REALLIFE Spokane

Today Jesus as we come toward you – we come boldly. Show us how good you are. Make your grace known to us today. May we find our confidence in you Jesus. May we find our strength in you. May we find our holiness in you and you alone. Would you be here powerfully today as we enter into your presence.  

God we long for you…we long for you to move in our midst in a powerful way. God we seek your presence. We seek to become a people who welcome your presence well.  

Lord give us a heart for your presence – create a hunger in us to know your presence. To not settle for small and empty religion. Would you meet us here as we seek your manifest presence o God? We want to know you and your presence more and more. 

We are becoming a people of faithfulness to Jesus and his kingdom. We want to hear these words – well done good and faithful servant. We give our lives away to see the next generation experience all God has made them to be. We are all standing on the shoulders of those who have gone before us. We long to see the kingdom continue to the next generation. We will courageously give our all to see what God is doing us multiplied to those we lead.  

Are we awake and ready? Looking out – or focused on ourselves? We are on a rescue mission – with the Spirit inside us we actually become a conduit of healing to people in our lives. 

We should be a people who are overwhelmed by the grace we have received. A people who are gracious the way God is gracious with us. A people who are passionate about forgiveness in our lives. Setting people free. Walking in the freedom that Jesus has offered us.  

We are becoming a place where the broken see they can be changed and healed too. A people of faith – who see the small seed as a picture of what COULD BE.

We want to be a people who are content with the Father’s leadership and care. The Holy Spirit is writing a story with us together as a church. He has a plan and purpose – we really won’t know the end of the story – we get to be in the story.

We are sowers of the seed. We are called and empowered to sow the seeds of the Gospel to this whole city – to this whole world!

We long to become a people of the party. A people who celebrate as Jesus brings more and more people into the feast. We long to be a people out there in the streets finding people who are willing. We are inviting. We are pursuing people passionately. We long to be a transformed people. A people who are being clothed in a garment of praise. Taking our garments of heaviness and exchanging them for garments of praise. A transformed people are a people who recognize our God can take anyone from anywhere and make them a new creation. That his church has always been a hospital for the hurting – not a country club for the already cleaned up.