Moving with God

Glory to the King of kings!

The Lord is doing wonderful things in our midst. The more we honour him and His presence in our meetings, the more He reveals Himself to us, causing us to respond in passionate worship with the result that we are encountering God and people are being saved, healed and delivered! Hallelujah!

Yesterday the Lord spoke to us about how we need to respond to His vision for us and this is what He showed us:

1. If we are to move with God and the vision He has for us then we need to have the right attitude, the right actions and the right associations.
2. If we have the right attitude toward God's Word we will be firmly established and we will flourish. Joshua 14:6-14; Psalm 1:3; 92:12-15
3. If we truly believe God's Word to us, we will act on it and deal with the issues that are not in line with God's Word.
4. If we truly believe God's Word, we will need to reassess our relationships and those we associate with to see whether they are godly and aligned with God's Word and will for us.

We will be what God says we are!

This Thursday evening Voice in the City has organised an evening of prayer for Frankfurt as different churches in Frankfurt gather together to pray for their city.

In February will be starting our new Life Groups which will help us: connect with one another, care for one another and grow together in the Lord.

Quote of the week:

"I...followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly." Joshua 16:9

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God's love!

Praise be to our God of grace and love!

On Friday KLF met for a powerful evening of prayer and worship as we stood in the Truth and established Christ's lordship in our lives and in our city. We had an awesome time praying the Word and proclaiming the Truth as the Holy Spirit led us. We were particularly blessed to have Phil Gorman visit us from Harpurhey Community Church in Manchester who joined KLF's worship team leader, David Rowe in leading us in worship. It was a brilliant evening and the presence of God was wonderful. You can find the teaching notes from the evening on "Ready 4 Battle?" here...

On Saturday KLF and Treffpunkt Leben organised a Narnia Party for children to have an alternative to the halloween parties held over the weekend. We believe that the Church should provide godly alternatives and initiatives to bring Life to the world rather than be a condemning voice that just criticizes and judges the world! The theme was C.S. Lewis' Narnia story and all the games, costumes and activities revolved around the first Narnia film. The party was a great success and the children (and adults) were richly blessed.

Yesterday's meeting was very powerful once again as the Lord gave us an even deeper revelation of His love. Already during worship in song, God was working deeply in us to bring healing and affirmation to His children as He revelaed more and more of His love to us. The Lord then spoke to us about what salvation is and this is what He showed us:

"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery - but I am talking about Christ and the church." Eph. 5:31,32

• The marriage vow can be compared to the believer's confession of Christ that both lead into a covenant - an agreement between two parties to remain faithful to one another.
• The marriage relationship represents the relationship God has with His children.
• In light of how the marriage relationship can be compared to the believer's relationship to Christ we can note the following:

1. A marriage relationship is not based on a marriage contract alone! It would be ridiculous to say that a couple is married that live their lives independently and seperately. The person who continues to live his or her life apart from, and independently of his or her spouse and says s/he is married is deceived.
2. A marriage relationship is not based on fulfilling "marital rules." It would be ridiculous to base one's marriage on trying to fulfill certain marital rules. The couple that lives by following marital rules to maintain their marriage lives a life that is conditional and is not based on love.
3. The marriage relationship is a covenant of unconditional love. The covenant is made on the basis of love and the fulfillment of that covenant is a relationship based on unconditional love.
4. Therefore, "to be saved" is to enter into a covenant of unconditional love with God in Christ.
5. Salvation is therefore the fulfilling of that covenant of unconditional love through the believer's union with God in Christ Jesus.
6. The believer's relationship to God is therefore not based on a formula, nor on living under law, but it is based on being united to God in Christ because of our dependence on His love for us and remaining in His love.
7. The believer is saved by grace through faith (Eph. 2:8) - in other words, we are saved by trusting and relying on God's unconditional love for us and abiding in that unconditional love (grace = undeserved gift of love).
8. Salvation is union with God in Christ Jesus and is based on love.

"This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins." 1 John 4:10

Yesterday evening we had another opportunity to demonstrate God's love to the world as we spent some time with the homeless and needy. It is such a blessing to be able to pass on what we have freely received. Hallelujah!

Quote of the week:

"We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." 1 John 4:13-16 (emphasis mine)

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Abiding in the River!

Praise the Lord!

Yesterday's meeting was an awesome start to the new year! We are being blessed with the Lord's presence as He reveals more and more of Himself to us in worship and in the Word.

The Lord is speaking to us about the River of Revival and how we are to abide in the River of Life! To do so, the Lord showed us the following:

1. Eternal life is to know God.

"Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." John 17:3

Eternal life is not some THING the Christian possesses that he can lose, but a relationship with God!

2. To know God is to have fellowship with the Father and the Son.

"..truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." 1 John 1:3

There are 3 kinds of fellowship:

• Physical fellowship
• Soulish fellowship
• Spiritual fellowship

The soulish Christian has a conditional relationship with God that is dependent on the individual's subjective understanding, feelings and desires (self).

The spiritual Christian has an unconditional relationship with God that is based on God's revelation of Himself to the individual. (Matthew 16:15-17; Ephesians 1:17)

3. To have spiritual fellowship with God is to abide in Him.

"Abide in me and I in you." John 15:4

Therefore, eternal life is to know God. To know God is to have spiritual fellowship with Him. To have spiritual fellowship with God is to abide in Him and He in us.

We are looking forward to an exciting year in which the Lord has told us that He will establish Kingdom Life! Hallelujah!

This week we will resume our regular meetings and will be joining Treffpunkt Leben this Sunday to feed the needy with physical and spiritual food at the monthly soup kitchen.

Quotes of the week:

"..the moment you are born again, eternal life comes into your spirit." John G. Lake

"The foundation of Christianity rests on inward revelation and inward knowledge. That which is merely traditional or imitative is not true Christianity. The foundation of the church lies in revelation. With revelation comes life. When we were saved, we did not substitute life with doctrine. In like manner, after we are saved we still must not substitute life with doctrine. If a person hears only doctrine and receives no light, what he obtains is only doctrine, not Christ....Our emphasis on doctrine and not on revelation accounts very much for the weakness, failure, and barrenness of the church. How can the church not be weak if she is being weighed down with too many doctrines - all of which are passed from one to another without any inward revelation?" Watchman Nee

"He who has the Son has life." 1 John 5:12

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