In Luke 2, shepherds were watching sheep when suddenly heaven invaded earth and pronounced something that was incomprehendible. A pronouncement was made which provided a new lens through which to see reality. Jesus shed his blood to make it possible for you to live under a continuous throne room experience. Sometimes we get promises that come in infant promises. We play a certain role when God deposits a possibility to us, and we have a responsibility to nurture it. We need to be pregnant with promise.
Signs and wonders are to point us to Jesus. For believers, it is to deepen our respect and awe for God, for non-believers it points to Jesus. Chris shares how power encounters can change people's lives. Redemption is more dramatic or powerful than we can possibly imagine.
There are layers of truth. In sowing and reaping you receive according to what you have done. But there is a higher law, the law of blessing in which you receive according to what He has done, not what you have done.
Our life in Christ starts in experience. But we have a culture that values information and theology. Theology is not bad, but it is to give us legal access into encounters and transformation. What you know can keep you from what you need to know if you don't maintain a child's heart.
Bill discusses the principles about finishing well in your life. There are prophetic lessons in the Bible that show us how God works and to summon us into a generation of reformers. Israel was acquainted with the acts of God, but Moses was acquainted with His ways. When you have a revelation of His ways, you have an invitation to an encounter with Him. When you know His acts you are aware of WHAT he does, but when you know His ways you can delight in WHO He is and step into deeper levels of intimacy.
The first service never really ended, but we flowed into worship. 40 days in the throne room continue.
Bill shares about the power of corporate anointing, of unity that creates a multiplication of strength.
Ps 27:1-10 The Lord is the strength of my life.
Faith in the reality of an old nature has kept people from heavenly encounters. You have legal access to the realms of God's Presence. Living from this reality is what makes faith normal. The church has the authority to raise people from the dead, and unfortunately that authority has been used to raise from the dead the old nature. We need to not just say amen to a truth that touches our minds, but put a demand on heaven to experience that truth. Paul said that as sure as Jesus died so did your old nature. Worship allows us to know what it means to be seated in heavenly places. We have legal access to the throne room of God with divine encounters with Holy Spirit.
