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It’s frustrating when life feels unfruitful; when you’ve put in time and effort, but nothing seems to come of your hard work.

Thankfully, as Pastor Steven Furtick shares in this message, just because you FEEL unfruitful doesn’t mean you ARE unfruitful. God is working in your life right now in ways you may not be able to see.

Fruitfulness can take patience and pruning –– but each step gets you closer to your purpose.

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Section Titles:
0:00 – The Frustration of Unfruitfulness
1:51 – You Were Not Cut Off
4:04 – God Is Still In Control
6:10 – This May Take A While
8:29 – How Long Is This Going To Take? (John 15, verse 2)
10:30 – That’s Not Worth Your Time (Nehemiah 6, verse 3)
14:39 – Stop Trying To Get Their Approval
15:45 – Let It Go
17:10 – Prune Your Priorities

Why Is This Taking So Long? | Steven Furtick

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Official Steven Furtick Shift your perspective and strengthen your faith with Pastor Steven Furtick. Pastor of the global, multisite ministry, Elevation Church, Steven Furtick is also a songwriter and New York Times best-selling author. He holds a master of divinity degree from Southern Theological Seminary and lives in Charlotte, NC with his wife Holly, their three children, Elijah, Graham, and Abbey. Each week, exclusive content and new videos are uploaded here. You can also tune in LIVE every Sunday at 9:30AM, 11:30AM, 2:00PM, 5:00PM, 8:00PM, and 10:00PM ET. Connect with people in the chat, engage in live worship with Elevation Worship, and hear a new sermon every weekend. For more information, you can visit ElevationChurch.org or check out our other channels, Elevation Church and Elevation Worship. Official Steven Furtick

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  1. God decided to cut my relationship with my ex. I always cried, always argued because I cared, I always put more effort than he did. I helped him pay some of his bills, I was always the one paying for our dates. He was only nice to me when he felt like being nice. We broke up because he cheated, again. I think this was the final straw. There’s no more going back, even though I have always prayed for him and our relationship. I know God has better plans for me

  2. The devil cannot have our people. He is working overtime to destroy us and divide us. We are stronger together. It doesn’t matter if your black or white, we are still family. We will not be destroyed. This unity of love cannot be overcome. I love you all my brothers and sisters. And I’m honor to be going through these trenches of life with you. Justified hatred feels so good at time. But we are called to be much more. Jesus Christ had one life like all of us. They ripped all his clothes in front of his family. The devil tried everything in his power to stop Jesus. It was Jesus freewill. Jesus had to make a conscious decision to stay on the cross naked. He never left the cross. The devil was trying to provoke his pride, tiredness, pain, power, selfish etc… The devil couldn’t understand why Jesus didn’t just give in, I mean everyone in history gave in. Why wouldn’t he. He didn’t give up because you was on his mind the whole time. He knew without willingly dying on the cross, you would be doomed. There was no other way to save you. We went against God’s very own nature against love. As we hammered the nails to Jesus inflicting unbearable pain! The devil tempts Jesus to come down the cross and save himself. He could but didn’t because of you!!! You see when they was torturing Jesus, he would not stop thinking about you. He loves you so much!!! But Joshua how can God love me. I’m only one person. God is big enough to know all his children personally. He knows you and when time came for him to prove it, he did. You see this wasn’t a game. Jesus had a chose to let you be doomed forever or save you. That’s why real love is so powerful. Nothing or no one can destroy true love. Not even death. Take heart my brothers and sisters! But Joshua I doubt and i live a lawless life, how could God possibly love a person like me? Because that’s who God is, God is love. God died for us not off of ignorance of your weaknesses; he knows everything about you. God loves you cause your family to him and you always protect family. Lean on the love of God for you can see it through his prospective. When you lean on God, you start to change within. When you believe in God, he sends the helper to Dwell within your heart. This helper will work on cleaning your heart call sanctification. The devil demanded justice from all your wrong doing!!! He said God if your fair than you have to punish the humans because you punished us for the samething. God knew the devil wanted to destroy the humans to get back at God for casting him down from Heaven. Who would pay for their sins? the devil said. God said, I will take my children debt upon me. Jesus became a slave to this world in order for us to be free. He took our place for us… with all his pain, hurts, and tears we would all understand if he gave up and left us here to die. But he didn’t praise God because their is no greater love than for those to lay down your life for your family and friends. Thank you Jesus amen.

  3. 3:00… When the Church claps as the leader misuses the scripture completely out of context (Luke 6:37-42 talks about forgiveness, why then mention Luke 6:38 in this context?).
    Lord, help us! When will the church start worrying about a dying world and not the timing of the next blessing? When will the leaders stop telling people what they want to hear and start preaching holiness?

    Who said that you are to be blessed? Yes, the Lord wants what's good for you, and that is: eternal salvation and you completely fixed on Him.
    Sometimes we are so selfish that we need to be stripped off of everything, to be reminded who is Lord and what we really need.
    Don't get me wrong, God loves pouring blessing into our lap, daily and richly, and HE DOES! We in return should not look for the next one, but fall on our knees in gratitude and worship.

    What do you think the Lord meant by – "Seek first the kindgom of God and everything else will be added to you?".
    He meant – You – focus every inch of resources that you have (energy, time, etc) on Me and My kingdom. Then, when you have nothing else to use in the pursuit of anything other than Me, you will realize that everything that you have was added to you. You are not the one who worked to get them, you were fixed on Me, I gave you everything else.

    Church, the groom is at the door and we are an ugly bride! How can we be more excited about the groom's rich parents than the groom himself?! Repent, and urgently!

    If you want, I made a video about this awful epidemic in the church of quoting the Word completely out of context.

    Keep safe and God bless you.

  4. life may cut me … But God hold the scissors…
    Amen… ✂️

    I need to apply this to my life stop wasting my time on things and people how don't even really matter in the first place……. And focus on the Lord and keep building my wall Amen……
    Lord bless me with staying focused on what matters and let go of what don't….
    Amen….

  5. My life was focus in Jesus but the devil always attact me.Pastor Furtick i dont want to mis everyday your channel to hear the words of God.Gid bless elevation church.God bless u pastor and your family.

  6. God sent me this video. I believe that he heard mommy prayer last night and I found this video this morning. I was driving to work and I almost lost control of the car because of how scary good this sermon is. I felt a relief of all of the dealings with my mother loosing her home and her battle with hard drugs. I was 16 when my brother and I told her we didn’t want her to take care of us anymore. We couldn’t take the mental and emotional abuse anymore. And in recent years she has come back into my life claiming she’s getting better but every time I see her she always plays mind games, cons me into giving her money, messes with my mind and my emotions in order to bring pain into my life. The negativity has to stop. Last night I spoke to my aunt who told me that God doesn’t want me to have anything to do with her. God wants me to cut her back. Not completely off, but back. And this sermon is exactly what I needed

  7. That's my problem. Completely alone thinking about people that don't think about me aren't around anymore and I don't know how to quit my only child and my mom. The only two family members I really have. This one hurts because I love them so much but I don't want to be abused or used anymore and I can't convince them I have any value in life other than just what they can use me for

  8. Every time the best sermon, I've conjured wrecked my time in other places. Very clear on what the Lord wants me to do. Cut back the dead branches. So it grows back better. Actually working Landscaping So this was very clear message.

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