SonRise 2011 Part 2. Nov 6th --11th.
Do you know the Way?
Each year over the last six years we have been blessed by the visit of the Son Rise Ministries team from North Carolina USA. John, Rene and Darleen have brought a ministry which has both challenged and inspired local Christians to awake to their calling to maturity and fruitfulness in Christ. The teaching on faith and the true meaning of salvation have impacted many lives and this past week of ministry meetings in November have resulted in a great strengthening of the church. It is our intention to podcast these tremendous messages from this and previous years on this site.
Some of the truths that came forth through the ministry of the Holy Spirit could be summed up here in a series of statements.
Meetings in Church should be setting free meetings for where the truth is ministered in power, people will be set free.
Rituals do not change a man. We come here to meet God and anything less will not change us.
Your throne for God is your praise….so how big is your throne. Make room for God by filling your life with His praises.
When we first came to the Lord we did not come because we loved Him, but because we needed Him. So how far down the way of love are you? Do you still come to Him because you need Him or because you love Him? Do you simply spend time worshipping Him because it is merely a method to get His attention or because it is a true expression of how you think of Him…worthy of your best.
God does not help us to live a better life. He does not hep us live our life at all. He only helps us die to our life and live His life, for His life is not the life of fear and unbelief and sin, but love, joy, peace and victory.
If I grow in His nature I cannot help but overcome.
I do not have to ask “What would Jesus do?”, (as if He is somewhere else and I have to figure out what would He do if He were here). If I am being filled with His life, His Spirit, if I am living in communion with Him, then His mind is my mind and I do the things Jesus does for He lives in me.
God does not help us to be like Christ in our strength, He produces His life in us as we receive Him by faith
- We were built for intimacy with God. If we do not find love with Him, we will search for it in all the wrong places.
- We were built for the power of God. If we do not find it in Him we will search for power in all the wrong places.
There is a transition to take place on the inside of you… from you to Him.
The tribulation that comes against ‘poor little me’ is to reveal to me how much of me is still ‘poor little me’. If I am complaining or arguing it is not Christ’s life in me that complains.
Don’t worry about your tribulations. They are shrinking you and growing Him as you have faith in the midst of them.
Life does not come forth without sacrifice. Intercession is laying down your life so that his life would come forth.
You can register on our Media page and keep checking back for updates to the archives as we begin the process of uploading these recordings. Lives have also been touched profoundly by the operation of the gift of prophecy during these meetings. To understand more about the theology and practice of these gifts in the church, please check out Ps Granville Johnson's excellent series of seminars on Prophecy in the Church which you will find on the podcast list in the Media section.
Our weekend in Rossnowlagh was something very special. Rainbows, beach walks, delicious food, anointed worship and ministry, great food and great craic! Over 60 folk came together from several different apostolic and local churches to join with us. Our theme was restoration and renewal and both Sam Hagan from the House of Prayer movement and Ps Jim Vance ministered on what it meant to wait on God and move in the anointing of His Spirit. Sam's teaching session on Waiting on the Lord is now a podcast on this site. A big thankyou to Ros and Simon our hosts who looked after us so well.
We have secured a weekend in September next year to return and folk have been looking to book already! Taking the 'Church' out of Derry and into Donegal was significant on many levels. We thank God for the teaching, truths and traditions that previous generations have left us, but the apostolic church that Jesus is building is first of all a body, a community of worshippers. 'Church' in our culture has come to mean the building or denomination a person attends. Life as a Christian can for many appear simply as a series of church meetings. We are called to a level of communion and fellowship with each other that goes much deeper and indeed the strength of our communion with Christ is revealed by our fellowship with His body, His Church.
Time spent living with each other deepens our experience of what it means to be in loving relationships. Another great blessing of stepping out away from home, was the opportunity to connect with other believers from the local area and beyond. Our vision at River City Church is to be a blessing and a resource to the body of Christ, to bring encouragement and strength to other churches and to be built up as we learn from and serve other groups. The Lord is building His Kingdom in Ireland and each of us are called to see that greater vision. Even the beauty of Donegal cannot match the glory of His Church.
