Hi friends! I hope that you are doing wonderfully today. The sun is out today, so I’m calling it a good day here. 😀 Below you’ll find my sermon notes for Pastor Steven’s message at Elevation Church this weekend.

His sermon was titled “The Momentum of a Decision.” Honestly, this message has too many good nuggets to take away from it.

In the midst of some pretty major decisions on the horizon – Pastor Steven really made me realize that no matter the outcome, God is still going to choose me. That’s pretty great news.

Remember that I take my notes while he talks so context is needed. Be sure to go re-watch this! I’ll try to remember to come back and add the link after I see it’s been posted.

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Sermon Notes

• Luke 5:11
• There’s a difference between an event and a decision.
• Offense is an event – offended is a decision.
• My response to what someone else does to me, even if what they did hurts me, is a decision.
• There are some things that I do that I can’t tell you why.
• Every decision has a parent called emotion, every emotion is a decision of thought.
• You make a decision in a certain state of mind, but then when you face challenges give up because those emotions can run deeper.
• What does it mean to follow Jesus?
• They left their stuff, but didn’t necessarily leave behind their beliefs.
• Physical decisions are sometimes easier than emotional decisions.
• The disciples walked away from their lives to follow someone who hadn’t even proven that what he said was true yet.
• They didn’t have a backup plan.
• Once we realize we can do it, sometimes we just have to do it.
• Do you have the ability to just do the thing?
• We can understand why more, if we look at the events that led up to it.
• When you understand the event, you understand the decision.
• The event doesn’t have to define the rest of your life, unless you allow it to.
• Luke 5:1-11
• Deep water; let down.
• The deepest things God will do in our lives start shallow.
• We tell ourselves that if we can’t understand it, then we don’t have to obey.
• Delete something that is defeating you.
• It’s not that the problem isn’t deep – but sometimes the solution is very simple.
• Can you do a little thing different?
• Nobody walks away from someone that they gave their heart to all at once.
• One day we hang up on each other, and 5 years later we hate them.
• Nobody decides that we want to have something that masters us for the rest of our lives – it’s a decision of momentum.
• Can you make a positive decision even after you’ve experienced a negative result?
• 2020 has been the year when we know that we have to do what God has called us to do anyway.
• Grace is the power to change your decisions.
• Don’t make decisions out of frustration that create more frustrations.
• When I obey the word of the Lord, it breaks the flow of frustration.
• You cannot think your way out of the flow of fear and frustration by thinking deeply about it.
• Drop it.
• It’s hard to drop the net when you’re drowning in disappointment.
• Matthew 26:56
• Receiving grace is a one time decision – following Jesus is moment by moment.
• There’s a difference between the event of coming a Christian and the decision of being a disciple – you have to make that decision daily.
• This doesn’t mean God can’t use you.
• Jesus chose Peter because he knew that he would do something dumb – 
• Do something that seems dumb for God, but is what God is using to take you deep.
• Would it be dumb for you to forgive them? Do it.
• It’s dumb to believe that God is still working out for good while we’re going through hell. Do it anyways.
• There is no decision that you can make that will negate the will of God for our lives because he knew that we would do something dumb.
• Right now in this moment you’ve got wisdom from that painful experience.
• The momentum of shame can carry you into an even deeper state of despair.
• Don’t use today’s wisdom as a weapon to beat yourself up over yesterday’s decisions.
• God still chose you.
• Peter’s destiny didn’t begin with Peter’s decision. Jesus chose Peter.
• God knows what is in you.
• Jesus is in YOUR boat.
• It’s you he called, and it’s you he chose.
• Your decision to choose God is not dependent on you…God chooses you.
• God’s decision predates your dysfunction.
• God doesn’t need your trophies.
• 2 Peter 1:21
• The momentum is not based in your decision – it’s based in HIS!
• God has already decided what he thinks about you.

I hope that this message has blessed you as much as it blessed me. Let me know in the comments below what your favorite takeaway was. ⤵️

Enjoy the rest of your week. 💛