Dying to live, a grain of wheat dies in the ground to grow, a rose is pruned to make it better, a tree in Oz has to burn to be germinated.
With growth comes pain, like in children, will you go through the pain to gain the growth.
Unless a grain of wheat falls to the floor….growth comes from death, we must choose to die from our own ideas which will enable us to grow.
Time is immenent
Train, dark green, modern, sleek, stationary waiting to go.
Snow blocked – after the freeze comes the thaw, after the thaw comes new life, many of the fellowship have come out of a time of freeze and the first year has been one of thawing, now comes the new life.
Doodling in circles, colouring in the offset bits, could be the recurring circle colourless are religion, it’s the offset bits that are filled with colour?
Thursday – theme: Going Out
Provision
Mission starts here – here as in yourself, the fellowship.
Mary Poppin’s bag, there’s everything you will need, the sufficiency of God’s grace for every situation.
Picture of a feast – spread out before the presence fo our enemies, God will supply, resting in Him, come and eat of His goodness
Cart pulled by 2 oxen, it takes effort, but God is saying, my yolk is easy my burden is light, it will not be difficult, my way.
Picture of a cooked fish on a plate, nothing added, - ungarnished gospel
Breathe on me breath of God.Some like it hot some like it cold, do you want it mashed or fried, feeling that God was saying where would you like to go, there is choice.
He won’t give us more than we can handle – not to worry as we have His peace.
Preparation
Habakuk 2 v 2 – “Then the LORD replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald[a] may run with it."
We are going to get vision(s), we need to write it down.
Picture of Ezekiel’s river, flowing out under the doors, the further you get from the temple, the deeper it gets, the church is the training ground and then we go out.
Sending out of the 72 with nothing, stories on return, amazing, He supplied, to whom much is given much is required, remember the parable of the talents.
Bus station with loads of buses going to destinations all over the world, people stopped from going on the busses to go and talk to those in the queue’s. learn at home before we go out.
Acts 1 v 8 “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Feeling its Jerusalem for now.
In season, be prepared to go, you will have everything you need.
Presence
Picture of a muddy puddle with a child scrambling around after something thrown into it, then repeats further on, picture moving forward, Felt God said, take a boat, go and visit.
Gorge, grassed/wooded, deep, cave in side, people living in the dark won’t come out, we went and party’d in the bottom of the gorge, some came, some too scared, we need to party with those who come.
Covered bridge across a flooding torrent to an island, people on the island, on dry land, not in the river, they are going to drown but are too scared to cross the bridge, we have to go and get them, by linking together as a human chain across the brige.
Picture of white stallion and black cat, cat signifying the underworld, the white stallion ridden into the enemies lair to release captives, bring healing and deliverance.
Picture of boots, ready for walking with Joshua 1 v 3 “I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. “ and v 6 “Be strong and courageous” and v 7 “Be very strong and courageous”
Carol singers with lights on poles going out into the world.
“ They won’t come to you – you must go to them and don’t worry about those who reject you.
Don’t just “go away”, needed at home too.