Acts 1:8 (NIV) “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of
Our lives, with all our pain, conflicts, tragedies, brokenness, loves and losses, perplexities and persecutions, are held together by the broken body of Jesus.
In all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
Sin is waging the war in Romans 7. The Holy Spirit is waging the war of redemption in Romans 8.
PRAYER OF CONSECRATION Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Jesus, I belong to you. I lift up my heart to you. I set my mind on you.
When the church wakes up to the second half of the gospel, the world will wake up to the first half of the gospel.
“I will forgive all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases”— forgiveness and healing are intertwined.
Acts 1:8 (NIV) “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of
If consecration does not move toward transformation we will find ourselves signing up for another tour of duty in the country of Vertigo.
The only way out of vertigo is kneeling with Jesus in consecration.
Sin takes that which is good and twistedly uses it to bring about our death. But God takes what is bad and graciously uses it to bring about our life.
The commandment is not an exercise of the control of God over his image bearers but the care of God for us.
