My notes for Pastor Dharius Daniels’ sermon I Didn’t See That Coming. From Elevation Church on July 12, 2020.

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Sermon Notes : I Didn’t See That Coming

• Exodus 13:17-18
• God is unpredictable.
• There is no inconsistency though – he is reliably reliable.
• There is unpredictability in his actions.
• You can predict who he’ll be, but you can’t always predict what he’ll do.
• “The devil sent it, but I like it, so I’m going to leave it.”
• “God, I’ve never been in this much pain. God says you’ve also never been in this much prayer.”
• If I want to be used by God I must be willing to be disrupted.
• The course and quality of my life is going to be determined by my ability to handle what I didn’t see coming.
• We have to be willing to relinquish control.
• The ideas we have control is an illusion.
• We have responsibility and influence – God control belongs to God.
• We are carrying weight we weren’t conditioned to carry.
• “God weight.”
• Our bodies and minds respond in a way that lets us know we were not designed to carry that weight.
• Do you only trust God with your past? Or do you trust him with your future?
• This means I must be willing to wrap my head around and receive what we see in the text.
• It offers insight on how to handle seasons we didn’t see coming.
• We may be able to see where God is taking us, but may be surprised at how he takes us there.
• Promised Land
• The only 2 locations in the conversation were Egypt and the Promised Land.
• The route was never mentioned in the promise.
• God knows what battles we are not ready to fight.
• “There’s a backside to every blessing.” (He mentioned who said that originally, but I missed it.)
• Divine delay is not denial.
• Maybe you’re ready for it, but you’re not ready for it.
• Your heart has to be as good as your gift.
• A blessing will feel like a curse if you get it too early.
• God intentionally withheld information from them until they were too far into it to go back.
• If you knew everything you were saying yes to, we may never give our yes.
• It’s not negative – it’s necessary. It’s only negative when you stay there longer than you have to.
• The wilderness represents what you cannot predict.
• These are seasons of preparation.
• God is the only one who will take you to school, and you didn’t even know you were in class.
• It puts us in position to handle where we are right now.
• Wherever there is preparation there is pruning.
• Forward motion isn’t just attached to what we start doing, it’s also attached to what we stop doing.
• He prunes us : issues, other people, attitudes.
• New seasons feel like old seasons when we don’t let go of old issues.
• Bad company corrupts good character.
• God will purge us of attitudes.
• When you can’t control it – you manage it.
• How it is managed determines whether it’s prolonged or permanent.
• Exodus 16:31
• Manna represents :
• 1.) The times when God’s performance doesn’t match your expectation.
• Gods provision is in the form of a project.
• 2.) Times when God supernaturally suffocates your supply.
• There are things we’ll ask for in the wilderness that we’ll have in overflow when we get to Canaan.
• We can’t forget our source.
• 3.) Seasonal supply.
• Temporary provision.
• We can be so busy looking for a miracle that we miss the one we are in.
• Praise is an expression of gratitude.
• Refuse to be infected with entitlement.
• Just because you’re surprised doesn’t mean you’re not prepared.
• God has been preparing you for it.
• In a season like this, are you going to apply what your teacher has taught you?
• Doubt is illogical when we look back on God’s track record in our past.
• If he doesn’t provide it, he will teach us how to live without it.

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