Guest Preacher, Rev. Candace Lewis, instructs that A “R.E.A.L” Pentecost Experience Requires: 1. READINESS: Individually and Corporately for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit 2. RECEIVING: Infilling and Empowerment with the Holy Spirit 3. RECOGNIZING: Interpreting and correcting Misinterpretations of activities of the Holy Spirit 4. RESULTS: Bold Communication, Personal Salvation and Community Transformation because of the Holy Spirit.

Resources

• Pentecost Journey Handout

Part 1 of series

Bei satisfied bringing things to reality and reaching your full potential. This is dependent upon the event, not on the relationships. 1. Jesus is more concerned about possibilities than failure 2. Fulfillment begins at the point where we feel that all is lost, when we are at our wits' end. 3. Let Jesus get into your life 4. When we begin to obey 5. Patient in God's fulfillment process 6. Only found in deep water 7. Open up to Dog and see what happens 8. Don't exclude, get rid of the 'If you say so" mentality 9. Deepen obedience 10. Allow your capacity to be increased

Resurrection can come out of a condition of crisis: 1. Keep looking for Jesus 2. Refuse to dwell in defeat 3. Keep hope alive 4. Live in faith not fear 5. Rejoice in his person

It blows my mind how 90% of the stuff we are concerned with as the church, often times has nothing to do with the kingdom of God.

Part one of the Set Me Free series, Finding Deliverance.

Learn from the story of Jonah to stop running from your problems. Admit your bruises, burdens, baggage and bondage and take the first step toward God delivering you from them.

After you "Admit It," the next step is about getting help. The story of the bleeding woman provides ample illustration for how to get help so that we don't just get recovery, but deliverance. 1. Recognize that when the presence of the Lord is around, your help is comin'. 2. Don't let anyone hinder you from getting to Jesus. 3. Hold on to his hem--his life changing garment--so that your transformation might begin. 4. Stop hiding if you want your healing. Tell the whole truth.

Links

• Luke 8: 43-48
• Mark 5:25-34

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Do you belong to the fellowship of the USED TO? Are there things that you used to do that you don't do anymore since you met Jesus? Your story of deliverance from your 'used to' can bring someone else to know Jesus. Four things that bring us into the Fellowship of the Used To: 1. Testify that Jesus saw you even if you can't see yourself 2. Testify that Jesus healed you, or that some healing is about to take place 3. You know you've been sent to find your wholeness, he'll make a way 4. You're not afraid to tell your story - the world needs to hear it!

The problem is that we want to be babes in Christ instead of being mature in Christ. We often aren't mature enough to hear God calling us to lead. There are 5 steps to growing up in God: 1. Evaluation 2. Enunciation 3. Estimation 4. Evolution 5. Excavation

At the last supper, Jesus shows us how to love through betrayal: 1. Be at your best when you are betrayed. 2. Commit yourself to love until the very end. 3. Practice humility in the face of your pain.

We spend too much time in cemetery mentality. Jesus did something new with death. If we want this new outlook we need to: 1. Put down the spices. Drop the things that preserve death or keep it going. 2. Keep moving forward. The Risen Christ will remove any obstacle to the blessings God has for you. 3. Expect a miracle. God has angels who have been assigned to help you. 4. Live with hope. God at anytime can step into our life and resurrect what looks dead. 5. Exchange fear for FAITH. Fear Ain’t In This House. 6. Remember that Jesus has folded up the situation and he’s coming back.

Links

• John 20:5-6
• Matthew 28:5-10

What's love got to do with it? Everything. If you don't have love you are bankrupt. Jesus is concerned with your heart. If your love is right, you are alright regardless of what rituals and trappings of the church you practice. If your vertical relationship with God is right, all your horizontal relationships with others will be alright.

Learn about the many kinds of love and how we must let them be ordered by agape--the love that desires the wellbeing of others. Paul describes what love is and what love isn't. He starts with Love is patient, love is kind. Kindness is the ability to control ourselves when wronged while expressing love to the offender in the process. Patience is the ability to bear things calmly and without complaint.

Who in your life has taught you how to love? Are you ready for God to teach you how to really love? Learn how to be: 1. Positioned to love (we can't love someone else unless the love of God is bubbling up in us); 2. Poised to love (we must show patience and kindness which means we must control ourselves to begin to express love EVEN when evil is coming for us); 3. Pruned to love: (we must let go of and get rid of the 8 things that block love); 4. Postured to love: (we must adopt 4 attitudes that place us for a special purpose).

Building relationships on anything other than agape love does NOT work. Agape love orders and orients all the other types of love. If your relationships are not built on the desire for the wellbeing of others FIRST you will have trouble. Even though we mess up and misunderstand, God loves us....still.

God wants to take us to a place where lovers go, to a place we've never known--a higher place. The challenge for us is figuring out how to get there. We have to understand three things: Love is permanent. Love is a process. Love fulfills God's promise.

What do Alicia Keys, a diary and the Samaritan woman at the well have in common with each other and with you? Listen and discover more about how our secrets have everything to do with our ability to fully receive the abundance love of God .

Formulas for Unleashing God's Favor

Formulas for Unleashing God's Favor

God is Calling Me for Such a Time as This

Like Mary, you may find yourself in lowly circumstances when out of the blue an angel shows up and blows your mind. Don't forget to: 1) Look for Your Angel ...they are always on time; 2) Listen for Your Angel...they are seeking to liberate you to bless a multitude; 3) Live Out What Your Angel Says...maybe someone will experience the Savior. An angel will: 1) Call you by name; 2) Calm your fears, 3) Confirm what they are trying to tell you through someone else; 4) and Carve out directions--your roadmap out of trouble.

Where your heart is, there your treasure is also. Free up your heart for the season of giving without being focused on or worried about the stuff that will rust, break and clutter up your life. How? 1) Adopt A Positive Outlook; 2) Increase Your Prayer Life; 3) Be Subject to the Rule of Christ--Seek Ye First the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness; 4) Live Today.

An explanation of how we got into the economic mess we are in and four principles for making it through. 1) Harvest Time Begins with Famine; 2) Don't Panic, Look for God; 3) Have Faith & Follow Directions; 4) Put Your Faith Into Action.

Links

• Genesis 26:1-13
• 2 Corinthians 9:6-8

God will grant us a blessing if we do what God says "Do!" In times of famine, we need to understand that: 1) There is a difference between being a citizen of the famine and being a resident alien; 2) When one blessing dries up, don't be afraid to go and look for another one; 3) Dig again your own wells of previous blessing; 4) Always take the high road in the famine.