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hey, this is Steven 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 is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 2 Corinthians 10:7 12 the apostle Paul wants to tell you something. He has some expert advice for you on how to deal with this question. Here's the question. Are you ready? This is the question every man, woman, boy and girl in the room is asking. You've been asking it your whole life in different Ways with different amounts of money in your bank account and different color hair on your head and different numbers on the scale when you step on it, and different places you've lived and different jobs you've had. You've been asking this question your whole life. Do I have what it takes? Do I have what it takes? Well, Paul has a way of dealing with this question that I thought would be helpful for us today. Let's read together 2 Corinthians 10, 7. He says, you first problem is are judging by appearances. He said, if anyone is confident that they belong to Christ, they should consider again that we belong to Christ just as much as they do. Touch somebody and say, you're not better than me. So even if I boast, what are y' all arguing about it? It was just one line. Get back on the Scriptures. Even if I boast somewhat freely about the authority the Lord gave us from building you up rather than tearing you down, motives are important. I will not be ashamed of it. I do not want to seem to be trying to frighten you with my letters. For some say his letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing. Such people should realize that what we are in our letters when we are absent, we will be in our actions when we are present. In other words, Paul says, I'm about to back it up. I don't just talk big. We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise. Wait, I'm confused. I thought we were reading the Bible. This sounds like it could be a relevant Facebook post. People say the Bible is outdated. That sounds like a pretty good word for 2016 to me. Comparison and competition, self commendation. He said it's not wise. Well, where I really want to focus is verse 10. So let me read that again. Paul says there are some who are saying that my letters are weighty and forceful, but in person I'm unimpressive and that my speaking amounts to nothing. I want to speak to you today from this subject. I want to talk about the glitch that keeps on giving. The glitch that keeps on giving. Let's pray one more time. Father, open our hearts, our ears, our minds. Most importantly, what we learned today. We're going to need the courage to put it into practice and the application to know what that means. So do it. In Jesus name, Amen. Touch your neighbor and say, you have a glitch on your way down to your seat. You have a glitch. Amen. Thank you. I don't need anything right now, but just in case, I feel like I might get to preaching in a minute. That's what I'm trying to say. Stay right there. Well, I want to give you a list of all the movies that have made me cry. I went back through my life and I thought about the first movie that made me cry was called Follow that Bird. A very emotional experience to me to see Big Bird ostracized and alienated, trying to find his way back home. Second movie that made me cry. And I maybe should have reconciled this list with my mom's memory, but I remember crying for this movie called Harry and the Hendersons. Harry and the Hendersons, when they were slapping Harry. I know it was for his own good, but I just couldn't take that. Then you mature a little bit in life and it takes more. You develop emotionally and stuff. So that kind of stuff doesn't make you cry anymore. Then the movies that make you cry change. The next movie that made me cry, of course, was Rocky ii, followed by Rocky III and Rocky iv. While we're at it. A movie that still makes me cry every time I watch it to this day. If this movie does not make you cry, I question your compassion and your Christianity. In fact, I question your humanity and your ability to feel it all. I think you might be a sociopath if you can watch the movie Rudy and not cry. Or at least have a lip quiver. I don't know if you have any passion. I don't know if there's any reason for God to leave you on this earth. I think you're probably going to go to hell when you leave this place. It gets me every time. It was a sunny afternoon, Saturday afternoon, when normally I would be heading in to prepare for church. But I had a guest speaker and it afforded me the rare privilege and opportunity to take my two sons to see a movie. I was not expecting that day to be wrecked by the movie Wreck It Ralph. But it happened when they put that girl on the screen called Vanellope, and she was stuck in a video game where they were supposed to race, but she couldn't race. They called her Glitch Girl because there was something wrong with her programming and pixelation. She wanted to race, but she couldn't race. It was because of her glitch. The movie kind of takes a few turns. At one point in the movie, I was watching Glitch Girl, Glitch. And she wanted to race. I Started crying in the movie. I told Graham shut up when he asked me, are you crying, Daddy? It just got me thinking about. Thinking about all the ways my glitches have caused me to miss God in my life. And thinking about how many people would go further, faster if they knew how to deal with their glitch. Just remind your neighbor again. They're not going to be offended because I made you say it. Just remind them one more time you have a glitch. Just make sure they're well aware of that fact. I didn't say give them a whole paragraph of evidence. We preach things sometimes that are easy to accept but a little bit harder to apply. I understand that writing this book, how God uses broken people to do big things is two parts. One is just convincing you that God uses broken people to do big things. I bet you don't believe that to the level you should. And all the efforts we've made to convince you, sometimes they fall short. We can tell you all the Bible characters. I'm trying to pull this thing up. Just one I found online. How God doesn't pick the ideal candidates for the offices. He appoints them to. One guy. Put it online. I've seen this before. Maybe you have. But he went through a list. He said Noah was a drunk, Abraham was too old. Isaac was a daydreamer. Jacob was a liar. Leah wasn't very good looking. Joseph was abused. Moses had a stuttering problem. Gideon was afraid. Samson had long hair. We all know God can't use you with long hair or tattoos. Rahab was a prostitute. Jeremiah and Timothy were too young. David had an affair and was a murderer. Elijah was suicidal. Isaiah preached naked. You know, I've done a lot of things to get attention. I'm going to skip that point at the stage somebody and say, miss me with that Pastor Stephen. God told him to. Jonah ran from God. Naomi was a widow. Job went through bankruptcy. Peter denied Christ. The disciples fell asleep while praying. Martha worried about everything. The Samaritan woman was divorced more than once. Zacchaeus was too short, Timothy had an ulcer, and Lazarus was dead. Now touch your other neighbor and say, what's your excuse? The question isn't, can God use broken people to do big things? I wonder, would you put my book title up? Not my sermon title, my book title up one more time, just so you can see. I want to focus for week one on this one word, how God uses. I want to talk about how he does that. Of course, we could have no better consultant than Paul. I didn't Put him in the list. I read. Because Paul is more known for his gifts. He was very gifted. Paul was very gifted. We know he was gifted because God chose him, of all people, to take the gospel to the Gentiles. And he was the first one to take it beyond the original Jewish converts, along with Barnabas. He was very gifted. Paul was very gifted in debate and in reasoning as well as philosophy because he had studied under Gamaliel. Gamaliel was a part of the Jewish Sanhedrin, and he was known as a guru. So Paul had that kind of pedigree added to the fact that he was a Roman citizen, which gave him entree and prestige into places common people could not go. It makes sense God would choose him then to preach in Europe and in northern Africa and parts of Asia, and to establish churches in the most strategic cities of his day. We see him in Rome and we see him in Athens. We see him establishing churches in Philippi and Galatia and Ephesus and Corinth, just to name a few. In 2 Corinthians, we watch him writing back to the church at Corinth. And he's having to do something you would never imagine Paul would have to do at this stage of his life and ministry, considering his accomplishments. He's having to defend his credentials. How could a man that learned and how could a man whose life had meant so much to so many find himself in a spot where he's having to defend his credentials? In fact, I don't take it as much of a dilemma as I do as an encouragement to know that even Paul at this point in his ministry was still answering the question, do you have what it takes? I put that out there because if you thought that question was going to go away when you hit 40, and it didn't. If you thought that question was going to go away when you graduated high school, and it didn't. If you thought that question was going to go away when you got married and it didn't. If you thought that question was going to go away when you first started making six figures, and it did it. If you thought that question was going to go away when you finally proved to your ex that you could get somebody to. And it did it. Paul is at the pinnacle of his ministry effectiveness, and he's still dealing with people who are calling him unqualified. He deals with this question and he confronts this challenge because what he has to do in his life is too important for him to leave these issues unconfronted. I want to say that over your Life today, whether you believe it or not, that what God has purposed for you to accomplish is too important for you to leave your issues unconfronted, touch somebody and say, confronted. Sometimes you have to take a stand for what you know God has called you to do. Sometimes that means standing against what others say, and sometimes that means taking a stand within yourself, against yourself. Paul said, you can't stand. You can't strip me of my credentials. You can't take away from me what I know God has placed on me. I'm confident of it. He said, the reason you're getting into trouble and the reason you come to the conclusion that you don't have what it takes and the reason you are spending so much time trying to impress people is because you are judging by appearances, there it is. That's the number one problem with our world today. I think that's the number one reason we get ourselves in trouble, and that's the number one reason that potential is unfulfilled, because we judge by appearances. But touch your neighbor and say, there's more to me than what you see. Turn to her and tell her, there's more to me than what you see. So don't judge me by what you see on the surface. Don't judge me by what I look like right now. That's what Paul was saying to these super apostles. They had permeated and pervaded the Corinthian church he had established, and now they were claiming superiority over him and threatening to undermine the work he had established. He wrote back to the church and said, you need to take another look. I wonder how many things in our lives would look differently if we looked beneath the surface. That's it. Beneath the surface. If you got past your first, first impressions. I want to preach a sermon one day, and I may preach it next week and I may preach it in three years. I want to call it the estimation game. I haven't quite figured out everything I'll put in it yet, but it's just this idea that most of us vacillate between wildly overestimating what we can do without God and underestimating what we could do with him. We look at it at the surface just in honor of the sermon I may preach one day. I just want to give a little illustration or something like that. I want to play a little game with somebody right over here and play with him. I like his hat. Yeah, come on over, man. Why not? Just a little game, you know? I like to do stuff like this to keep people from Falling asleep during the sermon. But I have some money. You like money? Hello, money. I'm going to show it right here for everybody to see. I have a little roll. I got a little something. Not much, but if you can guess how much it is, I'll give it to you. Do you want to feel it? Do you want to hold it? He said something. He said something. I've done this in all the other worship experiences, but Fedora, he's the first one who did what he was supposed to do. He did what he was supposed to do. He said, I see blue under there, so I know there are some hundreds in the roll. I don't know what you do recreationally to make, But touch somebody and say, look beneath the surface. See, he got it right. If you judge this stack by what you see on the surface, you are going to underestimate. But if you peel back and look, come on. I'm preaching and y' all don't even realize it. If you peel it back, you're going to see there's more to the stack than you can see on the surface. That's my message. I wanted to let you know. Are you videoing preach to your iPhone? I don't mind. There's more to the stack than you can see on the surface. Touch somebody and say, I have layers. What you see is not all there is to me. What I see in the mirror is not indicative of my ministry, of my life, of my potential. Take another look at me. Take a look at me now. Something is happening beneath the surface. I'm kind of struggling right now, trying to get some stuff in order. But there's something inside of me that is greater. What I'm wrapped with is not indicative of what I'm made of. There's more inside of me. If you notice, I walked away from him before he could guess the amount because I was scared he was onto something. That's why the devil has been fighting you, because he knows you're onto something. You're starting to see yourself in a new life. You're starting to see yourself in a divine. So look beneath the surface and it will give you confidence when you do. Confidence. That's what we're all trying to project into the world. But often we're trying to project something we don't possess. Talk to me. Often we're trying to project a confidence we don't possess because we see our cracks. But Paul said, if you're confident that you belong to Christ, you should consider that I belong just as much as anybody. I Want to make an announcement and this is in the book and I'm going to say it right now. And I'm going to say it to everybody who ever felt like you couldn't come to church because of your conflicts. I want to say it to everybody who ever felt like you didn't fit in a church because everybody was so pretty and so perfumed. I want to say it to everybody who has ever felt like the presence of God is the last place you should be because of what your clothes smell like, because of who you've been hanging out with. I want to say to everybody who came into church with a religious pretense that is much more impressive than your actual performance. I want to say to everybody who feels like there's two, there are no second class citizens in the kingdom of God. It took the same blood and the same beating of the same Savior to get me in that it took to get you in. So I'm confident. It's believing that I belong. Watch this. True confidence is a byproduct of belonging. True confidence is a byproduct of belonging. True confidence, the kind that will just run up in my green room between the 9:30 and 11:30 and barge in and say, daddy, can I get a sprite zero. The only person bold enough to run up in my room and ask a question like that is my 10 year old who knows he belongs to me. Do you know that the Bible says you can come to the throne room boldly and look for grace in your time of need, but you don't pray like this. You keep associating your confidence with your conflicts because you're conflicted and because you're cracked and because you're screwed up beneath the surface and you know it. You don't come to God boldly. You don't run up and get in his face and tell him you need him on the level. You really need him. You don't walk with your head held high like somebody who has been redeemed. But the moment you realize, you know what? I belong here. I belong here. I belong here. Not necessarily because of my behavior, but my admission price was purchased. This does not speak well in a self help oriented culture. I believe in helping yourself, but I also believe that there are some times when you can't. So the essence of church needs to be restated. We've made the church so much like a country club, it's a wonder they let us keep our tax exempt status. Do you know what I mean? We've made the church so exclusive We've made the church such a place. You have to become something in order to belong somewhere. That might be church, but that's not the gospel. The gospel is not you can belong when you become. The gospel is you belong so you can become. Because nothing will change you like realizing that I have a father. Nothing will change you like realizing before I ever take my first breath, he loves me. Nothing will change you like realizing I belong here. Shake three people. Tell them I belong here. I belong here. I belong here. He purchased my right to be here. He gave me access into his throne room. And nobody can strip my credentials because nobody gave them to me but Christ. The greatest sensation I feel everywhere God puts me. He has given me opportunities, but I never feel like I belong. Every week when I walk up on the stage, I wonder, when are they going to stop handing the mic to the wrong guy? When are they going to find the real qualified preacher? I'm looking around for him because I know there's somebody out here with superior qualifications to me. I know because I know me. I know my cracks. I know my glitches. In case I don't, there are people always to remind me, Do you know how I came up with the title for this book? If you do, just pretend like you don't, because I'm going to tell you again. I wish I could say I went on a prayer retreat to the Smoky Mountains and the clouds formed the shape of the parentheses and. But what actually happened? I was on YouTube. I was getting ready to preach on a Saturday, and I put on YouTube because I like that background noise so I don't have to be alone with myself. That was honest, that was raw. Just kind of slipped out. I had it on a preacher. You know how YouTube will take an algorithm and recommend something for you to watch next? The little sidebar thing, I figured, hey, I may as well trust in the sovereignty of YouTube. So they recommended this video up to me. Next. These people are professionals. These people know my habits. These people are acquainted with my desires. So it said there was one I should watch next. So I watched it next. It was a theologian. This theologian is very well known, very well respected. He was doing a pastor's conference and he was doing some question and answer. So I put it on the theologian. I kind of walked out of the room. Then I heard him call my name. They were doing a lightning round where the interviewer was asking the theologian, now this guy is famous. I didn't know he knew who I was. When they said my name and asked him what he thought about me. I thought he would say who. That's what I was expecting because I read this guy's book, or I should say, I was assigned this guy's book to read in seminary. I told you I wouldn't qualify. Come take the mic. Anybody? Well, they said Steve and Furtick. They were going through names. What do you think about this? And what do you think about that? Stephen Furt? You know how when you overhear somebody talking about you makes you feel important? So I ran back in. He said, my name is. He said my name. I made it now. He said, steven Furtick. Well, the theologian. I should show you the clip, but I don't want you to see who he is, because some of you, when you hear what he said about me, if I told you who he was, you're not saved enough. I'm serious. My mom has thought about cutting his brake cables in his car, but I told her not to do that. She's not as Christian as me. They said Steven Furtick. He goes. His body language said it all. He drops his head, he slumps his shoulder, and he exhales. As if the mere consideration of my name was so wearisome to the great man's theological brain that he could not bear the burden. It was like he was flushing out the toxins of hearing my name. The crowd chuckled, and he summarized my whole ministry, which is interesting because I never met him. You are, judging by appearances, summarized my whole ministry with one word. I guess by now I don't need to tell you what that word was because it became the title my book. Stephen furtick. He said it so serious, too. He said it so serious. He said unqualified. Sound like a gavel in Texas, a death penalty case. Unqualified. There would have been a time. Where that word would have triggered some words in my mind that would make unqualified sound like a Valentine's Day card. But I was surprised at my reaction. I started laughing. You know what I thought? If you only knew. You know what I thought. Thank you, Doctor. Thank you, sir, for. I almost slipped. I thought, thank you. Oh, by the way, you know what I did this week, y'? All? I signed him a copy of the book and sent it to him with a skinny red tie. I just wanted to thank him for the reminder, for saying what I felt my whole life. Now that we've got that out of the way, let's have church. You just have to own it. Touch. Somebody say, own it. Yeah. I'm unqualified. Yeah. I feel stupid sometimes. Yeah. I feel inadequate from time to time yeah, I'm not where I'm going to be but I'm not where I used to be. Yeah, I have some cracks but I'm also called yeah, I have some weakness but I also have some strength. As a matter of fact, call me unqualified. It puts me in some. Some pretty good company. Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, Rahab, David, Paul, Peter. Reach over to your neighbor and tell them, join the club. Club Unqualified Club Dysfunctional club Screwed up Club I lose my mind sometimes Club Tempted Club Club Unsure Club Insecure Club I'm not quite there yet Club Please be patient I'm a work in progress. Join the club where is my unqualified Club Membership is free. All you have to do is come in on your knees. Paul had a great gift, but he still had to defend his credentials. The way he defends them is funny to me because if you want to defend yourself, you put up a front. But he gets real honest and real raw. And he's hurt. I can tell that he's hurt because he starts talking about. His letters versus his speaking. He said, some of you are saying my letters are better than my preaching. Did you read the verse? Look at it with me. For some say, you're always going to have those voices. They're never going to go away. If Paul had people saying it, you're going to have people saying it. By the way, most of us don't need YouTube to inform us that we're unqualified. We have a little tatter box that's alive and well, reminding us of the fact. So he said, I know some of you are comparing my letters to. To my speech. For some say his letters are weighty and forceful, but in person he is unimpressive, Unworthy, unskilled, untrained. I know he wrestled with it because he mentions it again in the next chapter. In 2 Corinthians 11, 5, 6, he starts talking about, I may not be trained as a speaker. I know I'm not trained as a speaker, but I have knowledge. Now, you don't talk like this unless you're wrestling with it. If you're a Christian for very long, you're eventually going to have somebody ask you this question. It's kind of a funny question, but they'll ask this. Something we do as Christians. We say, when you get to heaven, who do you want to see first? Now when they ask you that, the first thing you have to say is, I want to see Jesus. Then after you say that, I've asked People that before. You usually hear a lot of people say they want to see Paul, but I don't know if they do. I don't know if Paul is the first person you want to see, because we know Paul according to his gift. But apparently Paul had a glitch. Is that this man who wrote 23% of the new Testament. If you total up the number of words of Koine Greek, which is the type of Greek that the New Testament was written in, and you look at how many are attributed to Paul, it was up to 23%. Makes him the second biggest human contributor to what we have as our New Testament canon of scripture, second only to Luke, who wrote Luke and Acts. That guy who we could argue was the most effective preacher of the last 20 centuries, who took the gospel to new frontiers. That gifted guy had a glitch, apparently, the way he preached. This preacher, when you picture Paul, I bet you picture him with a big booming voice. Funny illustrations B3, Oregon But Paul stood up to preach, and some people said, he ain't nothing. He can't preach like Apollos. Apollos was another preacher during his day. People always wanted to compare Paul and Apollos. They say, I follow Apollos because Apollos was an orator. He was spellbinding. He had a vocabulary like a thesaurus. He had metaphors and analogies and synonyms and antonyms, other grammar tools. Boy, he could preach and preach. Spellbinding. He would preach and people would leave. Paul said, I know I'm not a very good preacher. That gets me because he's talking about confidence. But then he talks about the conflict. He fulfilled a great destiny, but he illuminates his deficiency. One of the great things about pastoring a large church now is that I get to know some of the people who have always been my heroes from a distance. Personally. Sometimes you wish you had kept them at a distance. But sometimes you get to know them and you realize the secret of their strength isn't what you thought it was. There are three pastors I consider the best. Just my personal ranking, for whatever it's worth. I've seen certain things they do, and I respect them all on different levels for different reasons. But they all in some way represent something I would love to emulate. I've asked them over the last eight months the same question across three different areas. The first one, he's really great with money. His church reflects this. He has millions in assets and zero in debt, both in his personal life and his church life. I see how he orders his life and how Strategic and efficient it is. I asked him, what made you that way? What do you think made you that way? He answered quickly, I was so broke growing up. I was so poor I had nothing. So when I finally got something, it was the poverty I experienced growing up that gave me the discipline to. To handle what I had when I got it. The second guy, he's the best empowerer. Is that a word? He is the best at empowering other leaders I've ever seen. Now at around age 60, he has leaders he raised up and sent out all over the world who are doing more than he could ever do through the power of his life multiplied. So I asked him, how have you always had the virtue or the humility to be able to empower other leaders in the way you have? Do you know what he said? He said, I don't think it was humility as much as it was my insecurity. I never saw myself as a great leader, so I had no other choice but to lean on other people. That's the second one. I want you to look for the common thread in the three of these. The third one, he's the best preacher I've ever heard. The best. And I'll fight you over that. He's the best. I heard him say twice in the last couple of weeks something that shocked me because I see his gift. I see his gift, but I never saw his glitch. I see his gift. And it surprised me when he said, when I first started preaching, my hand would shake so bad I could hardly hold the microphone. I had to get a microphone that would clip on me because if I held one, my hand would shake too bad, and I couldn't hold it still. He said, when I first started preaching, he said, I preached harder than anybody else. I preached for two hours, three hours. He said I would preach so hard that not only would I sweat through my suit, I would sweat through my shoes. You could wring sweat out of my shoelaces. When I got done preaching, he said, watch this. This made me cry like Vanellope on Wreck It Ralph. When he said it, he said, the reason I preach so hard is because I never thought I'd preach that good. In each of those cases, it was their glitch that made them great. It was the thing. Thing they would have asked God to take away, or it was the thing they would have asked God to put in that he didn't. That fed their strength through their weakness. This is such a powerful revelation when you consider that Paul wrote 23% of the new Testament. I found myself wondering, if Paul had been a better speaker, would he have picked up his pen and written all those letters? I wonder if Paul could have preached like Apollos, would we have 2 Corinthians? Would we have Romans? Would we have Ephesians 3:20? Now unto him is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power, which works mightily in us. He picked up his pen perhaps because he couldn't preach like Apollos. I have to be careful because I'll get choked up thinking about it. Because I've spent so much time feeling like my glitch was going to keep me from being used by God. But it was his glitch that became his gift. The words you read today that Paul wrote may not even be on the page. If he could have preached better, it was because he couldn't preach like Apollos that he wrote like Paul. His glitch preach was the gift that keeps on giving. How many Bible verses can you quote that Apollos wrote? But Apollos could preach. Apollos was impressive. No doubt what he said was profound, but he said it and it died. Paul couldn't preach like Apollos, so it forced him to sit down. He said, I have to take my glitch and find a way to turn it into a gift. Because he had a glitch. You have to get this in your heart. Because he had a glitch. His words are still reverberating today. I thought you might want to take 15 seconds and praise God for your glitch. And praise God for your weakness. Praise God for your struggle. Come on. You might as well put your weakness to work because it's not going away. I'm not saying don't improve. I'm not saying don't get more intelligent. I'm not saying don't take the class. I'm saying there is a glitch in all of us. That's a lie. There are multiple glitches in all of us. When Vanellope found out. I'm going to tie it all together. Wreck it, Ralph. Apostle Paul. Here they come. They're meeting up. Watch this. Vanellope is stuck in a game and she can't race because she's a glitch. But guess what? The reason they unplugged the machine to try to turn her into a glitch to begin with is because she was royalty. She was a hero. You have to watch the movie to get the full revelation of this sermon. I want you to sit down and watch it for your quiet time this week. When you watch her, you'll find out that the way she ended up saving the game was that she glitched to the finish line. It was her glitch. God. Y' all don't hear me. You keep thinking that your glitch is getting in the way. I'm trying to tell you that Paul's glitch became the gift we're reading today. If you have a glitch, and if you have a weakness and you have a broken spot in your life and you'll bring it to God in humility and sincerity, your weakness is about to become your secret weapon. Your weakness is about to become your portal to God's power. Now, give him praise if you believe it. Give him praise if you believe it. Give him praise if you receive it. The reason I'm so smart with money is I was so broke. My glitch became my gift. The reason I empowered so many leaders is because I didn't think I was a very good one. My glitch became my gift. The reason I can preach and connect with people is because I was convinced I never could See. People who have a great gift often find that their gift stunts their growth. But when you know you have a glitch, When you know you have a deficiency, and you begin to believe that my deficiency is connected to my destiny, that's how God uses broken people to do big things. Jump up on your feet if you receive this word on any level. Clap your hands and give God praise. I want you to summarize my message. Hug at least six people and tell them, your glitch is your gift. Your glitch is your gift. Your glitch is your gift. If he could have preached better, maybe he wouldn't have written it down. Sometimes what God leaves out is just as important as what he puts in. If Paul had spoken 2 Corinthians 12:10, we wouldn't be able to throw it up on the screen. They didn't have a tape recorder. They didn't have pro tools. Reason, logic, Abelton. I'm just saying stuff now. He would have said it. But because of his glitch. Oh, God, because of what he couldn't do. I would have liked to have been a better athlete. I would love to be able to run the 40 faster than over five seconds. I would love that. But maybe if I had been a better athlete, I wouldn't have been a youth minister. I know some of you would have loved to have had a dad who raised you and you should have. But maybe your deficiency, maybe the fact that you didn't have a great dad is going to be the thing that drives you to become one. I don't think it's coincidence that the nerdy kids become the most successful ones because since they don't have a whole lot of people around, they have to get to know themselves and they have to develop themselves. Then what in high school is Loneliness becomes later in life success. The glitch that keeps giving. You know, the thing that didn't happen for you, that you prayed it would happen and you felt like a failure when it didn't happen, the thing you didn't get, the opportunity you screwed up. Hey, maybe you screwed it up. Maybe God didn't do it. But Paul said, when I am weak, then I am strong. Join hands with the person next to you. You think God doesn't see your glitch? You think he's limited by it? You think the manufacturer doesn't know your defect? Of course he does. He chose you anyway. I know a lot of preaching says God is going to use you in spite of that thing. No, that's not my message. I'm saying he's going to use you because of is going to be your weakness that feeds your strength. Father, in the name of Jesus, I declare over every glitchy person that the broken places in their lives and the cracks in their heart are about to become the spaces through which your glory most freely flows. We thank you that we are broken vessels. We thank you that what is broken is full of oil. And we thank you that in our lives you are not limited by our liabilities, but rather you specialize in turning weakness into strength. Now lift your hands in the air. I want you to reach for God today. God, empower these people by your grace. Empower these people to realize a great calling. Empower your sons and daughters with the kind of blessing, with the kind of anointing, with the kind of glory that can only enter through broken spaces. Now clap those same hands and give God praise. If you know your glitch is your gift, if you know your weakness is your strength, declare victory over. Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give generously to this ministry. It's because of you that this ministry is possible. You can click the link in the description to Give now or visit elevationchurch.orgpodcast for more information. And if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe, you can share it with your friends. You can click the share button, take a screenshot and Share it on your social stories and tag us LevationChurch. Thanks again for listening. God bless you.