Scriptures and Key Points:
- God does things in timely moments.
- The greatest miracles are seen by the ones who serve.
John 2:1-11 NKJV Water Turned to Wine
- We need the Word of God to keep us anchored.
- How can we know the Living Word without getting into the written Word and allowing the Holy Spirit to give life and revelation?
- We need to get back to the fundamentals.
- When we stay in God’s Word, we don’t have to think about it. And when God speaks, we can react instinctively.
- Pressure magnifies.
- Hāṭā’: to miss the mark, ʿāôn: iniquities, peša: willful disobedience
- We’re called to be led by the Spirit.
Hebrews 10:26-29 NKJV For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
- There are consequences to our choices.
1 Samuel 15:23 NKJV For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft…
1 Corinthians 10 NKJV …You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons…
- How can He be our savior if He’s not our Lord?
- Baal Perazim- God of the Breakthrough (2 Samuel 5:19-20 NKJV)
Live In His Word
Isaiah 58:8 AMP “Then your light will break out like the dawn, and your healing (restoration, new life) will quickly spring forth; Your righteousness will go before you [leading you to peace and prosperity], The glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
- Every day has a new light dawning.
Colossians 3:15 NKJV And let the peace of God rule in your hearts…
- We should be led by the peace of God.
Philippians 4:7 NKJV And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
2 Samuel 22:29-31 ESV For you are my lamp, O Lord, and my God lightens my darkness. For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall. This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
Matthew 5:16 NKJV Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
“A tattered Bible is evidence of a life that is not.” – Charles Spurgeon
Cleansing our minds through the Word
Ephesians 5:26 NKJV That He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word
Romans 12:2 NKJV And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
- Pray the Word.
Isaiah 26:3 NKJV You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.
Hebrews 12:2 NKJV Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith…
- To reach our destination, we need to keep our focus on Him.
- Bushido code – “The Way of the Warrior”
- Rectitude – a place of moral compass
- Speak the Word.
John 1:1 NKJV In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Luke 8:11 NKJV …The seed is the word of God.
- We are to be seeds for the soil of souls.
Keeping the Word in Us
Hebrews 4:12 KJV For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Proverbs 30:5 NKJV Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.
Philippians 2:16 NET By holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
Isaiah 55:9-12 NKJV …So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.…
- We’re part of an unshakable Kingdom when we build on the solid foundation of the Lord.
Psalm 33:4-6 NKJV For the word of the Lord is right, and all His work is done in truth. He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
Ezekiel 37 NKJV The Dry Bones Live
- When we ask Jesus into our lives, we have the living life of God in us.
1 Corinthians 6:19 NKJV …your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit…
Prophesy the Word.
- “Zao” – we have the authority to speak into “zoe”, the life of God.
- Spread the Word.
- How can we spread the Word if we don’t have a relationship with Him?
Daniel 11:32 NKJV …the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.
- Yāḏaʿ : to know
Philippians 3:10 NKJV That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection…
- Ginōskō: to learn to know, come to know, get a knowledge of perceive
- Not to know about, but to know God
Matthew 12:50 NKJV For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.
- Our foremost conviction should be Christ-centric; crossing racial, denominational, and generational lines to meet at the foot of the Cross
- “Holy Spirit, come.”
Revelation 22:17 NKJV And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!”…
- Be grounded in God’s presence and His Word.
- Every great revival in history came in difficult times.
Books:
- Leadership Awakening by Doug Stringer
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