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The Christ Institutes Reclaiming a Consequential Christology Fostering Christ Awakening Movements. Before we begin Session VI… Praise. Prelude. Passage. Prayer. Prelude. The cry of every believer ’ s heart, is for more of Christ – more of Christ at work within us and within me.
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The Christ Institutes Reclaiming a Consequential Christology Fostering Christ Awakening Movements
Prelude The cry of every believer’s heart, is for more of Christ – more of Christ at work within us and within me. In His great love toward us, God’s Son intends to dwell among us, bringing with Him all He is to us, for us, over us and before us, as He inhabits us, to reign within us. Of every congregation on planet Earth, it can be said: The Lord Jesus is fully there, residing, and presiding –not just a part of Him, but ALL of Him.And wherever He abides, in His spectacular supremacy, the Triune God is fully involved.
Passage John 17–My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you…. I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me... I have revealed you to them, and I will continue to do so. Then your love for me will be in them, and I will be in them.
Prayer(in unison) Father – We celebrate this rich truth of the Gospel: that Your anointed Son, who claims preeminence in the entire universe, has come to dwell among your people, here and now, intimately and pervasively, in the fullness of His lordship and love. Awaken us, to His presiding presence. Help us, to gather to Him, and around Him, like never before -- to experience in Him fulfillments of all your promises to us. During this Session, bless us, with fresh infusions of His life within us –individually. Even more, reveal to us, grand possibilities, that belong to Your people, corporately, who welcome their King, unconditionally. Christ is all! AMEN
The Christ Institutes Reclaiming a Consequential Christology Fostering Christ Awakening Movements
Boxing Prayer
Prayer: pursuing a fuller awakening to Christ for ALL He is!
Prayer: pursuing greater manifestations of the spectacular supremacy of God’s Son… TO us FOR us OVER us BEFORE us WITHIN us THROUGH us UPON us
Boxing Prayer
“The key then to loving God is tosee Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore Him.”
In order to have a PURPOSE driven lifeyou need to have a…. PASSIONdriven life which requires you to have a
In order to have a PURPOSE driven lifeyou need to have a…. PASSION driven life which requires you to have a PROMISEdriven life which requires you to have a
In order to have a PURPOSE driven lifeyou need to have a…. PASSION driven life which requires you to have a PROMISE driven life which requires you to have a PERSON driven life!
REVIVAL IS CHRIST! Preeminently, all true revival is about God bringing glory back to His Son by the power of the Holy Spirit through His church. Between the Ascension and the Consummation, this is one of the most strategic activities of the Holy Spirit… We can only think rightly about revival when we think rightly about Christ’s place in revival. He is the criterion by which we define it, measure its legitimacy, and vindicate its impact…
The first issue before us as Christian leaders, then, is not to define the characteristics of revival. Rather, it is to comprehend more fully the supremacy of Christ who is at the heart of all corporate revival. AN URGENT APPEAL, p. 18
And…where is He headed? IN FOUR DIRECTIONS: Into the Future …in order to bring it back to us. Into the Heavens ...in order to bring us into it. Into the Promises …in order to make them ours, too. Into the World …in order to open the way for us to serve.
To sum up: Christ not only draws His people onward (into the future), upward (into the Heavens) and inward (into the promises), but also outward (into the nations).
As Christ goes BEFORE us… Live on tiptoes – in anticipation of “so much more”! Because there’s always so much more Christ deserves, desires, decrees, designs, deploys.
Colossians 1 God has planned to give a vision of the full wonder and splendor of his secret plan for the sons of men. And the secret is simply this: Christ is within all of you bringing with him the hope of all glorious things to come. So, naturally, we proclaim Christ!
NOTE: Christ WITHIN us brings with Him all He is TO us FOR us OVER us BEFORE us THROUGH us UPON us
He isall of this and He brings all of this as He dwells within us and as He works within us.
“Christ is risen in the prison.He calls among the walls.He dwells in the cells.He’s the One you see at EJSP.”
God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery,which is Christ within you, the hope of glory.