Beating Burnout

Speaker: Steven Furtick
Title: Beating burnout
Core verse: Exodus 27:20-21


The more fired up we are, the bigger the flame we have, the passion the strength that brings us through, if we overuse it, it can actually tire us more than we imagine and burn us out.

Simply said, "Burnout is when the demands placed on you, exceeds the resources available to you."

Signs of burn out can include:

 Chronic exhaustion, even when you're sleeping or resting , you feel tired.

lack of motivation, you're doing what you love, but you're not loving what you do.

frustration over things that you could fix, but you're so frustrated that you don't fix them.

Broken focus, wavering concentration.

Unnecessary conflict, just getting angry at the people near you.

Wrong priorities


The tabernacle was also called, The Place Of promised presence.

God meant for us to light and ignite our own fire, its not the pastors nor our mentors nor anyone's job. its our responsibility to start our fire.

Matthew 6:22-23

In exodus, the people of God would seek god in the tents because of the promised presence, but after Jesus had died and rose, in Matthew it says that now, we are the tents, we are people of promised presence.

Our hearts are our lamps.
If our light goes out, its very hard to locate Gods presence.

1)Right light

We sometimes spend too much time in the wrong light.

Things start to scared us or depress us because we are living too much in the shadows.

If your eyes see the situation wrong in the darkness, you will think God's presence is no longer in the tent, but in actual fact, we let the lights go out.

We will never be in a situation where have limited resources because God lives in us and he has unlimited resources. But if the lights go out, we will never be able to find the unlimited power that lives in us that has never left us and will never leave us.

2 Corinthians 4:6

2) Essential Oils

Leviticus 24:2

The light is only going to be as good as the fuel you use to start it.
We need oil in our lamps that can last, not oil that can burnout.

3) Pressing Thoughts
Philippians 4:8

The quality of your joy, cannot exceed the purity  of your thoughts.

It does matter how we think, how we process out thoughts and what we put into our hearts

There are 2 ways to press olives:

#1 is to crush it through a mill, where oil will come out, but its unpure oil. And when you put it into a lamp, it wont last long, life is as such. We can let our life run on auto pilot, just run through life, accept negative thoughts and such.

#2 is to press olives with your hand, its a much much more longer process, but the oil is also so much better, the oil would be brighter and last longer.

2 Corinthians 4:8
Whats precious in us must be pressed out.

When the olives are pressed, they had to strain it through a basket, so that by doing this, the purest of oil will be released, in the same way, we have to strain the negativity in our lives and catch only the pure oil.

4 Things we should press out of our lives

1) Misinterpretation
sometimes we cant find the joy in our lives is because we misinterpret the situations in our lives.

If we really believe that God i for us, we shouldn't be scared of anyone against us.

2) Over-generalization
Making a single situation revolve around your whole life like that certain situation that only happened once, happened many times.

3) Obligation
Thinking that we got to, rather than we get to, looking at things as something that we are force to do, rather than something we get to do as a privilege.

4) Disqualification
When you remove yourself from things or people because you think that you are not worthy or tou dont deserve it.

(Those 4 points together spells: M.O.O.D.)


We cant have lasting light with pure oil, and we cant have pure oil without, pressed olives.

Isaiah 61:1-3

Joy sometimes doesn't come in a downpour, it sometimes comes in a drip, and we have to be there to catch it.


Sermon link: http://elevationchurch.org/sermons/beating-burnout/