God has done absolutely everything to find spontaneous and effortless expression of His character in us! We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

CONNECT AND DIVE IN DEEPER:

Doxa Deo Online Campus Celebrations  | DoxaDeo.Church  | Connect here  |

In the Old Testament, God’s people lived with a 'visitation' culture. God would 'visit' His people. Unfortunately our thinking about the presence of God in our lives persists along the same line - God visits us, and then He’s off somewhere else doing all the God-things He does.

This type of thinking has blinded us to the incredible reality of the presence of God in our lives. You can hear it in people’s prayers, you hear it in some of the worship songs we sing, and we live as if God is here in one moment, and in the next He’s gone - as if we have to do something to magically conjure up the presence of the Holy Spirit with a few songs and the right musical atmosphere. Today's Episode challenges that type of thinking in our lives.

CONNECT AND DIVE IN DEEPER:

Doxa Deo Online Campus Celebrations  | DoxaDeo.Church  | Connect here  |

All the sermons I’ve ever heard about what happened at the cross always prompt me to identify with the crowd – the Roman soldiers, Mary, the mother of Jesus, the disciples, or someone in the crowd hollering ‘Crucify Him’. No one ever told me that the one we were supposed to identify is Jesus, because in that moment he deeply identified Himself with me. This is a game-changer. 

CONNECT AND DIVE IN DEEPER:

Doxa Deo Online Campus Celebrations  | DoxaDeo.Church  | Connect here  |

Your life always moves in the direction of your strongest thoughts! Whatever your paradigm is about yourself, about God and about the cross - your life will always move in that direction.

CONNECT AND DIVE IN DEEPER:

Doxa Deo Online Campus Celebrations  | DoxaDeo.Church  | Connect here  |

A.W. Tozer said: What comes into your mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you. To 'Know God' is one of the most significant things that can happen to us. We discover not only who He is, but we deeply uncover the reality of where we find our greatest fulfilment.

CONNECT AND DIVE IN DEEPER:

Faith does not start in our lives! We have faith, because we caught it from someone else who is so contagious in their faith about you, that one moment in that environment changes and transforms your life forever! This slightly longer-than-normal episode is well worth a listen if you want to know what ignites faith in your life.

Our minds and lives were dominated by a lie. Now that the light of the gospel has come we now exhibit the glory of the Lord. The fruit of our life is now the display of truth. The truth of my true identity in Christ.

If you do not understand that Jesus’s resurrection was the clearest declaration of your righteousness, you will always continue as one who is created be free, but still living as a slave. Christ is the revelation of the truth. It is in the discovery of Christ, that truth and understanding is revealed - where life is ignited! Ignorance brings damage! But understanding brings life!

The only thing that could continue to exclude us from what the Gospel reveals is stubborn unbelief and ignorance. Ignorance refers to ignoring what is apparent. When we don't see or recognise how included we are in Christ, damage becomes almost inevitable.

Consider this: our hearts can soar with joyful gratitude when we think of how God made us worthy to receive the glorious inheritance freely given to us by living in the light. Thanksgiving brings to fruition the works of God in our lives.