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Episode Invitation:  Ask yourself, where (or in whom) are you putting your hope? Pray like Daniel Humble yourself and ask for forgiveness and mercy. Acknowledge God’s righteousness and faithfulness. Trust in God’s ability and desire to answer prayer. Know and hold onto God’s promises from scripture and prophetic words.

Episode Invitation: 1 Corinthians 14:1 “Pursue love and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.” Open yourself to have Holy Spirit communicate to you through prophecy.  Pursue loving others by exercising the gift of prophecy.

Episode Invitation: Read this verse and let this future shape your life on Earth. Daniel 7:14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

Episode Invitation: Hebrews 4:16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Come to the throne of grace. There you will not only find God’s help, but you will find relationship.

Episode Invitation: Think about some recent choices you’ve made and ask God to show you whether you are moving toward God as your king or choosing to serve other gods.Ask God for mercy and forgiveness for any bad choices. Ask God to show you how to be more dedicated to Jesus as your King, and to help you do so.

Episode Invitation: Reflect on the ways God has pursued you.  Express your gratitude and honor Him for that.  Invite Jesus into any places of pride in your life that are keeping you from true worship.

Episode Invitation: Reflect on both times of blessing and times of pain in your life, where you experienced the faithfulness of God. Talk to God about painful times in your life that may have caused you to question that God is faithful. Ask God to show you what thing(s) in your life are testing your faithfulness or keeping you from loving Him above all else?

Episode Invitation: Reflect on how good God THE KING is and yield all of yourselves to Him.  Then, ask God to show you anything that you worship other than Him and turn from that “god“.

Episode Invitation: Spend some time in quiet contemplation asking “Is there something that God is asking me to decide, to resolve, to do or not do?

Episode Invitation: Prayerfully Reflect on this question- Has  my love for others increased in the last 12 months ? John 13:34-35 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 1 John 4:16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 1 John 4:12 No one…

Episode Invitation: Pray for Jesus to continue leading us a church in being ”the light of the world.”  Ask the Holy Spirit to show you if there are ways you are covering up the light.  Repent and get prayer if so.

Episode Invitation:  Ask God to show you what His heart for the Nations is. Look for His invitations as you read His word this week. If you feel some tug from the Holy Spirit, talk to Him about it. There are so many ways to engage!

Episode Invitation: What spiritual lies keep you from receiving God’s love and gifts? What spiritual lies keep you from bringing God’s love and gifts to others? Ask God to show you what is true and how to stand against the lies that oppose that truth.

Episode Invitation: Ask yourself what you believe about spiritual gifts? Sit before God with your beliefs.  Ask Him to show you areas that may need a different perspective. Then read through 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 and consider how it describes the way you view the church.  Can you substitute “I” for “love” or “it?”  Talk to God about that. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is…

Episode Invitation: Yield to the Holy Spirt (Welcome the Holy Spirit, ask Holy Spirit to fill you) Walk in the Spirit (Welcome the Holy Spirit’s transforming love and power in all areas of your life) Minister in the power of the Spirit (Giving the fruit and gifts of the Spirit to others)

Episode Invitation:  Consider two questions: How much do you desire to fall more deeply in love with Jesus? What is one step you will take this week to seek Jesus? Put those answers into practice this week.

Episode Invitation: Listen to God for instructions and do what you think He is asking you to do.

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…

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.

Episode Invitation: Choose to Play. Listen until the end with the goal to engage with the invitation fully.

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

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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.

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…