Habitation Church

Time To Go Up From Here

God desires to have a people for Himself that would be a holy possession. This desire is clear from the very beginning of the biblical narrative and remains throughout the timeline as we know it. 

In this session, Michael shares with Habitation Church particular insights taken from Deuteronomy 1-8, Numbers 13-14, and Acts 13 about our primary identity as the people of God, God’s purpose in our planting together in a way of life together that would “build His house” in our city, and then God’s heart to assign and commission people locally and abroad into a missional demonstration. 

“Whether you are released or remain, the goal is the same— build and become a habitation for God.

Habitation Church

God longs to dwell in the midst of a people that are wholly His. His prescription for that is a way of life that creates a context that is most conducive for His abiding. 

In this session, Michael shares from Acts 2:37-47 and Acts 13:1-3 on 9 key components for a living habitation. 

A habitat is the natural environment of an organism; the place that is natural for the life and growth of an organism. It is the place where a person or thing is usually found. 

God desires a habitat for Him to walk in the cool of the day among a people that are His. 

Your Investment Into His Inheritance

God has promised Jesus a people conformed to His image. Together, they will be the Bride of Christ. This Bride, the Church, will be a people from every tribe, nation, and tongue, across every generation of human history. This people, His comparable companion, will be His inheritance. 

In this session, Michael shares on the importance of God getting what He is after from the people that have been purchased with the blood of His Son. 

God is after a “what,”— a people conformed to the image of His Son. But, there is also a “way” that He is going to get that, and something that we can do about it to invest into what Jesus has been promised. 

With an emphasis on Numbers 9, Ephesians 1-4, and John 17, Michael shares on how you can make an investment into the inheritance of Jesus in a practical way. 

God Desires the Details

The Church is a people that have been purchased with the blood of God’s Son— Jesus Christ. They are a people redeemed from the influence of rulers and powers, and the corruption of the domain of darkness. They have been born again, now housing a divine life— The Holy Spirit— who is radically and dynamically working within them to align them to God in an intimate way, and to His purposes in an ongoing way. The church is a family of new creatures. 

In this session, Michael considers God’s desire to have a people He can share Himself with and the lengths that He goes to in order to reveal the habitat that is most conducive to fulfill that desire. Context matters. And there is a context most conducive to God having a resting place, a habitation, for Him to walk in the cool of the day amongst His people. 

God longs to tabernacle with us; He wants to do life with us. 

With an emphasis on Leviticus, Michael shares the heart of an ongoing way of life together that provides God with the environment, the habitat, for God to abide.

God of Hope

The Scriptures are filled with story after story of people in impossible situations who put their trust in the Living God. From Abraham having a name that did not fit his natural circumstances to Rahab being remembered for the faith, she showed in one moment. We see the hope they had that God could completely change their situation in his perfect timing. 

Mountain Moving Prayer

Prayer that moves mountains because with a heart of integrity before God and before one another. 

Bob lays out several points as a progression in prayer that will help the people of God to become a house of prayer as God desires. 

Prayer is—

Digging
Delighting 
Depending
Doing 

We will need to be a powerful people in prayer if we are to become a people who do powerful works of God. 

All powerful work for God is first preceded by powerful and prophetic prayer. 

Gripped with a Revelation of the Age to Come

We must become a Spirit people who are gripped with a revelation that Jesus is returning. At times it is easy to lose sight of the way we live our lives on the earth today will have an impact in eternity. 

In Acts 1, just before Jesus’ ascension, He commands the disciples to wait in Jerusalem for the baptism of the Spirit. He ascended, and while they were gazing into the sky, two men appeared and told them, the same way you saw Him leave, He will one day return.

The power of the Holy Spirit and the reality of His soon-coming return to reign on the earth should shape our lives practically. The Spirit helps us to live like Jesus and lay down our lives to be His witnesses on earth.

Prayer, The Plow, and Power