Vision Activation Points for 2015

LOOKING INTO 2015 Developing Our Leaders Greg Howse, March 18, 2015

VISION ACTIVATION POINTS FOR 2015

1. Developing a culture of prayer 2. Use relevant language 3. Young generation 4. Develop our leaders 5. Cultivate the amazement factor 6. Building in the pagan world, restoring what has been forfeited 7. Giving a voice to the voiceless 8. A fresh flow coming out of wells that have been dug 9. Innovation / Inventive / Strategic

DEVELOP OUR LEADERS

Equipping / Training

Know them and plug them in to the right places

Mark 3:13-15 13 And He went up on the mountain and called to Him those He Himself wanted. And they came to Him. 14 Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach, 15 and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons . . .

We must be a people that practices discipleship

The next generation is waiting to be raised into their spiritual position

Jesus commissioned the twelve, first of all, to be with Him.

Discipleship, or mentoring, involves the sharing of one’s life with another life

One of the main components of discipleship is clarification ; dealing with mindsets, mentalities, perceptions, heart issues; ...... answering questions

Clarity is POWER! The CLEARER you are on what you WANT to show-up, the more likely it becomes . . . Lance Wallnau

1 II Corinthians 1:24 Not that we have dominion over your faith, but are fellow workers for your joy; for by faith you stand.

We are never to exercise dominion, manipulation, or human lordship over someone else’s faith, but to be encouragers of their joy.

Luke 6:40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher.

A pupil is not superior to his teacher, but everyone [when he is] completely trained (readjusted, restored, set to rights, and perfected) will be like his teacher. Amplified

“Trained - - - Readjusted - - - Restored - - - Perfected - - - Set to rights.” Amplified

Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.”

“Come after Me.”: Accompany - - - Go with - - - Grow as you go

“Deny yourself”: A willingness to forsake your own way

“Take up your cross”: Take up God’s purpose for your life

“Follow Me”: Exercise obedience and discipline in taking the same road Jesus is traveling

Follow - - - Learn - - - Become like

THE EPHESIANS 4 PROCESS Ephesians 4:8-16 (NIV) 7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8 This is why it says: “When he ascended on high, he took many captives and gave gifts to his people. (Psalm 68:18)” 9 (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? 10 He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of

2 Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

Jesus came out of eternity, and entered the realm of time . . . He was born as a baby; He grew; He developed; He aged normally; He died

Jesus was tested in all things just as we are tested . . . because He was in the realm of time . . . He was mortal, human . . . but He did not sin (He could, but He didn’t)

The royal influence of Jesus now fills the entire created order of God

From the basis of the cross and the resurrection

Jesus GAVE gifts so that His Body would be built up . . . grow into maturity

Jesus GAVE the enablement for maturity

GIFTS: Jesus decided to give . . . it was His will, His decision . . . from the ascended place . . . divine enablement . . . God presenting Himself to His people

v.12 Equipping v.13 Maturity v.14 Stability v.15 Integrity v.16 Edifying v.12 Equipped for works of service . . . build-up the Body of Christ

Are we obsessed with being blessed, or with works of service?

EDIFYING: Fully mature; completion; wholeness

vs.13-15 God’s concept of a mature people in the earth

3 He left immortality and entered the mortal experience . . . He identified

He left mortality and stepped back into immortality

He gave enablement from the ascended place

Walk in a personal maturity in Christ . . . in my own life Walk in a corporate maturity in Christ v.13 Reach unity . . . Become mature

What does the unity of faith look like?

God’s view of oneness . . . ask Him for this

Collaboration / Coordination / Sharing / Unity

Partnership in Fellowship

What does the knowledge of the Son of God look like?

Son of God: The man who is God

Perfection of the interface of divine and human

“If you’ve seen Me, you’ve seen the Father.” “I came to do the will of Him who sent Me.”

The knowledge of how human beings carry the divine mission with supernatural power

Mortals bringing forth the plans and purposes of Immortality

CHRIST: God’s anointing; divine resource and capacity; grace

God’s capability coming out of eternity into the realm of time v.14 No longer infants . . .

WAVES: Tossed back and forth by the currents of life . . . seasonal shifts (MY way . . . MY rights)

WINDS: Easily moved by diverse teachings

4 CUNNING: Twisted people who will twist your value and belief system v.15 DIRECTION OF OUR GROWTH: Grow-up into the Head . . . the command and control center

Seeing / Hearing (frequencies) / Speaking / Smelling (discernment) / Strategic, innovative thought

Facilitated through the mind of Christ Disseminated to every part of the Body v.16 From Him the whole Body is joined and held together

Every supporting ligament

Growing and Building itself

In love

Each unique, diverse member is doing its part for growth and building

Joined and knit together . . . How?

Every joint supplies . . . our gifts

Every part does its share

Discover what you have to supply . . . Discover what you can receive

It is necessary to be connected to make these discoveries

Causes growth