Notes & Thoughts

 Crestview service on ACTS

"Watch and see where God is working and join Him" Henry Blackaby

Acts 6:1-7 I am one of the seven I write

Where is God working in my life?

Holy Spirit Study

• Intercessor

Harvest House Production?

Hebrew 7:25 | Roman 8:20-25 | Roman 8:28-29

"To make us more like Jesus"

• Intervines, 
• addresses

HARD REALITIES: 

God uses sufferings to conform us to His image. 

Suffering > Endurance > Character > Hope

• We know the whole creation groans | REDEMPTION OF OUR BODIES 

"Bondage to decay" | 1 Corinthians 2:10-12

"Heaven's help to my hurt"

How do I know when the Holy Spirit is helping me in my weakness ?

Have you ever ran out of words to describe what you're going through?

What is an intercessor?

Wordless?

How do we understand how things work together according to His purpose?

What is it you're seeking?

"

How can I bless you?"

The Power of the Holy Spirit by Dr. Tony Evanss

"The Intercessor" (cont)

"He allows aches, pains, and bruises to produce a new perspective"

"The end result of all flesh is death"

"Knowing that the spiritual realm goes beyond the walls of our five sense" [conversation with Kim]

"The Holy Spirit helps the most when you're at your lowest,"

"It's always better to hope in God than to trust in yourself."

"He creates a vocabulary that fits the environment that needs to hear what you have to say"

Thoughts:

• I want to listen to more voices from foster care
• God has a specific will for my life

Isaiah 29:13 | 1 John 5:14-15

"The Holy Spirit's role is to help us conform to God's will - providence

Miracle: God transcending His laws (skips, cancels, etc)

Providence: God works within natural laws to stitch things together to weave into place in alignment to His will

"If God is stretching you, pressing you, and allowing all manner of difficulty to happen to you - and you love Him - then be assured He is seeking to conform you to Christ."

Thoughts:

• I want to memorize Stephan's sermon
• I want to memorize 1 Corinthians 1
• How do I change my emotions within decisions?
• Holy Spirit will you pray for us when we don't have the words to pray for ourselves?

"He will take your inarticulate expressions of anguish and turn them into a powerful prayer to God because He knows God as part of the Holy Trinity."

• How does this look like?
• Isn't instant relief what we're really hoping for when we pray?

Many Colors

        O Creator of my earthly dwelling, 

        just as a house, Lord, do I live within my body. 

How quickly I forget its capacities. 

Look upon me, Jesus, son of David, 

with great mercy.

Upon my body. 

Upon our bodies, 

As the body. 

    AND the lost bodies trapped and twisted and covered and 

    in the mouth half-swallowed holy Lord will You not 

    have mercy on those who know not what they do?

    For folly feels familiar to our wooly coats. 

 

    For there are those in Your Body - or cloaked convincingly as Your Body, as 

    it is not authentically You -

    who have tortured and twisted and deceived in the likeness of the dance of the slithery beast.

We have breathed in yet again the dirt

    and sinned against the very head. 

Against the very breath.

Against the very stitchings of us. 

How dare we be given the opportunity to fail so detrimentally?

    To destroy all that which You have entrusted us? Again, and again and again.

Have mercy, Jesus, son of David, 

that you will do us this kindness

and reknit

    all that we have yanked free from Your workings into what we swear to now be only an irreconcilable knot that must be cut away 

    that must be thrown out 

        that must be started completely anew,

and instead, O Creator, reveal to us how Your fingers are fit for the task of untangling 

and continuing such a piece to behold. 

A morning at The Brew

 A slow morning at The Brew. I studied Christ and the Passover and ordered a skim latte and an everything bagel. 

"Jehovah chose Israel." Why Jehovah? 

They knew they needed to be delivered, not only from Pharaoh but also from Egypt. 

How will the Bible Project's study over the theme of the Exodus overlap with this book study?

"God speaks in terms of human experiences"

God's holiness demands that He judges sin, and the price is costly. But He is also merciful and provides a way of escape, which is redemption. 

Isaiah 53:7 + 1 Peter 1:19-20

Isaiah speaks in the past-tense?

"Each year you and your family are to eat [the firstborn] in the presence of the Lord."

The passover lamb was marked for death. 

The passover lamb was to be perfect. Deut 15: 21 | Heb 4:15 | 1 Peter 1:19

They roasted the passover lamb with fire. Fire is symbolic of God's judgment. 

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Matthew 27:46) (2 Corinthians 5:21)

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building form God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 

...each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 

Not a bone of the passover lamb was broken. Exodus 12:3 "a lamb - a nebulous, unknown entity,"

Arthur Pink

(Gal 12:20) (Exodus 12:3-5) 

The Bitter Herb symbolizes death and mourning.

Zechariah 12:10, 13:9, 14:9

Matthew 24:30, Revelation 1:7, Zechariah 12:12

The bitter herb remind us that the firstborn children of Israel lived because the Passover lamb died.

What did people of Zechariah think he meant in Zechariah 12:10?

Weeping of Hadad Rimnon in Megiddo?

The Unleavened Bread is almost always a symbol of sin

• "God did not leave them to grapple with abstraction"

This would have been felt specifically by wives;

yeast clump bears same kind of link to sin nature as Adam

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 | Unleavened bread as sincerity + truth matzo sweet without sourness

Ezekiel 19:4-6 | Revelation 7:2-3, 9:4

They did not put away leaven in order to be redeemed. Rather, they put away leaven because they were redeemed.

THE BLOOD ON THE DOOR

"Basin," the depression of the basin at the threshold

"Arthur Pink sees this as a picture of the suffering Messiah Himself: "Blood above where the thorns pierced His brow, blood at the sides, from His nail pierced hands; blood below, from His nail pierced feet"

Rev 9:4 tortured for 5 months?

"Making the sign of a bloody cross"

John 10: 9 | Hebrew 11:10 "Architect and builder is God. 

Then I spoke with Alexa at The Brew. 

BOOMTOWN Half May 10th? 7:30AM

chometz bitter or sour