Messianic Messages With Izzy

Three reasons why most people don't preach the Gospel: don't know how, expect professionals to do it, or don't have any nonreligious friends. How telling God's stories, word of mouth, is the solution to this problem. How is someone saved and changed from the inside out? How is a culture transformed? By hearing God's Word, God's stories, and believing it. Breakdown of parallels between God's word and swords, snow, and seeds, and what happens when you tell a story from the Scriptures. Story from Truth That Sticks by Avery Willis about Randy Proctor telling a story at a Cowboy Church in Oklahoma about Israel's escape through the Sea of Reeds and asking a few questions and how God saved people through that story. Challenge to be intentional about friendships with nonreligious people.

How is a return to telling word of mouth stories from God's Word an integral part of Torah, Jewish roots, and the prophetic restoration message? Five reasons for getting back to this. Torah was originally communicated orally.Telling the story of the Exodus, Haggadah, at Passover. Gospels were originally communicated orally, primarily as stories. Yeshua always told stories to mixed crowds and discipleship means imitating him. Reaching the massive niche market of nonliterate people in North America and globally. Statistics of 50 nonliterates in India who were equipped to tell 85 stories and went on to make 9,122 disciples and start 370 churches in a year. Candid confession from pastor Avery Willis: "They remember my stories better than my points!" Anyone can do it. What is a story? Technical and simple breakdown of "Once upon a time…" Five big questions stories attempt to answer. Stories as myth. Brain research on what happens when you hear a story you relate to.

The talk where the rubber meets the road and things get dirty, but you get somewhere. Everyone is a storyteller! Start with family, neighbors, coworkers, friends. Why telling stories is an effective way to engage and disciple children. Why a story is something that anyone from any religious background or education can understand. Why even atheists and agnostics are more open to a story than to points and disembodied concepts. Don't defend your sword, use it!

Telling the stories from God's word, word of mouth, to people from other religions. Welcome people from other religious cultures to your city and neighborhood instead of fearing them. Yeshua sent them because you're his body and he wants you to reach out and tell his stories. True account of restaurant owner missionary who told Muslims Bible stories about God's power and saw them and their wives believe in Yeshua. Tell stories to postmoderns, who are more open to hearing something from you if it's personal. Caesar Kalinowski with Soma Communities in Seattle, Washington who started a storytelling night at a coffee shop, and finished the evening with a Bible story. Learning pyramid diagram from National Training Laboratories. Conclusion, the emperor of how we teach people is naked!

How to prep to tell the stories of Scripture word of mouth, how to tell them in a group setting, and how to follow up with questions that get people freely thinking and talking. Telling the stories of the Bible is a mitzvah, a command of God! It doesn't just happen, it takes planning, intentionality, and practice. See Brass Tacks resource for storytellers and facilitators of gatherings at crownofmessiah.com. Story of man practicing telling a story on his unbelieving son and how it transformed his son's life. Exclamation marks look like clubs. Question marks look like hooks. Don't club your audience with your points, agenda, and thoughts. Ask questions to engage them, get the hooked, draw the understanding out of them. Suggested questions to kick off group discussion.

How to have a relationship with Yeshua where you hear his voice and receive revelation from him, and how to gather as a community to cultivate and celebrate that relationship. Words to leaders, "let my people go" and "get out of the way". Torah-based communities need leaders though. Leaders not always present when groups in a network gather in homes across city. Lesson on transition from organisms including babies, plants, and caterpillars, communities grow and change. Lesson from construction site, time to lay foundation and time to build. Prophecy of covenant relationship in Jeremiah. Highlight, each individual knowing Yahweh personally. Results of relationship where the soul hears Yeshua voice. He knows you, you follow him individually and corporately, he gives life to your dead heart, and you're safe and secure, never to be lost or snatched from him. Danger of being deceived by doctrines of demons, false teachers, lying prophets. Solution, know the man who is truth, cultivate that relationship where you'r

The how of hearing Yeshua's voice, through his Spirit. Unpacking Hebrew term for Spirit of Truth, Ruach ha Emet. Wind or breath. Is truth impersonal facts, or relational faithfulness? Hebrew root of truth emet is aman, meaning doorposts, faithful, lasting, and covenant. Yeshua's attractive offer to people hurting and disillusioned by broken friendships and failed relationships. Suicidal season in Izzy's life because people come and go. The mothering of the Spirit, pictured by nursing and carrying child on hip. The Holy Spirit is Yeshua's Spirit. How to grow in your relationship with Yeshua's Spirit, and hear the voice of the Ruach more clearly and frequently. Recognize Yeshua as the giver and say yes. Desire it. Relinquish control and become flexible and spontaneous. Ask. Listen, be quiet, cultivate inner silence. Disclaimer, the Holy Spirit always agrees with the Bible. Story of young man who hung out around a hooker's house and ended up getting seduced. Story of Tom Brown, wilderness survivalist, teaching h

The letter from Dear John, as he was nicknamed by the other disciples. What is the anointing? Greek chrisma, related to christos and christianos, root of charisma and charismatic. Hebrew mischah, related to mashiach and meshichi, messiah and messianic. Halmark of a Christian or Messianic should be an experience of the anointing of Yeshua's spirit. How to get the anointing, an open, humble, trusting relationship with Yeshua. Where is the anointing, in you. Story in Darren Patrick's book Church Planter about Alex Early starting Four Corners Church in a gay bar, and the atheist lesbian owner coming into relationship with God and feeling that he was inside her. What does the anointing do, teaches you. Pathway of safety from deception, antidote to lies and false teaching. Corollary, you don't need anyone to teach you. Challenge to teach baby believers to learn from the anointing. Result of the anointing, a deepening relationship with Yeshua, staying in his teachings, life in union and communion with him. Fall in l

The danger of hearing Yeshua's voice is becoming overly independent, individualistic, anarchistic. Yeshua doesn't speak to everyone about everything. He leads through leaders that he speaks to and through. His kingdom is not a democracy. Breakdown of the functions of apostles, prophets, and teachers. Apostle from Hebrew shalach to send, all about mission and goal oriented. Prophet from Hebrew navi, spokesperson experiencing messages, dreams, visions, often artistic or musical. Teacher from Hebrew yarah to shoot an arrow, pointing in a direction and giving impetus, sometimes uncomfortable. Practical assignment, pray and then look for the apostles, prophets, and teachers in your fellowship, and in your city and area. Listen to them, take them seriously, receive them as gifts from Messiah.