Living a Spirit-Filled Life: Faith, Prayer, and Worship
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You don't have to strive to enter into it. You just need the faith to believe that God in heaven sees you, loves you, made a way for you through Jesus Christ. And his plan is so complete and perfect. He didn't just stop at saving you. He wants to fill you with his Holy Spirit so that your life wouldn't just be an ordinary life. It would go beyond our abilities and what we could do in the natural. [00:30:31] (38 seconds)
Something happens when you take a next step in your faith journey. When you have an active faith, God will meet you at the point of that action in your faith. I see some faces in the room that got baptized last week. My prayer for you is that you've already been experiencing that this week. There's just something that happens when you take a step of faithfulness and obedience. The blessing of God will meet you at faithfulness and obedience. [00:38:23] (26 seconds)
You see, there are chapters of your life that do not get written and you do not experience apart from living a life that is face to face with God. A face to face life with God. And we know this from the book of Acts that there are pages that are only possible because of prayer. Of course, this is going to go against the grain of our culture because culture is going to tell you, you know what, you are all that you need to live a healthy, wealthy, successful life. [00:41:17] (27 seconds)
Acts chapter 4 goes on. There's another prayer meeting. The disciples pray, Lord, look on their threats and grant to your servants with all boldness they may speak your word and stretch out your hand that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus. It's a prayer meeting. Acts chapter 4. Acts chapter 5. I don't think you still believe me. We'll go Acts chapter 5. We'll stop when you believe. [00:45:56] (18 seconds)
Face-to-face life is a life of prayer. Face-to-face church is a church of prayer. I was talking to pastor Jess this week. She's one of our assistant pastors. She oversees a lot of things. One of them, the biggest part, is actually our resonate kids ministry. Come on, shout out resonate kids and our kids team. She recently had a meeting with our kids team, and I love that so many of them set aside a weeknight to get together at our headquarters to plan for strategize envision for a future ministry for our kids. [00:47:43] (30 seconds)
So Resonate Church family, a face-to-face church is a church that prays. And for this reason, in these 90 days of prayer that I felt called to personally, we're also elevating prayer life of our church. We're putting two prayer nights in the church calendar each month in these 90 days. And so the first one of those will be tonight at our headquarters, 6 to 7 p.m. A bunch of our prayer team will be there. You're invited to be there. Come pray for one hour. [00:50:55] (21 seconds)
A face-to-face church is a praying church, but here's number two. I was really pumped about this one. A face-to-face life is a prophetic life. Prophetic life. What does that mean? Because some of us, when we hear the word prophecy, all we think about is that we don't talk about Bruno because it's weird. And that's not what I'm talking about. And maybe you even grew up in a church where it, like when someone, there was like a microphone and someone would get up on stage and then when they would start to talk in some sort of prophetic word, it just wasn't even, didn't even sound like them. [00:52:33] (30 seconds)
It's actually meant for the entire body of Christ. In fact, the apostle Paul said of all the spiritual gifts that prophecy was the one that every single one of us in this room, if you're a follower of Jesus, should be craving and desiring. Well, why is that? Because to prophesy, all it means is to speak like God speaks. It's to speak the word of God, to speak future-oriented words the way God does. Acts chapter 2, verse 17 says, in the last days, God says, I'll pour out my spirit on all people, and your sons and daughters are gonna prophesy. [00:53:29] (31 seconds)
Your kids need you to be a prophetic parent. I'm all about parent podcasts, parent books. I read them. I like it. I'm about parent Instagrams. I don't really do a lot of Instagramming, but if I do, I want to find a good parenting tip, like one I saw recently about if your kids are in some sort of disagreement or they're needing you to count to 17 before you respond. I thought, well, that's a good tip. Now, I don't know if 16 seconds doesn't work. [00:55:33] (23 seconds)
Because a parent that's been face-to-face with God in the tent of meeting talks differently about the future than a non-face-to-face parent that's not speaking prophetically over their kids. See, when I've met with God, when I've had face-to-face time with God and our kids come down the stairs and they're just rubbing the tiredness out of their eyes and they're still in their underwear and they're just coming downstairs and all of a sudden I'm like, oh, baby girl, God's hand is on your life today. [00:56:41] (32 seconds)
You see, sometimes we come into a worship atmosphere and we sing some words like, all that matters now is you. Christ is my portion. Christ my devotion. Oh, you're the center of it all. And we sing it, or maybe we don't sing it. We mouth the words, or maybe we don't mouth the words. We stand there, but we see the words and it doesn't sink deep into the level of our hearts. But here's the thing. [01:04:26] (27 seconds)
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Something happens when you take a next step in your faith journey. When you have an active faith, God will meet you at the point of that action in your faith. I see some faces in the room that got baptized last week. My prayer for you is that you've already been experiencing that this week. There's just something that happens when you take a step of faithfulness and obedience. The blessing of God will meet you at faithfulness and obedience. [00:38:23] (26 seconds)
You see, there are chapters of your life that do not get written and you do not experience apart from living a life that is face to face with God. A face to face life with God. And we know this from the book of Acts that there are pages that are only possible because of prayer. Of course, this is going to go against the grain of our culture because culture is going to tell you, you know what, you are all that you need to live a healthy, wealthy, successful life. [00:41:17] (27 seconds)
Acts chapter 4 goes on. There's another prayer meeting. The disciples pray, Lord, look on their threats and grant to your servants with all boldness they may speak your word and stretch out your hand that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus. It's a prayer meeting. Acts chapter 4. Acts chapter 5. I don't think you still believe me. We'll go Acts chapter 5. We'll stop when you believe. [00:45:56] (18 seconds)
Face-to-face life is a life of prayer. Face-to-face church is a church of prayer. I was talking to pastor Jess this week. She's one of our assistant pastors. She oversees a lot of things. One of them, the biggest part, is actually our resonate kids ministry. Come on, shout out resonate kids and our kids team. She recently had a meeting with our kids team, and I love that so many of them set aside a weeknight to get together at our headquarters to plan for strategize envision for a future ministry for our kids. [00:47:43] (30 seconds)
So Resonate Church family, a face-to-face church is a church that prays. And for this reason, in these 90 days of prayer that I felt called to personally, we're also elevating prayer life of our church. We're putting two prayer nights in the church calendar each month in these 90 days. And so the first one of those will be tonight at our headquarters, 6 to 7 p.m. A bunch of our prayer team will be there. You're invited to be there. Come pray for one hour. [00:50:55] (21 seconds)
A face-to-face church is a praying church, but here's number two. I was really pumped about this one. A face-to-face life is a prophetic life. Prophetic life. What does that mean? Because some of us, when we hear the word prophecy, all we think about is that we don't talk about Bruno because it's weird. And that's not what I'm talking about. And maybe you even grew up in a church where it, like when someone, there was like a microphone and someone would get up on stage and then when they would start to talk in some sort of prophetic word, it just wasn't even, didn't even sound like them. [00:52:33] (30 seconds)
It's actually meant for the entire body of Christ. In fact, the apostle Paul said of all the spiritual gifts that prophecy was the one that every single one of us in this room, if you're a follower of Jesus, should be craving and desiring. Well, why is that? Because to prophesy, all it means is to speak like God speaks. It's to speak the word of God, to speak future-oriented words the way God does. Acts chapter 2, verse 17 says, in the last days, God says, I'll pour out my spirit on all people, and your sons and daughters are gonna prophesy. [00:53:29] (31 seconds)
Your kids need you to be a prophetic parent. I'm all about parent podcasts, parent books. I read them. I like it. I'm about parent Instagrams. I don't really do a lot of Instagramming, but if I do, I want to find a good parenting tip, like one I saw recently about if your kids are in some sort of disagreement or they're needing you to count to 17 before you respond. I thought, well, that's a good tip. Now, I don't know if 16 seconds doesn't work. [00:55:33] (23 seconds)
Because a parent that's been face-to-face with God in the tent of meeting talks differently about the future than a non-face-to-face parent that's not speaking prophetically over their kids. See, when I've met with God, when I've had face-to-face time with God and our kids come down the stairs and they're just rubbing the tiredness out of their eyes and they're still in their underwear and they're just coming downstairs and all of a sudden I'm like, oh, baby girl, God's hand is on your life today. [00:56:41] (32 seconds)
You see, sometimes we come into a worship atmosphere and we sing some words like, all that matters now is you. Christ is my portion. Christ my devotion. Oh, you're the center of it all. And we sing it, or maybe we don't sing it. We mouth the words, or maybe we don't mouth the words. We stand there, but we see the words and it doesn't sink deep into the level of our hearts. But here's the thing. [01:04:26] (27 seconds)
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