Holy Spirit: My Completion
Activation:
Open your hearts to be baptized in the Holy Spirit today.
Application:
- Start talking daily to Holy Spirit.
- Develop your spiritual gifts (one of these being your prayer language).
Are You Comfortable with Holy Spirit?
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.
Hurdles: Trust
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.
Hurdles: Shame
Activation:
- Reclaim your identity.
- Take the "thoughts" captive.
- Declare the opposite.
Application:
Plan to CONQUER instead of BEING CONQUERED.
Prepare to be a disciple.
- Bible studies
- SOKE (School of Kingdom Expansion)
- SOZO (1.5 hour healing sessions)
- Find a mentor
Hurdles: Offense
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.
Hurdles: Forgiveness
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.
Hurdles: Memorial Day
Activation:
"I learned I could love more than I could hate." - Colonel Glenn Frazier
Hurdles: Taking Steps
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.
Mother's Day
Happy Mother's Day!
Join us next week for the next message in the Hurdles series!
Hurdles: Take Control of Fear
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.
What We Know About Healing
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.
Reconciled Sons and Daughters
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"
God's Not Mad at You
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.
Your Sins Nailed to 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!
Living an Extraordinary Life
ACTIVATION:
Where is the enemy attacking me?
It's time to "blow your trumpet" (Call your Father to arms; be empowered by the Holy Spirit)
APPLICATION:
This week, pray in the Spirit over the areas where you are under attack.
Living a Powerful Life
ACTIVATION:
Ask the Father:
Show me if my priorities are not in order.
Are there priorities for a victorious life that I'm not practicing?
APPLICATION:
Make a list of your priorities this week.
Do they set you up for the "victories" you want to achieve?
Change Your Perspective
ACTIVATION:
Father, is there an area I am seeing things from a pitiful perspective instead a powerful perspective?
APPLICATION:
Sit down with an unbiased friend and ask them if they see any areas where your perspective needs adjusting.