FEATURED MESSAGES

The phrase “mountaintop experience” has come to mean a moment of significant revelation given by God, or a time of feeling especially close to God. These moments are filled with purpose, promise and power. In this message, you will be encouraged to pull-away and meet God on the mountain, but then go back down to the valley where what you have is needed most. SUGGESTED QUESTIONS & DISCUSSION POINTS: 1. Describe your own "mountain-top" experience/s with God. What did it change in you? How did it empower you for what was ahead? 2. Why is it important to build a lifestyle of encounters with God? What's the purpose of these moments? 3. If mountain moments help realign our hearts to God, how does this affect the real life that we live in the valley below? 4. Pinpoint the examples in the Bible where certain individuals had mountain-top experiences. Who were they and how did it affect their lives and those that they were sent to influence? 5. Spend time pressing into God's presence during worship and leaning in to encounter Him more intimately. Pray for each other as the Spirit leads.

Jesus made sure that the standard of His life would become ours. In this message, Amanda unpacks the confronting and yet empowering verse found in John 14:12. What do the “greater things” look like in our lives? Where does the ministry of healing fit it? How do we nurture a lifestyle where the supernatural becomes natural? SUGGESTED QUESTIONS and ACTIVATION: 1. Read John 14:12. Discuss what you believe Jesus meant. How might others interpret this verse? 2. Why is the normal Christian life described as being “supernatural”? 3. What do you think stands in the way of us pursuing a supernatural life like Jesus lived? How do disappointment and supposed “failure” contribute to not pressing in for more miracles? 4. Is there anyone in your group that needs a miracle of healing? Spend time praying for nothing less than what Jesus made available.

We are all on a journey to find HOME. For some home is a place of pain, confusion, fear and dread. For others, home is where the Father is – a place of belonging and unconditional love. In this final message in this series, you will be reminded of the Father who runs to you, not from you. You can now say, “I am finally home!”. SUGGESTED QUESTIONS and ACTIVATION: The messages in this series must go beyond a season of teaching and be established as a way of life. Spend unrushed time asking God the following questions: 1. Father, how can I experience You in more meaningful ways? 2. Father, is there anything in the way of me knowing You more deeply and experiencing You more intimately? 3. Father, is there any part of my life where I am uncomfortable with being loved and struggle to feel accepted by You? What parts of me are You still trying to love back to life? 4. Father, what spiritual blessings are within my reach that You would like me to pursue and experience? 5. Father, what three steps do You want me to take to keep going deeper with You into this love that You are pouring out on me? 6. Read the Parable of The Prodigal Son in Luke 15. How does the son’s story relate to your story? How does the father’s response affect your view of Father God? 7. Spend time in Psalm 139 while asking God questions about His love for you.

Kindness is a decreasing quality in today’s culture, but not for God’s people. We are empowered to reflect the kindness that God shows us to those around us. In this message, you will be inspired to embrace the true nature of kindness and its many associated attributes. DISCUSSION and ACTIVATION: 1. Describe a time when someone showed you radical kindness? How did it make you feel? 2. Describe a time when you extended kindness to someone. How did that make you feel? 3. Read Proverbs 3:3-4. How can you practically apply this Scripture in your daily life? 4. Read Matthew 5:43-44. As children of God, we are called to reflect our Father to the world around us. How does God’s Spirit empower you to show kindness to those that are considered your “enemy”? 5. Take time pray for each other so that kindness becomes our normal response, even to those that show us the opposite.

We live in a world where many are struggling to find themselves. We are experiencing a global identity crisis and it is increasing. So why do we exist and why did God bother creating us? In this message, we delve into God’s brilliant plan of creation and embrace the beauty and wonder of who He made us to be. DISCUSSION and ACTIVATION: 1. Spend time as a group discussing and writing down what you believe God’s intended design is for the TRUE FEMINE and the TRUE MASCULINE parts of us? How has this been distorted over time? 2. Read Psalm 139. How does God see you? Does this agree with how you see yourself? If not, are there any lies that need to be surrendered? Where does God’s healing need to touch? 3. How has the gender division affected the Church today? Pray for the global Church to honour and celebrate our men and women according to God’s heart. 4. Take time to speak with God and ask, “Father, is there any part of me that I judge and question Your reason for making me that way? Is it something that opposes Your creative design and that I need to repent for, or do I need to see it through Your eyes and embrace it? 5. Is there anyone you need to forgive, including yourself? 6. Consider spending time together "pulling out the gold" of who each person is. What qualities and attributes can you celebrate and honour as a group?

The formation of our lives is shaped by many different experiences. But when God created life, what was His intention? Could it be that the very first face Adam saw is the same face of love that should also define our existence? In this message, we go on a journey of rediscovering the origin of how God wanted our lives to be defined. DISCUSSION and ACTIVATION: 1. Have a chat with God and ask Him to show you how you see Him. Describe it, write it down, find a picture online or even draw it. Explain how this image of God affects your interaction with Him. 2. When Adam beheld the face of God in the first few seconds of his life, how do you think this shaped his expectations and relationship before sin entered? What impact did sin have on this vital connection with God? 3. When Jesus said in John 14:18 that He would not leave us as orphans and that He would come back to us, what personal application can you apply to your own life? What role does the Holy Spirit have in this (read Romans 8:15-16)? 4. Have you ever lived with an orphan mindset? If so, how did it affect your connection to God the Father? 5. How does the truth of SONSHIP shape your life today? If you’re having problems embracing this, take time to pray and specifically ask God for revelation and for His Face of Love to transform your life.

What are your UGBs? An Un-Godly Belief (UGB) is something that can stand in the way of God’s Best and rob from you. What are they and how do we replace them with GBs (Godly Beliefs)? In this message, you will see how God can heal you from the UGBs that have been lying to you and bring you to His point of view. DISCUSSION and ACTIVATION: Ask God what UGBs you have believed about Him or who you are in Him that has hindered your relationship with Him. Write each UGB on a separate line. CONFESS “Lord, I confess my sin of believing the lie that _______ (be specific).” FORGIVE & REPENT “I choose to forgive _________ (people who contributed to your forming this ungodly belief) for __________________ (be specific – i.e. words you spoke over me, for letting me down, etc.). Lord, bring Your healing touch to the hurt in my heart that led to me believing this lie. I repent and ask You to forgive me for receiving this ungodly belief; for living my life based on it and for any way I have judged others because of it. I receive Your forgiveness.” RENOUNCE “I renounce and break my agreement with this ungodly belief and with all powers of darkness behind this belief. Thank You Father for healing my heart. I choose to accept, believe and receive the godly belief that _________________________________ . Journal any more insights the Father shows you. Now spend time resting in God’s presence and let Him speak to you about Godly Beliefs. Going forward as you start your day with God, declare your Godly Beliefs about God out loud. If you do that, you will discover that those old UGBs about God have been dug up, healed and completely removed. Now look at your UGBs that you have written down and replace them with the truth of the GBs that the Father reveals to you.