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Matthew 4:19 He said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”Follow me:The invitation that Jesus gave was, “follow me”.  This is the same invitation that he is still giving to anyone who will listen.Not agree that I exist.  Agree that I love you.  Agree that I forgive you and am full of mercy and grace, etc. Neither does it say agree in the fact I exist and I will follow you!  The creator is to be followed and not be the followerTo follow someone requires actively seeking and paying attention to what they are doing and where they are going.It also requires submitting to a way that is not your own and submitting to someone else's leadership. I will make you:When we follow Jesus it is he that will make us.  Not we must make ourselves.  When we follow Jesus the outcome is that we are changed.  You cannot follow Jesus and remain the same.  His path will transform your way of thinking, living, feeling, seeing, hearing, and everything in between.Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid. From now on you will catch men.  So when they had brought their boats to land, they forsook all and followed him.”       Luke 5:10. Jesus told Peter not to be afraid.  Why?  When you hear this invitation to follow Jesus, it means release your control, your plans, your ideas, and follow Him.  This is a scary thing to our flesh, our mind, our instincts of self preservation and probably scariest of all, our reputation!  But when the Lord says, “Do not be afraid.”  He gives grace and the peace that surpasses understanding.Fishers of men:What is a fisher of men?!  Did they have a picture of throwing nets on people and catching them? Jesus is obviously using a word play on what they were doing in that moment, “casting their nets”. Jesus didn’t and still doesn’t vision cast like we do. He usually speaks somewhat ambiguous. Fishers of men?I don’t know what Peter and Andrew thought it would look like to be “fishers of men”. But I guarantee that they didn’t think it would be three and half years of having their understanding turned upside down, often confused, with tons of misunderstanding of what Jesus was saying and doing, denials before servant girls, redemption and going through life altering dramatic events, to get there.  I’m sure they didn’t have in their minds that being fishers of men was being baptized in the Holy Spirit and fire on the day of Pentecost, speaking in foreign languages the glories of God and spontaneously preaching to thousands of people who saw and heard the commotion. Nor did they know it would be going to Cornelius house, a Gentile, and preaching to a family and the same experience happen to them as it did to Peter and the rest of the disciples on Pentecost. Nor did they imagine it would look like pastoring young Jewish and gentile churches and then ultimately being martyred. They probably thought they had some sort of idea on what Jesus meant when he invited them to follow him and become fishers of men. Jesus’ invitation to us as we begin Refuge City is the same invitation that he gave his disciples. Follow me....I will make you....fishers of men. What the “fishers of men” means for us, I do not know, nor do I want to try to define it cause I know it is beyond anything that I could possibly understand at this stage in the process. But we will follow him and we will allow him to make us and we will eventually understand what “fishers of men” looks like for us. 

Sunday April 11th, 2021What's the purpose of fasting? Is it to fight against principalities and rulers of darkness or to receive things we want? Or is it to become more like Jesus?  Learning to live with our hands up in adoration toward Jesus and our hands out towards those in our community in our expression of Jesus. 

Sunday,  April 5th, 20215 pm GatheringGabe PalmerRevealing Jesus Series, The book of RevelationFor full notes and to learn more about Refuge City visit  www.refugecityatl.com 

Sunday, March 28th, 20215 pm GatheringGabe PalmerRevealing Jesus Series, The book of RevelationFor full notes and to learn more about Refuge City visit  www.refugecityatl.com 

Sunday, March 21st, 20215 pm GatheringGabe PalmerRevealing Jesus Series, The book of RevelationFor full notes click hereVisit website to learn more about Refuge City at www.refugecityatl.com 

Sunday, March 14, 20215 pm GatheringGabe PalmerRevealing Jesus Series, The book of RevelationFor full notes click hereVisit website to learn more about Refuge City at www.refugecityatl.com 

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Sunday, December 6th, 20205 pm GatheringGabe PalmerIn the Sermon on the Mount Jesus declares the value system of the kingdom of God. These are the values by which He governs His kingdom and by which He will rule eternally.Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earthFor full notes click hereVisit website to learn more about Refuge City at www.refugecityatl.com

Sunday, November 29th, 2020 5 pm GatheringBlessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of GodBlessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.

Psalm 24Who can ascend the hill of the Lord? Who can dwell in his holy tabernacle?The answer is those with clean hands, a pure heart, who do not trust in idols, and who are not deceitful. Who can do this? The answer is in the God of Jacob and the generation who seek God's face.Sunday, November 8th, 2020 5 pm ServicePrayer Room Hours:Monday 6 am - 12 pmTuesday 4 pm - 8 pmWednesday 6 pm- 8 pmThursday 6 pm - 8 pmFriday 8 am - 10 amServiceSunday 5 pm

The Lamb of God was slain to make us a kingdom of priests (Revelation 1:6, 5:9-10, 1 Peter 2:9). This is the primary identity that we are to live from. We look at Psalm 84 and the priestly longing to be in the house of God. What makes the house of God beautiful and worth longing for is the knowledge of the beauty of God. Sunday, November 1st, 2020, 5 pm Gathering

Gabe Palmer shares about the birth of their ninth child and the vision for a new definition of Christianity and the way we do ministry. Scripture references: Psalm 27:4-5, Isaiah 56:7, and Isaiah 42:10-13

Billy Humphrey shares on the Tabernacle of David and how the prayer room is apart of God's strategy to glorify Jesus.

Will Shehee encourages us from Matthew 24:14 and Haggai 2:6 that in the midst of the shaking of a global pandemic, economic downturn, famines, and race tensions, God is bringing the nations to Him. He shares multiple stories of salvations, healings, and churches being birthed among Muslim people groups in Africa. To learn more about Send56 and how you can help get the gospel to the unreached in Africa visit, www.send56.org

Sunday, September 21, 2020, 5 pm GatheringGod's strategy to bring a harvest of souls into the kingdom is to first prioritize praying for laborers to be sent. Matthew 9:37-38 “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”

Sunday, September 13, 2020, 5 pm ServiceGabe gives an overview of world missions and challenges us to steward our resources towards reaching the unreached people groups of the world by using the example of two rich men in Luke 18 & 19, The Rich Young Ruler and ZacchaeusTo learn more about how to get involved and make a direct impact in helping the gospel reach the unreached, visit www.send56.org.

Sunday, August 30th, 2020Gabe Palmer speaks on living with a mindset on eternity and how that will help inform us of how we are to live our lives today.

Sunday, August 23rd, 2020Rick Sickoryak teaches out of 1 Samuel 9 and how the Lord uses seemingly insignificant moments in our lives to take us to our destinies.

Refuge City is a prayer centric church community that is pursuing the Greatest Commandment and the Great Commission through prioritizing the place of prayer and from there loving the people around us in our communities. To learn more about Refuge City and find prayer room hours visit www.refugecityatl.comFollow on Social Media:FacebookYoutubeInstagram

We are told to "count it all joy in testing" (James 1:2) and "not to think it a strange thing when fiery trials have come upon us, but to rejoice in them" (1 Peter 4:12). How is this possible to do? Gabe Palmer points to the surpassing worth found in the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus.To learn more about Refuge City and find prayer room hours visit www.refugecityatl.comFollow on Social Media:FacebookYoutubeInstagram

Guest speaker, Tammie Sutherland encourages us to live devoted to the Lord with holy groanings for all that He has for us. Find resources and more info on Tammie and her ministry at www.frontlinefire.org.

Part 3 of series on Fellowship with the Divine: A Theology of Prayer by Gabe Palmer.Find sermon notes and prayer room times at www.refugecityatl.com

Part 2 of series on Fellowship with the Divine: A Theology of Prayer by Gabe Palmer.Find sermon notes and prayer room times at www.refugecityatl.com

Part 1 of series on Fellowship with the Divine: A Theology of Prayer by Gabe Palmer.Find sermon notes and prayer room times at www.refugecityatl.com

Refuge City is a worship and prayer centric community that is pursuing an Isaiah 58 fasted lifestyle and an Acts 2 reality of unity and revival. Prayer Room Hours:Monday 9 am - 11 amTuesday 6 pm - 8 pmWednesday 4 pm - 6 pmThursday 6 pm - 8 pmFriday 8 am - 10 amWeekly Gathering:Sunday 5 pm www.refugecityatl.com

Eric and Gabe dive into a conversation on the first and greatest commandment, which is loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. They touch on the key to loving God and how we were created to love and be loved by God. 1 John 4:19 says that we love because He first loved us. Without an understanding of who God is and His affections for me, we cannot love God. Loving God starts with knowing God. When the fire of His love touches us, it causes us to love God. Love for God does not originate with our emotions, thoughts, feelings, or good-will like it might for a spouse, friend, or relative. Love for God originates from God, who is love.

This episode Eric and Gabe talk about the next two core values of Refuge City. Those being, having an Urgency of the Hour and Contending for Revival.

Core values are the guiding principles that dictate behavior for a person or a group of people. They are a fundamental belief system that is the driving force behind what we do. Gabe and Eric begin the discussion on the Refuge City core values. In this episode, they cover the values of Intimacy with Jesus and living a Sermon on the Mount lifestyle.

This is the last part of our conversation with my friend Jamie Pridgen. This section of our conversation is probably my favorite part. Jamie takes us down the road to understanding the different viewpoints on the end times. He helps us understand that throughout church history the main arguments were not around the timing of the rapture but the timing of the millennial reign of Christ. This session is jam-packed with helpful understanding about what the early church fathers believed and taught, how different viewpoints developed and why they developed in the way that they did. Such good stuff. So get on your thinking cap and get ready to dive into how certain end-time beliefs developed over time.

Gabe Palmer continues the conversation with Jamie Pridgen on the topic of eschatology. They discuss how eschatology is more about the person of Jesus and His leadership in the earth more than it is about knowing every detail about the end of the age. In this episode, Jamie talks about how getting an understanding of the end of the story helps us understand the beginning and the middle of the story. He also helps us through the oftentimes discouraging factors of there being multiple schools of thought around the timing of events surrounding the end of the age.

For the next few weeks, we will be releasing a conversation Gabe Palmer had with Jamie Pridgen, Pastor of Forerunner Church, on the subject of eschatology. To listen to last week's message go to the Refuge City Facebook page at www.facebook.com/refugecityatl.

Amazing God connections happened this week. Pastors Alfred Lansana and Gabe Palmer share about their experience together this past week and where the Lord is moving Refuge City.

Psalm 37:3-9 “Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land.”‭‭Refuge City prophetic story up to this point.Learn more:www.refugecityatl.comFollow us:www.facebook.com/refugecityatl.comwww.instagram.com/refugecityatl.com

Looking at the command God gave to Israel to remember and honor the sabbath day. Why was this one of the top ten commandments and what is its significance?

Exodus 20:7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

Sunday, February 9th, 2020 5pm Service