Hey friends! Below you’ll find my notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon Take Your Notes on the Boat. This message is from Elevation Church on August 2, 2026, and is part of the I Know That Voice series.

Please keep in mind that these are only my own notes that I took while he was speaking, so you’ll need context. Click this link to watch Take Your Notes on the Boat on YouTube.

I’ve linked the bible verses, so you can click on them to read if you’d like.

And leave a comment below with your favorite takeaway from this message. I’d love to hear it.

Sermon Notes : Take Your Notes on the Boat

• Mark 4:33-41
• There’s a difference between a description and an experience. 
• It can get lost in translation. 
• The disciples vs the crowds. 
• Sometimes God gives you something valuable but it doesn’t go deep enough to make a difference in your life. 
• I’ve got to let this go. 
• Declaration vs explanation. 
• God wants to say something to you personally. 
• It can be personal and powerful but can’t be either if you don’t process it. 
• Small but significant. 
• Depth of the word. 
• Mark 4:1
• Sometimes when God is speaking to you you don’t even have to know what it means to know that it hits you deep.
• Gods voice is an investment into you. 
• Jesus teaches deep but He doesn’t always give details.
• Sometimes God gives us something and it puts us into a storm that we didn’t see coming. 
• Find Jesus in your storm. 
• If God told you to go to the other side no storm will be able to stop you. 
• Jesus has been speaking to you. 
• You’ve got the word you need for the wind that you didn’t know you were going to face. 
• Uniquely qualified. 
• Take what you heard on the shore and apply it in the storm. 
• Don’t just like it, live it!
• Fear starts shouting crazy things to you when you start taking on water. 
• Not under but over. 
• He said something. 
• The word is greater than the water. 
• There’s things God can only teach in the storm. What does he want you to learn?
• The wind is a gift. 
• The wind is where God starts teaching you the greatest lessons. 
• Faith grows when you take your notes and apply them against the wind. 
• God can speak at any time and the wind will hush. 
• If you feel like God’s not speaking to you, He may be speaking to the storm instead. 
• You’ve got a God who speaks storm. 
• But we can’t know that unless He sends us into a storm. 
• Jesus doesn’t talk about destinations He doesn’t deliver you to. 
• Mark 5:1-2
• Let God handle the part that you can’t handle.

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