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The spring is a time for newness and growth. Right now many people have more time on their hands. How can you use this time to accelerate your growth? What new knowledge or skills could you gain during this time?
If you ever find yourself feeling bored, that is a cue from God that there is something you are supposed to be doing. If boredom hits seek him on what you should be doing.
In the Abundant Life Blueprint the goal of your time is to produce things that really last.
How can you use this time to produce things that really last.
Prayers, writing books, creating music, building relationships and connections are all examples of things that last.
In the Old Testament every 50th year was called the Jubilee. During the Jubilee all debts were forgiven and the people were restored to the inheritance God gave them. It was a resetting of things or a new beginning. When Jesus started his ministry he read from Isaiah 61 and finished by proclaiming the Year of the Lord's Favor. Jesus is your Jubilee.
Down below is 7 Dates With Jesus Part 9 Jubilee
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Summary of Jubilee
Jesus has set you free to be you and he wants to give you a new beginning in life. He wants to restore you back to God and his unique plan for your life that combines your talents, gifts, and experiences. Nothing you have been through in life will be wasted. He has set you free to follow this plan but the world wants to pressure you to conform to the mold rather than being the unique person you were created to be.
In order to walk out this plan for your life, God as a faithful loving Father will discipline us to make sure we get it right. No disc...
Summary of Tabernacles
The Feast of Tabernacles is a fall harvest festival. The people were to build small huts that they spend time in and eat their meals in during the week. The hut is a reminder that God is tabernacling with us. God' glory fills the temple, and we are the temple. His glory brings his presence, his power, and his goodness.
God is present with you all the time and in his presence is fullness of joy. Tabernacles is a reminder that your levels of joy should be overflowing. God is love and when his love is shed abroad in your heart it purifies your heart and changes your desires. You begin to love righteousness and hate evil because God has anointed you with the oil of joy. His love will begin to motivate and compel you to do good work, in order to be a blessing to people. You don't get into heaven because of work but once you are saved you are saved to serve. But, it is the Father in you who does the work.
Tabernacle is a reminder of the s...
On God's calendar we are in a 7 week sprint to the day of Pentecost. Then following Pentecost there is a large gap in the year until the fall feasts of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles.
Down below is the 7 Dates With Jesus training on the Day of Atonement
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Summary of Day of Atonement
In the Old Testament the Day of Atonement was considered the holiest day of the year because it was the one day when the High Priest could enter the Holy of Holies and makes atonement for the sins of the people for the year. But these sacrifices could only cover the sins and the people still held onto them in their conscience. Jesus is now our High Priest and his sacrifice is able to not only cover our sins but to cleanse them. He paid for you to have a clear conscience.
The Day of Atonement is a reminder that Jesus wants to help you navigate the tests, trials, and temptations of life successfully. In life there will be pressure and things that must be overcome, ...
Happy Easter! Today as we are reminded that the rock was rolled away and Jesus is risen we move onto the training on the Feast of Trumpets.
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Here is a summary of the Feast of Trumpets
The trumpet is a wake up call. It is a call to take action and to exercise your faith. Faith without works is dead. It is a reminder to put off the old self, be renewed in your mind, and put on the new self. It is a reminder that God wants to make us new.
We were buried with Jesus in baptism and raised to new life with him when we came up out of the water.
Trumpets is also a reminder that after Jesus was raised from the dead God seated him at his right hand in heaven far above all the powers of evil, and we are seated with him. The key to this is beginning to view your life from a heavenly perspective and to set your mind on the things of heaven.
Begin to exercise a heavenly perspective in your purpose, health, family, finances, order, time, and community.
Trumpets requires...
From the day of First Fruits (yesterday) the people were told to count 50 days until the day of Pentecost (May 30th). After Jesus rose from the dead he appeared to the disciples and taught them about the kingdom of God, and then told them to wait until Pentecost when they would be clothed with power from on high.
Here are some themes to be thinking about for this season.
This is a 50 day sprint to the day of Pentecost.
Here is the training from 7 Dates With Jesus on Pentecost
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Summary of Pentecost
Pentecost is about living a life coordinated and navigated by the Holy Spirit. He has been sent to guide you into all truth and show you the direction your life should be moving. Part of hi...
Today is the day of First Fruits, which is a reminder that Jesus was raised from the dead and presented himself as the First Fruits from the dead to God.
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Here is a summary of the First Fruits video.
First Fruits is very similar to Easter. It is a reminder that on the 3rd day the rock was rolled away and Jesus was raised from the dead. Then he presented himself to God as the First Fruits from the dead. God then took the Spirit of Jesus and sowed it as a seed into our hearts.
Before God planted this seed in our hearts, he gave us a new heart. We used to have hearts of stone, but God rolled away our hearts of stone and gave us a new heart of flesh, with his laws written on our hearts.
God rolling away our hearts of stone is a picture of him rolling away guilt, condemnation, and shame from our past. He rolled it all away and made our hearts new.
Our hearts are like soil. When the rock is rolled away our hearts are prepared to have the God's seed planted in us...
Today starts the 7 day feast of Unleavened Bread.
In Numbers 33:3 it says that on the day after Passover the Israelites marched triumphantly out of Egypt in the sight of all the Egyptians. 2 Corinthians 2:4 says thanks be to God who always leads us in triumphal procession. Today is a reminder that God always causes us to triumph and he wants to make a victory parade out of it.
Here is the training from 7 Dates With Jesus on Unleavened Bread
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Here is a summary of Unleavened Bread
The Feast of Unleavened Bread is celebrate for 7 days by removing all leaven from your diet and replacing it with unleavened bread( Matzo crackers). Jesus said that he is the bread that came down from heaven. Matzo crackers are a symbol of his sinless body. The crackers have piercings and stripes, which remind us that he was pierced for our transgressions and by his stripes we are healed.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread is about understanding righteousness. Jesus bore our sins on the...
Tonight is Passover. This was the night that Jesus instituted communion. If you don't do the full Passover it would be a good idea to take communion as a point of remembrance.
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Here is a summary of Passover
Passover is a reminder that Jesus has set you free and translated you out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of light.
The traditional Passover meal includes...
The word Passover in Hebrew is Pesach which means talking mouth.
We are supposed to be talking about where Jesus has brought us from and God said that when you do the Passover it would provide an opportunity to speak to your children about what G...
Today starts the training on 7 Dates With Jesus: Crossing Over Into Abundant Life.
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Over the next week I am going to be posting about an hour per day of video/audio. To accelerate getting through the content try listening while doing chores, cooking, working out etc. You can take notes later. Just get it in.
Intro Summary
To live a balanced life you must balance the spiritual, mental/emotional, and practical areas of life. For a long time I had zero spiritual life. This changed when I came across a challenge to read 1 chapter from Proverbs every day. One day Proverbs 13:22 jumped out at me which says a good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children. From that point on I made a commitment to write manuals to pass on to my kids for how to live a better life. 7 Dates With Jesus is the spiritual training for how to connect with God, find your purpose, accelerate spiritual growth, and cross over into an abundant life.
7 Dates With Jesus started when...
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