Episode 004: Rhema || The Long Haul and Suddenlies

The theme of this Rhema episode is that we must “stick it out in the long haul, for the suddenlies of God.” How many times are people tempted to walk away from the faith? Do you know a story of someone who used to be on fire for God and now they’re denouncing the faith and walking completely away? These stories grieve God and we are teaching today on what we feel is the key issues that bring this about, and how to make sure it doesn’t happen to you! Full of testimony and faith - we’re ready for you in this one.

Show Notes

Happy Rhema episode! We’re here in this episode for the good times and the hard truths - yikes - really though, we are hitting this rhema conversation deep!

Here’s the references found in today’s show:

• Ephesians 1:17-18 (TPT)
  ” I pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the Spirit of wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know him through your deepening intimacy with him. I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of his calling—that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritances that he finds in us, his holy ones!”

• Proverbs 13:12 (AMP)
  ” Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.”

• Isaiah 61

  Link to the entire chapter of Isaiah 61

• Genesis 3:1-7
  ”Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the Lord God had made. And [a]the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, “Can it really be that God has said, ‘You shall not eat from [b]any tree of the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden, except the fruit from the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God said, ‘You shall not eat from it nor touch it, otherwise you will die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die! For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened [that is, you will have greater awareness], and you will be like God, knowing [the difference between] good and evil.” And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was delightful to look at, and a tree to be desired in order to make one wise and insightful, she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband [c]with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of the two of them were opened [that is, their awareness increased], and they knew that they were naked; and they fastened fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.”

• 2 Peter 3:8-9
  ”Nevertheless, do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day. The Lord does not delay [as though He were unable to act] and is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is [extraordinarily] patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.”

• Ephesians 3:20
  ”Now to Him who is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think [infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His power that is at work within us,”

• Hungry Generation on YouTube (church mentioned out west with the knife analogy.)

• Job 13:15
  “Even though He kills me; I will hope in Him.
  Nevertheless, I will argue my ways to His face.”

• Hebrews 11:1-3
  '“The Triumphs of Faith

   Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses].  For by this [kind of] faith the [a]men of old gained [divine] approval. By faith [that is, with an inherent trust and enduring confidence in the power, wisdom and goodness of God] we understand that the worlds (universe, ages) were framed and created [formed, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose] by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible.”