Session One

PRAYER and FASTING

SPIRITUAL FREEDOM

Sin is no longer your master, for you no longer live under the requirements of the law. Instead, you live under the freedom of God’s grace. Romans 6:14 NLT

REFLECTION

This session is about moving from “slave-driven” religion to “Spirit-led” relationship. It is vitally important to understand that we are not under the power of the law. We do not need to earn God’s love because it is the grace of God that has set us free from the power of sin and that grace has become our ultimate liberator.

QUOTES

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and welcomed in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.” — Timothy Keller

PRAYER POINT

“Breaking the chains of legalism and reclaiming grace”

Pray for a deeper revelation of your status as a child of God. Pray that you would stop working for God’s love and start living from it. Ask God to reveal any “religious” habits that have replaced true intimacy.
Pray for our church community to be a “City of Refuge” where people are not judged by their past, but empowered by their future in Christ. Pray against the spirit of hypocrisy.
Pray for those in our wider community who are “spiritually exhausted” by trying to find meaning in empty places. May they see our church and the body of Christ as a place where the “yoke is easy and the burden is light.”

MEDITATE

The open gate

Jesus opened the gate to God’s presence. Stop trying to pick the lock of a door already opened at calvary. Consider areas where you are trying to pay and breath in the reality that you are already accepted, already loved and already home.