Hey girls, in my first post earlier today I meant to add this link that I was telling you about last night. I use several but when I'm researching something by topic/word I usually go here to get the original meaning. http://bible.lifeway.com/crossmain.asp. Biblegateway.com is also another site that I use. Hope this helps!
Have a blessed day,
Kim
P.S. If you are looking for a good book to read and you are struggling with family and work colliding, "Choosing to Cheat" by Andy Stanley is what I'm reading now that discusses the collision in detail. Also, please post a comment to me about a good book that you may be reading.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Week Three-"The Voice of the Holy Spirit"
Last night was wonderful! We had 17 in attendance which is great! Thank you all for your participation in our "big/small group." This makes each week exciting, not to mention it builds our faith up because of what God is doing in your personal quiet time.
Here are the notes I took from the DVD. Hey, if you don't mind, leave me a comment so I can know you are visiting the blog.
Week Three-“The Voice of the Holy Spirit”
Notes from Priscilla’s commentary:
What I need is a Guide- One who sticks with you for the ride!
“Obedience to His freely given truth opens the door for Him to disclose more truth in my life.”
Stronghold = Any idea or any thought process that is contrary to God’s thoughts in my life. Any thought that has taken a priority over the thoughts of God. These holds always lead to an outer manifestation in us. The only way to combat a stronghold is to destroy them.
You can only fight spiritual problems with spiritual weaponry.
The Word of God can destroy strongholds in my life when the strongholds are destroyed you will ear the voice of God.
Don’t be frustrated because you don’t have everything, be grateful that God has given us exactly what you need for the season of life you’re in today and make a commitment to the process. The Holy Spirit has my best interest in mind. We want to know everything up front but if He hasn’t spoken it to you yet-you don’t need to know it right now because you don’t need it for now. We want to pull out of God what He isn’t ready to share with us. Will I take what He’s given me now and be obedient to it?
We have to know what His voice sounds like. One of the ways that I will know the voice of God in my life is that I will receive a revelation that is nothing that I could have come up with on my own.
I know it is God when I have to step out in faith to accomplish it; there’s no way I would have compelled myself to do something like that. You know its God when it takes an extra level of faith to pull that off. The enemy always wants me to operate in my own power so I never have to tap into God.
A question to ask…Am I sold out to serving God?
Passages used outside of those given in outline:
1 Cor. 2:11- For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Phil. 4:13- I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.
Jer. 31:3- The Lord appeared to us in the past saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”
Deut. 32:10- The Lord’s anger was aroused that day and He swore this oath: “because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old or more who came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—
2 Tim. 1:7 (NIV)- For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. (KJV) For God did not give us a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind.
2 Cor. 3:5- Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
Heb. 9:14- How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
Mark 4:24- Consider carefully what you hear, he continued. “with the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more.
2 Cor. 10:3-5- For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Here are the notes I took from the DVD. Hey, if you don't mind, leave me a comment so I can know you are visiting the blog.
Week Three-“The Voice of the Holy Spirit”
Notes from Priscilla’s commentary:
What I need is a Guide- One who sticks with you for the ride!
“Obedience to His freely given truth opens the door for Him to disclose more truth in my life.”
Stronghold = Any idea or any thought process that is contrary to God’s thoughts in my life. Any thought that has taken a priority over the thoughts of God. These holds always lead to an outer manifestation in us. The only way to combat a stronghold is to destroy them.
You can only fight spiritual problems with spiritual weaponry.
The Word of God can destroy strongholds in my life when the strongholds are destroyed you will ear the voice of God.
Don’t be frustrated because you don’t have everything, be grateful that God has given us exactly what you need for the season of life you’re in today and make a commitment to the process. The Holy Spirit has my best interest in mind. We want to know everything up front but if He hasn’t spoken it to you yet-you don’t need to know it right now because you don’t need it for now. We want to pull out of God what He isn’t ready to share with us. Will I take what He’s given me now and be obedient to it?
We have to know what His voice sounds like. One of the ways that I will know the voice of God in my life is that I will receive a revelation that is nothing that I could have come up with on my own.
I know it is God when I have to step out in faith to accomplish it; there’s no way I would have compelled myself to do something like that. You know its God when it takes an extra level of faith to pull that off. The enemy always wants me to operate in my own power so I never have to tap into God.
A question to ask…Am I sold out to serving God?
Passages used outside of those given in outline:
1 Cor. 2:11- For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Phil. 4:13- I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.
Jer. 31:3- The Lord appeared to us in the past saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.”
Deut. 32:10- The Lord’s anger was aroused that day and He swore this oath: “because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old or more who came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—
2 Tim. 1:7 (NIV)- For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. (KJV) For God did not give us a spirit of fear but of power, love and a sound mind.
2 Cor. 3:5- Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.
Heb. 9:14- How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
Mark 4:24- Consider carefully what you hear, he continued. “with the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more.
2 Cor. 10:3-5- For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Week Two-"The Holy Spirit"
WOW! I can't wait for you to review this session. The following notes will mean a lot more to you once you reviewed the DVD. For those of you who are signing on to this blog just for the notes, I pray these passages will speak volumes in your life. Also, for you HF people, remember you can check out these DVD's to review Priscilla's recording.
Week Two-“The Holy Spirit”
Notes from Priscilla’s commentary:
You’ve got to believe in the Holy Spirit, practically. He’s my seal and protector in my life.
I’m sealed and pledged by the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is a person, third person of the Trinity.
He may not have all of me but I have all of the Holy Spirit I’m going to get. You can’t give a little bit of a person.
Filled with the Holy Spirit = yield.
The red flag of conviction is His way of saying, “STOP.”
The green light of ease and peace is His way of saying, “GO.”
The yellow light of doubt means, “WAIT.”
Steve McNeal says, “When we become a Christian we’re not changed but exchanged.”
The Five M’s of Correctly Hearing God:
1. Look for the MESSAGE of the Spirit (Listen closely.)
2. Live in the MODE of prayer (Submit what I think I’m hearing back to Him).
3. Search out the MODEL of Scripture (what does it say about it).
4. Submit to the MINISTRY of Eli (1 Sam. 3).
5. Expect the MERCY of confirmation (ask God to confirm what I think He’s leading me to do).
Hear from God and then obey Him in order to continue hearing His voice!!
Passages she mentioned outside of the ones listed on the viewers guide:
Col. 3:3- For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
John 16:13 (Amp)- But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].
2 Cor. 5:17- Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
1 John 2:27- As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
2 Pet. 1:13- I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body,
Eph. 1:16- I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.
1 Cor. 2:10-12- but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
Deut. 30:11-14- Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. 12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, "Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" 14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
John 12:29- Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and will glorify it again." The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
Heb. 9:14- How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
2 Thes. 2:13- But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you[a] to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
Rom. 12:1- Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship.
Rom. 9:1- I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit—
Acts 23:1- Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, "My brothers, I have fulfilled my duty to God in all good conscience to this day."
2 Tim. 1:3- I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.
James 4:17- Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
John 17:17- Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
I'm already looking forward to next week.
Blessings,
Kim
P.S. Remember, we are changing locations after next week's study in Abingdon.
Week Two-“The Holy Spirit”
Notes from Priscilla’s commentary:
You’ve got to believe in the Holy Spirit, practically. He’s my seal and protector in my life.
I’m sealed and pledged by the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is a person, third person of the Trinity.
He may not have all of me but I have all of the Holy Spirit I’m going to get. You can’t give a little bit of a person.
Filled with the Holy Spirit = yield.
The red flag of conviction is His way of saying, “STOP.”
The green light of ease and peace is His way of saying, “GO.”
The yellow light of doubt means, “WAIT.”
Steve McNeal says, “When we become a Christian we’re not changed but exchanged.”
The Five M’s of Correctly Hearing God:
1. Look for the MESSAGE of the Spirit (Listen closely.)
2. Live in the MODE of prayer (Submit what I think I’m hearing back to Him).
3. Search out the MODEL of Scripture (what does it say about it).
4. Submit to the MINISTRY of Eli (1 Sam. 3).
5. Expect the MERCY of confirmation (ask God to confirm what I think He’s leading me to do).
Hear from God and then obey Him in order to continue hearing His voice!!
Passages she mentioned outside of the ones listed on the viewers guide:
Col. 3:3- For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
John 16:13 (Amp)- But when He, the Spirit of Truth (the Truth-giving Spirit) comes, He will guide you into all the Truth (the whole, full Truth). For He will not speak His own message [on His own authority]; but He will tell whatever He hears [from the Father; He will give the message that has been given to Him], and He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come [that will happen in the future].
2 Cor. 5:17- Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
1 John 2:27- As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him.
2 Pet. 1:13- I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body,
Eph. 1:16- I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.
1 Cor. 2:10-12- but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.
Deut. 30:11-14- Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. 12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, "Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" 14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
John 12:29- Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and will glorify it again." The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
Heb. 9:14- How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
2 Thes. 2:13- But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you[a] to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
Rom. 12:1- Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship.
Rom. 9:1- I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit—
Acts 23:1- Paul looked straight at the Sanhedrin and said, "My brothers, I have fulfilled my duty to God in all good conscience to this day."
2 Tim. 1:3- I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.
James 4:17- Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
John 17:17- Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
I'm already looking forward to next week.
Blessings,
Kim
P.S. Remember, we are changing locations after next week's study in Abingdon.
Proverbs 19:21
Some friends and I have committed to read the whole Bible this year which will actually be a first for me but it's something I've always wanted to do. We are keeping one another accountable and so far, it's working.
From time to time while reading the selections, a verse will stand out to me and this past week, one struck me so heavily I began to write it down repeatedly so that I could memorize it. I asked one of the other girls if she noticed it and she said, "yes, I read it about three times." I've shared this particular verse a lot over the past several days and I'm praying this verse because of all the plans that I make for me and my life on a daily basis.
Prov. 19:21 says,
"Many are the plans in a man's heart but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails."
I'm sure I've read this before but never has it stood out to me like it did this particular time. Think about it... how many plans do all of us make on a daily basis? It's okay to plan but this is a great reminder that in the end, we who are the children of God, should seek to do what God has planned and purposed us to do, after all, "...it is the Lord's purpose that prevails."
This is definitely a verse to remember so that we'll stay focused on the purposes of God.
Have a great day and remember, Jer. 33:3
Call unto me and I will answer you...
Blessings,
Kim
From time to time while reading the selections, a verse will stand out to me and this past week, one struck me so heavily I began to write it down repeatedly so that I could memorize it. I asked one of the other girls if she noticed it and she said, "yes, I read it about three times." I've shared this particular verse a lot over the past several days and I'm praying this verse because of all the plans that I make for me and my life on a daily basis.
Prov. 19:21 says,
"Many are the plans in a man's heart but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails."
I'm sure I've read this before but never has it stood out to me like it did this particular time. Think about it... how many plans do all of us make on a daily basis? It's okay to plan but this is a great reminder that in the end, we who are the children of God, should seek to do what God has planned and purposed us to do, after all, "...it is the Lord's purpose that prevails."
This is definitely a verse to remember so that we'll stay focused on the purposes of God.
Have a great day and remember, Jer. 33:3
Call unto me and I will answer you...
Blessings,
Kim
Friday, July 20, 2007
Week One-"Anticipating the Voice of God"
Hey girls,
This is all new for me so be patient with me.
I am loving our study, "Discerning the Voice of God" by Priscilla. It is wonderful and I don't want to miss a thing. I thought it might be helpful to post notes that I take from her commentary and pass them along to you after we view her DVD sessions. When I review the DVD beforehand, it's easy for me to stop the DVD, write my notes, and then continue watching the session. When we view it in our time together we can't very well stop it each time so I'll post my notes here in case she said something in the DVD that you couldn't catch during our session. Each week after our time together I'll post them here on my new blog.
Week One-“Anticipating the Voice of God”
Notes from Priscilla’s commentary:
If you don’t anticipate that God will talk to you, you will never spend time listening.
If you want to hear the voice of God, you’ve got to be one of His sheep.
Do I expect God to speak? Do I seriously anticipate He’ll speak?
Get close to HIM!
The good Shepherd I serve has something to say that I cannot wait to hear!
Passages she mentioned outside of the ones listed on the viewers guide:
Matthew 17:5
While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased: listen to Him!”
Rev. 1:20
As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches
1 Cor. 2:14
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised?.
Eph. 2:19 (Amp)
Therefore you are no longer outsiders (exiles, migrants, and aliens, excluded from the rights of citizens), but you now share citizenship with the saints (God's own people, consecrated and set apart for Himself); and you belong to God's [own] household.
Exo. 34:14
--For you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—
Jer. 29:11
“For I now the plans that I have for you” declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
Eph. 3:20
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us.
This is all new for me so be patient with me.
I am loving our study, "Discerning the Voice of God" by Priscilla. It is wonderful and I don't want to miss a thing. I thought it might be helpful to post notes that I take from her commentary and pass them along to you after we view her DVD sessions. When I review the DVD beforehand, it's easy for me to stop the DVD, write my notes, and then continue watching the session. When we view it in our time together we can't very well stop it each time so I'll post my notes here in case she said something in the DVD that you couldn't catch during our session. Each week after our time together I'll post them here on my new blog.
Week One-“Anticipating the Voice of God”
Notes from Priscilla’s commentary:
If you don’t anticipate that God will talk to you, you will never spend time listening.
If you want to hear the voice of God, you’ve got to be one of His sheep.
Do I expect God to speak? Do I seriously anticipate He’ll speak?
Get close to HIM!
The good Shepherd I serve has something to say that I cannot wait to hear!
Passages she mentioned outside of the ones listed on the viewers guide:
Matthew 17:5
While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased: listen to Him!”
Rev. 1:20
As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches
1 Cor. 2:14
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised?.
Eph. 2:19 (Amp)
Therefore you are no longer outsiders (exiles, migrants, and aliens, excluded from the rights of citizens), but you now share citizenship with the saints (God's own people, consecrated and set apart for Himself); and you belong to God's [own] household.
Exo. 34:14
--For you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—
Jer. 29:11
“For I now the plans that I have for you” declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.
Eph. 3:20
Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us.
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