GREENE STREET LETTERS: John Wimber Teaches On The Kingdom

Friday, September 28, 2012

John Wimber Teaches On The Kingdom

I have been revisiting my roots concerning the Kingdom of God. I believe that we are saved to be more than a "taker". I John 4:7 says that we are born of God. In other words, we have some of His spiritual DNA. If that is true, then we are to be givers. Giving away what God has freely given to us. We are salt ( flavor a tasteless and bland world) and we are light (invading the darkness to illuminate it so that the lies of the devil can be uncovered.

In other words, after I'm saved, I have been called to "do the stuff" of the kingdom.
"Doing the Stuff" is a term for doing the works of Jesus. He commanded us to participate in the taking of His message to those who don't know Him, and the free gift of salvation He has to offer. in other words, we tell people the good news that they don't have to live in sin/addiction any longer. God is present to free them and empower them to live a new way. We do this by sharing our story of our own salvation (Acts 1:8 - "You will be My Witnesses"). Learning to hear God and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, we then get to demonstrate the validity of our message by "doing the stuff".
We get to pray for people.
We get to pray and see people healed.
We get to pray and see demonic spirits broken off and cast out from people.
We get to pray and see the dead raised. No, you didn't misread that...we are commanded to pray for the dead to be brought back to life. ( I knew that one would get your attention).

We have also been called to visit those in jail....
To feed the hungry and poor....

How do I know we have been called to do this? Because I bet you have prayed the LORD's Prayer on more than one occasion. Do you remember the part that goes, "Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven?" Well, you have just placed yourself before Almighty God and asked Him to bring forth His plans through you. How else did you think the Kingdom would come? How else did you think His will would be done? Dude! It's all about falling in love with this Jesus!

Love Jesus....
Love those people who love Jesus....
Love those people who don't love Jesus....
And love yourself....

Then give yourself away. Look for opportunities to pray for people. Ask God to put one person in your path to pray for today. Then watch and see what happens.Jesus is looking for some radical people who are just crazy enough to believe Him and "Do the Stuff!"

God on you....
mb

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Looking At The World Through Cracked Lens

As ol' Paul wrote in his Corinthian letters.."We see in part and we know in part." Now what piece of this bit of wisdom do we not get? I wish to not run around acting and trying to be some sort of Biblical G00-Ru (I meant to spell it wrong). Or a sage of sages.

I simply want to be able to communicate some of what God has given to me. Why? Do I think what I get is better than what you may have received from Him? Nope. But I do think encouragement comes when we share our daily story of struggle and victory in an effort to encourage each other.

Thanks for letting me share.

Time to soldier on..

mbb

Our Statement of Faith

We believe that God is the eternal king. He is an infinite, unchangeable Spirit, perfect in holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, power and love. From all eternity He exists as the One Living and True God in three persons of one substance, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit equal in power and glory. we believe that God created mankind in His image, male and female, for relationship with Himself and to govern the earth. Under the temptation of Satan, our original parents fell from grace, bringing sin, sickness and God's judgment of death to the earth. Through the fall, Satan and his demonic hosts gained access to God's good creation. Creation now experiences the consequences and effects of Adam's original sin. Human beings are born into sin, subject to God's judgment of death and captive to Satan's kingdom of darkness. We believe that Jesus, God's Son, was sent to this world, conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin, Mary, fully God and fully man in one person. He is humanity as God intended us to be. Jesus was anointed as God's Messiah and empowered by the Holy Spirit, ushering in God's kingdom reign on earth, overpowering the reign of Satan by resisting temptation, preaching the good news of salvation, healing the sick, casting out demons and raising the dead. Jesus' atoning death on the cross took God's judgment for sin which we deserved as law-breakers. Jesus' resurrection and ascent back to heaven opened the door for those who received salvation to begin a relationship with God.

Little Nets Into Deep Waters

Fishing nets were designed for one purpose only. To catch fish. Nets are no good if they stay on the boat. Nets serve no purpose if they are never used. I think maybe God sees us this way. We are all created for a purpose (by the way, the creator gets to define what our purpose is). Any other use besides the one we were created for does us no good. But when the creator places His hands upon us, casting us out into those scary, dark places with deep waters, it is then we can see the reality of our purpose. He knew there would be a catch waiting for us. I think I will be the net God has called me to be.

The Twelve Steps

As a community of people in recovery, we affirm that our higher power is Jesus Christ. He did for us what we could not do for ourselves. Just as God told the children of Israel He was going to give them a promised land, He has revealed to us that He desires to give us a "Promised Life." When Israel got to the promised land, God instructed them to go and in a possess it, fight for it and claim it. In recovery, the 12 Steps are the directions given to us on how to fight, possess and claim this promised life.

Friday, September 28, 2012

John Wimber Teaches On The Kingdom

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