God's Plan For The Church

GOD’S PLAN FOR THE CHURCH

OUTLINE

1.REFLECTION - REPENTANCE - RECONSIDERATION

2.REFRESHING - RENEWAL - REVIVAL

3.RESTORATION - RECAPTURE - RESURRECTION

4. RELEASE - RISING - RADIANCE

5. RESISTANCE - RIGOUR - REPULSING

6. REVOLUTION - REARRANGEMENT - RADICAL CHANGES

7. REAPING - REACHING OUT - REJOICING

THE MESSAGE

GOD’S PLAN FOR THE CHURCH

1.REFLECTION - REPENTANCE - RECONSIDERATION

Haggai 1: 5 - 7 ; Psalms 139 : 23 - 24

The Lord wants us to pause and look back on the past years and to consider our ways and search our hearts and to repent where we have to repent. This is an opportunity to make a fresh start.

2.REFRESHING - RENEWAL - REVIVAL

Acts 3 : 19 ; Joel 2: 23 ; II Kings 2: 9

The Lord wants us to receive a fresh anointing. We should not labour with our old strength and power as we will soon lose our energy and enthusiasm. The Lord wants us to experience a refreshing and receive a double portion of the anointing to enable us to meet the challenges of the new year.

3.RESTORATION - RECAPTURE - RESURRECTION

Joel 2 : 25 ; John 10 : 10 ; Ezekial 37 : 1 - 10

The Lord wants to restore to us all that the enemy has stolen

from us in the past years. He wants us to recapture what Satan

has taken away. He wants to resurrect the dry bones and make

them into an exceeding great army to fight his battles.

4. RELEASE - RISING - RADIANCE

Isaiah 49 : 2 ; I Peter 5 : 6 ; Isaiah 60 : 1 ; Haggai 2 : 9

The Lord wants to release in this year all those whom He has

prepared.He wants to lift those who had been faithfully

submitted under his mighty hand. He wants His glory to rise

upon them. His glory will be greater in the latter house.

5. RESISTANCE - RIGOUR - REPULSING

James 4 : 7 ; Romans 12 : 11 ; Matthew 16 : 18

The Lord wants us to resist the devil and take victory over

him. The church should rise up as a militant army and plunder

the territory of the enemy. We must expect a fierce battle

with satan in these last days. The church can no longer be

passive and inactive.Every member of the body of Christ should

actively involved in serving God.

6. REVOLUTION - REARRANGEMENT - RADICAL CHANGES

Matthew 11:12 ; Hebrews 12 : 26 -27 ; Acts 10 : 13 -15

The time has come for a revolution in the Kingdom of God. The

Lord has promised to shake every foundation so that all false

foundations will collapse and only the true foundations will

remain.He wants the church to shed many traditional practices

which hinder the rapid expansion of God’s kingdom. He made

the early church to use ways which they had formerly considered

as defiling to help spread the gospel to the gentiles. He told

Apostle Peter in a vision not to consider things defiled which

the Lord has sanctified. The Lord wants to do a similar thing

in the church today to reach the whole world with the gospel.

7. REAPING - REACHING OUT - REJOICING

John 4 ; 37 -38 ; Acts 1: 8 ; Acts 8 : 5 - 8

The Lord wants these last days to be days of harvest for the church.

For 2000 years so many servants of God have laboured and have

gone to their eternal reward. But the Lord has given the church

today the privilege of reaping the harvest of all this labour.

Every member of the church should reach out to the unsaved

instead of spending all their time and energy only with their

fellow believers.Just as Philip brought great joy to the city of

Samaria by preaching Christ to them and demonstrating the power of

God to set the people free from their bondages, the

Lord wants us to bring joy to the people of this world through

such a ministry of deliverance