(19 - 20 JUNE 2010) The church of Jesus has to be a place full of the Lord's presence. Despite the fact that some of us are born again and filled with the Holy Spirit, there are times when we feel dry. Sometimes going to church becomes routine. People of the world are hungry for the spiritual. They need help. When they can't see God in the church, they turn to cults.
God wants to manifest his glory. He wants to fill us. But we have to be hungry for Him.
Matthew 5:3,6 Blessed are those who know that they are spiritually in need and realize their need for him; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness will be filled.
Psalms 63:1-8 Earnestly I seek you. My soul thirsts for you. I want to see your power and your glory, oh Lord. I stay close to the Lord.
Let's seek him and not just his blessings.
Hebrews 11:6 God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.
WE NEED HIS MANIFESTED PRESENCE, NOT JUST FORMULAE AND STEPS.
Jeremiah 29:13 If we seek him with all our hearts, we will find him.
Genesis 5:22,24 Enoch walked with God
Philippians 3:8-21 I want to know Christ. I consider all things as nothing in comparison to knowing Christ. I can forfeit pleasures and anything else in order to gain Christ. I do not count myself to have arrived, I keep on pressing on toward the goal. Brothers and sisters, follow my example. I am hungry for more.
Ezekiel 47:1-5 I am not satisfied with the water at ankle height. I want to flow in the deep waters of the Holy Spirit. It is not just tongues and dances, there has got to be more.
Exodus 33:7-18 When you come to the tent of meeting, you need to experience God. If you inquire, the Lord will reveal to you. In addition, your leader is with you in the tent. When the presence of the Lord fill the church, we have to keep on worshipping him.
Moses wanted to know God. He wanted to know God's ways.
If the Lord is not in our midst, what will differentiate us from the people of this world? (Exodus 33:16).
Luke 4:18 It is the anointing that makes the difference.
Ephesians 1:15-23 We need a revelation to understand the exceeding great power of God within us. We have received the power (dunamis) when the Holy Ghost came upon us (Acts 1:8).
Exodus 3:7-10 The Lord sees the suffering of his people and he wants to deliver them. But he wants to use his church to deliver his people.
Amos 3:7 The Sovereign Lord does nothing without telling his servants.
Matthew 16:17-19 Jesus is building his church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. We have been given the keys of the kingdom. Declare things forbidden or permitted and it shall be so. The key may look small but it can unlock big doors. Not everybody has been given the keys.
1John 3:8 Jesus was manifested so that he might destroy the works of the devil. Jesus wants to use us to destroy the works of the devil.
Acts 10:38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil.
Matthew 10:1 Jesus gave his disciples authority to cast out evil spirits and to heal all manner of sickness and disease.
Luke 10:17-20 Even demons can be subjected to us through the name of Jesus. Jesus has given us power over all the power of the enemy. Nothing shall by any means harm us.
Philippians 2:9-11 The name of Jesus is above every name (whether in heaven, on earth or even under the earth). Is AIDS a name? Every knee should bow to the name of Jesus.
Mark 16:17-18, John 14:12 As believers, we can also do what Jesus did to deliver people.
Acts 3:3-8, 16 Peter used the name of Jesus and the crippled man walked.
Job 22:28 You shall decree a thing and it shall be established
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to free those who are bound.
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