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24-7 DNA
Peter Vanderwal; July 3 2011
It is imperative, that we often remind ourselves of what we are about, what God has called us to, both corporately as a body, and personally.
1. Hebrews 8 – new covenant
I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts
I will be their God and they will be my people
No longer will a man teach his neighbour or a man his brother, saying, ‘know the Lord’, because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest
For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more
Personal responsibility. Move away from clergy dependence, spoon feeding.
2. Jeremiah 24:7 “I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.”
Psalm 27:4 “One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple.”
Our greatest need is to grow in revelation and experiential knowledge of God. This is what truly changes lives.
It is a war on humanism(human centred life and service) and war on religion(living and serving God in man’s wisdom and ability).
Much of our preaching and emphasis is on the inward life-intimacy with God. But also the outward life, the result of our inward life.
Flow from ME to GOD (Inward ministry unto God)
Flow from GOD to ME (Outward ministry from God)
3. Passion-wholehearted living; pushing everything else out of the way to make way for God and His purposes. Awakened to the presence and purposes of God as though from a deep sleep. Passionate in our relationship with God. Devoted to follow Christ and to know Him. Passionate to see His reign established on earth and particularly in themselves.
Purity-setting one self apart.
Purpose- fullness of revelation of God’s ways and purposes, focussed life, not just punching the air.
4. Spiritual maturity
Eph 4 speaks of becoming mature, or growing up, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
Hebrews 6 says leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity.
1 John 2 speaks of a progression; from children, to young men, and finally to fathers.
We are all called, expected, to grow into mature sons in Christ. To mature to fullness, in our relationship with the Father; and mature in our divine calling, completing our God given purpose.
Can be trapped in protracted infancy. ‘God wants us to grow up, and many just want to go up.’
Contrast to an atmosphere of growth and growing in maturity.
5. 1 Cor 12. “Now the body is not made up of one part but of many...but in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be.”
Eph 2, ‘in Him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord”
One body with many parts, connected, and each part doing its work. Each part fully functioning. There are good works set in place by the Lord, for each one of us to complete.
Uniqueness-fully expressing our creation, living to the fullness in the way that God designed us.
Freedom. Free to be who we are in Christ. A culture of honour rather than rebellion; accountability instead of control; connection in father-son relationships, rather than anarchy and independence.
6. Importance of smallness and commitment. We are designed by God to live and grow in community, in family, in close relationships. We are never called to isolation, to individualism, to lone ranger-ness.
In smallness, we are called transparency, to accountability, to relationship, to connectedness. In smallness, is our opportunity to give, to produce, rather than live as consumers. We are given the opportunity to grow in grace and love, through the challenges of relationships, and serving together.
This is why we do housechurch.
Hearts connected. The power of an apostolic community. One mind, one heart.
2 Cor 6:1,2 “as God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain...now is the time of God’s favour, now is the day of salvation.”
7. Apostolic community.
A group of people who will knuckle down together, believe God’s promises and commands and purposes, and see it to completion.
A people of humility-our egos have been laid down, and a people of faith; who make themselves totally available to God and His purposes; who are deeply committed to each other; for His glory alone.
Pressing in, not ‘business as usual’ attitude. We’re not talking about striving and performing harder, but Holy Spirit inspired and empowered life.
A people of deep unity, brought by the work of Holy Spirit work. A community formed by the Spirit of God, running together, likeminded. Grace upon such unity.
8. Pioneer ministry.
KHOP.
Is 56 ‘for My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.’
Is 62 ‘I have posted watchmen on your walls, they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, and give Him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.’
KHOP is place to retreat, to wait on the Lord, and to intercede for the nations.
Imagine if each one of us in 24/7 committed to one hour of prayer in the prayer room each week. Or three hours each would cover the week with 24 hour prayer.
His Kids.
We are called to raise up this generation, I believe as warriors in the kingdom. Daniel’s who will build the kingdom with wisdom and humility; and Elijah’s who will be set apart and boldly confront the unbelief and paganism of this generation. Who know their God, who know how to hear the voice of God, and are committed to walk in obedience. A generation who will set their lives apart to His purposes and His glory alone.
9. Fathers and sons. Sonship is the wineskin for what God is doing in this day. Spiritual fathers who will love and raise up their sons; and sons who will walk closely and grow up with their fathers.
God is wanting to establish the church as a spiritual house, a family of sons; rather than a pile of stones, which are not in order, not built into anything, and loosely connected. The grace and blessing of God flows where there is divine connection and order.
10. The call to Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
Rom 5:20 ‘where sin increased, grace increased all the more’.
Acts 17:26 ‘he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.’
His-story is about God calling man to the places of His choosing, setting them apart, and preparing them, to be salt and light, to reveal himself through them, and to establish His purposes through them.
The purpose of KB is also to send. An Antioch type church. A mission base. Sending out to preach, heal, serve, deliver, transform.
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