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Steven Furtick - Don't Waste Your Angel

God promises to protect, position, and prepare the Israelites as they take possession of the land of Canaan. He will send an angel ahead of them to guard them along the way and bring them to the place He has prepared. God will establish their borders and give them victory over the other nations in the land. However, the Israelites must listen carefully to the angel and obey all that God commands. They cannot rebel against the angel's instructions. God will provide assistance against their enemies, but the Israelites must do their part to take possession of the land.

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Steven Furtick - Don't Waste Your Angel

God promises to protect, position, and prepare the Israelites as they take possession of the land of Canaan. He will send an angel ahead of them to guard them along the way and bring them to the place He has prepared. God will establish their borders and give them victory over the other nations in the land. However, the Israelites must listen carefully to the angel and obey all that God commands. They cannot rebel against the angel's instructions. God will provide assistance against their enemies, but the Israelites must do their part to take possession of the land.

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Don’t waste your Angel

Exodus 23:20

See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the
place I have prepared. Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against
him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. If you listen carefully to what
he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who
oppose you. My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out. Do not bow down before
their gods or worship them or follow their practices. You must demolish them and break their
sacred stones to pieces. Worship the Lord your God, and His blessing will be on your food and
water. I will take away sickness from among you, and none will miscarry or be barren in your
land. I will give you a full life span. I will send my terror ahead of you and throw into confusion
every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. I will send
the hornet ahead of you to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. But I will
not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild
animals too numerous for you. Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have
increased enough to take possession of the land. I will establish your borders from the Red Sea
to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the desert to the Euphrates River. I will give into your
hands the people who live in the land, and you will drive them out before you. Do not make a
covenant with them or with their gods. Do not let them live in your land or they will cause you
to sin against me, because the worship of their gods will certainly be a snare to you.

You can’t change your mind and be renew according to your new reality.

He is waiting for me to grow up.

The greater the assignment, the greater the assistance.

There’s a difference between coming out physically and coming out mentally

Some people are perpetually stuck in a stage of their life even though God has set them free,
they still drag the shackles of a situation that God long says delivered them from so He gives
them several gifts (a few the Ten Commandments)

God establishes parameters for your life. What He’s really doing within those parameters is
giving you permission to enjoy His promises in the parameters of His principles, so that you are
not destroyed by the very thing that God intended to bless you with and then He gives them
some laws regulations and statutes for living with one another in relationship as a community
(social justice, treatment of one another and for nurse, festivals He wants them to keep).

Bring offering to God because He want you to be protected from trusting in your provision so
every time He bless you, He want you to engage in the discipline of entrusting to Him in what
He have invested in you.

He give promise because he has given them a great assignment to occupy the land that is full of
enemies that are bigger and stronger and more skilled and experienced in warfare than them.

God Promises

Protect

in order for God to protect you, you have to be in motion God cannot guard you until you are
along the way. You will not get the assistance praying for God to make the assignment easier
(He doesn’t promise that), what He said: I’ll do will release my assistants in correspondence
with your assignment. And if you insist on trying to fulfill somebody else’s assignment, don’t
expect His assistance .

it is significant that God give people an assignment that was greater than them and in fact often
contrary to their natural ability (learn from Abraham).

If God gives you something that you know you shouldn’t be able to do it and you waste the
assistance of your angel, your loss.

The greater the assignment, the greater the assistance.

God’s got a defense system and a surveillance on your life.

God, I want what You want for me, protect me from anything that is not from You.

I have an angel, better than an angel, I have the spirit that raised Christ from the dead.

Later you will see, if you had gotten what you wanted when you wanted it wouldn’t have been
a blessing because you wasn’t ready.

Position

God’s promise to protect , bring you to the place is His promise to position.

God is good at getting me where He wants me when He wants me for a reason I do not
understand while I’m there and honestly some of the places that God has sent me in my life is
not where I wanted to go.
You don’t even like where you live, but often God positions you according to a higher priority
than your preference and it is called His purpose.

The angel can bring you to the place, but it cannot go in for you.

All God can do because it is a cooperation of grace and faith that causes His kingdom to operate
on earth as it is in heaven, all He can do is set you up but He will not take the step for you. If
God took the step for you, it would not be kindness, it would be cruelty. It would put you in a
place that your faith was not prepared for. So the great tragedy of Exodus 23 is that God sent
the protection to bring them to the place yet an entire generation never entered in.

Prepare

Not only He will protect and will he position me, but He will prepare me.

God has been setting you up for this step all of your life and before you is the goodness and the
glory of God made possible by the grace of Jesus Christ.

You don’t have to stay stuck on mindset then no longer accommodates your anointing, you’re
ready now, the sense the Spirit of the Lord, He kept you all your life, He sustained you through
many dangers toils and snares and now you are ready.

When the enemy want to steal your confidence in the promise of God, he doesn’t do it all at
once.

Sometimes you are running from something that God has already defeated.

There’s one thing angel can not and will not do, and God can’t do to you, He will not possess
the land for you. He said: I will go before you, but I will not go for you. Your faith must make
this step.

You will never be forgiving than you are right now. You will never be more loved than you are
right now.

There is no corner of your heart He didn’t see when He sent His spirit to live within you.

There is the difference between forgiveness and freedom, forgiveness happens all at once,
freedom happens little by little and it’s often so incremental that you don’t even think is
happening.

2 Corinthians 12:7

Therefore, in order to keep me for becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a
messenger of Satan, to torment me.
it means that whatever is left in your life that you have been blaming on the devil can be used
by God to fulfill His purpose for your life.

God gave me cranium that can withstand all of your craziness.

The greater the assignment the greater the adversity the greater the attack.

Enemy’s tools of torment become God’s tools of transformation. Sometimes God uses the nose
to lead you to a greater.

2 Corinthians 12:9

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest
on me.

He didn’t give me relief, He gave me grace.

The more intimate the relationship, the more infinite the potential of offenses.
Don’t let the enemy distract you.

Stop judging your situation externally. It is what’s inside that counts.

You fighting Eliab, when you are fighting people.

David’s greatest wisdom was born after his biggest mistake. It is not always obvious that you
are becoming wiser. Usually wisdom feels like dumb decisions. While you are gaining wisdom,
often, you have to gain wisdom at the expense of today for tomorrow.

Sometimes God lets something in your life die, but don’t worry, when it dies, resurrection is
who He is and what He does.

The greatest opportunities are not always obvious. The greatest opportunities are often hidden.

Mark 2 – first conflict

Sometimes the reason you got rejected is because it was the wrong level of relationship.

I don’t depend on people to provide for me what God has promised. It is already mine.

Unclutter Your Mind

You can’t stop the negative things from coming, but you can keep them from staying. You don’t
have to hold onto it.

You have to be proactive when it comes to keeping your mind in peace, because all through the
day there’s clutter.

Don’t say another negative word about yourself. Quit dwelling on those thoughts telling you
what you are not.

Get in agreement with God.

I’m a masterpiece. I’m one of a kind. I’m talented. I’m attractive. I’m favored. I’m empowered. I
have seeds of greatness.

When you dwell on what God says about you, it will automatically clear out the clutter. Fear
can’t stay where faith is. Discouragement can’t stay where hope is. Guilt can’t stay where
forgiveness is. Mediocrity can’t stay where greatness is. Program your mind with what God says
about you.

If you don’t clear out the clutter, it will keep you from going to new levels.
Worry will keep you from rising higher. Living guilty will keep you from pursuing dreams. Going
around offended and bitter will keep you from new opportunities.

Don’t be hoarder. Don’t let that poison your future. People hurt you once, don’t let them
continue to hurt you

Out of your pain can come your purpose

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