- 2 Chronicles 7:13-14
If you're looking around and notice you are not prospering, cry out to Him... You who are called by His Name, humble yourselves and pray! He will hear from heaven, and heal the land!
Lord, we see that Your church is not prospering in the Spirit, and so many of your people, in Detroit and throughout Michigan, struggle materially as well. We cry out to You, humbling ourselves to pray... - Zechariah 4 "but by MY Spirit says the LORD" This is not something man will accomplish, but only the Spirit of God -- Hence the preeminence of PRAYER
- Proverbs 11:30 "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who is wise wins souls."
- 1 John 3:1 "See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him."
Topics:
- Past Messages: Submit/Repent (holiness, dependence on Him); Identity/Position (affirmation of His call); Authority (the call to be a warrior, declaring that HE IS GOD)
- Glory: We are to contend for the glory of God.
- Gospel of the Kingdom: There is a kingly anointing on those who are being called... there are priests and prophets called to anoint these kings, as well, "birthing" sons into the kingdom of God.
- Strategies for calling/anointing/equipping/releasing these "little kings" :
---Conferences (Feb/Mar 2011 possible timeframe)
---Transform MI/Oak Initiative linkage with other local (Detroit area) pastors to pray over "mountains"
---Media (Radio with Pastor Brent)
---Website - Wisdom: The wisdom of God is manifest in the world when those in the marketplace seek Him for wisdom in their daily work tasks.
- Audacious Vision: There was an overwhelming sense that the vision of Marketplace Ministers... to call ALL people into their calling... is way beyond our reach, a bold, AUDACIOUS vision... just the sort of thing you might expect from our AUDACIOUS GOD! Yeah!
- Faith: The faith to overcome the intimidation factor is not HUGE faith... it's simple and childlike, as children of God. Believe what He has already said! "Take the land" He says... the land that is already ours! We are sons NOW (1 John 3:1)
