My notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon Use Your Inside Voice. From Elevation Church on November 8, 2020.

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Sermon Notes : Use Your Inside Voice

• No one can worship for you. You need an internal worship team.
• God is eternal. 
• You can worship him wherever you are – geographically or emotionally.
• There is nowhere you can run from his presence.
• Don’t forget about Reflect! Nov. 12, 2020
• Mark 3:20 – 31
• What is your inside voice?
• How critical are you of yourself?
• Jesus was rarely, if ever, driven by the opinions of outside voices.
• Have we accepted that Jesus died to forgive us for our sin, but not experience that he also died to deliver us from cynicism?
• Jesus moved away from where he came from to do what he was called to do.
• Do you ever get mad at someone or criticize them for things that they can do that you can’t?
• Cynicism is a strategy –  how we deal with disappointment, and serves as a shield.
• Our busy-ness is the very thing that keeps God from doing his work…his business.
• Too much knowledge and noise can block wisdom.
• Too much mastery of God closes us to the mystery of God.
• Matthew 12:25
• My inside voice is so destructive…making me see myself and others in such a negative light.
• Jesus came to deal with your inside voice.
• The temptations that you don’t talk about in eGroup.
• It’s silly what we try to hide from God when he hears our inside voice – down to your groans. He can interpret those.
• As Christians we love to blame the devil – but sometimes we give the devil credit for something that God is trying to do.
• The devil didn’t do it.
• Sometimes your decisions did it.
• There’s a voice that always tries to make you the victim.
• The kingdom of God was coming, but their cynicism stopped them from experiencing it.
• Do you have a cynical spirit?
• Cynicism is counterfeit wisdom.
• It looks like wisdom, truth, righteousness, faith.
• It’s really manipulation.
• That is not the spirit of God.
• What are you preaching from you personal pulpit?
• Who’s report will you believe?
• Everything significant in this scripture happens on the inside.
• We can get focused on the temporal.
• External/Internal opposition from both the scribes and his own family.
• The secret is in the voices that you respond to.
• Those voices come mainly from those that you surround yourself with.
• Real power doesn’t have to shout.
• Do you know who you are and where you came from?
• 1 John 4:4
• Jesus didn’t come from Mary – he came through Mary.
• Are you steered by the will of your Father?
• You are from God.
• Do you talk like where you come from? Does your attitude reflect it?
• Not your physical location – but from God.
• It doesn’t take faith to be cynical.
• You are made in God’s image.
• He knows what is going on inside your heart today.
• Real wisdom creates more faith, not less.
• Voices become view points.
• We listen to the people who don’t have our best interests at heart.
• What you hear gets in your heart – what you scroll gets in your spirit.
• This is why you’re stressed.
• Cynicism is a sickness.
• Why would we have the spirit of God and speak the language of satan?
• This week start talking like where you come from – you are from God – speak like that!
• Mark 3:28
• Jesus vouches for himself.
• We’ve got to stop waiting for humans to validate our identity.
• Have you lost your internal Amen?
• Jesus was surrounded by cynicism but was led by the spirit of God.
• Are you following the voice that calls you back to familiar even though you know that it’s not good for you?
• Have you got so much noise that you don’t even notice God’s voice when he speaks anymore?
• I need help with my inside voice.
• The voice you give attention to is the one you experience.
• John 11:33-43

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