Tribe Church

Events in our world’s culture are designed to demand a response, most often based in worry and doubt. This can cause an emotional rollercoaster, even for us as Believers. So how should we respond? This is our opportunity to prove what’s within us and represent the culture of the Kingdom - the King’s domain, where there is one King and one throne. In this day of breakthrough, the King is beckoning us back to the simplicity of His table where He fills our cup, even when our enemies surround us. It’s there, in His domain, where we tap into joy that supercedes all emotions.

Our Father shapes and forms the day, and we each have the opportunity to rejoice and be glad in it. Rejoicing is the expression of joy that is already present within each of us, even when we don’t feel it. When we live in the awareness that this joy exists within and understand that it’s not an emotion that has to be pursued, it will provide the endurance we need for what is set before us.

Our Father wants to see us in breakthrough and victory. It doesn’t mean that everything will be easy and trials won’t happen. When those moments come it’s so vital to respond by speaking these words to yourself: “This is the day that the Lord has made.…” Seeing this day, whatever day that is, as the day the Lord made, will raise us up to be exactly where and who we need to be in that moment. And ultimately, there will be victory and breakthrough.

The Lord most often speaks in a still, small voice. If we continually give Him our ear and lean in to hear the whisper of His voice, even in the noise and chaos around us, we can enter into the faith-rest life He has promised.

Breakthrough: What does that mean and what does it look like? It’s important to perceive breakthrough not as an event, but as a process. It is first internal, then external. The right perception will cause a shift within and create the stability and root that needs to go deep in order for us to experience all we are designed to experience.

An “eve” of something is the day or moment of time before a significant event takes place. The word of the Lord to us is that we are on the eve of breakthrough. As Tribe, as a family, we are leaning into this word. We receive it as an intentional promise from Him and have an extreme anticipation of His goodness to come. 

“A thrill of hope” is not just a phrase from a Christmas song. It’s about a supernatural hope that comes from the face to face presence of God, an announcement that Christ lives within us and our life can be filled with nothing but a joy-filled expectation for good.

If we’re honest, sometimes it’s not easy to be thankful in everything. It seems so simple, but even when life is tough, there is great significance in going back to rehearse and give thanks for the breakthroughs and blessings in our lives. If we can perceive it, gratitude is the key that unlocks the gateway to manifesting the goodness of the Lord.

The knowledge of the Lord is embedded in every human heart, and He has made His wonderful attributes easily perceived. (See Romans 1). It is vital to remember that what we perceive is what we think about and what we think about is what we believe, and what we believe, we speak. We are creators, and what we perceive and speak, creates and shapes the world around us.

If we can perceive it, today is a new day. In order for us to move into this new day, we have to be willing to leave tradition, lose sight of the shore and follow Abba into something that is brand new, life-giving and power-filled. Something that will testify to generations to come that we went after the One Thing with our whole hearts and didn’t sell out to tradition, but sold out to The Lord.