Activation:
REPENT.
Acts 2:38 (NLT)
Peter replied, "Each of you must repent of your sins and turn to God, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. Then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Application:
Read 1 Peter and do your own study.
Determine an area of your life where you want a greater level of freedom and wholeness. Live towards holiness in that area.
Activation:
Psalm 139:23-24 (TPT)
Pray this scripture:
God, I invite your searching gaze into my heart. Examine me through and through; find out everything that may be hidden within me. Put me to the test and sift through all my anxious cares. See if there is any path of pain I'm walking on, and lead me back to your glorious, everlasting ways -- the path that brings me back to you.
Application:
Read 1 Peter and do your own study.
Determine an area of your life where you want a greater level of freedom and wholeness. Live towards holiness in that area.
Activation:
Pray in the Spirit regularly.
Application:
Open your hearts to be baptized in the Holy Spirit today.
Activation:
Pray in the Spirit regularly.
Application:
Open your hearts to be baptized in the Holy Spirit today.
Activation:
Open your hearts to be baptized in the Holy Spirit today.
Application:
Activation:
Open your hearts to be baptized in the Holy Spirit today.
Application:
Activation:
Open your heart to receive Holy Spirit.
Application:
Take in every message from this series. It may be the most important series of our life after salvation. If you miss a Sunday, catch it online/phone/etc.
Start including Holy Spirit in your life every day.
Activation:
What have you been troubled about in your heart? Turn it over to the Lord right now.
Application:
When God speaks to you, ACT upon it.
If you aren't sure, seek out godly counsel to help you.
Activation:
Application:
Plan to CONQUER instead of BEING CONQUERED.
Prepare to be a disciple.
Activation:
Is there anyone who has offended me whom I need to forgive?
Make your mind up to forgive them. Talk to them about it.
Application:
Develop a good defense against offense. Begin to recognize offense when it presents itself.
Activation:
Demonstration of Forgiveness:
I choose to forgive ___________, and I release them from my judgment.
I choose to no longer partner with the lie ______________.
Holy Spirit, show me the truth. (Write down this truth.)
Ask Holy Spirit, "Is there anyone I need to forgive?"
As Holy Spirit brings to mind the person and/or situation, begin to use this model to declare forgiveness in that relationship.
Application:
Defend your act of forgiveness by taking thoughts captive.
Begin to embrace the gift of Abundant Life.
Activation:
"I learned I could love more than I could hate." - Colonel Glenn Frazier
Activation:
Think of something that you have been viewing as an obstacle.
Now begin thinking of it as a challenge to something more "abundant" that the Father has waiting on you.
Application:
Your situation has been given to you in an amount "you can handle."
Lay out a strategy "to handle it" and begin to DREAM of the greater things the Father has in store for you.
Happy Mother's Day!
Join us next week for the next message in the Hurdles series!
Activation:
Think of something that has tried to grip you with fear.
Now find something to be thankful about it and begin giving Father God thanks and praise.
Application:
This week, go to the Bible and find scriptures to support what the Father says about your situation.
PRINT THEM. POST THEM.
ACTIVATION:
If you are in need of healing today, believe and receive your healing.
APPLICATION:
Search out scriptures this week that address healing. Declare those scriptures over yourself.
ACTIVATION:
You have the rights of sonship...
1. We are safe - there is nothing to fear.
2. We have divine DNA.
3. We have access to the Father.
4. We have the Father's attention & affection.
5. We have assurance of our sonship.
6. We have unimaginable wealth & resources.
7. We will have some sufferings; shared glory.
APPLICATION:
Here's a challenge for you:
Change the way you speak to God from "formal" to "intimate/close." You are no longer slaves to sins; you are sons/daughters.
Example: Not This: "Dear God"
This: "Our Father, Daddy, Dad, Papa"
ACTIVATION:
Make this declaration through the eyes of all Jesus did at the cross.
I AM AN OVERCOMER BECAUSE JESUS OVERCAME!
APPLICATION:
Choose to see yourself - daily - through the lens of all that was done for you at the cross.
ACTIVATION:
Today we'll take communion together.
Remember when Christ died - our sins died.
When He was resurrected - I was resurrected - a new person completely free from my past with hope of an incredible future.
APPLICATION:
Tune in next week!