Habitation Church

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!

God Is Humble

What makes Jesus beautiful to you? 

Isaiah 53:2, "My servant grew up in the LORD’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him."

Nothing beautiful about His appearance to attract us to him? 

Jesus is not beautiful because He fits the cultural demands or pressures for what they say is beautiful. The system of the world has a way, a sway, a current, a pattern to it. It is headed a specific direction and attempting, through a discipleship effort, to pull as many people into the current as it possibly can. If we are not careful, and discerning, we end up getting conditioned by this discipleship agenda and very easily end up despising certain things that actually are a part of the beauty of God's makeup- His characteristics. 

God is humble. 

Let's gaze deeply into the beauty of God's humility.

Pressure into Prayer

Jesus is the great eternal intercessor (Heb 7:25). 

God partners with His people through prayer. 

Could it be that the pressure of your season is designed to push you to pray? 

Hannah allowed her frustration in her season to push her into intercession. Out of this intercession came the prayer (vow) that radically birthed God's desires in her life (1 Sam 1:11). 

Moses spent 40 years on the backside of the wilderness. When God encounters him in the burning bush, Moses prays out the prayer that rearranged his life and aligned him with the word of the Lord for His life. 

Do not allow your the pressure and pain of your season to be in vain. Channel it into intercession. Meet with God in the place of prayer. 

The pressure could be exactly what is going to produce the prayer that connects your life with God's purpose!

A People of Supernatural Character

The citizens of the Kingdom should have the character of the King. And when our lives get lived in relationship to others and circumstances there should be a demonstration of the transformation that the Spirit has made real in us. 

Our character is best experienced when we interact with others and with the situations that life will deliver to us. 

The Father is longing to have a people in the earth that are the product of the Spirit's power to produce them into the image of the Son, Jesus. 

God wants you to look like His Son. He is conforming you to His image. The version of you that God is looking for is a version that has been radically reconfigured, from the inside out, to be more like Jesus. He's not interested the best version of you that you can make, He longs for you to be more like His Son.

Follow Me

Paul releases an epic invitation in 1 Corinthians 4:16. He suggests to them that his life was something worthy to be modeled. Paul's implication by the invitation was that God believed in the way that his own life had been and was being transformed. Paul invitation was unto transformation, a way of life that would produce the results of the desires that God has in His heart to make a people more like His Son, Jesus. 

- Paul didn't just have a gift that flowed, he had a life worthy to be followed.

- Paul saw his own transformation as one of the means that God would bring transformation to others.

- Paul's life was planted in a family setting, where his life was wide open and on display, and it was here that the invitation was given to follow him. 

 

Join in and listen to see how we too can be encouraged for God to do something in us in order to establish a pattern for those around us!