My notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon Flex Space. From Elevation Church, May 2020.

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Sermon Notes : Flex Space

• Isaiah 54:1-4
• God is exploding some of our limitations in this season because he wants out of the box.
• God will use a shut down to show off.
• Living a little while demotes the things that we call “disasters” in our lives – they may actually become blessings in disguise – give it time.
• The spaces where you though God had left you were actually the setups for him to do the greatest things in your life.
• Have you ever had something in you that says that even though everything is against you, you still know that God is for you?
• Between what it was and what it is is the space where we don’t know what God is doing.
• I’m not saying that it all makes sense, but I’ve got faith. 
• I’m not saying it’s not scary, I’m just saying that God is with me.
• It’s not wasted space, it’s flex space.
• Leaving the space empty on purpose so we can grow into it.
• What looks like it is wasted is a stage that God is setting.
• God takes what the enemy means for evil.
• We need to sing before we see.
• Whatever you do, whatever the enemy takes away from you in this season, if you feel like you’ve lost progress, don’t you ever let the devil have your song.
• Excuses come in to keep us from expanding.
• Sometimes I don’t want to sing it if I don’t mean it
• WELL THEN SING IT TIL YOU MEAN IT!
• God lives where gratitude is.
• God is here!
• How flexible are you, how flexible is your faith?
• You have to have a vision that is not dependent on the situation.
• God is creating space. 
• Captivity is an opportunity.
• God fills the spaces we call empty.
• God – give me a vision or I’ll get discouraged.
• We’ve lost sight of what God spoke so a lot of us are dying right now.
• It may take our whole lives before we make sense of certain things, but it is not wasted.
• God sees what we call wasted as a stage.
• How much space have you given God to work in your life? 
• Or do you keep certain corners secret?
• God said I’m coming into your situation – I’m breaking through like I’m strong and mighty.
• Let’s flex on the devil real quick in the name of the Lord! *insert flex emoji
• When I am weak, God is strong.
• My weakness is flex space.
• 2020 is not wasted – it’s a set up!
• God can’t be strong while you are pretending to be.
• Strengthen and stretch.
• It’s no good to have strong faith if it’s not flexible faith.
• Apo-kara-dokia – eagerly expecting
• God is growing your heart, and your capacity to trust him…but he needs an uncertain place to do it.
• Paul turned his prison cell into a pulpit.
• Philippians 1:20
• The people’s faith is strong because they stretched it.
• Your life is a breath.
• God is trying to take your life and show the world what he can do through a heart that is committed to him.
• “Blessed are the flexible for their faith can not be broken.”
• When he doesn’t show up when you want him, it’s because he’s going to show off when he comes.
• The battleground becomes a testing ground for faith.
• The strength is in the stretch.
• Tell me how strong your faith when it happened exactly the opposite of how you saw it going, but you still stretched forward your faith into a greater hope – an eager expectation.
• God can only fill what we bring him.
• Or if your mind so filled with the expectations that you had that he doesn’t have room to fill it?
• We can’t let the devil have our song or our hope.
• God – do what you want to do.
• We need to leave God a little room in how we are raising our kids.
• Have you given God room to show off in your life? Or do you have him in a little box that you’re wanting him to doing everything exactly how you’re wanting and expecting.
• I’ve still got a song!
• The name of the Lord is a strong power!
• Sing, stretch and don’t hold back – the moment you begin to shrink back because of fear, God says do not fear disgrace! He’s giving us a new normal. Remember no more the shame of your youth. 
• He’s about to do things that our eyes have not seen, that our ears have not heard and nothing is wasted!
• He’s powerful, wonderful, glorious.

Be sure to leave me a comment with your favorite takeaway from Flex Space.