I-DTS Week 5: Identity In Christ & Hearing God's Voice

Intimacy and Impact Discipleship Training School had the privilege hearing Matthew Dawson for 3 days on "Identity In Christ". A very important subject in these days of secular humanism! We put all our identity in our work, hobbies and relationships, and we even put our identity in our ministry positions and theological concepts! Through this we can become selfish and very earthy centered, not living fully for Christ in the hope of redemption and the age to come. Here are a few quotes from Matt's passionate lecture's:

"The prophets in the old testament main proclamation was to remind the Israelites of their marital covenant with God; to remind them of how He saved them from slavery in Egypt. Today it is the same, we are to continually remind humanity of the God-Man Jesus Christ who saved us and established with us a covenant of everlasting marital status."

"Is there a better way to dishonor the Cross than to act as orphans and keep our distance in a cold hard hearted manner? No!"

"Children do not one out of the womb with the art of self-sufficiency. They learn it as they grow! This is why we cannot enter in to the kingdom of heaven unless we enter in as children. We have to come again to the place of wholehearted dependence upon God in our all things pertaining to our lives."

"The story of what you believe about why we are here will always feed the outcome of how you live."

"The Father of glory can meet every need and desire that us weak humans could ever have. As the Father's love envelopes us we lose less desire for the things of the world and we become more obsessed with how we can love those in the world."

"We think that we have the Gospel figured out. But the truth is that we barely have scratched the surface."

We also had the privilege of having Jenny Gruenwald for 2 days on "Hearing God's Voice". The students enjoyed her practical application to teaching. She came prepared for us to experience hearing God's voice and not just to learn about how to hear God's voice. Each practical application was like gold as the Lord spoke! During the final session Jenny had everyone go by themselves for one hour and write down on a piece of paper everything that God speaks about them. We then gathered back together and shared what the Lord was saying followed by a time of prayer and prophesy for each student.

She remind us that God is a relational God who loves to spend time chatting with His children.

Please continue to pray for us as we meet with God and prepare to go on outreach. We will launch our plans for outreach very soon :)