Our Part: A summary

  1. Commit to feeding on God’s Word, daily feed on every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord
  2. Be thankful in ALL things, let the praises of God be continually on our lips
  3. SHEMA:  Listen AND Obey, let your actions and life reflect the truth of the Word, let Him transform your thinking, your doing, your lives, your agendas, your will, your plans
  4. Commit to being in regular fellowship with other true believers and honour one another, submit to one another, be kind to one another.     Learn through the messy-ness through the brokenness, through the struggles of being in intimate relationship with others to overcome and throw off all ungodliness and enter into UNITY with the greater body of Christ
  5. SEEK HIM and HIS KINGDOM first.  Make prayer, an ongoing daily conversation with Him THE most important thing you do every day
  6. Meditate on His Word.    Find windows in your day where your hands are occupied (for example doing the dishes, and other chores) and think about His Word.  I find this most fruitful in my life when I focus on one or two areas or verses.   More than that I find overwhelms me.  Find what works for you.   Be faithful in the small things and God will multiply what you have exponentially.  As a little side note, I don’t memorize scripture.     But I do know scripture thanks to the ministry of the Holy Spirit and the transforming power of the Word meditated on.
  7. Learn about Your NEW identity in Christ, about what it means to be a citizen of the Kingdom of the Son and how to shake off the remnants and the mindsets that have been established from living in the Kingdom of darkness for so many years.   Confess these truths, meditate on these verses and let God free you, His new creation into the fullness of who you now are, released fully from the dominion of darkness.  Submit to God, Resist the devil….   Grow in our understanding of biblical covenants and legally binding elements of scripture
  8. Let God transform your language and your thinking and your speech.   Tune your ear to his voice and take every thought captive.    Scripture tells us our tongue is like the rudder that directs all things.    Out of our hearts our mouth speaks, so to tame our tongue our hearts must be pure.
  9. Guard Your Gates:  Let God show you where impure things are entering your heart through your ears, eyes and other senses and be faithful in pruning that which is unfruitful from your lives.   We must learn to be disciplined and take every thought captive unto the Lord Jesus Christ.
  10. When (if)you fall (scriptures say the righteous falls seven times but also that we can overcome even this through Christ), confess and get back up.  There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus for those who are walking after the Spirit and not after the flesh.    God keeps no record of our wrongs.  Therefore keep no record against yourself or others.   Let no evil root of bitterness grow up in you against yourself or others or God.
  11. Crucify your flesh.   Deny yourself, pick up your cross (commit to using biblical means to crucify your flesh utterly), and follow Jesus.   The flesh is hostile to God.   You will never be free  of unbelief, fear, doubt, self-centredness etc until the flesh has truly died.   Make fasting and prayer a part of your regular routine.    Learn to follow the promptings of your spirit and the Word and to deny your flesh what it demands of you.    (Galatians 5:24, Mark 8:34, Romans 8:7).   Let God circumsize (cut away the fleshly bits) your life, your ear, your heart etc…  (Jeremiah 6:10, Acts 7:51)  The fleshly wordly parts will continually keep your from fully hearing and obeying God’s Word and ways.
  12. Recognize, resist and take dominion over the enemy.  We must drive every giant from the promised land and purge all of the remnants of the pagan traditions and practices, thereby fully redeeming the land.   We must learn to recognize him and know how to resist him to see the fullness of the kingdom and the divine nature of God established in us.
  13. Allow God to transform/renew/fully and completely redeem our heart:  Seeing others through His lens changes everything.   A godly perspective regarding others so that love, mercy, grace and faithfulness flow from a place of who we have become, not from a place of trying to do the right thing.  This is essential for us to love others as Christ loved us.