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…)
Part 8 in the series: Gospel Identity: Belonging to God
We’re finishing up this series on our identity in God with a look at the lifestyle of the kingdom and how God invites us to choose a pattern of life that pulls us out of ourselves and into the place of writing a history with God. The cry of the Father’s heart to His children is “Trust Me!”
Burning Hearts Gathering – 5/30/12 – Growing In Trust (17.9MB 63min)
Session 7 on Loving God: Loving God With All Your Strength – The Sermon on the Mount Lifestyle
In the application part of this session, we’re looking at the lifestyle and practices that Jesus describes in the Sermon on the Mount and how they lead us to a life of sacrificial love and dependence upon God. Jesus lays out five areas of surrender where God longs for us to give and receive love.
Loving God – Session 7 – 11/14/10 – Loving God With All Your Strength (practicals) (22.5MB 66min)
Session 7 on Loving God: Loving God With All Your Strength – Pursuing Greatness in God’s Eyes
In this final session – Loving God with all our strength – we’re looking at the Sermon on the Mount and the call that Jesus gives to live before the eyes of our Father in heaven and to pursue greatness in His eyes. The Sermon on the Mount is our guide in how to be free of the hold of this world by shifting our reward, our focus and our confidence to our Father in heaven.
Loving God – Session 7 – 11/14/10 – Loving God With All Your Strength (teaching) (18.9MB 55min)
Notes(Primary scriptures: Matthew 5:17-6:18)
A look at the other half of longing for kingdom come – the cry of the human heart for the wrongs to be righted in a broken world. God wants to give us influence over spheres and places as our inheritance. The kingdom call to meekness is how we enter into that inheritance by releasing that cry of our heart in such a way as to further the kingdom of God on earth.
Pursuing God Service – 2/11/10 – The Gospel of the Kingdom Part 5: They shall inherit the earth (23.6MB 52min)
(Primary scriptures: Matthew 5:5,6:10)
A look at the heart of the kingdom – encountering Jesus and being wounded with longing for more of His presence, and at the promise of God to come alongside of the wounded heart and give us joy in His presence. Cultivating a heart that longs for Jesus is how we invite the presence of God in our lives and cities in greater measure.
Pursuing God Service – 2/4/10 – The Gospel of the Kingdom Part 4: They shall be comforted (31.7MB 69min)
Notes
Primary Scriptures: Matthew 5:4,9:14-17
Continuing with the the gospel of the kingdom, focusing in on the Beatitudes and Jesus’ promise that life is found in the embracing of the ways of the kingdom. A call to happy holiness and joyous repentance.
Pursuing God Service – 1/28/10 – The Gospel of the Kingdom Part 3: The blessed life (30.5MB 67min)
Notes
(Primary Scriptures: Matthew 5:3-12)
Continuing in the series on the gospel of the kingdom, looking this week at the Sermon on the Mount from a zoomed-out perspective. What was Jesus’ message as He preached His first sermon?
Pursuing God Service – 1/21/10 – The Gospel of the Kingdom Part 2: Seek first the kingdom (32.8MB 72min)
Notes
Primary Scriptures: Matthew 5-7
