2024 | The Year of Reformation (2)
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January 8-29
Every year, we start the year off with a season of fasting and prayer! Fasting is a spiritual discipline that calls us to demy the desires of our flesh and fill ourselves up with God, His Word, and His presence. This year, we are doing a 21 Day corporate fast.
To learn more about fasting, text FASTING to 59090
Every year, we start the year off with a season of fasting and prayer! Fasting is a spiritual discipline that calls us to demy the desires of our flesh and fill ourselves up with God, His Word, and His presence. This year, we are doing a 21 Day corporate fast.
To learn more about fasting, text FASTING to 59090
Groups are how we practically walk out our vision to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God.
Groups launch February 4. Text GROUPS to 59090 to lead a group.
Groups launch February 4. Text GROUPS to 59090 to lead a group.
January 28th 8:30P.M.
You are invited to join us at the tent to minister to the heart of the Lord! These worship sessions are an invitation to join in worship, connect with God and an opportunity to have your daily encounter. Our sole purpose of these nights is to minister to the Lord, feel free to bring your flags, creative supplies, journals etc. Lets bring all attention to the Lord. Come and be a part of it!
Text WACO to 59090 or visit mercyculturewaco.com/events to stay up to date with all upcoming events.
You are invited to join us at the tent to minister to the heart of the Lord! These worship sessions are an invitation to join in worship, connect with God and an opportunity to have your daily encounter. Our sole purpose of these nights is to minister to the Lord, feel free to bring your flags, creative supplies, journals etc. Lets bring all attention to the Lord. Come and be a part of it!
Text WACO to 59090 or visit mercyculturewaco.com/events to stay up to date with all upcoming events.
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Psalm 92:13
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13 Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.
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The Enemies of Reformation
Exodus 3:1-10
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1 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
3 So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.
5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
6 Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
7 The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
10 Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
3 So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.
5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
6 Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
7 The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
8 I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.
10 Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
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The Enemies of Reformation
Reforming - The act of improving the existing form or condition of institutions or practices; intended to make a striking change for the better social or political or religious affairs.
Reform - To change a thing a practice, or a doctrine in order to improve and correct it.
"Reformation Is To Make Wrong Things Right In God's Sight (Righteousness)!"
To Make The Crooked Ways Straight!
John 3:30
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30 He must increase; I must decrease.
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CAUTION:
If God has called you to pursue something, be prepared for the enemy to tempt you with the opposite.
The enemy will always attack your obedience.
If God has called you to pursue something, be prepared for the enemy to tempt you with the opposite.
The enemy will always attack your obedience.
Expect attacks of...
- Offense
1 Peter 2:8
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8 and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.
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- Pride
Proverbs 16:18
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18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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- Self-centeredness
James 3:16
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16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
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- Ingratitude
Romans 1:21
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21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
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5 Characteristics of Reformers
1. Reformers Are Consecrated
2. Reformers Are People of Action!
3. Reformers Desire To Please The Lord!
4. Reformers Use Their Influence... (Voice, Platform, Resources)!
5. Reformers Are Fearless!
1. Reformers Are Consecrated
2. Reformers Are People of Action!
3. Reformers Desire To Please The Lord!
4. Reformers Use Their Influence... (Voice, Platform, Resources)!
5. Reformers Are Fearless!
CAUTION:
You can't move forward, without the humility to acknowledge where you are.
You can't move forward, without the humility to acknowledge where you are.
The Enemies of Reformation
1. Confusion
"If you trust your heart, you will be foolish and immature."
John 8:31-32
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31 So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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"If you trust your heart, you will be foolish and immature."
Jeremiah 17:9
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9 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
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Proverbs 3:5-7
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5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
6 in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
7 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
6 in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
7 Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
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Matthew 15:19
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19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
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Proverbs 28:26
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26 He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
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Numbers 15:39
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39 These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
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Proverbs 23:19
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19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
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Romans 12:1-2
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1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
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Proverbs 19:3
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3 A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD.
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Ecclesiastes 10:2
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2 A wise man’s heart inclines to the right, but the heart of a fool to the left.
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"Your boldness will reveal their passivity and your clarity will reveal their confusion."
"The fearful hate the fearless and the confused hate the clear."
PRACTICAL ADVICE:
- Read the Bible -
"When the wise read the Bible and find something they disagree with, they assume they are wrong. When the foolish find disagreement, they assume the Bible is wrong!"
- Fast -
- Pursue Holiness -
- Pursue Holiness -
2. Idols
3. Performance
3. Performance
Exodus 4:10-14
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10 “Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”
11 And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
12 Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.”
13 But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
14 Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well, and he is now on his way to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
11 And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
12 Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.”
13 But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
14 Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well, and he is now on his way to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
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Matthew 18:3-5
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3 “Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me.
4 Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
5 And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me.
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1 Corinthians 13:11
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11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
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WARNING:
Order is NOT performance.
Order is NOT performance.
Excellence turns to performance when we take our eyes off Jesus.
Luke 12:48
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48 But the one who unknowingly does things worthy of punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from him who has been entrusted with much, even more will be demanded.
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4. Hard Heart
5. Fear
6. Frustration and Disobedience
5. Fear
6. Frustration and Disobedience
Luke 22:49-51
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49 Those around Jesus saw what was about to happen and said, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?”
50 And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.
51 But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And He touched the man’s ear and healed him.
50 And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear.
51 But Jesus answered, “No more of this!” And He touched the man’s ear and healed him.
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Numbers 20:2-12
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2 Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron.
3 The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
4 Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?
5 Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”
6 Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. They fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.
7 And the LORD said to Moses,
8 “Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.”
9 So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he had been commanded.
10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”
11 Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.
12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
3 The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished with our brothers before the LORD!
4 Why have you brought the LORD’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?
5 Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”
6 Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. They fell facedown, and the glory of the LORD appeared to them.
7 And the LORD said to Moses,
8 “Take the staff and assemble the congregation. You and your brother Aaron are to speak to the rock while they watch, and it will pour out its water. You will bring out water from the rock and provide drink for the congregation and their livestock.”
9 So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, just as he had been commanded.
10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”
11 Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with his staff, so that a great amount of water gushed out, and the congregation and their livestock were able to drink.
12 But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
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Dead men don't get frustrated.
Exodus 3:1-6
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1 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
3 So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.
5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
6 Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
3 So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”
4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.
5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
6 Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
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Reformers, be like Moses.
Be...
- Focused on Jesus (Meek)
- Available (Not hesitant)
- Holy (Awe and Wonder)
- Reverent
Be...
- Focused on Jesus (Meek)
- Available (Not hesitant)
- Holy (Awe and Wonder)
- Reverent
Prayer of Reformation
"Lord, I ask for You to reform any crooked ways within me. I seek Heaven's blueprint and ask for Your heart and Your mind in all things. I pray, less of me, more of You! I want what You want. Show me what pleases You. Let Your will be done! If I perish, I perish, but I will make straight the way of the Lord.
Lord, You are holy, make me holy! I pray for revival and reformation in my family, city, state, America and the nations! Amen."
"Lord, I ask for You to reform any crooked ways within me. I seek Heaven's blueprint and ask for Your heart and Your mind in all things. I pray, less of me, more of You! I want what You want. Show me what pleases You. Let Your will be done! If I perish, I perish, but I will make straight the way of the Lord.
Lord, You are holy, make me holy! I pray for revival and reformation in my family, city, state, America and the nations! Amen."
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