Truths of Revival - Identity (notes)

Truths of Revival - Identity

What Is Our Identity?

• First, Identity is who we are
• The Word of God says who we are

Who Are We?

• We are children of God
• We are of the household of faith
• We will reign with Jesus Christ throughout eternity in the house of God.

Galatians 6:20

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

John 14

• Jesus talked about His father’s house.
• That there are many rooms. (KJV Mansions)
• He would go and prepare a place for us.
• He promised that He would come back and take us to that wonderful place.
• Thomas said, “we didn’t know where You were going.”
• Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me!

John 1

• Mentions that though the world was made through Jesus, the world didn’t recognize Him.
• He came to His own but His own did not receive Him.
• Yet to all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God.
• Children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

That Is Our Identity

• We have a great destiny.
• We are children of the Most High.
• We will live in our Father’s house.
• We will reign with Christ for ever.

Ephesians 2

• Mentions our past--dead in our transgressions and sins, in which we lived when we followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the disobedient.
• We at one time lived gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature, following its desires and thoughts.

Ephesians 2

• We were by nature objects of wrath.
• But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace that we have been saved.
• God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in heavenly realms in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2

• In time we will see the incomparably riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
• We are saved by grace, through faith, and this is not of ourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so no one will boast.
• We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works.

Ephesians 2

• We were foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
• But now we in Christ Jesus we have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
• We are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household.

I Peter 2:4

• We are living stones (of God’s House of faith) being built into a spiritual house to be.
• A holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• Verse 9 “You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God.”
• That you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.
• Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God--we have received mercy.

That Is Who We are!

We are a mighty conquering army called to defeat the enemy Satan and all his forces!

Truths of Revival - Identity

Truths of Revival - Identity this message was given on 11-29-09

Truths of Revival - God’s Household (notes)

Truths of Revival - God’s Household

God Loves Your Family Just as we love those who are dear to us God loves the whole human family and He loves your family more than you could ever love them.

God has a family and to be a part of His family is the greatest privilege in the world.

When Someone comes to the Lord all the people in that person’s family becomes candidates for salvation and heaven.

Ephesians 2

Talks about how we are all part of God’s Household.

1. Jesus destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility.
2. He repealed the law code.
3. His purpose was to create in Himself a new man.
4. In His body He reconciled, He created a new kind of human being.
5. Christ brought us together through His death on the cross.
6. The cross got us to embrace and that was the end of hostility.
7. We are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s Household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Jesus being the Chief Cornerstone, in Him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord.

What It Means

To be a part of God’s family!

1. It is just like a human family but greater.
2. We are connected to all believers in the world.
3. We have a mighty support system.
4. It means Almighty God is our Father.
5. That there are mighty angels who give us protection, strength, and help in time of need.
6. It means that how we live our lives affects believers everywhere.

Keys to enjoying the blessings of this great family

1. Intimacy.
2. Interaction.
3. Intercession.
4. Gratefulness.

Gratefulness Is one of the greatest traits of being part of the family.

History of Thanksgiving

Lev. 7:13

Ezra 3:11

Psalm 42:4, 69:30, 95:2, 100:4, 147:7

God’s House

We are all part of God’s Household and being thankful for this great gift is the way we demonstrate the work God has done in our hearts.

When We Get To Heaven

We will full of gratitude for all that God has done to make it possible for us to be a part of His household and we will live in His house forever!

Truths of Revival - God’s Household

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Truths of Revival - God Love’s Families (notes)

Truths of Revival - God Love’s Families

God Loves Your Family

Just as we love those who are dear to us God loves the whole human family and He loves your family more than you could ever love them.

God Is not willing that any should perish but that all come to repentance.

When Someone comes to the Lord all the people in that person’s family become candidates for salvation and heaven.

Example of Paul & Silas

• Acts 16:13-34
• God used Paul & Silas to lead a city wide revival.
• They are arrested by the local authorities, beaten, chained and thrown into jail.
• At midnight instead of moaning and groaning they started a praise service.
• God sends an earth quake.

Paul & Silas

• The jailer is just about to kill himself when Paul told him not to harm himself.
• They lead the jailer to Jesus.
• Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved--you and your household.
• He and his household are saved and baptized.
• The jailer feeds them and was filled with joy because he came to believe, he and his whole family.

A Great Move of God

• Started with a family being saved and ends with another family getting saved.
• God loves families.
• Paul said we are part of the household of faith, part of the family of God.
• Believe God to save your family today--start believing it today and you will see them come to the Lord.
• The family is God’s idea; He designed the structure of the family.

There is a Satanic onslaught against the family today

• Example of same sex marriage.
• Thank God 31 states have passed constitutional amendments protecting the traditional family. One man one woman is marriage, not one man and another man or a woman and another woman.
• Example of the case in the state of Maine.

Example of Moses

Satan attacked the family right before Moses is born because he knew a great deliverance was coming for the people of God.

Example of Esther

Satan again attacked the family of God by trying to destroy the nation of Israel but God raised up a young woman who would save the nation and Esther comes into the kingdom for such a time as this to save the family of God again.

Example of Jesus

• Again the Devil attacks the family by destroying all the Jewish babies when Jesus is born.
• He was trying to stop the plan of God.
• God always uses a family to fulfill his purpose on the earth.

God Told My Former Pastor This:

• “Do you know… that if even one member of your family is living for God, each individual member (of your family) is highly favored?
• That a great host of angels has been assigned to bring these highly favored people to God?
• That they have orders to listen to no objections, but to hasten individuals to a point of choice?
• That if a person chooses the wrong way, the angels will begin the cycle all over again?”

What Can We Do To experience the promise of God for the salvation of our families?

• Believe.
• In the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Be saved.
• You and your house.

When We Get To Heaven

We will be amazed at all the families who will be there rejoicing in the Lord because someone in their family believed God, prayed and did all they could so their loved ones could come to the Lord and walk with Him!

Truths of Revival - God Love’s Families

Truths of Revival - God Love’s Families this message was given on 11-15-09

Truths of Revival - God’s Priorities 2 (notes)

Truths of Revival - God’s Priorities 2

God Has Priorities

These are events, issues and subjects that are keys in the kingdom of heaven that affect us on the earth today and will guide us into our destiny.

The Church

In order to fulfill our purpose we must adhere to God’s Priorities.

The Blood of Jesus

• Why is the Blood of Jesus so important to God?
• The Word tells us that life is in the blood and without the shedding of blood there is no removal of sin. So in order to have a relationship with God we must have our sin removed. Only the Blood of Jesus can do this. This is why God said, there is no other way to be reconciled to Him. Jesus is the Way; His Blood is what clears the way for us.

Communion with God

Leaven is a type of sin and during the feast of unleavened bread they would eat unleavened bread, representing sin pardoned. Under the new covenant, leavened bread was used because God provided justification. Instead of SIN, FAULT AND FAILURE, God sees, through the covering He provided, HOLINESS, BLAMELESSNESS AND PERFECTION.

Those Who Choose rebellion and idolatry voluntarily move out from His covering. Those who choose obedience instead of rebellion voluntarily stay under His covering because they choose to love and serve God above self and the desire to sin.

Heb. 10:14-17

“For by that one offering He made forever perfect in the sight of God all those whom He is making holy.”

“And the Holy Spirit testifies that this is so, for He said, ‘This is the agreement I will make with the people of Israel, though they broke their first agreement I will write my laws into their minds so that they will always know my will, and I will put my laws in their hearts so that they will want to obey them.’ And then He adds, ‘I will never again remember their sins and lawless deeds.’”

Jesus Is Alive

Not only is He alive, but it is already written down in God’s book that we who are His will follow after Him in great resurrection.

Believing in the resurrection of Jesus is what Justifies us. (Romans 10:9-10)

Our Prayer

Should be, come Holy Spirit, and He will come and fill us with the Glory of God.

The Glory of God transforms us from glory to glory. II Cor. 3:17

The Coming of The Holy Spirit

Take the grain, grind it into flour, and turn it into bread. Put some leaven in it because the church will never be without sin or evil. God has it covered, but on the inside of the covering where you live, sin often crops up.

He covers His church even though sin (leaven) is present.

Jesus Is The One

Who baptizes us in the Holy Spirit and it is a baptism in fire (glory and purification for power) in our ministry to the world!

Sound The Trumpet the Good News is Jesus defeated the Devil, stripped his army of their weapons, rose with the keys of hell and death and has made it possible for us to be in fellowship with God until the day we stand before Him.

People need to hear this today. It is our job to sound the trumpet of the Good News.

Atonement

When we are born again God’s Spirit gives us new life from heaven, our probation does not just expire, it is canceled.

God Desires us to be with Him forever

The return of Jesus for His church is the great hope of the child of God.

Truths of Revival - God’s Priorities 2

Truths of Revival - God’s Priorities 2 this message was given on 11-8-09

Truths of Revival - God’s Priorities (notes)

Truths of Revival - God’s Priorities

Throughout Church history God reveals truth to the church in order to fulfill the purpose of God in that period of time.

The Church Also looses truths and God has to remind us of what we have lost and has to restore revelation to the church.

Justified By Faith

God is Holy and demands holiness to enter His presence. How do we need to enter His presence? How are we justified?

1. Justification by faith
2. By believing in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Heb. 9:1-12
3. By repenting of our sins Acts 3:19

What Is Important To God?

1. The blood of Jesus

2. Communion with God

3. The resurrection of Jesus

4. Being baptized in the Holy Spirit

5. Telling the world about Jesus Christ

6. The atonement of our sins

7. The return of Jesus Christ for us

These Seven Priorities Were given to my pastor in Idaho by God over a period of a couple of years.

The Feasts of Israel

All point to the seven priorities of God:

1. Passover

2. Unleavened Bread

3. First Fruits

4. Pentecost

5. Trumpets

6. Great Day of Atonement

7. Tabernacles

The Blood of Jesus

The feast of Passover was a type of the death of Christ. His sacrifice, and the blood of Jesus was written before God ever made the earth.

Communion with God

• The Feast of Unleavened Bread was celebrated beginning the day following the Passover. Leaven is a type of sin, and at the feast they were to eat unleavened bread, representing sin pardoned.
• Instead of SIN, FAULT AND FAILURE, God sees, through the covering he provided, HOLINESS, BLAMELESSNESS AND PERFECTION.

Those In Rebellion and Idolatry voluntarily move out from under His covering for sin. Those who choose obedience instead of rebellion voluntarily stay under his covering because they choose to love and serve God above self and above the desire to sin. (Heb. 10:14-17 Living Bible)

For by that one offering he made forever perfect in the sight of God those whom he is making holy.

Jesus is Alive

The angel of the Lord said this festival represents the resurrection of Jesus and His life. Not only is he alive, but it is already written down in God’s book that we who are his will follow after him in great resurrection. It is God’s big heart.

The Coming of the Holy Spirit is one of the most important aspect of God’s unfolding plan for the church.

Let’s Ask The Holy Spirit in this hour to be poured out on us, on this city, on this nation and the world.

Truths of Revival - God’s Priorities

Truths of Revival - God’s Priorities this message was given on 11-1-09