Hey eFam! I hope you’re doing great today! Below you’ll find my sermon notes for Pastor Steven’s message titled Beta Blessings. This sermon was given at Elevation Church on Jan. 24, 2021.

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Sermon Notes : Beta Blessings

• Revelation 22:12-14
• God does things in our lives in certain seasons that at first we aren’t sure are actually blessings…
• Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, but I need a beta blessing for the spaces in between.
• God is not waiting for you at some future destination.
• Some of God’s greatest blessings are in the form of manna.
• Joshua 5:11
• Sometimes you’ve got to set out with the Word of God not knowing all the details.
• Genesis 12:1-3
• Did God take them for 40 years in the wilderness to get the bugs out?
• Maybe the reason things aren’t working as fast as you want is because God is getting the bugs out.
• There’s some things you prayed for, asked for, and need that are in beta.
• When we get too attached to a beta version, it puts God in a box.
• Manna is not meant to be on the menu permanently.
• Don’t quit; grow.
• God gives you provision to get to certain places.
• It’s not bad, it’s in beta.
• Are there maggots in your manna?
• It’s time to grow up.
• Malachi 3:10-11
• We need to create space in our lives for God’s blessings – so many blessings that we don’t have room for them.
• We can’t have room if every inch of our minds are occupied.
• If we get the blessing too soon, we won’t be ready.
• Stubbornness can be formed into boldness.
• Some things are free at first…
• Luke 5:5-11
• Peter’s lack of success was actually a blessing because it set in motion the circumstances that allowed him to meet Jesus.
• Boat sinking blessings.
• Not when you pray, but when you obey.
• Will you have room to receive it?
• The fish weren’t the blessing, they were the bait.
• God knows how to get you where he wants you to go.
• Sometimes failure is the goal…
• Ask God to get all the bugs out.
• John 21:3-13
• Do it a different way.
• God’s blessings don’t break.
• When we recognize God for who he is, he is already cooking what we’ve been trying to catch all night.
• Are you stuck in a version of you who isn’t really you?
• Don’t let God’s blessings die in the wilderness.