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The Great Commission is described as great because it's the greatest call on our lives as believers! No matter what you're doing in life, your greatest calling is to make Jesus known. There tends to be a separation between the Church of God and the Mission of God. It's time to bridge that gap! It's time to be driven by such a love for people that we can't help but represent and share Jesus everywhere we go! What if the great thing or great adventure that so many believers are waiting on would be found in the greatest calling on their life, sharing Jesus with the world!

There’s a door standing open in heaven. There is an invitation from the One Who sits on the throne to come up here and see—to see with the eyes of hope, to
know our role in God’s plan, and to increase our awareness of His power and our victory. The more we choose to be in the Spirit and enter that door to see heaven, the more it will change the way we see earth.

God sent His Son, Jesus, so that we could have a personal relationship with Him. Within that relationship is a co-laboring partnership to be a part of the greatest thing in the history of our world--building God's Kingdom on the earth!

Just because Jesus said, "it is finished" does not mean we do nothing. It means everything we do, we do it with Him.

Jesus finished something so we could start something, a life partnering with God to change the world! We find ourselves waiting on God to reveal His plan to redeem the world. It's time to realize that we are His plan for redemption!

Is it possible that we can face every adversity with the expectation that its only purpose is to remove that which limits us and bring us into greater authority?

When we face the fires of adversity, we can create an image of a god who will rescue us which will leave us enslaved and wounded, or we can walk through them with Jesus--unbound and unharmed.

The fear of the Lord is key to the outpouring of the Spirit and the fear of the Lord invites us to carry the burning heart of Jesus. It's in the ream of casting our crowns before Him where we truly begin to understand the weight of the sacrifice of Jesus and the authority we've been entrusted with as His chosen. You are born into a family, but you are invited into a legacy. Come up and come into the throne room of the Lord God Almighty with reverent awe and adoration before His holiness as you ascend above yourself and build an altar to the Lord Most High.

The Promises of God are beyond what our minds can conceive, but in relationship with Him we ascend into His understanding, we enforce His Word with His authority, and we worship in adoration for the magnitude of what He gives us.