Next Level Church (1)
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What Does A Next Level Church Prioritize?
Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
A Next Level Church:
I. Prioritizes GIFTING’S!
Now at this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Acts 13:1 Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers:
A Next Level Church:
II. Prioritizes SERVING!
Acts 13:2 While they were ministering to the Lord!
What does it mean to minister to the Lord? One who is performing services for others to the Lord!
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?
A Next Level Church:
III. Prioritizes FASTING!
Acts 13:2 While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting!
What is the Biblical meaning of fasting? To do without food for a spiritual purpose!
When should a Believer in Christ fast?
“But the days will come; and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.”
There will be times and or seasons in a Believer’s life when they do not sense or feel the Lord’s Presence and or Power in that season, and it’s a good time to fast.
There will be times in deliverance ministry when fasting is beneficial:
“But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
A Next Level Church:
IV. Prioritizes PRAYING!
Acts 13:3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed!
We have taken our initial steps toward prioritizing PRAYING with our Most Valuable PRAY-ER ministry.
We are now poised to take our next steps toward prioritizing PRAYING in such a way that we will become known as a House of Prayer!
A Next Level Church:
V. Prioritizes HEARING!
While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
A Next Level Church expects the Holy Spirit to speak and values the Gifting’s to the Church to hear what the Holy Spirit is often saying!
Now at this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
One of them named Agabus stood up and began to indicate by the Spirit that there would certainly be a great famine all over the world. And this took place in the reign of Claudius.
A Next Level Church:
VI. Prioritizes SENDING!
Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
The Holy Spirit revealed to the Church that was at Antioch, that there was a work He was calling Barnabas and Saul to do.
The Church partnered with the Holy Spirit and sent them away with their spiritual covering.
But who was actually sending Barnabas and Saul?
So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus.
A Next Level Church:
VII. Prioritizes BAPTIZING!
Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Water Baptism Identifies you with the death of Christ, and with the Resurrection of Christ. But it also identifies you with the Newness of Life in Christ!
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
Water Baptism puts things in your rear view mirror and raises you up to live through the view of your front windshield of Kingdom Life!