River

The Holy Spirit testifies to our spirit that we are children of God. The spirit of religion tempts us to get darkness out while the Holy Spirit calls us to let light in. The spirit of religion tempts us to evaluate while the Holy Spirit calls us out of hiding and into exposure to Abba’s kindness. The spirit of religion births self centeredness while the Holy Spirit calls us to ministry to the Lord. The spirit of religion tempts us to establish our own righteousness while the Holy Spirit calls us to receive our righteousness as a gift of grace.

Scripture:

Zepheaniah 3:8-17

Zechariah 4:6-7

Romans 8:12-17

2 Timothy 1:6-7

It is time to completely let go. As we let go of the spirit of religion and the bondage it produces, we can truly let Him love us the way He has always desired to. This grace is unto the redemption of the entire universe – Christ in you, the hope of glory. As we learn to walk according to the Spirit, we become the New Jerusalem people who see His face with His name on our foreheads as we let His light in, expose ourselves entirely to Abba, live with one obsession and continue to be filled with and live in our worth as the beloved of Abba.

Scripture:

Zechariah 4:6-7

Romans 8:12-17

2 Timothy 1:6-7

Revelation 21-22

Yeshua is the way, the truth and the life. Yeshua did not come to institute a new religion. Instead, He came with and as the revelation of Abba, reconciling humanity back to Abba and teaching us the way of Abba. Yeshua’s first followers and the early church were simply described as followers of the Way. We are returning to and remaining in the simple gospel that the early apostolic church lived in and lived out.

Scripture:

Luke 4:16-22

Luke 10:38-42

Luke 17:20-21

Luke 24:46-48

John 1:1-18

John 13:34-35

John 15:1-9

John 17:20-26

Romans 2:4

Romans 8:12-17

Revelation 22

In light of being reconciled to the Father, the bride of Christ joins the Bridegroom in becoming His resting place in the earth. We are returning to the apostolic heritage of the early church and stewarding an environment that is Presence centered, identity forming and service oriented.

Scripture:

Ephesians 2:19-22

It is time to trade your expectations in for His perspective of you. His ways are higher than ours. The priest in you and wild child in you that does not know fear is hungry to follow Abba into the unknown. Why would we settle for the diet of Egypt when manna and the heavenly city awaits us? Where are the ones like Joshua and Caleb who have a different spirit in them and who will follow Him fully?

Scripture:

Numbers 9:15-23

Numbers 10:11-13

Numbers 12:1-10

Numbers 13:17-28

Numbers 13:30-33

Numbers 14:1-10

What if the Father would like to blind us with His glory? What if our horses and scales are to be dismounted and removed? What if rest and confidence is our inheritance as we abide in the One who rode a donkey into the real war that He won over darkness?

Scripture:

Numbers 6:24-26

Isaiah 30

Isaiah 60

John 1:1-5

Acts 9:1-18

Yahweh is forming and birthing communities who live in the Isaiah 60 posture. A posture that submits to His light shining over them until the nations flock to it. We are longing like Abraham for that city which has foundations, Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels. Receive the grace to become His resting place. (Renewal Weekend, Saturday AM)

Scripture:

Isaiah 60

Hebrews 11:8-10

Hebrews 12:22-29

Revelation 21:9-27

There is no substitute for face to face with Abba. Yeshua is jealous to bring you to Himself and you were designed to be animated by nothing other than His love for you and your neighbor.

Scripture:

Mark 9:14-29

As the apostle Paul prayed in his letter to the Ephesians, the Spirit opens the eyes of our hearts to the revelation of Yeshua. Yeshua has reconciled us to the Father and through our union to Him, we have become one spirit with the Lord. As testimony to His unsearchable grace working through faith, we now share in all that He is and all that He has been given.

Scripture:

Genesis 1:1-2

Isaiah 11:1-5

Isaiah 40:31

Isaiah 60

Matthew 7:13-14

John 1:1-18

John 4:21-24

John 14:15-21

John 16:5-15

John 17:20-26

Romans 8:9-17

Ephesians 1:15-2:10

Colossians 1:13-20

Hebrews 1:1-3

1 John 1:5

God is love and God is spirit. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. In Yeshua, we see the demonstration of the highest truth: love. If we don’t possess love, we have nothing. Take hold of the man of love and become possessed by Him!

Scripture:

Song of Songs 8:6-7

John 13:34-35

1 John 4:7-19