Kev’s guys on-line eGroup study notes

Welcome to Kev’s on-line eGroup

The e-Glue that helps with the glitter

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Here Comes Church: o Interested in serving at Elevation Church: See: www.elevationchurch.cc o Please consider joining an eGroup (small group) so you don’t have to walk this walk alone – See www.elevationchurch.cc. When you are isolated you are an easy target for the enemy – and you don’t have the benefit of friends to support you. Embrace the power of numbers. o Old Church Basement – released this week – quote: “From Going back to the place where we discovered worship for the first time – not a physical place - accessing our first love (within ourselves) – bringing you back to a pure place – absent of self- consciences.” “Our prayer is that his album pierces through the darkness and creates light in peoples lives.” o See the video from Pastor Furtick interviewing Bishop TD Jakes virtually on Wed. April 21, 2021 at 7PM (EST) as Bishop Jakes launched a new book – Don’t Drop The Mic. This will be broadcasted on the Elevation YouTube channel. o Pop-up watch party in Philadelphia with 50 baptisms and outreach events.

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Gens 32 - Jacob Wrestles With God - 22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. 24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. 25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” 27 The man asked him, “What is your name?” “Jacob,” he answered. 28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”

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Gens 35: 10 to 11: Jacob Returns to Bethel - 35 Then God said to Jacob, “Go up to Bethel and settle there, and build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.” 2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have with you, and purify yourselves and change your clothes. 3 Then come, let us go up to Bethel, where I will build an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.” 4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods they had and the rings in their ears, and Jacob buried them under the oak at Shechem. 5 Then they set out, and the terror of God fell on the towns all around them so that no one pursued them. 6 Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan. 7 There he built an altar, and he called the place El Bethel, because it was there that God revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother. 10 God said to him, “Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel. 11 And God said to him, “I am God Almighty; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.

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• Opening prayer by Pastor Furtick on Sunday, May 2, 2021 - “Give God a great praise from your heart – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord – Declare this with your mouth: God is building His church. Relentlessly and effectively God’s purpose will be accomplished – despite all the plans by the enemy over your life, God has you right here for a reason. God is in abundance and available to you – In a greater measure and larger than your room to receive it. Open your heart right now – To him who is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine (Ep 3:20) – to him be the glory in Christ Jesus.” • Opening prayer #2 by Pastor Furtick on Sunday, May 2, 2021: “ for what he’s doing and what he’s going to do – Lord we join our voices in our hearts right now – we declare that each one of these new songs will tell a story in the years to come (following the release of the album Church Basement) – Lord, I thank you for your faithfulness – God we thank you for – we thank you for what you were doing through these gifted psalmists composers, and worship leaders – please make sure that your hand of favor is put on everything that they do – I pray that they continue to walk in divine cooperation with you – we ask that creativity continues to flow – we ask that you continue to provide wisdom and direction – thank you for all the sacrifices that were made for this movement of God – I pray a great grace on them – I pray that you give them peace and abundance – we join our faith together as one – one body – proclaiming that the gates of hell will not prevail – thank you Father – thank you Lord. In Jesus name amen.”

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Closing Prayer by Pastor Furtick on 5/2/2021: This season of your life will be a Bethel that you return to in future days – there are kings and royalty in you – there are crowns in you – there is legacy in you – there are dreams in you – there is ministry in you – there is healing in you – there are things that God desires to release through your life – that will change the generations that share your last name – So do not let what is on you kill what is inside of you – you are Israel – there are nations in you – and have always been in you – the gift has always been in you – and so has the fear – and they both wrestle with each other in the same womb until the day that you die – Do not let any setback or anyone put a different name on you – to cause you to forfeit what God has within you – Are there things that you need to bury under the oak at Shechem today? And I believe God wants to turn this church into a changing room today – where external stuff does not matter – what matters to God has always been in you – and God wants to establish a covenant within you – Yes, you have a covenant with God – Have you made your struggle a covenant that is greater than the covenant you have with God? Let God deal with your terror and fear – Pay attention to what is in you – God knows what is in you – God sees all of your multi-tasking – and God knows all of that – God also knows that you do not know what is next – and this is why God gave me the Bethel revelation today – He is the God of Bethel – The God of “I don’t know what is next” – Father allow the Holy Spirit to write this on our hearts – Christ in us is the hope of our glory – let’s go back to Bethel and build an altar in the place of our anxiety – Let’s build an altar in the place of our fear – Let’s build an altar in response to our questions. Amen.

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Pastor: Sermon Title: “It Has Always Been In You” Sunday, May 2, 2021

• “The Bethel Revelation - It has Always Been In You • Our covenant with God has always been with us. • What God Puts in You Needs to Get Out – And What is in You should never diminish God. • When you are in a difficult situation and if you have no idea if you are going to survive, God calls you back to the place of the greatest fear and where you still made it anyway. • Bethel is the place we go back to a place of our greatest fear otherwise we will forget what is in us. • There is something in you that is greater that what is on you • Don’t continue to wear the shame. • Don’t let people put anything on you that diminishes your covenant with God • Don’t forget what is in you – Returning to Bethel means returning to the seed of the promise. • Don’t let what is on you kill what is in you.

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Question: quote from Pastor Furtick: “As a parent, I think a lot about how I can make sure what is in my children is what God put there and gets out – and no one puts anything on them that causes them to forget or diminish what God put in – and what they do with “it” is up to them.”

How does this help you as a Dad or future Dad?

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Question: What does the term “covenant with God” mean to you?

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Question: What does the term “covenant with God” mean to you?

Additional commentary by Pastor Furtick:

“My relationship with God is not the same covenant that Jacob had – Jacob had a covenant with God they basically said that God was with him – and that’s awesome and we should thank God that’s true for us as well – From our perspective, we cannot keep up our end of the bargain – Can we actually follow God perfectly through every season of our lives? No. Of course, in the valley we fail – of course during hard times we are led astray – of course our hearts are drawn to worship other gods that we can see – instead of the God we can’t see and can’t figure out.”

“We don’t have the Jacob covenant – we have the Jesus covenant – we have the type of covenant that whatever is put on us – God put something in us that is greater than what is put on us – and we all have a lot on us – but I came to preach today to tell you that there is something in you that is always greater than what is on you.”

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Question: Pastor Furtick told us this: “We have to realize that the pressures that life puts on us – things like offense – things like bitterness - keep us from remembering what is in us – and if we really go back to Bethel and remember – we realize that it’s always been in us – and what we have to be so careful about it’s not letting people put anything on you (both success and failure) that is greater that what God put in us.”

How does this speak to you today?

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Question: What alter do you need to build at Bethel? What do you need to leave at Bethel today?

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Closing Thoughts by Pastor Furtick:

“Timing of God is so amazing – and every time you tell yourself a story about how God helped you in the past, you can bring it into the presence what do you need him to do now. The woman received what belong to her. See 2nd Kings 8:6. Say this: Peace belongs to me and I am a child of God – Joy belongs to me and I am a child of God – Freedom is my inheritance and I am a child of God – I belong because I believe – I am a child of God – so go tell that story – tell this gospel to yourself.”

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Charles Surgeon Moment (CSM):

“If you cannot speak with trumpet tongue, use the still small voice. If the pulpit must not be your tribune, if the press may not carry on its wings your words, yet say with Peter and John, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you.” 2 By the well talk to the Samaritan woman, if you cannot preach a sermon on the mountain; utter the praises of Jesus in the house, if not in the temple; in the field, if not in the public square; in your own household, if you cannot in the great family of man. From the hidden springs within, let sweetly flowing streams of testimony flow Hide not your talent; trade with it, and you shall bring in good interest to your Lord and Master. To speak for God will be refreshing to ourselves, cheering to saints, useful to sinners, and honoring to the Savior.”

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Charles Surgeon Moment (CSM):

“If you cannot speak with trumpet tongue, use the still small voice. If the pulpit must not be your tribune, if the press may not carry on its wings your words, yet say with Peter and John, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you.” 2 By the well talk to the Samaritan woman, if you cannot preach a sermon on the mountain; utter the praises of Jesus in the house, if not in the temple; in the field, if not in the public square; in your own household, if you cannot in the great family of man. From the hidden springs within, let sweetly flowing streams of testimony flow Hide not your talent; trade with it, and you shall bring in good interest to your Lord and Master. To speak for God will be refreshing to ourselves, cheering to saints, useful to sinners, and honoring to the Savior.”

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Here’s a poem that Pastor Steven Furtick wrote a few months ago about Lazarus:

“I never lose the wonder of this Gospel mystery From the heavens came and Savior From the ground who rose a King Every day is born in darkness Every winter yields to spring So let us speak of resurrection Even in the summary As the sisters begged the Savior Come at once to Bethany! For the one that you love is dying But His yes was not to be And His weeping begged the question Could this friend he not have healed? But He still is resurrection Even when the tomb is sealed He speaks a whisper in the silence Sleeps a harvest in the sea Cradled now a new beginning In the heart there is belief So crucify your hesitation Wounded expectation bring Will you welcome resurrection?

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Were you a lamp lighter this week?

Kev note: Edinburgh Scotland born novelist Robert Louis Stevenson had chronic respiratory issues throughout his life. As a young man confined to his bedroom for health reasons, he looked forward to watching the lamp lighter ignite the streetlamps with a hand carried torch. This accomplished writer of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and others, wrote this about the Scottish lamp lighter: He was “punching holes of light into a sea of darkness.” As we discussed this week, be a “lamp lighter” this week and “punch holes of light” into the world as a friend, dad, husband, and mentor.

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