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Doing What Father is Doing

KATHY—Whether your part is praying, giving, teaching, rescuing, speaking out, building, tearing down, taking on a project, starting a business, infiltrating the government mountain or media mountain or whatever else you see Him doing, GO for IT.  Doing what the Father is doing is not about little shepherds facing big giants, it’s about DAVIDS facing GOLIATHS!  Hear the difference?  Participating with what Father is doing is not a matter of helpless pawns in a political machine, it’s DANIELS in the lion’s den!  Doing Father’s business is not spiraling into despair, it’s NOAHS building the future through hell and high water.  Doing what Father is doing  is not slavery to the work-a-day world of business and finance, it’s MOSES’S leading in a path to a God-promise and a God-future.  Doing Father’s business is not being puppets obligated to perpetuate traditions that do not display God’s power, it’s JOSIAHS  born to start changing history by the age of eight.  We have to SEE the difference to LIVE the difference, and we have to LIVE the difference to walk out what our Father is doing in earth as in heaven.

The Process of Being Proven

MARTY—Have you ever noticed that there is a tendency in some people to want to advance beyond others, to advance in the exercise of authority whether they have been approved or not?  In 2Sam.15, David’s son Absalom pushed for and expected to be able to take authority in areas where he hadn’t been proven. We find the scriptural principle of the process of being proven in 1Tim.3:10.  Biblical principal tends to follow this pattern:  (1) Process while walking out relationship;  (2) Process leads to being proven;  (3)  Process and being proven leads to a track record that follows the principal of Lk.16:10– “faithful in little can be trusted in much”.  We are praying you discover daily that you are staying in relationship long enough to be proven so you can be trusted with much.

Raised With Christ

MELISSA—“Therefore if you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, sharing in His resurrection from the dead], keep seeking the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind and keep focused habitually on the things above [the heavenly things], not on things that are on the earth [which have only temporal value]. For you died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:1-3 (Amplified Bible) These scriptures are instructions on how to live the resurrection life. We are to seek out the reality of heaven and live it here – “…seek and keep on seeking and you will find“ Matt. 7:7, “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Matt. 6:10.

Plug Into the Power of Praying

KATHY—We must understand the power of what Jesus told us to pray, because people don’t plug into the power of praying, “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as in heaven,” if they do not understand it or don’t know they can!  Bear in mind also that God’s will being done in earth does not hinge on our significance.  It hinges on our obedience.  Like Jeremiah 11:4 said, “Obedience seals the deal.”  Whatever Father is doing that you see or perceive, then doing just your part seals the deal to usher in some degree of the God-results.  So if we simplify a Kingdom lifestyle down to an A-B-C format,  A) is staying aware of God at all times, B) is simple obedience, and C) is trusting God.  That adds up to participation in what Father is doing whether it is through sudden miracles or incremental God-changes over time.

Where we Fix Our Eyes in This Time of History

As the people of God assemble today may they fix their eyes on Jesus who endured the cross, despised the shame and is now set down at the right hand of the throne of God. May they know that Jesus rose from the dead because there was more to come.   “Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,  2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”  (Heb.12:1-2, NAU)

When a Grain Falls Into the Ground

MARTIN P—“Truly I say to you that UNLESS a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies…”(Jesus speaking in Jn12:24) This particular Grain of Wheat had a choice as to whether or not He would die and go into the earth. Knowing what was coming, He said to the Father, “yet not my will, but yours be done.”(Lk22:42) He was willing! Because this Grain would not “remain alone”: v.24 “if it dies, it bears much fruit.” Those redeemed by the shed blood of Jesus are His fruit. We are His message, His living letters (2Co3:3) that He has sent into the future. He rose, He lives and His fruit (His message to this generation) will show Him and His resurrection to the world by the power of His Spirit. He was willing to die to bear much fruit and HIs resurrection enables us to live to bear much fruit.

He is Not Here

MELISSA—“He is not here, but is risen: remember how He spake unto you when He was yet in Galilee, saying that the Son of man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.” Luke 24:6-7 Thinking of the glory and wonder of Easter brings some things to light regarding the resurrection life. That day resurrection power was unleashed in this earth. The man that walked out of that tomb did it as an example for all of us as how life should be from then on and there is so much more to resurrection life than walking out of the grave. That sounds crazy because that’s the biggest thing we can think of on earth but it’s bigger than we can comprehend with our finite minds.

Never a Solitary Dot

KATHY—The Truth is that we are never a solitary DOT on a globe.  God is always working through more sons’ awareness than yours alone.  Also, because of relationship with God and one another, we little DOTS can do something corporately.  Then we become one big honkin’ DOT on this earth, a portal, a floodgate for heaven’s incoming changes!  So, let’s not waste time considering our participation with Father might be insignificant or of no consequence.  In Joel 2:25, the Lord said He would restore the years that the locusts have eaten.  One meaning of the root word for locust is “insignificance”.  God can restore the times that a sense of insignificance stole your thunder, stole your success, stole your opportunities or stole your fulfillment because you didn’t know how much your obedience mattered or did not realize you were God’s Access Point to family or the workplace or the community or to nations.

Christ Died for our Sins

1Corinthians 15:1-4,Amp—“Now brothers and sisters, let me remind you [once again] of the good news [of salvation] which I preached to you, which you welcomed and accepted and on which you stand [by faith]. By this faith you are saved [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose], if you hold firmly to the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain [just superficially and without complete commitment]. For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to [that which] the Scriptures [foretold], and that He was buried, and that He was [bodily] raised on the third day according to [that which] the Scriptures [foretold],”