
A Holy Spirit Story: The Father’s Blessing
Acts 1:8 (NIV) “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,
The Wake-Up Call is a daily encouragement to shake off the slumber of our busy lives and turn our eyes toward Jesus. Each morning our community gathers around a Scripture, a reflection, a prayer, and a few short questions, inviting us to reorient our lives around the love of Jesus who transforms our hearts, homes, churches, and cities.
Personal awakening starts when we’re no longer content to rest in salvation from sin and death, but moving with desperation to be restored to the image of God.
Communal awakening moves from our hearts into a resurgence of life and faith in our homes and radical hospitality and love towards our neighbors.
An awakened church is no longer going through the motions, but is focused on spreading the love of Christ throughout its people and its local community.
In the city we see a decrease in social toxicity, the healing of the sick and hurting, and the flourishing of every sector of society – the contagion of scriptural holiness in the land.
Acts 1:8 (NIV) “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,
The Holy Spirit is counted as third not because he is of a lesser rank or different substance than the other two persons of the holy Trinity.
Our lives, with all our pain, conflicts, tragedies, brokenness, loves and losses, perplexities and persecutions, are held together by the broken body of Jesus.