If you don’t like sappy posts, skip this one, and come back tomorrow.
As for today, I’m sitting in my office completely overwhelmed by the faithfulness of God, and I’ve just got to tell the world how good God has been to me.

I know you’re reading this on Tuesday, but I’m writing it on Monday, just over 24 hours after our Dominate Sunday, the biggest Sunday in the history of Elevation. It was the culmination of months and months of praying, fasting, planning, teaching, vision casting, dreaming, and borderline insane faith.

I’m exhausted. Spiritually, physically, emotionally, you pick the category-
I’m flat out spent. There’s no need for me to recount all of the details of why this campaign was so taxing for me and for our entire staff, but trust me, it was the most difficult initiative we’ve ever launched.
Nonetheless, I feel incredibly satisfied. And I’m not just saying that. At certain times in my short ministry, I’ve felt drained because of the bad stuff that was happening. This isn’t one of those times.
In fact, the way our church responded to this campaign can only be described as a clean sweep. I’ve shared the total amount of our 2 year pledges with 5 close friends of mine in ministry, and the reaction is the same every time.
They ask me to repeat the number again, because they’re just sure they’ve heard me wrong.
So I repeat it, and then they laugh (because of the ridiculous blessing of God), and say something like:

“Don’t take this for granted. This is very uncommon. In fact, it’s nothing short of a miracle. Don’t let this blessing pass you by without taking time to appropriately appreciate God.”

Well, I’m going to heed their advice. This blessing will not be wasted on me, or Elevation. We just entered a season of revolutionary generosity… and now we’re going to enter into a season of revolutionary gratitude.
We will give glory to the Lord for what He has done.
(Elevators, it’s killing me that I can’t tell you the total. But I’m sticking to my guns, not until Sunday. You’re going to flip, man.)

King David was famous for praising the Lord in extreme measures for the victories of Israel. One time, he praised God with such intensity that he was down to his boxer briefs, and his wife called him crazy. Read about it here .
He essentially shut her up, and told her to get out of his way, or he might just dance on top of her head. Or something like that.

I hope I will praise God in the days following this Dominate commitment with such an intensity that the people closest to me will wonder:
“Has Pastor Steven lost his mind?”
Maybe then I’ll be in the general vicinity of giving God a fraction of the glory He deserves.