Spirit Empowered Leadership - Midterm

Patterns for Prayer (ACTS)

Adoration, confession, thanksgiving, supplication

The Nature of God Omnipresent

1. God is Eternal

2. Everywhere and Everywhen

3. Pre Temporal

4. Sub Temporal

5. Post Temporal

6. Past, Present, and Future - No tension

The Nature of God - Omnipotent

• El Shaddai - All Sufficent one

• Genesis 17:1 When Abram was 99 the Lord appeared to him and said “I am God almighty walk before me faithfully and be blameless.”

Priscilla Shirer

“Prayer is the portal that brings the power of heaven down to earth. It is kryptonite to the enemy and all his plays against you"

What is Worship?

1. Attitude of the Heart

2. Action of the Will

3. Appropriate Response to the Greatness of God

Nicene Creed 4th Century

And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord and Giver of Life; who Proceeds from the Father (and the Son) who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spoke by the prophets.

And I believe in the one holy Catholic and apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen

Father Cry - Top 3 Qualities for Spiritual Sons and Daughters

1. Teachable

2. Having Spiritual Hunger and Desire

3. Able to Receive Council and Instruction

Types of Fasts

1. Absolute Fast - Emergency - no food or water - Esther 4:15-16, Acts 9:9

2. Daniel Fast - Limited Food - Daniel 10:3

3. Normal Fast - Water Only - Acts 13:2, Ezra 8:21-22

4. Extended Fast -Some Liquids - Elijah, Jesus

The Nature of God -Trinity

1. God as Trinity

2. Trinity is not 3 Gods in agreement

3. One God - Three Persons or Three person Distinctions- Each of these persons though distinct remain as one.

Grace

Mercy - Not receiving what you deserve

Grace - Receiving what you don’t deserve

G.R.A.C.E.

Gods Riches at Christs Expense

Fasting

• Doing without natural food for Spiritual reasons

• Narrowly defined: fasting means to do without eating

• Jesus, Early Church, Early Church Fathers, Modern Day Christians

God as Creator

Revealed in Both Nature and You

Means of Grace

• Disciplines Become means of and to grace

• Grace gives desires to pursue Christ through Disciplines

• Spiritual disciplines Position the human heart to Receive more grace

Prayer - Expanding the Lords Prayer - Matthew 6

• Our Father which art in heaven

• Hallowed by thy name

• thy kingdom come

• Thy will be done - In Earth as it is in heaven

Patterns for prayer (J.O.Y.)

Jesus Others You

Reasons to Fast

1. Repentance

2. Readiness

3. Revelation

4. Release

5. Restoration

6. Reward

Inward Disciplines

• Meditation

• Prayer

• Fasting

• Study

The Powers of Fasting

1. Breaks down our resistance

2. Focuses Our attention on God

3. Creates Opportunity for Self Discipline

4. Increases Spiritual Sensitivity

5. Breaks Spiritual Stalemate

Discipline

One cannot be a disciple of Christ without discipline

Acts 1-28

Christians in the book of Acts, prayed fervently and often, as demonstrated in Acts 1-28

2 Chronicles 20

Among other things, worship fights the fight of faith

Jesus Instructing his Disciples to pray

Address God as Father “Our Father who is in heaven”

1 Thessalonians 5:23

“May God himself, the God of Peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole ____ ____ ____ ____ be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Spirit Soul and Body

Meditation

Though meditation is similar to the discipline of study, the two are distinct disciplines

Moravians

Prayer meeting that lasted 100 years

Worship

But the hour is coming and is now here, when the true Worshippers will worship the Father in _____ ____ _____, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. God is spirit and those who worship him must worship In ______ ____ _____’. John 4:23-24

Spirit and Truth

Worship is a _____ in the presence of God

Process

Outward disciplines

• Discipline of Simplicity

• Solitude

• Submission

• Service

Corporate Disciplines

Confession

Worship

Guidance

Celebration

Reasons people don’t fast

1. Don’t understand the value of Fasting

2. Flesh hates to die

3. Physical reasons

4. Scheduling difficulties

5. Headaches

6. Satan hates this discipline

ORU Mission

To develop Holy Spirit empowered leaders through whole person education to impact the world

Human Brain

The human brain can hold five times as much information as the Encyclopedia Brittanica

ORU Student outcomes

1. Spiritual Integrity

2. Personal Resilience

3. Intellectual pursuit

4. Global engagement

5. Bold Vision