Hi friends! Below you’ll find my notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon Filled by Faith. This message is from Elevation Church on August 23, 2026.

Keep in mind, these are my own personal notes so you’ll need some context. Click here watch Filled by Faith on YouTube.

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Sermon Notes : Filled by Faith

• 1 Samuel 16:1-13
• Not your feelings but your filling. 
• God show me what to do. 
• God can’t show you if you don’t show up. 
• Don’t believe everything you think, see, or hear. 
• One was gray one was green but God is greater than both. 
• Not ungrateful but anxious. 
• Something that has never been managed or maintained before. 
• The pressure to maintain what god gave you. 
• You can fill it even when you don’t feel it. 
• When God fulfills his promise to you it may not feel like you think it will. 
• Not forsaken but filled with the spirit of God so you almost certainly feel other things at the same time. 
• 1 Samuel 3:4-5
• We need to learn who is talking to us. 
• It’s a challenge when you now God is speaking to you about something but you don’t know how. 
• The one you lean into the most determines where your life leads. 
• Growing = grieving and going. 
• Every time you step forward in faith when you don’t feel it in your situation. 
• Still not over it but don’t need to be to keep going. 
• Too grown. 
• We don’t know when we’re growing. 
• Developing in the dark. 
• Even the fact that you are asking what God wants you to do means that you’re growing. 
• Nobody can fill your horn for you. 
• Create what you’re supposed to create. 
• You can be anointed and annoyed.
• It’s gonna be mixed. 
• Keep it moving. 
• I’m moving even though it’s mixed. 
• Happy but heavy. Blessings and burdens.  
• Everytime you don’t feel it but you fill it anyway your faith grows. 
• This is your last day to have an empty horn. 
• Gotta fill it back up drop by drop. 
• Even when God removes something in your life that you don’t like it leaves a hole. Let alone something/someone you love. 
• We know what but we don’t know how. 
• Usually you don’t know it’s the Lord while you’re doing it. 
• God doesn’t judge you based on what you feel. 
• You keep waiting for a feeling but God is waiting for a filling.
• God will fill this. He knows what he’s doing, planning and purposed. 
• When you fill the horn God fills the seat. 
• It’s not my job.
• Field by faith. 
• God will find you in the field.
• Fill your horn, and your heart and God will fill the empty seat. 
• God is saving your seat. 
• Keep slinging your sling and trusting God. 
• Fill your horn with oil and move. 
• Quit stressing about things God has already selected.

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