Target: God's word is designed to empower and equip us, so that we maximize the gifts within us, individually and collectively. God is calling us to step up and to step out by using our gifts and influence to point people to Jesus! We are called to be salt and light!

Matthew 5:13-16

When the confidence of Resurrection Sunday collides with doubts of life on Monday how do we respond?

"And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God." John 1:34

Target: The resurrection of Jesus is your resurrection story.

"and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased." Matthew 3:17

Target: To experience for ourselves the person of the Holy Spirit in our daily lives.

● Matthew 3:16: "and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him."

● Mark 1:10: "the Spirit descending on him like a dove."

● Luke 3:22: "and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove."

● John 1:32: "And John

Target: An open heaven is afforded and available to us only IN JESUS NAME.

● "And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were OPENED to him." (Matthew 3:16a).

● "Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and (was praying), the heavens were OPENED." (Luke 3:21)

● "And when he came up out of the water, immediately he saw the heavens being torn OPEN and the Spirit descending on him like a dove." (Mark 1:10) Target: An open heaven is afforded and available to us on

Target: Jesus came to do for us what we could never do for ourselves.

Matthew 3:13-15

Joshua 6

Take away: Our walls are not obstacles they are opportunities for God to make a way.

Target: What seems overwhelming in the natural, must be seen by the filter of the supernatural.

Text: 2 Kings 6:8-23

Target: The Lion in you is greater than the lions surrounding you!

Text: Daniel 6 (God is my judge)

"There can be no maturity in the spiritual life, no obedience in following Jesus, no wholeness in the Christian life apart from an immersion in, and embrace of, community. I am not myself by myself." -Eugene Peterson