Sermon Notes : Pastor Steven Furtick – Comfort Foods

Hello dear friend! I hope that you are doing well today. Below you’ll find my sermon notes for the message Pastor Steven preached at Elevation Church on 01/10/2021 – this message is called Comfort Food.

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Sermon Notes : Comfort Food

• Numbers 11:4-6
• What is the food that makes you feel better?
• (Mine is chicken pot pie or anything deep fried.)
• Genesis 41:53-55
• Feel the famine -> Pharaoh 
• God will use famine to get you into a place or position of His purpose.
• We want change we choose, and that we can control.
• We can fill ourselves with things that make us feel worse in the end.
• Some of us like chains because they’re comfortable…so we push away people that challenge us to change.
• Miracles have gotten monotonous.
• The same thing everyday can cause us to crave things that almost killed us.
• It feels like everything has changed, but at the same time that everything is the same day after day.
• In between you have nothing.
• You got out of Egypt, but all of Egypt is not out of you…yet.
• So where do you go when you feel the famine, alone, afraid?
• Chains aren’t stable – they only make you feel that way.
• Social media is designed to starve us and keep us coming back.
• Some of what you crave isn’t bad…it’s just where you go to get it.
• Luke 15:13-14
• Things are not as good as we remember them a lot of times.
• Famine brings us back to God.
• Don’t let a craving kill you.
• The problem with Christians isn’t that we want too much, it’s that we don’t want enough.
• My father’s fridge is full.
• You haven’t been eating the wrong things, you’ve been getting them from the wrong place.
• Why do I crave what I hate? And what would be a better way to get it?
• Is there a better way inside of God to get it?
• Exodus 12:38 
• Before you can receive the blessing, God has to remove the rabble.
• Are you willing to allow God to remove that rabble?
• Funeral or feast?

Let me know in the comments ⤵️ what your favorite takeaway was. Mine is when he said that we stay in chains because it’s comfortable. That’s so true. Change is hard, it sucks and it takes a lot of hard work. Staying comfortable is preferable a lot of times. But it’s time to move!