Hello again, friends. I’m back with my sermon notes today. This message from Elevation was given by Tauren Wells. You can find this message here on YouTube.

Just a reminder, as always, that I take my notes in real time as he was speaking. You’ll probably have to watch for yourself to get the context. 💛

• Impressed from a distance, impacted up close.
• In order for God to build in us, he has to bring it down to the dirt.
• The good news is that he knows what to do with the dirt.
• 2020 may not even be the worst year that a lot of us have experienced.
• Isaiah 6:1
• It’s not what we thought it would look like
• What we thought was strong died – and it makes us realize what true strength really looks like.
• Maybe got had been removing things from you life that you had been putting your confidence in because you thought they were stronger than they really are.
• God is stronger.
• Some of my perceptions weren’t as strong as I thought they were, but instead of running to something to fix my problems, we need to run to the name of the Lord.
• There is more to see
• Many of us get stuck in an isolated area where we only see 1/3 of what there is to see.
• We become imprisoned in our pain.
• Social media and the news are sending us isolated narratives.
• What narrative have you been isolated in?
• Pain can restrict sight and keep you from seeing the whole picture.
• You can’t even see the people that want to love you because you’re so suspicious of everyone because of a few people who weren’t actually for you.
• Your pain can produce clarity, too.
• Isaiah 9:6-8
• Isaiah 12:2
• Isaiah 42:3
• Does losing something make you blind to seeing the king?
• Your story is not finished until god writes the final chapter.
• You choose what you see.
• The thing that has been over you has someone over it.
• I got through it, but I’m still not over it.
• If you’re not over it, it’s probably over you, influencing decisions and you don’t even realize.
• You don’t have to get over it, but you can look over it to see a little further than the reality that it’s all consuming.
• God is ordering your footsteps.
• God is still God, and you still aren’t.
• Life is full of wonders and wounds and we choose which we glance at and stare into.
• Are you living from the sounds of what people have done to you?
• Isaiah 6:3;5
• What would our world look like if we would first see, listen and then respond.
• When we get a revelation of what god is, we want to run and
• Revelation is for re-evaluation of us not everybody else.
• The true response of people who have really seen Jesus is inward reflection.
• I’m not here to call you out – I need work done in me!
• Isaiah 6:8
• We need to touch the altar.
• It may not be what we saw, but it can be the year that we see also the Lord.
• God, please touch the places where we are lonely – and help us surrender to the process of transformation.
• The story doesn’t end here – if it’s not good, God is not done.
  

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