Habitation Church

Being Ruled By Jesus

We live in a day and age that constantly bombards us with self-help motivational quotes, steps to reaching your destiny, or some magic recipe to improve yourself. As we work to be a people that Jesus desires in our city, we are trying to remain faithful to the Scriptures. 

Jesus says anyone that wants to follow him must first deny themselves, pick up their cross and then follow up. This is the only method proven to produce a people filled with God and therefore find their destiny in Him. 

There are no other means that God has ordained to get the people he desires. A people who embrace the cross. A people of character, integrity, and supernatural power. We learn to let Jesus take his rightful place as Lord and King of our lives by denying ourselves and carrying our cross. 

Authenticity & Subjectivity

The Father is readying a people for Jesus that have been conformed to His image. A people that have been wildly possessed by the Holy Spirit and have been empowered by grace to become lovingly subject to the leadership of Jesus in every possible way. 

There are 2 areas where the Spirit is creating an emphasis for us in this season as we desire to be a Jesus People— a people who are fully His and have been conformed to His image. 

Authenticity— living in the reality of a transformed nature fueled and governed by Divine life; The Spirits work within us to conquer every attempt for us to live in response to what is happening to me instead of in response to what God is doing in me.

Subjectivity— living in subjection to the word of God. Not just loving the Bible but living the Bible, consistently through sorrow and celebration, trials and triumphs, worries and wonders. The hammer, which is the word of God, and the chisel, which is life circumstance, working together to conform me to the image of the One who is the Word made flesh. 

Free Barabbas

For our Resurrection Sunday gathering Michael Dow shared a word with us from John 18-19. 

"There is a Barabbas that lives on the inside of each of us."

"The crowd put pressure on Pilate to free Barabbas externally; Jesus was crucified and laid down His life to set Barabbas free internally."

"'Bar-Abba' means Son of the Father. They shouted, 'Give us Barabbas,' because they better identified with him. The murderer filled with brokenness, pain, weakness, insecurity, corruption. Humanity has always been confronted by what it sees in God and has desired to make Him more like them so they can feel better about the things that need to be changed."

Take a listen, enjoy!

God’s Ways of the Wilderness

Bryan and Mindy Jackson came to join us and speak to our church family during a corporate gathering. 

Bryan released a word of God's grace to us to strengthen those who have said yes to the Lord and His way of the wilderness. 

May your heart find the much needed encouragement to know that God is good and His ways have been tested and are good. He is producing an authentic and powerful people conformed to the image of His Son. This end goal requires the way of the wilderness. 

Enjoy!

The Pain of Leadership

Allen Hood came to join us to teach in the prayer room.

He shared his heart from his own journey and how the Lord is in this season leading him into a greater experience of His grace to establish him as an example to the community of saints. 

God chooses those who are unqualified, and then despite their deficiencies, continues to display His grace to them, thus establishing brokenness and dependency on the person of God, His grace, and His power. This authenticity and vulnerability makes one an example to a community and provides a much needed pathway to freedom for those bound in a performance driven and religious facade driven space. 

Enjoy!

Revelation to Rest

Anna Dow shared a word with all of us out of Jeremiah 31:1-26.

As our churches came together she released a prophetic exhortation and encouragement that hinged on 5 points: 

Wilderness Way 
Captivity to Community 
Praise and Planting
Watchmen and Weepers
Reward and Restoration

 

Attention, Affection and a Soft Heart

David Popovici was with us for a corporate gathering of our church and shared a powerful word from Mark chapter 4. 

In this moment of human history the church bears the responsibility of sifting through the challenges before us to connect with God in a real and deep way.

There is more opportunity for distraction and connectivity to other things than there has ever been. 

Evil is rising, but so is the Church; the wheat and the tares are maturing at the same time. 

God‘s Sabbath Rest

Robert Gladstone shares on God's Sabbath Rest. 

Living our lives in and from God's divine rest is critical to the quality and power of life that we experience. 

Bob shares 4 key points for entering into God's rest: 

- Revelation

- Relationships 

- Rhythm

- Restoration 

Enjoy!