The Call is an Act of Creation
Belonging House Fellowship
This word "call" in Greek, Kaleo, appears 148 times in the New Testament. It is the greek word used for the Hebrew word "cara." This word first appears at the beginning of Genesis when God speaks and he calls the light day and the dark night. In the Bible, and especially in the Gospels, the word "call" has an intrinsic meaning. The call defines a person and calls them out of one reality and into another. So Jesus calls fishermen, and in the call itself is the power for those men to leave their nets, leave their family legacy, leave their place in society, and follow Jesus....
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Illusion and Reality: Baptism in the Holy Spirit
Belonging House Fellowship
God is always calling us out of our illusions and into Kingdom reality. The religious worldly mind calls us backward into the realm of the past. And that realm of the past will then cause us to live in unreality. God is present future. He is always talking about now and calling us into future. This is why, when we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and then we move into his reality. This is why you feel free. You are back in sync with God. Sadly, many people conjure up and relive the past over and over again and they are living and being defined by things...
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You Can Become a Whole Person
Belonging House Fellowship
Today we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord and I want to talk about a few BIG ideas that will lay out the next season of teaching. In John chapter three one of the leaders of the sanhedrin, Nicodemus comes to Jesus secretly at night. And Nicodemus makes an observation to Jesus, no one could do the signs that you do unless God is with him. And the Jesus replies, No one can enter the Kingdom of heaven unless he is born again. And then Jesus explains that unless you are born by water and the Holy Spirit you are not in the Kingdom. Flesh gives birth to flesh and spirit gives birth to...
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You Are Sacred Space
Belonging House Fellowship
You are the light. Light is only useful in dark places. And you cannot be sacred space unless you learn to listen to the Lord, and do what he tells you. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com
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Christmas is the Miracle
Belonging House Fellowship
God delights in you. God is coming to earth, not as conqueror or warrior. God is coming to earth in peace with love, delight, and favor. Heaven is invading earth and it is an invasion of favor. Christmas is the miracle. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com
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Faith and Reality
Belonging House Fellowship
This is why when we make scriptural declarations we see so much happen in people's lives. When we declare scriptural truth, even if that truth is not yet reality for us, we begin to see movement from our broken reality into God's reality. The incarnation is everything. Jesus came into a broken world and said I am salvation I am God with you. I am close and I can bring the life and love of God into your broken reality and bring salvation. That word salvation means healing, wholeness, shalom, transformation and blessing. And so we declare salvation over situations. You can support Belonging...
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Fulfillment: How to receive the answer to your prayer.
Belonging House Fellowship
What do you do when the fulfilment comes and it is not what you expected? There is a back side to the forerunner calling and we need to talk about it. God is fulfilling promises right now in our community, and it is important to understand a core piece of God's fulfillment. Most people miss the day of their visitation and the day of the fulfillment because they are expecting one thing and God does another. God fulfills the word and the promise but it does not look like what we expected. And when this happens people either get...
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Prepare the Way for the Lord
Belonging House Fellowship
In Scripture there is really only one forerunner, John the Baptist. His message can be broken down into four parts: 1.Prepare the Way for the coming of the Lord. 2. Change your thinking. 3. Produce works that show you have changed. 4. He must increase and I must decrease: when he comes turn to him and be filled with the Holy Spirit. ______ You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship:...
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What is and What will be: Processing the Prophetic
Belonging House Fellowship
The prophetic word is the end from the beginning. If God gives you a word, He is telling you how things are going to work out. It is designed to give you prophetic hope. Hope keeps you going. A lot of people live in what is or what was. They live in what their eyes tell them about now, or the illusion of their experience in the past. And out of this, they get trapped in a poverty mindset with no possibilities or options. The Lord lives in what is and what will be. #Advent #BelongingHouse #Prophetic #ListentoGod You can find out more at ...
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Settle it in your mind today.
Belonging House Fellowship
Patience is saying to Jesus, you are the most patient person in the Universe. I need you to manifest your patience through me today. Settle it in your mind today. You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com
info_outlineToday we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord
and I want to talk about a few BIG ideas
that will lay out the next season of teaching.
In John chapter three
one of the leaders of the sanhedrin,
Nicodemus
comes to Jesus secretly
at night.
And Nicodemus makes an observation to Jesus,
no one could do the signs that you do
unless God is with him.
And the Jesus replies,
No one can enter the Kingdom of heaven
unless he is born again.
And then Jesus explains
that unless you are born
by water and the Holy Spirit
you are not in the Kingdom.
Flesh gives birth to flesh
and spirit gives birth to spirit.
The Kingdom of God
is not a kingdom of talk,
but a kingdom of power.
You can support Belonging House at https://belonginghouse.betterworld.org or buymeacoffee.com/christjohnotto. We have a Mighty Network for artists and creative people who are committed to a lifestyle of discipleship: https://belonging-house.mn.co
You can get our Friday email at https://belonginghouse.substack.com