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Hi friends! Happy Sunday! I hope that you are all doing wonderfully today. Below you’ll find my notes from Pastor Steven Furtick for No Weapon. This sermon is from Elevation Church on February 13, 2022.
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Sermon Notes : No Weapon
- 1 Samuel 13:16-22
- This message is for all the people fighting a war that don’t have the proper weapons.
- Where are your weapons?
- The way things were for you does not mean that it is the way that it has to be for them.
- Don’t put your stuff them.
- Don’t weigh them down with your own unmet expectations of your life.
- God doesn’t promise that he will give us everything automatically.
- You’ll have to fight for joy through despair, and fight for optimism in a negative default setting.
- It’s possible.
- You’ve got God’s grace to go for what he’s given you.
- 1 Samuel 14:1-14
- Development
- What if this does work?
- Detachment
- Jonathan detached from the outcome to move forward by faith.
- One step at a time.
- Desperation
- We need to move toward the possibility of victory.
- Numbers 13:22-23
- New fruit for a new place.
- We have the responsibility to move toward what we are praying for.
- Where you sit, who you sit with, and what you believe about the will of God is critical to what happens next in your life.
- Trusting God without moving toward is not faith.
- The Israelites had to go to the world to get their weapons.
- It’s too late when you get into the battle to get a blacksmith.
- It’s too late until you let anger take over to learn that emotions don’t control you if you’ve got the spirit of God inside of you.
- You have got to see yourself as someone who has been given the responsibility by God to shape and to form.
- Are you in a battle without a blacksmith?
- 2 Corinthians 10:3-4
- It’s too expensive to go to the world to get your weapons.
- Even if it works, it isn’t worth it.
- Why would you go to the devil for it when your dad has it when you are a child of God?
- The devil will tempt you to diminish what you’ve been given.
- God has always given you something.
- The thing you overlook or don’t feel worth is mentioning is sometimes what the miracle is in.
- Don’t praise your weapons, praise God.
- 1 Samuel 14:20
- No weaponed formed against me will prosper!
- The weapons are in the hands of the philistines, but the philistines are in the hand of God.
- When you move toward what God has called you to, you will be surprised, because God can use the weapon you thought was against you to save you.
- Isaiah 54:16-17
- If God didn’t give it to you, you don’t need it right now.