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Below you will find my sermon notes for this weekend’s sermon at Elevation Church. This message was delivered by Pastor Steven Furtick, and I hope that you are blessed by it.

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Sermon Notes : What It Means Is Up To Me

• When you access the belief that you are worthless, you start to walk around with your head down – but today is the day that you can throw back your shoulders and say “I believe in resurrection, and I believe in Jesus!”
• What does it matter? What shall I choose? What does it mean?  
• Philippians 1:18-22
• Motives don’t matter as much as God’s mission.
• We have to make the choice to rejoice.
• I did it, I am doing it, and I will continue to do it!
• The resource is greater than the resistance.
• Genesis 50:19-23       
• What you do is up to you, but what it means is up to me.
• We need to be child-like, not childish.
• How many things that the world calls success is really just ego?
• I got the fruit of the spirit!
• When you finally get something and it’s really empty, it’s almost worse than never getting it.                                     
• Everything is meaningless until you give it meaning.   
• Success needs to be seen in the right context – so does failure.
• I’m not chained to it – it’s chained to me!
• It’s up to me what it means!
• Do not fight against what God is bringing into your life.
• Most of us assume that when we say we are in God’s presence that our circumstances are favorable – but we need to realize that God is with us even when we don’t feel him there.
• John 15:2
• If you always think that bad things happening comes from the devil attacking you, you will miss the opportunity to bear fruit.
• The proof is in the pruning.
• “How I interpret silence comes from how I understand myself.” Amen, Pastor Steven.
• When you’re looking for loss, you will find it.     
• Look for the love of God when you’re going through a period of loss.    
• The ability to see how God is working
• Genesis 41:50-52
• God makes us fruitful in our failure – it’s only over if you quit.
• God gave Joseph so much fruit, that all he went through made it worth it.
• We are in a pruning season, but God prunes those that he loves.  
• The enemy’s attack is proof of how much God has put his breath inside of me.
• God is still God even when you feel like you’re in prison.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

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