Sermon Notes : Pastor Steven Furtick – God Gave It To Me

Hi friends! Below you’ll find my notes for Pastor Steven Furtick’s sermon God Gave It To Me. This message is from. Elevation Church on November 17, 2024.

You can click here to watch God Gave It To Me on YouTube.

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

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

Be sure to leave me a comment with your favorite takeaway from this sermon. Mine is when he said God gave it to you, so you don’t have to be jealous of anybody else. 🤯

Sermon Notes : God Gave It To Me

• Sometimes God gives you something that’s not for you.
• Judges 15:14-20
• The only real hero in the Bible is Jesus. Everyone else is human. They do heroic things with human tendencies.
• Heroic capacities and human instincts. 
• Some of the stuff that God does to set you free, you won’t even see he just does it.
• Freeing you for the fight. 
• God gave it to me
• Keeps us from becoming prideful because everything were good at is a gift from God.
• 1 Corinthians 4:7
• There’s a difference between a good idea and a God idea. 
• God can give you one idea or a person to reah out to to help you with your current challenge.
• One idea to put you on a brand new path of life. 
• It’s different when God gives it. 
• Nobody can steal your peace without your permission.
• No one can ruin your day unless you turn the responsibility over to them.
• Guard what you have been given. 
• Take care of what God gave you. 
• We give stuff away too cheap that was given to us by someone really important.
• You give away your healthy heart to engage in a hellish debate.  
• Jesus gave us unity as his church. 
• So let’s not let the devil divide us over stupid stuff when it took his precious blood to put us together.
• We summarize someone’s life down to one thing : either their gift or their glitch.
• Never let anybody identify you with your gift or with your glitch.
• You are so much more than both of those. 
• God gives great callings to flawed people. 
• Our desires are complicated. 
• We can be both things at once. 
• When it comes down to it, we’re all kind of selfish in our heart.
• When the spirit of the lord comes on your life you might be surprised by what you can do before you knew to call on God into your life  
• Realizing what god had done in your life is enough to keep coming to church on Sunday.
• A whole week passes and we forget everything he’s brought us through.
• We all need weapons from time to time. 
• You have no weapon in your hand for thr fight you didn’t expect. 
• And the weapon you have isn’t what you’d have chosen. 
• But God says the worst weapon with him is better than the best one without him.
• The best weapon is the one you’ve got. 
• It doesn’t have to look like much to do a lot. 
• It doesn’t have to be impressive to be effective. 
• When it starts with God, it ends in victory. 
• When it starts with me, it ends in defeat. 
• When something is given by God it must be guarded. 
• Why are you praising the thing that he used whenever you know good and well that it wasn’t enough to get the job done.
• When you start to think that the thing God did through you proves how great you are.
• Where is God in your song?
• Don’t praise the thing you used, praise the one who kept it from breaking.
• If God wouldn’t have brought you out of that situation, you wouldn’t even be here today.
• I grabbbed what I had and God did what he does. 
• You don’t need a better weapon, you need a more worshipful spirit.
• The miracle of your life is that you didn’t break. 
• We name stuff wrong. 
• Samson is winning but he’s worn out. 
• Everyone can look at you and envy you and not have empathy. 
• They don’t know how much energy it cost you. 
• Even though I won…for what?
• It can be very empty to stand in a victory that you believe you produced.
• We get busy noticing the instrument, but the mastery is not in the one but the one who uses it.
• What is going to have to happen so God can refresh me so I can do everything hes called me to do.  
• You can’t die in this dry place or discouragement. 
• When you refocus, God refills. 
• If he gave me this calling, no one can take it. 
• Everything that god has spoken of you that hasn’t become a stalk yet, you just haven’t made it to your then yet.
• Get grateful, joyful. 
• Stop despising what god gave you. 
• You are glitches and gifts but also neither. You are God’s. 
• You can’t hate what god gave you and pray for him to use it. 
• Pride and insecurity. 
• Both of those are rooted in the wrong starting place. 
• God gave it to you. So you don’t have to be jealous of any body else.
• Don’t apologize for it or diminish it.  
• But we also can’t depend on it. It’s not about thr success of our weapon,  the strength of God.
• What are you doing with the strength God gave you?
• You don’t get to waste it. Use it.

Thanks for taking the time to read today! I hope this was helpful for you. Don’t forget to leave your favorite takeaway in the comments. 🏝

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