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Below you’ll find my notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon at Elevation Church. This message was given on January 17 , 2021.
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Sermon Notes : Flatbread Faith
- Exodus 12:37-42
- Self awareness is an ongoing process.
- We never really tell everybody everything.
- We are all working off of our own point of view.
- We’re all reductionists and/or revisionists.
- Try to boil every complicated thing down to its simplest form.
- Or try to overcomplicate what is simple.
- Stuff gets left out so that we will still show up.
- God doesn’t want them to take yeast from Egypt into the place that they were promised.
- He gives lessons in leaving it out.
- What is God leaving out in my life right now to lead me to where he called me all along.
- Disappointments; Deficiency; Deletions
- God will not be confined to a picture our eyes can perceive.
- Life happens in transitions.
- Acts 1:6-7
- God will not restore what we had before – he’ll replace it with something much better.
- It’s not going to be like it was.
- God’s power is revealed in the details he leaves out.
- If we know something, we don’t have the opportunity to believe it.
- God doesn’t define our lives by our failures, but by our faith.
- Luke 15:20-22
- When the devil tempts you, he leaves a lot of stuff out about what it will cost you.
- This moment is not about the things you’ve done in the past. God is not condemning you to crush you.
- Leave that out.
- Celebrate right now!
- Do you have any space for God’s blessings?
- God is bringing you into a grace space.
- Everything being removed is making room for you to receive.
- We need to praise God for what he is pruning.
- The wilderness is not our destination.
- The place of the deficit will be the place of deposit.
- Leave the regret out.
- 1 Cor 5:7
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