Sermon Notes : Pastor Steven Furtick – Don’t Let the Funeral Fool You

Hi friends! Below you’ll find my notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon Don’t Let the Funeral Fool You. This message is from Elevation Church on November 24, 2024.

You can click here to watch Don’t Let the Funeral Fool You on YouTube.

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

Please remember that these are not my own thoughts, but simply the notes that I took while Pastor Steven was speaking.

Leave me your favorite takeaway in the comments below. I’ll leave mine there too.

Sermon Notes : Don’t Let the Funeral Fool You

• Shift from what I deserve to what He deserves. 
• Gratitude can be a focus before it’s a feeling. 
• Nothing you ever do changes how worthy God is. 
• Luke 24:13-35
• Just because you’re not aware doesn’t mean he’s not there. 
• Everybody is going through a funeral of some kind.
• We rush right past the revelation because we only recognize what is being taken away. 
• Refuse to stay imprisoned with what I could have done differently. 
• Move forward with the lessons. 
• You can’t control the outcome of others’ decisions, but you can adjust your expectations. 
• Have a funeral for your expectations. 
• We can set ourselves up to be let down. 
• When you have a funeral for your expectations, God replaces them with grace. 
• God is not through with you yet. 
• God knows what he is supposed to do better than what God is supposed to do. 
• God knows what you’re supposed to be good at more than you do. 
• God knows the situation and the ends to which he intends to use it. 
• You don’t know how it’s supposed to go. 
• There’s more to come that we don’t know about. 
• You don’t get to say when it’s over. 
• When you stop giving you stop living. 
• What don’t you know yet that Jesus has already done?
• Don’t know November. 
• Jesus goes with you. 
• The praise that hits the deepest is realizing that you’re miles away from jerusalem and Jesus makes a way to be with you. 
• You’re not too far gone. 
• You’re only one thought away from praise, breakthrough, joy and a new beginning. 
• There will never be an event that will separate you from the love of a savior who will follow you when you don’t follow him. 
• Sometimes I’m too foolishness to follow.  
• Why talk about Jesus when you can talk to him?
• Who you talk to what you’re going through things determines what you’ve got left when you get done. 
• You cannot keep your own counsel in seasons of chaos. 
• Don’t let this season become a stop sign that causes ypu to quit growing and coming towards God. 
• Forget the story you’ve been telling yourself. 
• We can’t change the things that are a part of our story.  
• When Jesus was dying it was the thing that he came to do, they were interpreting that would bring them redemption as the thing that made it all worthless. 
• When you’re hurting your interpretations become distorted and cannot be trusted. 
• That’s when we need Jesus. 
• Every open door is not God. 
• We can’t just need Jesus when we want him. 
• What if God is waiting for you to pray his presence into your panic attack?
• Jesus is waiting to be more than your weekday savior. 
• Sometimes God delights to be invited. 
• He permeates you when you ask him to. 
• He’s present but he permeates when you give permission. 
• After the bread was broken then their eyes have been opened. 
• It was only after the breaking that the revelation came. 
• This is not the end. (You need to watch to see how Pastor Steven illustrates this point.)
• There’s gonna be a then. 
• When God gets through with this it won’t be a funeral, it will be a celebration day. 
• Need to find a way in that doesn’t involve my ego. 
• You can’t die in this because there will be a then. 
• Only what is broken can be really blessed. 
• There are certain things in life that are waiting for the appropriate time to come forth. 
• Trust God enough that you leave the then with him. 
• God is calling you back to where you belong today. 
• This is your then. 
• You will even be grateful for the breaking when you put it in his hands. 
• Don’t have the funeral, and bury your faith. 
• Hold a funeral for your expectations and watch God resurrect your faith. 
• Think yourself thankful. 

Thank you for taking the time to stop and read these today.

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