Prayer that moves mountains because with a heart of integrity before God and before one another. 

Bob lays out several points as a progression in prayer that will help the people of God to become a house of prayer as God desires. 

Prayer is—

Digging

We will need to be a powerful people in prayer if we are to become a people who do powerful works of God. 

All powerful work for God is first preceded by powerful and prophetic prayer. 

We must become a Spirit people who are gripped with a revelation that Jesus is returning. At times it is easy to lose sight of the way we live our lives on the earth today will have an impact in eternity. 

In Acts 1, just before Jesus’ ascension, He commands the disciples to wait in Jerusalem for the baptism of the Spirit. He ascended, and while they were gazing into the sky, two men appeared and told them, the same way you saw Him leave, He will one day return.

The power of the Holy Spirit and the reality of His soon-coming return to reign on the earth should shape our lives practically. The Spirit helps us to live like Jesus and lay down our lives to be His witnesses on earth.

We live in a day and age that constantly bombards us with self-help motivational quotes, steps to reaching your destiny, or some magic recipe to improve yourself. As we work to be a people that Jesus desires in our city, we are trying to remain faithful to the Scriptures. 

Jesus says anyone that wants to follow him must first deny themselves, pick up their cross and then follow up. This is the only method proven to produce a people filled with God and therefore find their destiny in Him. 

There are no other means that God has ordained to get the people he desires. A people who embrace the cross. A people of character, integrity, and supernatural power. We learn to let Jesus take his rightful place as Lord and King of our lives by denying ourselves and carrying our cross. 

The Father is readying a people for Jesus that have been conformed to His image. A people that have been wildly possessed by the Holy Spirit and have been empowered by grace to become lovingly subject to the leadership of Jesus in every possible way. 

There are 2 areas where the Spirit is creating an emphasis for us in this season as we desire to be a Jesus People— a people who are fully His and have been conformed to His image. 

Authenticity— living in the reality of a transformed nature fueled and governed by Divine life; The Spirits work within us to conquer every attempt for us to live in response to what is happening to me instead of in response to what God is doing in me.

Subjectivity— living in subjection to the word of God. Not just loving the Bible but living the Bible, consistently through sorrow and celebration, trials and triumphs, worries and wonders. The hammer, which is the word of God, and the chisel, which is life circumstance, working together to conform me to the image of the One who is the Word made flesh. 

For our Resurrection Sunday gathering Michael Dow shared a word with us from John 18-19. 

"There is a Barabbas that lives on the inside of each of us."

"The crowd put pressure on Pilate to free Barabbas externally; Jesus was crucified and laid down His life to set Barabbas free internally."

"'Bar-Abba' means Son of the Father. They shouted, 'Give us Barabbas,' because they better identified with him. The murderer filled with brokenness, pain, weakness, insecurity, corruption. Humanity has always been confronted by what it sees in God and has desired to make Him more like them so they can feel better about the things that need to be changed."

Take a listen, enjoy!

Bryan and Mindy Jackson came to join us and speak to our church family during a corporate gathering. 

Allen Hood came to join us to teach in the prayer room.

He shared his heart from his own journey and how the Lord is in this season leading him into a greater experience of His grace to establish him as an example to the community of saints. 

God chooses those who are unqualified, and then despite their deficiencies, continues to display His grace to them, thus establishing brokenness and dependency on the person of God, His grace, and His power. This authenticity and vulnerability makes one an example to a community and provides a much needed pathway to freedom for those bound in a performance driven and religious facade driven space. 

Enjoy!

Anna Dow shared a word with all of us out of Jeremiah 31:1-26.

As our churches came together she released a prophetic exhortation and encouragement that hinged on 5 points: 

Wilderness Way 

David Popovici was with us for a corporate gathering of our church and shared a powerful word from Mark chapter 4. 

In this moment of human history the church bears the responsibility of sifting through the challenges before us to connect with God in a real and deep way.

There is more opportunity for distraction and connectivity to other things than there has ever been. 

Evil is rising, but so is the Church; the wheat and the tares are maturing at the same time.