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1.
God wants to speak to us more than we want to listen.
After all, how can One named “The Word of
God” not want to talk to people? This core value creates an expectation
in our hearts to hear Him at any moment. “My sheep hear My voice, and
I know them, and they follow Me.” (John 10:27)
2. All things work in our favor when we
serve God, no matter what the circumstances look like. This
core value trains us to look for and focus on God’s redemptive purposes
more than problems. “We know that God causes all things to work
together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according
to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28).
3. God loved us before we loved Him, and
He never stops loving us. We never have to earn His love through good
works.
This core value trains us to focus on His love more than our lack, and to
trust that we have an unlimited source of love to give every person we
meet. “We love, because He first loved us.” (1 John 4:19)
4. Fear is not a part of God’s love
and therefore it shouldn’t be a part of our supernatural ministry.
This trains us to respond rather than react to
any kind of intimidation of the enemy. “There is no fear in love, but
perfect love casts out fear because fear involves punishment, and the one
who fears is not perfected in love.” (1 John 4:18)
5. God has plans for our welfare and
blessing. He has no plans for calamity in our life.
This trains us to see difficulty as an opportunity for God to bless us and
bring us more fully into His purposes for our lives. It also creates an
expectation for God to bless us richly so we can be a blessing to others.
It prevents us from coming under a poverty mind-set. “For I know the
plans that I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not
for calamity, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11)
6. We are a special, holy & royal
people.
This core value trains us to value others and
ourselves as the precious possessions of God, for whom He sacrificed His
only Son. It fosters a culture of honor in which we treat others as
royalty because we are royalty. “But you are a chosen race, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that
you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of
darkness into His marvelous light.” (1 Peter 2:9)
7. We are to overcome and overpower any
evil that is against us.
This core value prevents us from thinking of
ourselves as victims of circumstance and frees us to think from a
perspective in which nothing is impossible. It enables us to look for
creative and extravagant solutions to problems. “But in all these
things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.” (Romans
8:37)
8. The devil is evil and behind all the bad
stuff in the world. Jesus is always good and does all the great things.
We are called to destroy the works of the
devil with our supernatural ministry. This core value keeps the lines of
battle clearly drawn so that we are not directing judgment at people, but
instead are bringing them the justice that Jesus purchased for them on the
cross. “The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the
works of the devil.” (1 John 3:8) “The thief comes only to steal
and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it
abundantly.” (1 John 10:10)
9. We were born to rule through the power
of the Kingdom & the love of God.
This core value enables us to perceive the
authorities and kingdoms of the world from an eternal perspective so our
faith and intercession are founded firmly on the dominion of Christ. “Then
the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under
the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest
One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions
will serve and obey Him.” (Daniel 7:27)
10. We are God’s friends and He tells us
His secrets.
This core value reminds us that God wants us
to live in intimacy with Him far above obedience. He is calling us to move
beyond slavery and co-reign with Christ. “No longer do I call you
slaved, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have
called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have
made known to you.” (John 15:15)
11. Signs & wonders follow all
believers, not just a few special people.
This core value trains every member of the
Body of Christ to think of themselves as carriers of the power of God who
are available for miraculous assignments. “These signs will accompany
those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will
speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any
deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and
they will recover.” (Mark 16:17-18)
12. We have inherited the divine nature
& grow in the fruit of the Spirit as we hang out with God.
This core value trains us to embrace the
journey of maturity as a process of yielding to the work of God within us
and keeps us from a striving mentality. “But the fruit of the Spirit
is love, joy , peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
(Galatians 5:22-23) “For by these He has granted to us His
precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become
partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in
the world by lust.” (2 Peter 1:4) |
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