✗ Hillsong Conf 2014: "Unveiled Vision / The problem with pinterest" by Steven Furtick ✗

• 2 Cor 3
• Hope will make you: very bold, believe God for a restoration, grow, dream to come back to the surface because you have been disappointed, audacious and tenacious
• You can be set free and you can receive what God has for you
• There is problem with the mindsets that is something like Pinterest to represent -- living in a culture of constant comprison
• Nothing can kill your contentment quicker than comparison
• There are those who want to show you their spiritual successes as a prove of their validity with God
• But show your scars instead as prove that He brought you through in failure, desperation and doubt
• We can't come and post our best stuff and expect God to touch the places that really need to heal
• Don't run around with a presentation of perfection -- that may affect people's progress
• Moses left that veil a little longer after the glory left 
• We don't need a veil like Moses did
• So many of us are here wearing all kinds of veils
• How are you going to see God walking around with veils?
• Let somebody get real and that will get somebody out there get saved
• There is a problem if our whole life is about presenting images of perfection
• What veil are you wearing? -- The way you talk, convince that your busy, obsession of your body image, self conscious during worship
• There is a problem when we start to consume other people's images of perfection -- it will blind you from seeing what God is doing in your life
• We don't have to wear a veil
• He knows us so well and loves us so much
• It is the spirit of love that enables us to change
• You will miss what is, and never see what could be, because you are stuck in what was
• "Their minds were made dull... till this day, the same veil remains..."
• There is a problem where you live your life in imagination of your past -- It is not accurate when to what was
• Some were so in love with what you have you lost, that you are not using what you have right now
• The past become a veil that keeps us from seeing in our hearts what God is doing
• "How long will you mourn for what i have rejected?'
• How long will your mourn for something that is over
• "Where the spirit of the lord IS, there is freedom from what was..."
• God is doing a new thing
• There is a problem with our ideas of progress and how God changes us
• Vs 18 ("from glory to glory")
• We try to go from shame to glory, but that is not how Jesus changes people -- He said from glory to glory
• The enemy wants to make you ashamed with that thing 
• God is going to preach behind that mask
• God cannot bless who you pretend to be -- He can't heal who you pretend to be
• Just get it off right now -- that hardness, coldness
• We are not coming here cool this week, we come in to encounter Him, to see him, not impress you, but get an impartation
• We want to be free from the opinions from the others, constant comparison 
• You cannot continue to be like His image where you continue to be like others
• Compare less, contemplate more -- we didn't come here to compare, don't quit
• It comes from the lord -- it doesn't come from your performance 
• "I will lift my eyes to the hills, my help comes from the Lord"
• Approval and affirmation comes from the Lord
• Turn to Him this week instead of anyone, culture, success -- the veil is taken away
• If you will turn to him, He will take it away
• You turn, He takes
• The problem was that you didn't have a connection -- everything you need is in Him, you just need a connection 
• It is in Christ and only in Him -- reach out to Him, see his face
• "I want to see you Lord, take my veil away, take my pride away"
• He looks on you with eyes of love and compassion today
• He has turned His face -- He will not turn away nor abandon you with whatever imperfections you have