Every day as a son or daughter our prime objective is to receive from my Father –

Freely you have received, freely give.

1. God’s view of us. – beloved son or daughter of God.

2. His purpose for us. – to dwell within us.

3. His thoughts toward us. – precious and numerous.

Church is NOT supposed to be a place where “good” people gather. It’s supposed to be a place where the guilty gather to be reminded that because of what Jesus has done for us, we are safe from the judgment we deserve AND are loved by an amazingly gracious Father.

We are all interconnected.

God has for a reason intertwined us together.

He knows we can accomplish more together than we can alone.

Promises are everything to God, and therefore should be everything to us.

Promises are given in order to increase and experience His Presence. Promises are relational. They enhance our fellowship with the Godhead. They create opportunities for partnership and intimacy. They accelerate our transformation.

Every day as a son or daughter our prime objective is to receive from my Father –

Freely you have received, freely give.

1. God’s view of us. – beloved son or daughter of God.

2. His purpose for us. – to dwell within us.

3. His thoughts toward us. – precious and numerous.

John 14:18-20 (TPT)

18 “I promise that I will never leave you helpless or abandon you as orphans—I will come back to you![n] 19 Soon I will leave this world and they will see me no longer, but you will see me, because I will live again, and you will come alive too. 20 So when that day comes, you will know that I am living in the Father and that you are one with me, for I will be living in you.

Who we become in Christ is dependent on what we focus on. (New Man or Old Man)

You must discern whose voice you are listening to and the thoughts you are receiving.

Every time the Father speaks He speaks out of love.

The father of lies is a legalist. He deceives you. He questions / uses truth to try to deceive us.

Every thought we receive and dwell on impacts our future.

Every voice you listen to determines your inheritance.

If you are a child of God, you are joint heirs with Jesus Christ. What is His is mine.

Inheritance is not for orphans – it’s for sons!

Knowledge does not lead to transformation.

Is. 55.8 (NKJV) “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD.

Is. 55.9 (NKJV) “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.

God has thoughts.

The enemy has thoughts.

We have a mind.

God wants us to receive His.

The enemy wants to plant his.

God’s PURPOSE for us is that we would be a place He could dwell in by His Spirit to carry His glory in the earth.

God’s WILL is how He wants us to live in response to what we face.

God’s CALL is what He has for us to do For Him while on earth.

to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

Matt. 5.40 (NKJV) If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also.

Matt. 5.41 (NKJV) And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.

Matt. 5.42 (NKJV) Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away.

Matt. 5.43 (NKJV) “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’

Matt. 5.44 (NKJV) But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,

Matt. 5.45 (NKJV) that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

1Cor. 13.4 (NLT) Love is patient and kind.

Love is not jealous or boastful or proud

1Cor. 13.5 (NLT) or rude.

Love does not demand its own way.

Love is not irritable, and

it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.

1Cor. 13.6 (NLT) It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

1Cor. 13.7 (NLT) Love never gives up,

never loses faith,

is always hopeful, and

endures through every circumstance.

1Cor. 13.8 (NLT) Love never fails.

Living by Faith is always responsive.

God is always the initiator.

Relational vs. Functional

A Lifestyle of Faith (rest) is ME responding to HIM alone –

To WHO He is.

to what He has spoken.

to what He has done for me through Christ.

By God’s grace everything that Jesus deserved was given to us and everything we deserved was received by Him.

Rom. 8:28 (nkjv) and we know that all things work together for good to those who love god, to those who are the called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28 (TPT)

28 So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together to fit into God’s perfect plan of bringing good into our lives, for we are his lovers who have been called to fulfill his designed purpose.

We are in this together and we are better together.