Revive - thrive !

Whatever we lost, it's a process of getting more

   -Job lost everything except his wife.. but after 9mths, he got back everything instantly
      -God restores!

*nv choose opportunity over the house of God!

*When we go through tough times.. we becomes tougher!

*To become the fulfiller of the dream, we need to go through challenging time!

   -it took 70years to be completed!

   *Things will happen when we pray!!
      -if we forsake prayer, the church dies

   -laughter is one of the weapon to the devil!
   -communion happens when we laugh

*God is a restorer

God is doing something new in you and through you

We need to be in prayer.. prayer discerns the new from novelty and nostalgia

   -theres 4 young man bringing his paralyzed friend to the house where Jesus is in.. as it's packed, they broke the ceiling and bring their friend to Jesus
      -every barrier and limitation that is stoping ppl to Jesus have to be broken

*The motivation behind the action... Only then the action can be sustainable
   -motivation : motive in action

Ppl don't buy what you do but they buy why you do it!

Why do we need to break new grounds?

*Don't let the full house of the church blinds us from the needs of the ppl outside

*Church is to be more substance of Jesus than stuff
   -Gadgets and fashion don't last! It's the substance tt last!

*We need to be after continuous progress.. what needs to be continue and renew.. what needs to be removed

*Pray to be heart centered!
   -understand the heart of God, tti will lead us to have compassion

*The gospel shows who can save and not how to save
   -miracles always happen in the who not the how

*our convection speaks more!

*instead of changing the the world, the world will change you

   -same challenge today... They worship God + bow down to cultures

   -the 3 Hebrew boys though with pressure in threats, they still remain respect to the king and respond with conviction instead of reacting with confrontation
*conviction us rooted in the person of God
   -conviction produces trust in God
   -Jesus saves through the fire and not front he fire

Walking in the presence of God - Numbers 19

-those who touches the unclean (dead) will be cut off
   -water of cleansing

*Sanctification is a life-long process

At the last supper, Jesus told His disciples tt there is a need of constant cleansing

Blood are images of both life and death

3 things abt the blood of Jesus
-brings reconciliation

   -Jesus became the sacrifice
   -whatever we do, we cant appease God except the blood of Jesus cos God is holy!

-brings cleansing

   -we are now a new creation

   -the battle is fought in the mind
      -many times the devil comes and lie
   -dead to sin, life to God

-brings sanctification

   -holiness is an attribute of God

   -daily, we need to surrender to God
   -santification is choosing to be 1 with God
   -by faith, we must believe

-water...
   -for cleansing
   -for drinking
      -water refreshes
*The blood of Jesus is like water!

   -supernatural life, eternal life
      -eternal life : God kind of life

*Cos the blood have been shed, the rough is not on us.. so tt we can come boldly before the presence of God

the Holy Spirit is unrestrained

-the Holy Spirit may not be visible to our eyes, but He is here

-ppl think tt we need to be successful before we can come before God... However no matter where we are, He is there

No matter what we have done it circumstances we are in, the Holy Spirit is with us! Therefore, do not fear!

Holy Spirit is omnipotent

-powerful!

*only the Holy Spirit can brings transformation

-metamorphosis = the process of changing the caterpillar into butterfly

   -the Holy Spirit can transform us!

-theres nothing too hard for the Lord

-the Holy Spirit is wild, uncontrollable, unpredictable, unanticipated

Abraham become the father of faith
Moses took the risk to go to Pharoh
Mary is saying come Holy Spirit, wherever the wind blows, I will go!

Don't be afraid of failure! Have visions again!

Faith is for the things not seen! If we know and can predict, there's no need of faith

We hope in what we do not see.. if what we can see, it's not hope!

We must be willing to take the risk to obey
-risk of failures

Jesus  cried out to the Holy Spirit!
-krazo =
   -the cry of one desire
   -the cry of a dying man
   -the cry of the desperate who will not be silent


~pastor Bobby