Sermon Notes : Pastor Stephen Chandler – The Battle Made Me

Hi friends! Below you’ll find my notes for Pastor Stephen Chandler’s sermon The Battle Made Me. This message is from Elevation Church on January 5, 2025.

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

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Sermon Notes : The Battle Made Me

• 1 Samuel 21:6-12
• If you are running from something run to the house of God first
• Develop the discipline of blocking out the whispers of the enemy.
• God’s hand is on your life, and has been every step of the journey.
• David gets more out of his life than the effort he put in.
• This is anointing. 
• You cannot take credit for everything that has happened in your life.
• Be careful being jealous of what someone else has because they didn’t get it based on their effort.
• Outrageous victories. 
• We all see battles that we wish we never had to fight in our stories.
• You can waste a lot of time commiserating over all the battles that you’ve been through that you can actually forget the open doors and favor that have come from God.
• It is all based on what you choose to obsess over 
• The battles that you wish you could have avoided there a blessing in that battle.
• God uses battles to make us. 
• There are things about you based on the fights you’ve had to fight.
• Some battles come looking for me. 
• No matter if you do everything to avoid drama.
• 1 Samuel 17:32-35
• Be careful judging people for what they’re battling.
• Just because the battle picks you doesn’t mean you get to surrender.
• Some of you have been fighting for you life and you’re believing the lie of the enemy that you’ve messed up some what or feel that God has abandoned you. You are fighting because your father’s kingdom and purpose is in you
• The enemy is attacking the destiny on your life. 
• The size of your fight is an indication of the potential that God has placed on your life.
• The devil attacks in infancy what he does not want to battle in maturity.
• He failed. 
• Part of being a Christian means you’re going to take some shots.
• You learn things about yourself in the fight that you never would have learned without the fight.
• Some battles I go looking for.
• 1 Samuel 17:32
• We start running towards the enemy. 
• Matthew 11:12
• I’m no longer going to be in the defense against the enemy but going to be on the offense.
• Anything that defies the promise that God has made over your life, you’ve got to stop letting the enemy occupy territory that does not belong to him.
• You’ve got to start attacking what God has promised you.
• Sometimes when you’re fighting you don’t know how to calm down.
• Make sure you’re not picking fights that don’t stand between you and the destiny that God has for you.
• The enemy wants you to get caught in a fight that doesn’t have nothing to do with what God has called you to do.
• When you get to a place, you’ll receive the resources you need to accomplish what you need to accomplish.
• This battle equips you for a future battle. 
• God is preparing you for what he’s getting ready to take you to.
• Prove it. 
• The battles you caught in your last are only oreaping you for the victories that God has ahead of you. .it made you who you are.
• Running from battles is not an option.
• 1 Samuel 21:11-13
• David started to pretend to be less than who God called him to be because he didn’t want to fight another battle
• There will be opportunities in your future if you do not have the proper perspective to diminish what God has called you to in your life just because you don’t want to fight another battle.
• We shrink, and stop dreaming. 
• If you’re not careful you can think that you’re life is good enough.
• 2 Samuel 11:1
• The only times David nearly died was when he was in the palace not in the battlefield.
• You’re safest when you’re running forward in faith towards what God has called for you to do.
• The battle is in front of you, but so are the victories.

Thank you for taking the time to read my notes today! If you’d like to see more of my notes from Elevation Church, you can click here.

Have an amazing week! 🏝