My notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon Plot Twist. From Elevation Church, June 2020.

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Sermon Notes : Plot Twist

• God saw this year coming.
• John 4:4-30
• You don’t get to choose who God uses, and you don’t get to choose what he does.
• We all have to go through Samaria (some area)
• …where we’ve been hurt or disappointed
• So now instead of going through we try to go around.
• Jesus is a barrier breaker.
• If we don’t hope for anything we won’t be hurt by anything.
• The disciples were thinking about a meal, but Jesus was thinking about a harvest.
• Keep asking questions.
• When you follow Jesus, you have to learn to like surprises
• Biiiiiig difference between worshipping a tradition and pursuing truth
• It’s okay that sometimes we get caught off guard.
• God is constantly keeping us guessing.
• Every disruption is not recognized as divine.
• God has scripted a much bigger arc for you life than how you are feeling this week.
• It’s never the things you expect that disrupt your life.
• We have to continue to approach each day like it is the day that the Lord has made.
• It’s important to be attuned to what the Holy Spirit is doing in us because we never know…
• You must go through Samaria – while we’re trying to fill our jars, God is trying to fill us.
• God can bring forth a fruitful situation from a barren womb.
• It wasn’t supposed to be the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – it was supposed to be the God of Abraham, Isaac and Esau…but PLOT TWIST!
• God has a way of putting his right hand instead of his left hand – right hand is the hand of blessing and authority.
• God says I see people using you, but they don’t know what’s in you – and I’m going to bless you in this season even though you have told yourself this is all it can ever be.
• God doesn’t need you to be educated just available, just open, just humble, just a disciple, just committed. Plot twist!
• He is the God of the plot twist!
• Not only does God bless the wrong people from an earthly perspective – like a woman at a well, or a trickster named Jacob – not only does he being forth nations from people who’s names carry baggage, or whose names we don’t even know – he uses them for a purpose that nobody can understand.
• God is using people in this season that we walk past.
• We can get settled into our stories and situations…just trying to survive.
• For 22 years Jacob thought Joseph was dead – the miracle happened between somebody that was as good as dead.
• Genesis 48:11
• Just about the time you are ready to stop believing in God – don’t stop yet!
• He takes what the enemy meant for evil and uses it for good in your life! 
• God is a generational God.
• We serve the God of the plot twist – he knows our REAL name.
• What is the thing that you’ve given up on in your life?
• Not only did he minister to the woman, but he sent the woman to get the whole town.
• He skipped a meal, but he reaped a harvest.
• The things about you that you don’t like, he’s going to leverage them for greater grace to be released in your life.
• He is turning things around right now! You will have joy again! 🙌
• Get ready for unexpected blessings in unlikely places.
• God is renovating your heart in this season.
• Setting me free from being so selfish.
• He gives us the water that never runs dry, a source of living water.
• What is the enemy trying to convince you to give up on because what you carry is so significant?
• What’s in your well?
• What other wells are you digging in your life right now?
• You had to survive! You had to rise up!
• It’s generational! 
• God loves people just like you.
• Some of y’all are breaking curses and you don’t even know it.
• God will be with you.
• God will bless you better than anybody else can curse you.
• He will show you what is within you.
• She was already carrying what she came for. 
• You’ve already got it!

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