My notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon Wasted Rain. From Elevation Church on November 15, 2020.

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Sermon Notes : Wasted Rain

• Luke 4:19
• December 13, 2020 will be the year end offering at Elevation “Favor”
• Isaiah 55:8-11
• God will make up the difference.
• God is the god of revival, resurrection, and renewal
• Before the rain, comes the repentance.
• Do you believe the word of God can change your life?
• God’s word does not override your thought process.
• There has to be a forsaking before there is a filling.
• God speaks to us, but we don’t have room to receive it.
• How much time do you waste because you didn’t get God’s direction for your life first?
• What are you doing with all of your sermon notes? You’ve got all the truth just sitting there. 
• God has been trying to encourage you all week, but you’re still discouraged. Why? Because it went down the drain.
• What promises has God tried speaking to you that you’ve just let go?
• We are wasting the words that God has spoken over our lives.
• That’s how he supplies all of your needs.
• We can quote scripture over top of our problems because it means we don’t have to deal with it.
• tHe word of God can not do what it needs to do if you have a jacked up thought process.
• If you’re a pessimist, you will only hear the word in with the thought that it’s for someone else, but not yourself. (Ouch!)
• Do we only associate God’s word with comfort? 
• Are you wasting the rain?
• If your thought process is programmed by the world, you’ll stop hearing his word.
• Every time God speaks it comes with a purpose.
• When you water the wrong thoughts and suggestions they take over everything in your life.
• You waste the rain when your emotions are overrun with negativity, fear, and anxiety.
• God is intentional – he doesn’t waste his word.
• Even when God rambles, it’s revelation.
• Every drop has a destiny.
• Do you take for granted what God has placed in your life?
• The word of God depends on your response to determine how powerful it will become in your life.
• We start limiting our opportunities to the level of our insecurities.
• The only way the rain doesn’t work is if there’s nothing in the ground to come forth…because the rain reveals what’s been planted.
• Matthew 7:24-25
• Rain brings revelation – don’t waste it.
• Rain can come to test whether what you’ve heard is really in your heart.
• The rain reveals what your house is really built on.
• Are you going to get wisdom from the rain so that you don’t re-build your broken house on the same foundation?
• God allows certain things to be taken away from your life so that you will rebuild on a solid foundation so you’re not living in an unstable place.
• Stop letting worry sit on the throne in your heart.
• James 5:17-18
• It’s amazing what can make you back down.
• What words have entered your soul to get you running from the very thing that you’ve been praying for?
• Stop running from what you prayed for.

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