Sermon Notes : Pastor Steven Furtick – Think Like a Reaper

Hi friends! Here are my notes from Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon Think Like a Reaper. From Elevation Church on August 18, 2024.

Please remember these are not my own thoughts, but simply the notes that I took while listening.

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Sermon Notes : Think Like a Reaper

• John 4:27-39
• What’s your fuel?
• Your testimony is a tool that God wants to use in your future. 
• Your ministry will come from your misery. 
• It’s important that you mature to the point where you think like a reaper. 
• Feelings come. 
• How do I want to feel when this day is finished? Then work towards that with your actions. 
• The feelings catch you before you’ve had your coffee. 
• Feelings come, but they don’t come first.  
• The feelings of being tempted is never a sin, but when the sin takes the throne in your life and leads you to do those things. 
• Sometimes you have to do the thing and your burden follows. 
• God is very aware of the hard places in your life. 
• God will help you in the hard place. 
• The pressure is real for all of us. 
• Some of the things that God teaches us that go the deepest happen in the places we would never choose to be.
• God will show you how strategic he is after you survive the surprise. 
• God is often most strategic when you are most surprised. 
• God will allow things to come into your life or your feelings that you do not expect. 
• Galatians 6:8-9
• In due season. 
• If your feelings come first you give up while it’s growing. 
• Fatigue we feel when we do what we do and what is due doesn’t come. 
• What do you do when what is due doesn’t come?
• Grow into a place in God where when you realize that if you sow the unkind words you won’t like how it feels later. 
• What you do when you feel weary will determine whether when get to your due season is due of thistles or fruit and favor. 
• Conscious of the consequences. 
• Pattern recognition. 
• Some of the things in life we love what they bring us but hate where they take us. 
• Love what they make us feel but hate where they make you go. 
• He’s working on something right now. 
• What we do is not indicative of who we can become. 
• The seed looks nothing like what it’s going to be. 
• A reaper begins with the end in mind. 
• Grieving the me that I thought I would be by now. 
• Don’t ever think that just because people were seasonal in your life it means they were insignificant. 
• To grow up is to say not only am I responsible for the task, but also responsible for the outcome. 
• Everywhere God sends you, he’s already been there. 
• While they were thinking about a meal, she was already thinking about a harvest. 
• Who is the real disciple in this passage.
• One sows and another reaps.
• You might be surprised who God uses. 
• You might be surprised how God uses you. 
• You have to obey Jesus when you see no evidence that your obedience is moving anything. 
• You always see yourself as a sower but you ever really realize how much you’re reaping. 
• Maybe you’ve been reaping and you don’t even realize it. 
• If the enemy can get you to focus on how hard it is or how hurt you are that you become blind to how much help you actually have. 
• We allow the hurt to become greater than the harvest. 
• Why is the only time we thank God for our health is when we need to be healed. 
• The harvest is already here. 
• Missing the mission over a meal.
• Don’t let what you didn’t get keep you from praising God for what you already have. 
• I’m reaping this. 
• This life, opportunity, moment and breathe is all a gift. 
• Why would you cry over the seed and then not reap the harvest when it came. 
• Are you so on your tears that you cannot even reap what you cried for?
• You have more help than you have hurt. 
• Open your eyes.  
• Just because you’re not ready doesn’t mean it’s not ripe. 
• What do you do when your harvest comes looking like something you hate?
• You can reach into a regret and reap a lesson. 
• You have a reason to rejoice because those who die in tears will reap with joy. 
• You are one thought away from joy. 
• What does God want to do through what you went through?
• Nothing will be wasted. 
• Feelings don’t come first, faith does. 

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