Firm Foundation with Bryan Hudson
2013-05
Episodes
Friday May 24, 2013
Friday May 24, 2013
Men of Prophetic Purpose: “I sought for a man to stand in the gap”
Ezekiel 22: 30 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
Notes located at http://www.newcovenant.org/Men_of_Prophetic_Purpose_Notes.pdf
Sunday May 19, 2013
How to Be God’s Response to Our Times
Sunday May 19, 2013
Sunday May 19, 2013
Romans 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
Those who are in Christ are a prophetic people. If you are in Christ, you are a prophetic person! What does that mean? It does not mean that you prophesy, tell the future, or say things that sound profound to some people. Prophetic people don’t just say, “Yea, and again I say Yea!” Prophetic people and preachers don’t just say and do things in the moment. Prophetic people are God’s response to their times and to their generation.
The Scriptures state that we were created in God's image and likeness. That statement carries the full creative purpose and power of God. Have you thought, "Why was I born?" The better question to ask is "Why did God create me in His image and likeness."
I define “prophetic” as: God accomplishing His purposes by declaring his will and purpose in advances and then performing His will through willing people and ordered circumstances.
There is a great difference between the propheticness God and the doctrine of fatalism which says that all events are determined by fate and are therefore inevitable and unalterable. In God’s scheme of things, He does not exclude the human will. He gives us the ability to accept or reject His plan for our lives (Deut. 30:19).
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;
The ability of choice also includes the responsibility to accept the consequences of every decision. We cannot blame God for our failure to walk in His revealed will.
Again, if you are born again, you are a prophetic person. The fact that you have a “testimony of Jesus” proves that you are a prophetic person (the spirit of prophecy).
John 1:13 says that we were born again “not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” Jesus said in John 8:44 that no one can come to Him except the Father “draws him.” The point is this: The events that led to your repentance and acceptance of Jesus as your Lord and Savior were all prophetic in nature. Those were events prescribed by God from the foundation of the world. Though our names do not appear in the Bible, we do prophetically appear in promises such as, “Whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom. 10:12). You became that “whoever” when the Holy Spirit convicted you of sin and you believed the Gospel of Jesus. God had you in mind when “whoever” became a part of the Word.
We do not fully understand the reality of predestination, the simplicity is when we become aware of a prophetic call of God, we must choose to respond.
Sunday May 12, 2013
Birthing and Nurturing Your Purpose in God
Sunday May 12, 2013
Sunday May 12, 2013
Gal. 4:22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: the one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and he of the freewoman through promise, 24 which things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar— 25 for this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children— 26 but the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all...28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.” 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.
Friday May 03, 2013
Patricia Hudson | Listen, Hear, Do, Receive
Friday May 03, 2013
Friday May 03, 2013
Listen, Hear, Do, Receive