Empowering Communities

Belong — Be Known — Be Encouraged — Be Sent Out   Empowered. Missional. Kingdom Minded. Christ-centered. Spirit-filled. Holistic. There are a lot of adjectives pastors can add to describe the community they are trying to build. These words add focus or clarity to the vision of the community. At Revival Valley, we foster the creation of Life Groups, the…

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EMPOWERED 5: Transitioning Seasons

We have been briefly looking at how we are called and gifted by God, "for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (Romans 11:29). Earlier in this EMPOWER series, we discussed dreaming bigger with the Lord, as well as knowing our assignments and overcoming obstacles as we pursue the calls on our lives, and then the importance of…

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EMPOWERED 4: Never Alone

We have been briefly looking at how we are called and gifted by God, "for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (Romans 11:29). That makes us EMPOWERED people before the Lord. One of our main callings is to bring God’s Kingdom to earth, and we do this by establishing new things in the Name of Jesus. Earlier…

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EMPOWERED 3: Overcoming Current Obstacles

Thus far we have been looking at the life of David and what it means for each of us to come into our destiny while being prepared in our current situations. In EMPOWERED 1, we took a few moments to reflect on our large dreams and bring those before the Lord again. It is important to keep our big dreams,…

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EMPOWERED 2: What is Your Current Assignment?

Last time we briefly looked a the life of David, who would become the second king of Israel. The story starts in the Bible in 1 Samuel where David was anointed king as a youth (1 Sam 16) and 13-17 years later he is appointed king (2 Samuel 5:4). We said last time, being anointed is NOT the same as…

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EMPOWERED 1: Anointed and Appointed

In this EMPOWERED series, we primarily focus on the life of David as an example of a person seeking after God’s heart and the process of fulfilling destiny. David was anointed as king of Israel by a prophet years before he was appointed to the throne. Many other Biblical examples come to mind of people who also went through process…

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Prayer & Prophecy – Joanne Moody

DOWNLOAD HANDOUTS Videos of the Friday Night and Saturday Morning teaching Prayer and Prophecy Equipping Weekend with Joanne Moody February 2, 3 - 2018 Not a conference, or a seminar, but hands on training and activation into hearning Jesus more in your life, and the lives of others. Practical teaching with exercises in prayer, prophecy and encouraging the Body of Christ. Topics:…

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Prophecy in the OT

In Luke chapter 7, Jesus spoke of John the Baptist, describing his as a prophet, and even as the greatest prophet up to that time. But then our Lord said, all who are in the Kingdom of God will be greater than John. He is challenging us to think of ourselves as greater than the greatest prophet of the Old…

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Hearing God’s voice: Prophecy

When God speaks, we should listen. Every Christ follower gives assent to this principle. The entire Bible is replete with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit speaking: In the beginning, God spoke, and created everything with His words (Genesis 1). In the beginning was the Word, and that Word became flesh (John 1). We have life, not simply…

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Healing in the NT

As in every chapter, the key to our living for Christ rest in what the Bible says regarding our regular day to day lives. If each generation of disciples after the original Apostles had certain expectations or practices in the Lord, then we should have similar exceptions and practices. We stated our basic foundation for this is found in Jesus’s…

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