My notes for Pastor Holly Furtick’s sermon from Reflect 2020 – Root Check. From Elevation Church, November 12, 2020.

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Sermon Notes : Root Check

• Always be bearing fruit
• Jeremiah 17:17-18
• Strong women do not happen by accident 
• Strength does not happen over night – over time.
• This is hard work.
• You get strong little by little – day by day.
• A tree takes the time to put down roots.
• You’ve got to have some roots
• Time under tension creates strength.
• Finish this year strong!
• We’ve got to check our roots.
• Luke 1:26-49
• God spoke through dreams, burning bush, talking donkey, writing on the wall, audible voice 
• Does God know that he can interrupt any day in your life?
• How much awareness of God do you have?
• Is your day so loud and crowded that God would have to strike lightning to get your attention?
• What if self care isn’t about a girls night out, but about not letting your calendar getting so full, saying no to another thing you were asked to do, or taking a break from social media.
• Setting aside time to read, and pray and listen to music to study God is important. Sometimes you have to find some pockets of time to do this…
• What are you listening to while you do the daily chores?
• If you don’t have a plan then you’ll end up scrolling feeds during every extra second that you have during your day.
• Some of us are letting church slip through our fingers.
• If you’re not careful, you’re going to find yourself in a very difficult storm and you won’t have the roots to get you through because you haven’t made God’s presence a priority in your life.
• The strength you need in the next season is here right now.
• Mary accept the calling that God had placed on her life.
• You’ve got to have the root of acceptance in your life.
• You’ll abandon it at the first sign of toughness if you don’t.
• Your calling is only for you.
• You can’t return your calling. You can either reject or accept it.
• Somedays, do you let yourself get stuck?
• Unwilling to put in the work required to accomplish what God wants to place in my life.
• I am lazy too!
• It’s easier to hide behind the idea that we aren’t good enough.
• You are enough! You have everything you need to do what God has called you to do.
• That doesn’t mean that it’s not going to be hard.
• You’re called to do whatever God has placed in your life right now.
• All the people around you will see your resilience when you go through the challenges.
• I can do hard things.
• YOU CAN!
• Nobody ever said that having a calling was easy.
• Requires strength so you can move through the difficult times.
• When God gives you a direction, what is your response time?
• God uses people who hear his word and move.
• Starts with the small things.
• What is the last small thing that God asked you to do?
• Becoming a woman of action takes practice.
• Be a healthy person!
• God will not give you step 2 before you do step 1
• Better is not out there, it’s right here, right now.
• Strong women understand the power of attachment.
• You were never intended to live out your calling alone.
• We need each other.
• You will need others to support you along the way.
• Get yourself around someone who is a little further along than you.
• Who is cheering you on?
• Dig in on the root of friendship tonight.
• You’ve got to build roots before the storm comes.
• If you don’t build it now, you won’t have it when you need it.
• There comes a time when the affirmation you need has to come from yourself.
• You’ve got to worship God with your own mouth.
• Everything that I have to do today, I can do it.
• You can finish 2020 doing all the things you are called to do, and not one thing extra!
• You are a rooted woman, and you can finish strong!
• We’re not going to limp across the finish line – we’re going to help each other – pray for each other and lift each other up.
• Everything God called you to do he will put in your spirit.

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