Hey, this is Stephen Furtick. I'm the pastor of elevation church and this is our podcast.

I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your

faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God as moving in your life. Enjoy the message.

My name is Dustin Straddley and I'm the campus pastor of elevation church in Rowan of

Virginia. And I have the great honor and privilege of sharing the word of God today and I think

pastor Stephen for this opportunity. In fact, he wrote me a handwritten letter this past

week just telling me that he believed in me and that he loves me and that's the same

pastor that we get to see pour his heart out on this stage every single weekend. He's

the same man off the stage. But if I can share with you real quick as we were singing that

last song, thinking about God moving mountains, we were not just singing lyrics and going

through the motions of singing another song. But I started to think about the mountains

that God has moved in my life. Even over the past couple of weeks, would it took for me

to get here to this stage today? It wasn't any big life circumstance or anything that

happened, but the battles that I faced over the past couple of weeks, the resistance that

I faced to get here today. It wasn't a battle in front of me or a battle around me,

it was a battle inside of me. And oftentimes those are the hardest battles to fight. But

I thought about what Pastor preached last weekend. I see was laying right here on this

stage and he said, if the battle is too big for you, it's not yours. The battle is the

boards. And on Wednesday, I was laying face down on a couch in tears and in frustration.

Just all of these insecurities in my mind just out of control. But in that moment, I vividly

remembered that picture of surrender that Pastor Stephen showed us last weekend. And

that our battles are not going to be won by fighting and working as hard as we can in our

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