Five things that God is requiring of His people in 2012
Every believer should be defined by these five characteristics. Why five? Because five is the Biblical number that represents grace. These five actions will define our mission for 2009 and beyond. Everything that we do will be defined and measured by these five actions:
1. Worship – Psalms 95:6 – “Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. Verse 7 – “For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand.”
A. Worship will change the atmosphere. True worship will create an opening in the heavens.
B. We must learn to ascend in worship so that we may descend in warfare.
2. Warfare – I Timothy 1:18 – “This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare.”
A. Warfare will involve intercession. We must be a people who heed the words of the Apostle in I Thessalonians 5:16 – “Pray without ceasing.”
B. We must war over our prophetic promises until we see them come to pass. This is a season to believe for the manifestation of our prophetic promises.
3. Walk – Galatians 5:16 – “I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”
A. We walk by faith and not by sight. We follow God as He shines the light on our pathway.
B. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.
C. We are to walk circumspectly – Ephesians 5:15 says, “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise.”
D. We must walk in integrity and honesty.
4. Witness – Matthew 28:19 – “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
A. I Peter 3:15 – “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reasons for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear.”
B. Mark 16:15 – “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.”
C. 2 Corinthians 3:2 - 3 – “You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read by all men;” verse 3 – “clearly you are our an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink buy by the Spirit of the living God, not on tables of stone buy on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart.”
5. Wealth - Malachi 3: 8-10 – “Will a man rob or defraud God? Yet you rob and defraud Me. But you say, in what way do we rob or defraud You? You have withheld your tithes and offerings. 9You are cursed with the curse, for you are robbing Me, even this whole nation. 10Bring all the tithes (the whole tenth of your income) into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and prove Me now by it, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it."
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