15-12-2019
John 14:6-21 New International Version (NIV)
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know[b] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be[c] in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”
The word apostolic also means missionary. It comes from the word apostle which means the sent out ones.
By design of the Bible and by design of the Holy Spirit, every church ought to be apostolic.
Start with one person. Disciple that person until you begin to multiply.
It is explosive. Such was the Antioch Church of the day.
The church is not a building. The people constitute the church.
The key is the Holy Spirit.
Every promise has to be prayed over.
Faith can lose air just like a tyre can lose air. Faith can be deflated.
The Holy Spirit is our helper. He is God.
Keep on praying in the spirit.
Then you can hear the Word of God directly.
Pray until something happens. Pray with the Word of God. Pray the promise. And God begins to open it up and shows the way to do it.
If you don't lay a foundation of prayer, you won't last.
You work with the Holy Spirit and you will get what He wants.
Read the Bible systematically.
1) Look for God. We want to meet God who writes the letter to us. Then faith is stimulated.
2) Look for people.
3) Action or events. What does it say about yourself?
4) Time, chronology. What does it say you should be doing?
5) Place.
The works of God are the acts of obedience of men under the power of the Holy Spirit.
Faith without works is dead.
Failures do not define you. You only failed doing in the right direction.
Jesus had a focus. For the 40 days, He was praying Isaiah 61.
The Great Commission will only happen if it becomes personal to each and every one of us.
Jesus began to sow Isaiah 61 into His Spirit and into His heart.
He sowed in prayer. That's where the enemy will attack you.
The key is whoever believes. Whoever means you. Whoever believes in Jesus will do the things that He has done and do even greater. With this we can take the world.
Righteousness is basically this--that we are right with God, that we are right with ourselves, and that we are right with other people.
The key is the Holy Spirit--the person, the guidance and the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can come and fill you and make you alive.
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