Bars + Battles : Steven Furtick

Cutting Corners

We're looking at the life of David throughout this series.

Psalm 57:2
"I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me."

David shows us again and again, the importance of serving the purpose of God.

1 Samuel 24:1-4
David is in the desert being pursued by Saul.

Maybe you're fighting right now because your purpose is so powerful that the devil feels threatened.

David cut off a corner of Saul's robe.

God didn't call me to fulfill your purpose.
All I have to do is completely commit my heart to God's purpose for me.
When you start comparing your purpose and try fulfilling other's purpose, you get frustrated.
Just serve the purpose that God has given you.

How to find your purpose? Serve.

When you serve the purpose, God will give you the promotion.

Psalm 78:70 God chose David, His servant

Guard The Promise

When you learn to live with an open hand, you will live with an open Heaven.

Quit taking partial-promises.

David was not one to cut corners.

David was not one to do things half-hearted.

Now, David cut a corner.

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What you are called to, is way more important than where you came from!

When God calls you He can call you from a sheep pen smelling like dung, and bring you into destiny.

There is something more important about where you're going. It matters how you get there.

How you make money is more important than the amount you have.

Honor the Process

God can't honor the promise if you don't honor the process.

You have the right desires, but it is what you do to get it that determines if you can walk in it and keep it.

Recognize that every opportunity is not from God.

Don't retaliate.

You can get your way by being the loudest, or by pouting...but when you get there you'll have a corner of a robe instead of the whole robe God had planned for you.

God's will, God's way.

The only way God won't fulfill His purpose for you is if you don't let Him.