There's a pressing necessity in the body of Christ to be led, taught and trained by the Holy Spirit. These sessions are designed to engage the Holy Spirit relationally. At the heart of these sessions is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the focus is pleasing God.
God's people are called to overcome a world that's under sway of the wicked one. We are all very aware that live in a world that's unregulated by the Word of God. In this session we'll see that the Word of God is the only solution to sin-sickness and self-deception in a godless world.
As we aspire to fulfill God'd vision and purpose, our choices and values must be aligned with the value system of the kingdom. I pray that we all find great joy in obeying the Word of God, because this is where the path to fulfillment begins. In this session we will see that from the created order that it makes perfect since to align our choices and values to the one who alone is sovereign.
Jesus fulfilled God's vision and purpose. "We are called according to His purpose" God's vision and purpose for His people is an internal work of the Spirit that unites us to Christ. God's vision and purpose is manifested through the fulfillment of the Scriptures. What He plans and wills is revealed in the scriptures. It's a place of intimacy, closeness with God and Devotion.
Everything that pertains to life comes from the one who created us and gave us life. Therefore, the greatest pursuit or path to experience the greatest good in life is the pursuit of God.The problem is that Fallen humanity does not, and will not pursue God, but rather flees from Him. Our pursuit of God begins with His pursuit of us, Great Love and Great Grace.
Summum bonum is a latin expression that means highest or ultimate good introduces by the philosopher Cicero in 106 bc. that carries the question, what is the greatest pursuit or path to experience the greatest good in life? People of all generations desire to experience the greatest good in life. This session tells us how.
God wills Good for His people, He has a vision for our lives and commits Himself to our care. Every purpose of God reaches its fulfillment when we choose to obey His voice and live according to His Word.
Our Love for God has always been and will always be a primary target of the devil. There are many things of the world and desires of the flesh and lusts of the eyes that presents a major distraction and snare for God's people in every generation. Our Love for God must be protected and defended at all cost.
Jesus teachings caused listeners to look beyond the present natural world to the true riches of His kingdom in the life to Come. If a man dies will he live again? Jesus says yes there's eternal life in Him if we build our lives on what He says. He is the foundation for Life Eternal, everything else is sinking sand.What are we building our lives on? Theres no voice of greater authority and importance than the words of Jesus.
God has promised His Son, generations of nations as His inheritance. There will always be a people who have a heart that understands the Word. It's a work of the Spirit that cannot be stopped. The Spirit of God interacts with the Word of God to give " Zoe" Life, spiritual Life.Listen to the parable of the sower.
How healthy is your heart? Jesus addresses this most important question in His sermon on the mount. Living in the present world with so many things competing for our affection. Rather than being filled with the Spirit are we being filled with the world and our own desires to the point that we have lost our true spiritual identity?
Our Spiritual Health is the most important part of our lives because it affects every aspect of our lives now and forever. How do we maintain good spiritual health? Spiritual truth is rooted in the Omniscience of God not the wisdom of man.So True faith is lived out through Preceptive will of God written in the scriptures.
On that day when we see Jesus, it want be as a group or religious affiliation but rather You and God. The only relevant question is Do you have a Scriptural relationship with Him? Is your life regulated by the preceptive will of God? The preceptive will of God is what fuels this relational motion. God"s love for us is real, He gave His only begotten son and the son gave his life for us. It doesn't get any more personal than this. Love doesn't get any grater than this.
In the Exodus God Himself came down and rescued His people from an impossible situation under the slavery of Pharaoh. In John Chapter 1, God came down again, this time in the person of Jesus Christ. Both times there's one specific purpose . "That they might serve Me" that they may worship Me. We will talk about the dynamics of relationship.
In Jesus response to the question of what is the greatest commandment, we see that the answer is in a relational context . It conveys this scense of closeness with God as it relates to being united with His command. Not from a slavish duty but a sincere desire to please Him, to honor Him as a means of bringing the culture of heaven into view.
The exodus is the greatest display of God's power ever revealed. The context is after 430 years of Egyptian slavery. The brutality of Pharaoh, the harshness of slavery, being trapped with no way out and hopeless. They were born into a mindset and breaking through it and reaching to the outstretched hand of God would be met with resistance.
The Mind is essentially the heart when we become set on our way of thinking. This is the true essence of who we are in the eyes of God, not the act of church attendance or giving or any other act, not our words or confessions but rather our obedience to the Sh'ma.
The battle of the mind is a fight for our spiritual lives as well as our overall well being. Loosing is not an option, we persevere until every prayer the Jesus prayed concerning us is fulfilled. when what He wills for us becomes our reality.We should see ourselves winning this battle as a part of our destiny. It's how we become a new creation in Christ
The Mind and the new nature is at war and the winner determines our fate. Lets see how to overcome this enemy of the mind.
Jesus taught His disciples to focus their prayers on being the manifestation of the Kingdom of God in a fallen world, until He returns in His final consummation of His Kingdom forever. We will see how God Himself establishes the structure of the life God planned.
In Mathew 6 Jesus teaches His disciples to pray. Unlike the ritualistic order of the Pharisees and their religious formalities, the focus of the disciples prayers were to be very specific. That the invisible kingdom becomes visible.
We have no control over when and where we are born into this world, but we do have control over the way we choose to live in the world. Throughout all generations the people of God are foreordained to times and places for His glory.
Relationship with God is progressive in nature. The Word of God is at work in us transforming our lives, renewing our mind from the world to the Word.
We live in the Revelation of the scriptures not the letter of the the Law. What we need to know about the Bible is Jesus. Who He is and What He has done. We live by the Word of God and the Word was made Flesh His name is called Emmanuel, God with us, revealed in us.
One of the greatest joys and comforts is knowing that Jesus is the same person today we read about in the scriptures. His character and compassionate straight forward personality full of grace and truth was unmistakably then and its unmistakably now.
In this session we will discuss the personhood of Christ and what it means to come to Jesus. These relational dynamics are designed to propel us forward until our lives manifests the fulfillment of His Word. We become a living testimony.
We all form our own opinions about our relationship with Christ. But in reality its not what we think counts it's what Jesus sees in us. Let's look at what happened when Nathaniel met Jesus.
The Word of God in and of itself has the power to dispel deception. By submitting ourselves under the authority of scripture and committed to being the fulfillment of the First Commandment derails every train of thought of the devil.
In this session we will see that the lies of the devil sets it's aim to destroy the soul of man. He chose to attack man in the area of choices. Human liberty and freedom of expression is guarded by the Word of God which sets the limitations and boundaries.
Today's session we will see how commands of God are structures that protected us against the plots of the devil. Throughout history God's people were exceptionally vulnerable to Idolatry and and it continues to be a problem today. Deception is real and its the devil's primary weapon forged by the hand on satan himself against the people of God.
Encouragement in the Lord is very important, especially when we face difficult times. In this session we will be Encouraged by God.
God has called us out of the world to be a powerful witness of His redeeming grace.In this session, We will see how salvation is the greatest gift and regeneration is the the greatest miracle we’ll ever experience. Miracles are meant to impact in a way that cannot be disputed. This is the impact Christ wants for His church in this world. Our lives is to produce a testimony of the great things the Lord has done in us.
The human condition is a formidable enemy that doesn't fight against us alone. In this session we will identify two enemies that joins the flesh and fights against us, and how we overcome.
The Flesh is a formidable enemy that's capable of destroying everything of value in our lives. Because this enemy isn't full eradicated in this life it must be overcome. It will undermine the work of the Spirit to render it ineffective and unfruitful. It want just go away we have to put it to death.
Without the gospel of Jesus Christ the world is a dark place. When we consider who God is And all his majestic glory and omniscience ,the world he made and man whom he formed out of the dust. His final answer for man for all times is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
In this session we will explore the range of emotions of the Psalmist. His feelings his discouragements and disappointments. We will learn as finite creatures we are vulnerable to draw false conclusions based on the facts that move us from faith to doubt.
In this session, we will see how much God loves and cares for us and the lengths that He goes to rescue us from our hurts, pain , brokenness and losses to bring us to a place of hope, healing and restoration.
I this session Our will His Sovereignty, We will learn how to find confidence, courage and faith in God in the most trying times.
God’s wisdom brings with it the highest quality of living. It’s given to us when certain conditions are met. How does His wisdom enters our lives? We’ll explore “how”we approach Him, and “the way” we approach Him.
The “fear of the Lord “ is rooted in genuine faith and obedience. What does the fear of the Lord mean? In this session we will see that wisdom has a source and a goal. We’ll see the difference between human wisdom and God’s wisdom.
The idea receiving from God can seem allusive to grasp. In this session we’ll explore the teaching of Jesus that brings a great deal of clarity and simplicity. The power of the Holy Spirit results in a transformed life through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
In this session we learn that chaos is restrained by the grace of God, otherwise if it had free reign it would be impossible to live here. We will see how obedience to one commandment cuts off evil from its source.
World views are called the spirit of the times, this view takes its place along side the works of the flesh and the devil. We will discuss two main ways deception spreads throughout our world. subliminal messages and the abuse of words by adding the suffix “ism”.
We know more than ever the dire need of the prayers of the righteous that’s heard by God as prevailing before His throne to be continually offered. But do you meet the prerequisite “humble”to offer the prayer in 2 Chronicles 7:14? Does God see you as being humble before Him? How could you be certain? We will look at it in light of the ancient Hebrew symbolism and the words of Jesus.
In this session, we will see that Relationship with God is on His terms alone. Rejecting false religious claims as having a relationship with God in your own way. There’s only one way and that’s through the biblical structure. God’s vision for our lives can only be fulfilled relationally. Everything we learn and know about God is done relationally. Not seeking information about God, but rather seeking Him. We are building our lives on the Word of God which is forever settled in heaven and will stand the test of times.
In this session we will discuss the confrontation between the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ and a world filled with darkness. We learn it’s not people, but demonic forces is the source of the darkness that influences every evil way of man, from false unproven scientific theories that rejects creation to false doctrines that rejects the doctrine of Jesus Christ.
We are preparing to meet Jesus face to face. Are you a light in darkness? How do you determine that? This session is meant to be selfevaluating since our goal is living in sync with God. Are we fulfilling what the scriptures speak concerning us? This will be the standard by which we are judged, not what we feel or think. We see this in “the hard saying of Jesus” When He said On that day, many will say to Him Lord I prophisied did these work ect.. and He said depart from me! “I never knew you”.
This is a difficult part of living in a fallen world, the intensity we experience depends on when and where God brings us into this world. Wherever we find ourselves on the timeline we proceed with confidence because we are not without God’s divine providential care. Having a relationship with God who is Ineffable, sovereign and Who acts according to the counsel of His own divine will are very difficult relational dynamics for human understanding. At times we are like the Prophet Habakkuk in chapter 1 who complained about all the trouble yet God seemed to be doing nothing. What’s going on? God said to him, “you wouldn’t believe it if I told you”. We will learn how to bridge this enormous relational difference with confidence and resolve.
We are giving the Holy Spirit an open invitation into every aspect of our lives. Throughout the whole of scripture we know that true worship is offered through a surrendered life. Buckle up! and be couageous confrontation ahead.
God said, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased”. There was nothing more important to Jesus than pleasing God. The overriding purpose of the Christian life is pleasing God. When God sees in us the desire to please Him, it opens up the relational part that engages the Spirit.
This opening session sets the tone for engaging the Holy Spirit relationally. Spiritual training refers to being led, taught and trained by the Holy Spirit which is an essential integral part of the life of every believer in the body Christ.
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