Awake Church Podcast

The substance of God is love, and every believer's wholeness and fulfillment is found in living in the love of God and giving it away. Love endures through every age and is the most powerful weapon that we have. In this series, Matt begins sharing part of one of a three on the greatest of all and how we can live in love and love others.

Seeing clearly means that we need to receive the healing for our eyes that Jesus talked about, and we need to shed all other lenses. What we value most becomes the lenses we see things through. When Jesus and what He says and thinks become our highest value, we will see clearly.

There is a battle in the invisible world of thoughts and we must win it to have life. God has given us His words, His ways to think upon and the enemy has flooded the atmosphere and our feelings with thoughts of fear, doubt, accusation and worry. We get to choose what to listen to, what to think about and what to allow into our hearts.

From before humans were made, God had a plan to send His Son into the world to save the world and restore relationship with Himself. Jesus was the plan from before time and He humbled Himself as a seed to be implanted into the womb of a woman, to be born as an under-cover King and restore all that was lost back to it's original intention.

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Weariness comes from our journeys in life. Journeys through difficult terrain, difficult circumstances, daily hardship. In the midst of weariness, Jesus puts out an invitation - "Come to Me." When we do, He takes the heaviness that we have and gives us what He has - rest, refreshing, joy, peace, hope, abundant life. As believers, we need to become consummate traders - those who daily trade with Jesus and stay full of His living water.

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As believers through every generation upon the earth since the time of Christ, we are needing to navigate this age as lights in the darkness and pillars of truth. In this message, Matt begins to share about issues of our time and how we need to remain devoted to Jesus above all, while being fully alive and our minds transformed to make the right decisions that we need to make.

Every renewed follower of Jesus can hear His voice. When He speaks to us, it's important that we grow in understanding what He is saying, or interpreting what we are hearing. In this message, Matt shares some keys to interpreting and understanding what God is saying to us today.

Since the Creator of communication lives inside of His children, He is connected and can communicate to us in unlimited ways. He is speaking to each person and the adventure of life is to discover the ways that He is already talking with us so that we can listen and follow Him. In this message, Matt share over a dozen ways from the scriptures that God may be communicating to you already.

From the day we were born again, God has been speaking to you. He communicates in thousands of ways as He lives inside of you and is connected to every part of our lives. He communicates to you, for you, and for others. The adventure of life is daily asking Him to "speak, Lord. I'm listening," and then discovering the many ways that He is already talking.

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We live surrounded by the temporal, but filled with eternity. None of us know how much time that we get here on the earth, but the time we do have effects our forever. Everything counts, is remembered and will be rewarded in the age ahead. The difficulties, the hardships and suffering will not be able to even be compared with the beauty and glory of what awaits us.

Jesus is building, cleansing and growing His body to become something radiant and ready for His return. We are this body, this gathering of devoted followers of the King who is directing us in these days to reflect Him in the earth. He is in love with His bride. We are a part of something greater than we can imagine and we have a purpose greater than we realize.

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There is power in unity. Power in one-ness between us and Jesus, and unity among one another. As the Body of Christ, or the vehicle of the Kingdom in the earth, we were made for unity, connected to Him. The enemy works tirelessly to accuse and sever unity, separating us from Jesus and one another. Aware of his schemes, we must intentionally stay united in Christ and believing the best about one another - judgment free.

Throughout the centuries, Jesus has been building His body and using them to demonstrate the Kingdom of Heaven. His prayer that is still echoing is that all of His followers would be one, and when they are, His glory is seen to everyone. This is one of our goals, missions as the body of Christ. To be one and reflect heaven in each of our assemblies.

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Every believer can hear God speaking, but we also need to understand what He is saying, what it means and how to apply it. Today, Matt shares some keys to interpreting and sharing with others the mysteries of God.

God is all knowing and in need of nothing, yet He has chosen to love and have relationship with us. As a multi-faceted being, He communicates to us in numerous ways and a large part of our journey in life is learning how to hear Him. In this message, Matt shares some of the thousands of ways that God speaks to His children.

Every born-again believer who has now become a son or daughter of God can now hear God speak personally. As a child of God, we have the privilege of hearing and communicating with God and enjoying Him. Life then becomes an adventure and each new day a discovery as we identify the ways that He speaks, He renews our minds and changes us while as we pursue Him.

The caveat to being forgiven by God is that we in turn forgive others. Jesus refused to get bitter in the midst of His crucifixion and forgave His offenders. Following Jesus means that we stay in a place of constant forgiveness toward others, and He has given us the Holy Spirit to help us supernaturally release to others the kind of forgiveness that we have received.

In this two-part series on Forgiveness, Matt shares about the beauty and power of the forgiveness that is offered to us through the person of Jesus and the sacrifice of His life. It takes humility to receive what we don't deserve, but without receiving by faith what Jesus has done for us, we are stuck with our mountain of sin, and kept from the life of the Son.

What does the Abraham, the father of our faith, have in common with Rahab, a prostitute? In this message, David finishes the second part of the study of the James passages about faith and works.

The law of supply and demands says that when supply is high, value is diminished. When supply is low, the value rises. The body of Christ has a high supply of voices, but a low supply of hands and feet. The value of laborers is at an all time high. In this message, David Olinger preaches from the book of James, “faith without works is dead.” This is a challenging message to our fellowship to step out and be the hands and feet of Jesus.

A short study in the life of a shepherd tending his sheep. The Lord as our Shepard, leads us, protects us, defends us, nourishes us, refreshes us, and lovingly pulls us back on life's trail when we slip or fall. He even rewards us for following him.

We get to have a relationship with the Creator, the most important and powerful being in the Universe. We are His children and He hears our prayers, our requests, but He desires to know us and wants us to desire to know Him. Knowing Him means adopting a posture of listening for Him daily and an adventure for our lives.

An Encounter with The Living God has full Power to alter our lives into the greater Glory we have been designed to live in this lifetime. God is ALWAYS up to something good in our lives. Continually coming into agreement with this simple Truth opens the doors of our destiny, truly letting the King of Glory come in!

Staying on the path of life with Jesus is our life. Along the way there will be a pull toward one of the ditches of Legalism or Lawlessness on either side of the road. There are also the tensions in life between opposing things that are difficult, but Jesus helps us live in the tension and He is the answer for every paradox.

The world's prisons are full of fatherless people. In our spiritual lives there can be a lack of health where we don't see our Heavenly Father the way that He is, or have a healthy relationship with Him. Jesus fulfilled His mission on the earth by being rightly related to His Father, and we can also. The Father is love and in love He provides for us and disciplines us for our good to help us live fully alive.

Bobby Conner's message to Awake Church

The promise of the Father is the baptism of the Holy Spirit. He was sent to fill us and to enable us to do what we cannot do on our own. This baptism is for us today, for every person who wants Him. He changes us, ministers life to others through us and testifies of Jesus. The Spirit of God isn't scary, but God's wonderful presence inside of us.

Pentecost is the fulfilled prophecy of Jesus baptizing in the Holy Spirit. It came 50 days after Jesus was resurrected and initiated the start of the ministry of the Holy Spirit on the earth, inside of us! The secret plan and weapon of God was for Jesus to prepare a home for the Holy Spirit to live within, so that the world could be changed. God's great surprise includes you and I as the unexpected homes and carriers of God.