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Hi friend. Below you’ll find my sermon notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s message titled The Guided Mind and the Guarded Heart. This message was given at Elevation Church on July 11, 2021.
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Sermon Notes : The Guided Mind and the Guarded Heart
- God speaks to everyone personally and gives us exactly what we need when we need it.
- 1 Kings 20:1-28
- Philippians 4:6-8
- Change the processes.
- No one can fix what you are unwilling to change.
- Your problems are welcome in Godâs presence.
- What if you started involving God earlier in the process, at the level of your thoughts?
- How many times in your life have you agreed with the enemy without even consulting God?
- Many of us have made an alliance with anxiety somewhere deep in our hearts. It feels normal, and peace feels foreign.
- Do not listen to your enemy, or agree to his demands.
- Just because the enemy speaks something, doesnât mean we have to agree with it.
- Itâs the voice you believe that determines how your life ends up.
- You cannot believe everything you hear.
- Sometimes we find ways that make the attacks stop, but actually make the battle worse.
- Sometimes itâs easier to bring God my love handles and ask him to suck them out.
- It starts before you see it.
- Your mind needs guidance.
- If God did it for Ahab, he will sure enough do it for you!
- Will we be willing go let God guide our minds so that he can then protect your heart.
- Sometimes your agreements with the enemy keep out the peace of God.
- Sometimes we donât overthink, but we under think. Keep thinking about the same things and same thought patterns.
- If we drove our car like we guided our mind, weâd be in the ditch.
- You donât have to wait to pray until you want the right things.
- The most important thing is that you involve God in the process.
- Have you been hit with a low blow from the enemy lately?
- The Lord will display his strengths in the greatest way.
- God is the God of unconditional victory.
- I donât want to agree with the enemy about anything that keeps me from hearing anything about what God says about me.
- Jesus came to give us peace.
- God is a god of the mountains and the valleys.