MESSAGE NOTES: Healing School Sunday

ANOINTED WITH POWER

Introduction:

• We have committed this year to monthly ‘lean into’ healing and the supernatural power of God
• Last month we talked about “Why Healing” and why this was important that we contend for a greater manifestation in this area.

Acts 10:38 (ESV) – how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

• We see that Jesus went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil – as Christians we are called to do the same
• Jesus did this because he was anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power

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MESSAGE NOTES: Fast Forward #3

03: WALKING THROUGH THE OPEN DOORS

Revelation 3:8 (ESV) – I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.

Prophet Yul Crawford: 2020 is the Year of the Open Door

• We started this fast talking about HOLY AMBITION – is to carry a passion for the purposes of God in your generation. It’s the desire to want to do something great for God. It’s the passion to do what you were born to do.
• We have been believing God to speak about destiny, purpose, and calling
• Many of us have heard things already… some perhaps not. Either way – expect God to continue to speak to you as we go forward.

ACPE Word:

MESSAGE NOTES: Fast Forward #2

02: DON’T DO IT

INTRODUCTION

• God wants to speak to us about our destiny, purpose and calling
• We are called to be people of Holy Ambition – those who have a passion to serve His purposes in our generation
• We have set aside these 20 days of prayer and fasting to ‘ask, seek, knock’
• I really sensed to pick up where we left off on Friday Night… Pastor Sharon was sharing about the word the Lord gave her about ‘you are dragging, because you are dragging’

I want to talk to encourage you in two things you need to cut off coming into 2020:

MESSAGE NOTES: Fast Forward #1

01: HOLY AMBITION

INTRODUCTION

• Over the past several months I really felt a stirring from the Lord for fresh vision for Toronto City Church in 2020. 
• This decade will be one of building! There are so many prophecies/promises over this church that have yet to be fulfilled and I believe that this decade is a time that we will see breakthrough in so many areas.
• This would not replace what we have built up to this point… but sharpen it and really push us forward in a new way
• As I meditated on this though, I felt the Lord say – “Make sure in January that you start with people in their individual lives because I want to speak powerfully to every person about the destiny, purpose and calling that I have for their life”

Acts 13:36 (ESV) – 36 For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,

SERMON NOTES: Word of the Lord 2019

SEVEN THINGS I BELIEVE GOD IS SAYING TO US IN 2019

1) 2019 will rise and fall on our prayer lives.

• “History belongs to the intercessors, who believe the future into being. If this is so, then intercession, far from being an escape from action, is a means of focusing for action and of creating action” – Walter Winks
• “God has placed the pen of history in the hands of a praying church” – Lou Engle
• I Cor 14:15 (ESV) – 15 What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.
• We need to pray in the spirit and in our understanding
• Prayer is not just for the faithful few but for every follower of Jesus
• Luke 11:1 (ESV) – Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.”
• “Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.” – E. M. Bounds
• “We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services, but few conversions; much machinery, but few results.” – R.A. Torrey

SERMON NOTES: ALTAR’D #4

04: THE ALTAR AT MOUNT CARMEL

Special Focus:

• Next week we are having our First Fruits Offering. The heart of this is that we give a special offering, on top of our regular giving, to sow a seed into what God is going to do in 2019.

Throughout the Fall our focus was “Heart Check”

• “God wants to work in us so he can work with us and through us”
• We need to continue to allow the Lord to work in our hearts but He is working in us with a purpose
• As we come into 2019 my heart is stirred that we will individually and corporately go after the callings and purposes of God in our lives. IT’S TIME!

Romans 12:1 (TPT)  – 1 Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? I encourage you to surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship.

The key: I encourage you to surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifice! 

ALTAR’D is about building an altar to the Lord where we offer ourselves as sacred, living sacrifices and thus being ‘altered’ or changed and transformed.

For the past several weeks we have been talking about Abraham and the altars that he built – today in the closing message of this series I want to talk about Elijah and the altar he built at Mount Carmel.

Re-Post: Growing in the Word and Prayer

This worksheet is designed to give you practical teaching and tools to grow in your life in the Word of God and Prayer.

Developing a Daily Devotional Life

I        The foundation of being a Christian is that we are following Jesus and so you want to develop daily time with Him – where you read the Bible and you pray.

II      Oswald Chambers said, “Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public things will be stamped with the presence of God.”

III   To have an effective devotional time you want to make sure that you have the following:

A)   Have A Time – pick a consistent time when you will read your Bible and pray. It doesn’t always have to be the same time but if you have a regular time you will be more consistent.

B)   Have a Place – pick a consistent place. Again, you don’t have to have one place all the time but if you have a regular place it helps.

C)   Have a Plan – there are so many ways to read the Word of God and pray. It’s important though to have a plan rather than just being random.

SERMON NOTES: ALTAR’D #3

03: THE CALL TO CONSECRATION

Special Focus:

• In two weeks we are having our First Fruits Offering. The heart of this is that we give a special offering, on top of our regular giving, to sow a seed into what God is going to do in 2019.
• I want to encourage every member of TCC to participate and seek the Lord regarding what they are to give.

Throughout the Fall our focus was “Heart Check”

• “God wants to work in us so he can work with us and through us”
• We need to continue to allow the Lord to work in our hearts but He is working in us with a purpose
• As we come into 2019 my heart is stirred that we will individually and corporately go after the callings and purposes of God in our lives. IT’S TIME!

Romans 12:1 (TPT)  – 1 Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? I encourage you to surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship.

The key: I encourage you to surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifice! 

Message Notes: Surrendered – Reflections from this Past Week.

#3 – SURRENDERED: REFLECTIONS FROM THIS WEEK

I       INTRODUCTION

A)  As all of you are aware this past Monday we experienced a horrific tragedy here in Toronto. 10 people lost their lives. 16 were injured. Many more were devastated and traumatized by the events. I felt that it was really important that as a church family and spiritual community that we took some time to process together and pray into all that has happened.

B)  I have taken quite a bit of time to pray/reflect this week. I have asked the Lord how we should be responding. I want to share on several key things that have impacted my heart, and I believe they will impact yours as well.

From my Heart: Some Thoughts After the Toronto Van Attack

Tomorrow at Toronto City Church as we gather to worship there is going to be a major focus put on the van attack in our city this past week that took the lives of 10 people, injured even more and devasted a city. We are going to worship, we are going to pray, and we are going to talk about some practical things we can do to show the love of God and make a difference.

One thing we will be talking about is a multi-church prayer walk and love outreach that will be happening leading up to the city-wide vigil being held at Mel Lastman Square. It’s a great opportunity to serve in a real and practical way alongside many other believers.

This past Monday, on the day of the attack, I sent the following note to our TCC Family members. While it was written to TCC I felt like I wanted to share it with a broader audience by posting it here on my blog: