Posts from 2022 (Page 2)
Gifted-Co-heir
Episode Invitation: Read the following- You are God’s beloved child and a co-heir with Christ. You are God’s image bearer, a Spirit empowered minister who is uniquely gifted for this purpose. Work through the following- 1. Which statement/s do you know is/are true and which do you find difficult to believe? 2. Ask God for what you desire. 3. Ask the Holy Spirit for…
Gifted-God Already Knows
Episode Invitation: Spend time asking yourself if you really believe God has given you purpose and grace “before the ages began”. How convinced am I that God already knew me? Notice and thank God for the purpose and grace you see.
Gifted
Episode Invitation: Choose to Play. Listen until the end with the goal to engage with the invitation fully.
Getting to #YourBestLife-Emily McCall’s Testimony
Episode Invitation: Examine your areas of “trouble” with Jesus (especially the ones you feel stuck in) Let God show you if anything in you needs to die Let it die, let it bless you and let it go, so that you may receive a new spirit
Getting to #YourBestLife-Interview with the Leong’s
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Getting to #YourBestLife-New Spirit
Episode Invitation: Invite and welcome the Holy Spirit into your life. Ephesians 3:16-17 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Getting to #YourBestLife-Letting Go
Episode Invitation: Take some time this week to sit with one of your deaths, losses or disappointments and see how or if you have progressed through each of these steps from the Passover to Pentecost. Become willing to share where you are in this journey with God and with some trusted friends. Come back next week ready to embrace the truth that there is a New Spirit that…
Getting to #YourBestLife-Adjustment
Episode Invitation: “God longs to be with you, especially when you are not doing well.” Welcome Jesus into where you really are. Into your loss and your hope, trusting in Him and what He has promised Allow others who love you to come into your process of grief.
Getting to #YourBestLife-New Life
Episode Invitation: Spend sometime praying and reflecting on your life and the changes you have experienced. Acknowledge and name your loss Acknowledge and name your new life Welcome God into both of these things
Getting to #YourBestLife-Loss
Episode Invitation: Invite the Holy Spirit to show you any loss, or losses, in your life that need to be acknowledged. Name your loss to God and welcome Jesus into the pain of that loss. Then, share your loss with a trusted brother or sister in Christ and let them pray for you.
Getting to #YourBestLife-Trouble
Episode Invitation: Last week- Ask Jesus to bring to mind something from your own life that needs the new spirit God wants to give. This week- In prayer, fully articulate your trouble/pain/ disappointment to God. Then ask for His will to be done. Bring some trusted friends into this trouble.
Getting to #YourBestLife
Episode Invitation: During some quiet time, ask Jesus to bring to mind something from your own life that needs the new spirit God wants to give. Walk through the next 6 weeks with this in mind. Then, ask some trusted friends to be part of this process.
Easter Sunday-Living Hope
Episode Invitation: Pray these verses over yourself. 1 Peter 1:3-9 …In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead Romans 15:13 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy…
The Gospel with the Poor-Sent
Episode Invitation: As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” (John 20:21 -22) Be filled with Holy Spirit and ask Jesus to help you see others as He does. Say “yes” and go to wherever or to whoever God sends you.
The Gospel with the Poor-Do This and Be Blessed
Episode Invitation: Ask God, “Do I understand?” Ask for healing. Embrace the idea of serving.
The Gospel with the Poor-The Helper
Episode Invitation: Ask the Holy Spirit to help you see people and as He does. Ask the Holy Spirt to help see where God is working, and what is your part in what He doing. (what do I say do or give) Ask the Holy Spirit to empower whatever you do, so Jesus is revealed personally to the person.
The Gospel with the Poor-In Everything to Everyone
Episode Invitation: “…In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you” Do this with God, not as an assignment from God. Move closer, look deeper, and see the person as yourself. Understand that this way of seeing others is for them and for you. “We experience and grasp God’s mercy…
The Gospel with the Poor-Incarnational Generosity
Episode Invitation: Spend some time in prayer with God and ask Him to show you how much He wants to be with you. Not just sometimes, not just until He gets tired of you. But like this: Never leaving you. Never abandoning you. Never forgetting you. ALWAYS with you!
The Gospel with the Poor-Don’t Worry, You Have the Kingdom
Episode Invitation: Meditate on Luke 12:13-34 and talk to Jesus about your fears related to money. Ask Him to help you grasp what He means when He says “Your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.” Yield all that you are and all that you have to God. Give what you have as an expression of…
The Gospel with the Poor-A Living Faith
Episode Invitation: Check your theology, it’s better than you can imagine. Trust God, it’s His plan. Prepare to respond.
The Gospel with the Poor-Worship and Justice
Episode Invitation: Pay attention to injustice in the world. Ask God to help you see it with his eyes and heart. Ask God what he wants you to do to seek justice and mercy.
The Gospel with the Poor-Taking Care of Jesus
Episode Invitation: Spend some time in prayer and tell Jesus “I welcome you to show me my heart when I see others through condemnation”. Ask for His help to bring change and growth to that area.
The Gospel with the Poor- Family Resemblance
Episode Invitation: Read Colossians 3:12 “As God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” Pray for the gift of mercy and to be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
The Gospel with the Poor-God’s Heart for Us
Episode Invitation: Pray with us all series- “Lord teach me, show me, help me to act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with you.”