Playing It Safe Is Holding You Back | Elisha: Part 1
Life.Church with Craig Groeschel
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🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I want to talk to those of you that might feel spiritually stuck in your faith. You want to believe God |
| 0:08.1 | for more, and yet you're just experiencing so much of the same. Maybe there's a part of you that |
| 0:15.6 | genuinely desires, like, more spiritual growth and more spiritual passion and more spiritual impact. And yet what you |
| 0:25.4 | get is more of what you just had, more of the same. And you may feel a little bit left out |
| 0:31.5 | spiritually. You may feel a little bit behind. You may feel like you're living below who you know that God created you to be. |
| 0:40.8 | And it's not that you don't care, you actually do care. Some of you, you've been like me |
| 0:44.8 | at different seasons of my life where you're genuinely praying and seeking God, but your prayers |
| 0:50.2 | don't really feel effective. Or you're reading the Bible and you're wanting to hear from |
| 0:55.0 | God, but sometimes his voice just seems distance. Sometimes you're worshiping God and you really want |
| 1:01.9 | to feel his presence, but you just can't seem to feel him. So what do you do? Well, you just keep |
| 1:08.7 | plowing through life. Somebody say, I'm just plowing. You can type in the |
| 1:15.5 | comment section. Say it again, I'm just plowing. I'm foreshadowing where we're going in the |
| 1:20.6 | message. If you feel spiritually stagnant, I honestly believe that this message series could be genuinely life-changing |
| 1:31.8 | for you. Some people will look back and say, during this time, this series, God worked in |
| 1:37.0 | my life in a way that made me completely different. What we're going to do is we're going to |
| 1:40.7 | study the Old Testament prophet, Elisha, a guy who was in his early |
| 1:45.3 | 20s, and he was stuck plowing through life. Literally, that was his job. He was plowing on the family |
| 1:53.3 | farm. Every single day, work in the same fields. Same dirt, same job day after day. But little did he know, |
| 2:05.1 | just like for many of you, God had something really special for him. When he was plowing through |
| 2:12.4 | life, God saw more in him than just a guy working on a farm. In fact, this ordinary guy became one of the |
| 2:20.1 | greatest prophets in all of the Bible, and yet he spent years stuck behind a plow. In a very |
| 2:28.6 | similar way, for some of you, you may feel stuck right now spiritually, or you feel stuck |
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