The final week of the Wednesday night messages on our current Isaiah 56 focus is on how to respond when God prophetically reveals the dream of His heart. God sets a pattern for us in Isaiah 62 of how He shares His dreams and of what He calls us to do in response.
Isaiah 56 Focus – Week 8 – Responding to God’s Dream (59min, 16.9MB)
Week 7 of the Wednesday night messages on our current Isaiah 56 focus is on what that promise means related to the mission of the Church and what it is that drives us to reach out to the world around us.
Isaiah 56 Focus – Week 7 – Friends of the Bridegroom (65min, 18.6MB)
Week seven the focus is on the mission and ministry of God’s house. Again, there is some background thoughts and verses, and then passages to meditate on. Return to these as often as you like (our suggestion is every day during this period!), dialog with the Lord about what they mean to Him, use the questions at the bottom as fuel, and then pray it: God if that’s what’s in your heart than do … in me, and do … in my city and in the nations of the earth!
Week 7: The Mission of God’s House – Friends of the Bridegroom
PDF Handout – Week 7 – Friends of the Bridegroom
Background Verses: The prophecy of Isaiah 56 is explicitly missional in its focus. It’s assumed that everyone knows God’s house is a house of prayer from all God has already done and said. The thrust of the prophecy is: a house of prayer for all. God wants all who will say yes to covenant with God, to being His and living for His pleasure, to be drawn into His house. (more…)
Week 6 of the Wednesday night messages on our current Isaiah 56 focus is on what that promise means related to the cry of the Church and our deep longing and desire for Jesus to come and establish His kingdom in the earth.
Isaiah 56 Focus – Week 6 – Kingdom Come (56min, 16.1MB)
Week six the focus is on the cry that fills the prayers of God’s house. Again, there is some background thoughts and verses, and then passages to meditate on. Return to these as often as you like (our suggestion is every day during this period!), dialog with the Lord about what they mean to Him, use the questions at the bottom as fuel, and then pray it: God if that’s what’s in your heart than do … in me, and do … in my city and in the nations of the earth!
Week 6: The Cry of God’s House – Kingdom Come
PDF Handout – Week 6 – Kingdom Come
Background Verses: There is a cry associated with the call to be “a house of prayer” that you simply won’t find anywhere else. Everybody prays – in the sense that we cry out for help in our time of need – some to a God we know and some to a god they don’t know and aren’t even sure exists. When Jesus teaches His followers how to pray, though, there’s a different cry, birthed from knowing and hearing our Father in heaven and praying from heaven to earth for His plans to be fulfilled, that is first and primary before our own physical, spiritual and even ministerial needs. (more…)
Week 5 of the Wednesday night messages on our current Isaiah 56 focus is on what that promise means related to the perspective of the Church and how we see life because of our confidence as a cherished bride.
Isaiah 56 Focus – Week 5 – The Bridal Paradigm (68min, 19.5MB)
Week five the focus is on the perspective God’s house sees the world through. Again, there is some background thoughts and verses, and then passages to meditate on. Return to these as often as you like (our suggestion is every day during this period!), dialog with the Lord about what they mean to Him, use the questions at the bottom as fuel, and then pray it: God if that’s what’s in your heart than do … in me, and do … in my city and in the nations of the earth!
Week 5: The Perspective of God’s House – The Bridal Paradigm
PDF Handout – Week 5 – The Bridal Paradigm
Background Verses: One of the markers of God’s house that will increasingly set her apart from the rest of the world is a radically different view of life. As the world around us becomes increasingly driven by anxiety and need, and hardened by cynicism and disappointment, God’s church will stand in stark contrast filled with joy and peace, and overflowing with beauty and hope. (more…)
Week 4 of the Wednesday night messages on our current Isaiah 56 focus is on what that promise means related to the lifestyle of the Church as a people who are known by the way we lean in trust upon the goodness of God.
Isaiah 56 Focus – Week 4 – Voluntary Weakness (54min+extended ministry time, 20.1MB)
Week four the focus is on the lifestyle God calls His house to live. Again, there is some background thoughts and verses, and then passages to meditate on. Return to these as often as you like (our suggestion is every day during this period!), dialog with the Lord about what they mean to Him, use the questions at the bottom as fuel, and then pray it: God if that’s what’s in your heart than do … in me, and do … in my city and in the nations of the earth!
Week 4: The Lifestyle of God’s House – Voluntary Weakness
PDF Handout – Week 4 – Voluntary Weakness
Background Verses: There is a lifestyle associated with the call to be “a house of prayer.” It’s an easy one (meaning simple) that God makes accessible to even the weakest, but it’s a humble and costly one that few choose. God’s house is to be defined by the fact that we are a people who get where we get and become what we become out of the weakness of our asking and God’s moving. (more…)
Week 3 of the Wednesday night messages on our current Isaiah 56 focus is on what that promise means related to the role of the Church in the earth as a sacred assembly where God dwells and where God releases His government through intercession.
Isaiah 56 Focus – Week 3 – Governmental Intercession (62min, 17.6MB)