VALUES
VALUES
VALUES
Enjoying intimacy with the beautiful God
- Encountering God we understand his beauty and affection
- Our focus is God himself
- We enjoy God (Psalm 149:2)
- God enjoys us (Psalm 149:4) – even in our weakness (SoS 1:5)
- Fascination with God empowers us to engage in night and day prayer
- Our spiritual identity is as lovers of God
Living a fasted lifestyle
- Jesus wants us to live the Sermon on the Mount lifestyle (Matt 5 – 7)
- It keeps us focused on the "one thing" (Psalm 27:4)
- Fasting tenderises our hearts before God
- There are 4 dimensions of the fasted lifestyle:
- Fasting
- Praying
- Giving
- Serving
Importance of combining worship and intercession
- Worship – agreement with who God is
- Intercession – agreement with what God promises to do
- As we worship our faith expands to agree with what he will do
- It brings the promise of enjoyable prayer (Isaiah 56:7)
- It was the model for the Tabernacle of David
- God surrounds his throne with worship and prayer (Rev 5:8)
Team ministry
- Everybody is included
- There is no prominence given to individual ministries or gifts
- We learn to flow together
- Creates a dynamic diversity that helps us sustain longer hours of prayer
Carrying a prophetic spirit
- Cultivating a prophetic spirit on musicians and singers (2 Kings 3:15)
- Music releases revelation: God's beauty is revealed
- We are a prophetic sign to our community
- God is constantly speaking to us
- We grow in confidence in hearing God's voice
Scripture based prayer
- Focus on God asking him to release good qualities rather than remove bad
- It is the language of God's heart
- We agree with what God has said
- Avoids preaching and judgemental prayers
- Keeps us grounded in truth
Understanding end times and Israel's significance
- We need to understand the signs of the times and what is to come to be able to stand and pray and not be offended or lose heart
- We must understand the promise of a coming revival and victorious church along with end time judgements of God (the "great and terrible day of the Lord")
- Jesus will return for a holy, united church – a pure and spotless bride
- Awareness of the significance of Israel in the outworking of God's end-time plan
- Praying for Israel and the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122)