HOW MUST JESUS HAVE FELT?

1.   Luke 22:14-24 “And when the hour was come, he sat down and the twelve

     apostles with him.  And he said unto them, With desire I

     have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer: 

    And he took the cup…and he took the bread…and there was

     strife among them, which of them should be accounted the

     greatest.”(Jesus shared His heart and they argued!)

2.   Matthew 26:37-46 “Jesus began to be sorrowful and very heavy.  Then

       said he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even

       unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.  And he

       went a little farther, and fell on his face, and

       prayed…He findeth his disciples asleep…He found

       them asleep again…And a third time He cometh to His

      disciples and said, Sleep on now.”(Jesus Shared His

      heart and they went to sleep!)

1.      When I share that we must learn to “see what the Father is doing and hear what He is saying”?

2.      When I share that God gives the apostle gifted leaders foundational truths, discernment, vision, direction, design, pattern, practice, order, and timing?

3.      When I share that it is now time for part of the Church in Winnsboro to come together and assemble from house to house?

4.      When I share that God sees His Church today as pools of water scattered throughout the world and He is now beginning to connect these together?

5.      When I share that God is cutting, sawing and hewning spiritual stones in various quarry locations of the world and is beginning to bring these living stones together as One Body?

6.      When I share that God wants us to stand up in the power of His breath and minister to the needs of the world?

7.      When I share that God is shaking everything that can be shaken and only what is built upon Him will stand?

8.      When I share that we need to understand that the various equipping gifted leaders see and hear from God uniquely through their own gifting about the Church?

9.      When I share that we need to trust the Lord within the equipping gifted leaders when they speak about what God is saying?

10.  When I share that we need to follow the equipping gifted leaders as they follow the Lord?

11.  When I share that the Lord gave me a word about having a “gathering” of itinerant equipping leadership in Winnsboro?

12.  When I share that there will be those who will stay over at the “hired house” for further equipping?

13.  When I share that God will supernaturally bring other people to the “hired house” for equipping?

14.  When I share the vision of the Church that Jesus is building in Winnsboro and throughout the world?

15.  When I share that when Jesus looks down upon Winnsboro, He sees One Body?

16.  When I share that there is one Church in Winnsboro of which we are all a part even though we meet in different locations and with different expressions of His Body?

17.  When I share that Jesus is raising up, calling out and giving to the Church: apostles, prophets, evangelists and pastors/teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry?

18.  When I share that the spiritual leaders(pastors/ministers) of the various expressions of His Body are to become the elders of the City of Winnsboro and meet  as one in plurality, to “equip the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the  body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the  knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the  stature of the fullness of Christ.”(Ephesians 4:12-13)?

19.  When I share that Winnsboro is to be as Jerusalem(“foundation building”), Antioch(“ministry to the Lord and being sent out”) and Ephesus(“unity in the Body of Christ”)?

20.  When I share that we as individual believers are to relate to all other believers and “build bridges” between the various expressions of His Body in Winnsboro?

21.  When I share that God is tearing down the walls of denominationalism in Winnsboro?

22.  When I share that God desires that we be One in Him as a Church in Winnsboro?

23.  When I share that God sees us as One Body with every other town/city and as well as being One with His Body throughout the world?

24.  When I share that when we are physically present in a particular town/city, we are a part of that Church?

25.  When I share about gathering to “minister to the Lord” being like an Acts 13 event, as expressed by the Church in Antioch?

26.  When I share that the leaders who gathered in Antioch to “minister to the Lord” were all from different town/city locations and yet were a part of the Body of Christ in Antioch?

27.  When I share that we are to minister together with other gifted equipping leaders from churches of various parts of the world?

28.  When I share about our going out, as from Antioch, being “sent forth ones” to continue to build His Church beginning in Winnsboro and throughout the world?

29.  When I share that the Lord wants the Body in Winnsboro to begin ministering through their gifts both in the assembly of believers and in “as you go” ministries?

30.  When I share that the Lord wants different groupings of gifted persons to begin to  meet and learn to interact with one another and learn from one another in order to more effectively minister to the Body through i.e. equipping gifts, speaking gifts, serving gifts, etc.?

31.  When I share the heart of our Lord as recorded in John 17:21-23 “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.”?

32.  When I share that our unity as believers is  always in JESUS and JESUS only?

33.  When I share that the Lord wants believers in Winnsboro to come together to pray for: the unity of the Body of Christ that we may become One in Him; the tearing down of denominational walls and the spirit of religion between believers; our ability to hear the Lord and to be obedient to what He says?

34.  When I share that unity in Christ within the community of Winnsboro begins with the individual believers and not at the denominational or institutional level?

35.  When I share that unity in Christ comes when individual believers focus on and “know Jesus” and then relate in Jesus with other believers regardless of denominational affiliation?

36.  When I share that the Lord said, “I foretold the former things long ago, my mouth announced them and I made them known to you; then suddenly I acted, and they came to pass”?

37.  When I share that the Lord has made us One in the Spirit and is now bringing this into fruition in the Church in Winnsboro and around the world?

38.  When I share that the dry bones of the Church are coming together as tendons, flesh, skin, and will stand and be filled with His breath as a living army of God?

39.  When I share that the Lord is not building a “house church” but rather His Church and that He is the Originator, Designer-Architect and Builder?

40.  When I share that our part as an apostles is simply to lay His foundation as He directs according to His Word and to equip His saints for the work of His ministry?

 


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