Sermon Notes : Pastor Steven Furtick – Running for a Reason

Hi friends! Below you’ll find my notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon Running for a Reason. This message is from Elevation Church on August 4, 2024.

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Sermon Notes : Running For A Reason

• 1 Samuel 22:1-5
• 1 Corinthians 9:24-26
• Who do you run for and who do you run with.
• You can be confused as long as you’re confident.
• You can bluff your way through a lot of stuff in life.
• Passion not performance.
• Everybody is running from something.
• 1 Samuel 17:22-24; 48
• David ran toward what others were running from.
• Our ignorance often initially fuels our relationship with Christ not our awareness.
• Nostalgia takes you back to a time when it was new to you, and you didn’t know what you didn’t know and you would just go without a plan.
• It’s one thing to run when you’re young, it’s another thing to intentionally run when you’ve been though some experiences that could have made you bitter, or afraid, or made you stay where you are.
• Have you ever pushed away an answered prayer because you didn’t know how to sustainably deal with it?
• As fast as God is running to you, some of you are running from the answer that he gave because it doesn’t feel familiar.
• It’s confusing when God calls you one thing, and your circumstances call you another.
• David did not have to chase the crown, the crown chased him.
• Being recognized doesn’t make it real.
• It’s one thing to run for something you chose to run toward, but it’s another to run when you’re being chased.
• Sometimes what’s really moving you in your life is not what you’re running to but what you’re running from.
• It’s hard to run toward what I’ve never seen.
• Don’t let the place you’re in make you confused about the person that you are.
• Every king will have some caves. Don’t let the cave you’re in right now cause you to forfeit or discontinue the thing that God has put in you.
• Before the situation God spoke his word over your life.
• The devil is hoping you never find out you’re bigger.
• If God did it for David, I expect him to do it for you.
• Our expectation of God must not be that there will never be anything chasing us, our expectation should be that we are chosen while we are being chased.
• The tools you use tell about the trouble you’ve been through.
• Psalm 142:3-7
• Why would God answer a prayer with a need?
• For everyone who is in the cycle of self pity,  feeling like no one pours into you, it’s because you’re anointed,  & consistent.
• Expectation is a great compliment.
• They’re not using you, God is.
• There is no crown where there are no caves.
• Do it confused.
• Sometimes you have to take a lap and understand later.
• David is a king in a cave, and so are you.
• Development happens in caves.
• Don’t waste this cave.
• Everybody is running from something.
• People see you how they need you.
• Some people need you to be an enemy and some people need you to be a savior.
• But you’re neither.
• You’re not doubting his capacity, you’re lacking clarity.
• You can be surrounded and still not supported.
• You didn’t ask for this battle.
• What will be true of you in the future will be true of you right now. 
• There are some things you need to drop for what God is calling you into.
• Stop looking at other people’s race.
• When God puts something significant in me, the enemy sends something significant after me.
• If the enemy tries to get you to abandon it, there must be something ahead of you that’s amazing.
• When you’re called you’re covered.
• When we praise God in the place we are God begins to move.
• I appreciate the cave but I’m already covered.

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