Corporate Targets – 01.26.08
Jan 28th, 2008 by pfadmin
On Mondays, the targets from the corporate prayer gathering on Saturday at 9a will be posted here. Here are this past weekend’s targets:
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“The Ministry of the Spirit”
The Christ-Exalting Spirit
-Spirit to awaken dead and lost hearts to trust the Savior
…“…no one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit†(1 Cor. 12.3)
-Spirit to bring fresh illumination of Scripture as it is preached today
…“…no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God†(1 Cor. 2.11)
-Spirit to sanctify us in the truth of his Word (John 17.17)
-Our love and passion for Jesus Christ to be increased as “the Spirit of Jesus†(Acts 16.7) reminds us why we “believe [Christ] to be precious†(1 Peter 2.7)
The Sanctifying, Fruit-Producing Spirit
-Sanctifying work of the Spirit:
…Convicting us of sin
…Inclining us to love righteousness
…Empowering us to walk in holiness
…Conforming us to the image of Christ
-The Fruit-Producing Work of the Spirit:
…Self-forgetting love, inexplicable joy, faith-filled peace, etc…
The Empowering and Gifting Spirit
-Manifest presence of the Spirit in the corporate gathering
…Present as we serve and love one another
…Present as we gather to worship (1 Cor. 14.25)
…Present as we step out in gifting
-Filled to be bold witnesses who passionately advance the kingdom
-Spirit-saturated lives that display aspects of the power that we find all over Scripture