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Hi friends! Here you’ll find my notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon Making Peace With Missing Pieces. This message is from Elevation Church on March 6, 2022.
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Sermon Notes : Making Peace With Missing Pieces
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- The bible is not an instruction manual.
- More like a model. We see what God is so we can discover who we are.
- Exodus 4:10-17
- God is trying to rebuild your self image in his image.
- Some of what you call humility is insecurity, and it insults God when you don’t like what he made.
- God made you in his image, but you don’t get to see all of God at once, therefore you don’t get to know all of you at once.
- Start with the source.
- God will not do for you what you will not do for you.
- Moses said to the Lord, I can’t do this.
- Things don’t change in an instant like we want them to.
- The war in you.
- There is a war of words happening in your soul, home, and heart.
- When people don’t speak encouragement and affirmation over you, other words take root.
- God will always accomplish his purpose.
- It’s not whether God will do it, it’s whether he will do it in you and through you.
- Faith and doubt.
- A war happening in our minds.
- Moses has to decide whether to embrace his destiny or be limited by his history.
- God will speaking something you have no context for.
- Can you believe what God says when you don’t see it at all?
- Of everything God spoke, only one talked back.
- When the word of God speaks he speaks from above.
- 4 missing pieces.
- God can tailor the word directly to what you need it to be.
- God works one piece at a time. Step by step, day by day.
- You can’t fight the devil on a hypothetical.
- Who am I?
- Who are you?
- When’s the last time you had an encounter with God?
- We have mastered the art of sounding certain.
- A lot of us think that the only way to have peace is to have no missing pieces.
- When you get healed then God will love you is a lie from the pit of hell.
- We all need Jesus.
- You are made of spirit.
- You start with the frame.
- Everything we see visibly is made by something God spoke invisibly.
- Stop speaking against what God has spoken over your life.
- We have become our own worst enemy.
- What if they?
- It is God that works in you.
- God wants to show you how you can not know, and still go.
- Preparation
- Information
- God will turn a mistake into a miracle.
- He won’t work around it, he’ll actually use it.
- Just because you don’t know it right now, doesn’t mean you can’t grow in it.
- The great I AM is greater than your little I’m not’s.
- Validation
- Limitation
- You’re doing better than you think you are.
- Are you ready to make peace with the way things are?
- Or will you let one missing piece define the rest of your life.
- If God only gives you one thing at a time, then do one thing at a time.
- You are not supposed to know where God is going to have you in 20 years.
- Faith.
- The final word over my life was spoken before my first breath was breathed.
- All of his promises are yes and amen.
- Are you going to make peace with the missing pieces?
- Missing pieces are places for God to fill.