Kingdom Culture Phoenix exists to disciple people to know and follow Jesus through Word and Spirit.

🔑 Key Takeaways

✅ You don’t choose God’s direction, but you do choose your response.
Mary couldn’t control the calling, but she chose obedience, haste, and praise.

✅ Those eager for a move of God keep showing up in prayer and obedience.
Mary arose with haste faith moves, it doesn’t stall.

✅ God’s invitation always brings a choice: belief or excuses.
Mary and Hannah said yes; Sarah and Zechariah allowed their reality to limit their faith.

✅ There is blessing attached to giving God your “yes.”
Obedience positions you for fulfillment, joy, and confirmation.

✅ Faith-filled obedience often requires uncomfortable journeys.
Mary traveled far while carrying uncertainty—faith doesn’t wait for clarity.

✅ The Holy Spirit confirms what God is doing when we walk in faith.
Elizabeth is filled, John leaps, and the gospel is proclaimed before Jesus is born.

✅ What distinguishes a believer is not behavior, but Spirit-filling.
Boldness, praise, and obedience flow from a life filled with the Holy Spirit.

✅ Praise belongs in the gap between promise and fulfillment.
Mary magnified God before everything made sense.

✅ Praise re-centers your soul and aligns your spirit with God’s purposes.
Mary worships with her emotions (psyche) and her inner being (pneuma).

✅ God’s interruptions are often His greatest blessings.
Mary blesses God for disrupting her plans.

✅ God exalts the humble and overturns human power structures.
The proud are scattered, the hungry are filled, and the lowly are lifted.

✅ Kairos moments demand intentional responses.
You may not choose the moment, but you always choose your posture.

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Kingdom Culture Phoenix exists to disciple people to know and follow Jesus through Word and Spirit.

🔑 Key Takeaways

When “Now” Becomes an Idol

• Holiness requires waiting. Saying YES to God often means resisting the urge to act on NOW.
• Impatience distorts trust. When we refuse to wait on God, we replace faith with control.
• Unsubmitted desire becomes idolatry. What isn’t surrendered to God will eventually rule us.
• Idols are often created from good things used wrongly. “Now” becomes dangerous when it replaces obedience.
• Mercy is released through intercession. God responds to surrendered hearts that stand in the gap.
• Broken obedience leads to broken trust. Compromise always costs more than it promises.
• Leadership without holiness creates chaos. Where there is no YES to God, the flesh takes over.
• Holiness demands decision. Choosing God’s side requires courage and clarity.
• Delayed obedience is still disobedience. God honors a surrendered YES, not rushed action.
• True holiness is choosing God’s will over personal urgency.

Holiness is saying YES to God even when my heart is screaming NOW.

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Kingdom Culture Phoenix exists to disciple people to know and follow Jesus through Word and Spirit.

🔑 Key Takeaways

1. God Calls Spiritual Leaders by Name

• God personally called Bezalel and Oholiab.
• Salvation basics:
  • God knows your name.
  • God calls you by name.
  • God uses you to glorify His name.

2. Two Types of Callings

• General call: Follow Jesus, make disciples, obey His Word.
• Specific call: A unique assignment—often temporary, costly, and on God’s timing.

3. Spiritual Leaders Need the Holy Spirit

• Bezalel is the first person Scripture describes as filled with the Spirit of God.
• Spiritual leadership is about what God does in you, not just through you.

4. Spiritual Leaders Obey

• God values obedience to His general call before revealing specific assignments.

5. Spiritual Leaders Lead from God’s Presence

• Sabbath is God’s gift for imparting His holiness and recalibrating our hearts.
• It’s not about doing nothing—it’s about encountering God.

6. How to Sabbath Well

• Plan for it.
• Seek God’s presence.
• Remove distractions.
• Share meals and community.

7. Rest Fuels Leadership

• Sabbath rest multiplies capacity and clarifies priorities.
• Spiritual leaders cannot lead others where they haven’t gone.

8. Leadership vs. Spiritual Leadership

• Leadership focuses on goals.
• Spiritual leadership focuses on forming people to look like Jesus.

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