year has been awe-inspiring. Watch God! Thank you Pastor for bringing God's word to me.
What a wonderful sermon, this is such a great word, this word is for every season in your life, this Sermon and so so many others, but this Sermon is special because we are always in the dark, FAITH TRUST AND SEEKING HIM IN THE DARK, SO WHEN YOU SEE THE VICTORY HIS GLORY WILL MAKE U TO STAY HUMBLE, THANK YOU PS STEVEN. BLESSINGS TO ALL OF YOU AT ELEVATION 🇿🇦
11:49 in all my years in church I've never heard anyone talk about the Magi's gifts financing the trip to Egypt. What a great insight. Symbolically significant and practically significant.
Lord comforts all who are in distress at this moment, distressed with their downcast soul, in the name of Jesus I ask you Lord🙌
I say it again BETTER
Jeremiah 10:2-8 Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
5 They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.
6 Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
I'm so speechless at this moment
FATHER I receive every prophecy that YOU'VE spoken to me through pastor Steven
Really GOD has used you to speak to me in this season of my life.
Amazing GOD
♥️♥️🙌🏽same
Standing in agreement with that declaration, Joan ❤️
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@Joan Neboshe, amen. thank you for joining us. What was your biggest takeaway from this message?
@@danihicks5863 Amen
Thanks
The process of restoration includes replacing the things that don't work anymore with something BETTER!
Such a timely word!! Thank you for being such a willing vessel to relay God’s word to us all!!
OmG!!!!! THAT WAS FOR ME IM CRYING RIGHT NOW...I CANT EVEN TYPE THIS RIGHT NOW. I HAVE BEEN IN THE DARK AND I HAVE FELT LIKE GOD ISNT WITH ME LATELY, YOU SEE ITS 3:28AM oN A Thursday. Thank you and I receive this word. Amen!
This one hit different 💯🙏🏽
@Darryan Kristofer, thank you for joining us. What was your biggest takeaway from this message?
@@elevationchurch It helped me realize that not only does God see me in my hardest times, but the most important things he’ll do in my life will be done when it’s just me and him. 🙏🏽
@Darryan Kristofer, thank you for sharing those important insights.
O Father, conform me to the character and compassion of your Son Jesus, to your glory and by the power of the Holy Spirit. I ask this in Jesus' name. amen.
Better
Better
Every sermon is my favorite. Thank you God for Pastor Steven to give me your word God! Thank you for the God of the Dark to praise you in the light!
Lollllll “Dont touch em, Dont touch em thats illegal I forgot, old habit!“🤣😂🤣😂🤣