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The Bible promises us that we can enter God's gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. It's that easy! Gratitude is our 'all-access-pass' to dwell in God's presence at every moment. Being thankful for those around us shows the kindness of God to the people in our lives, and living a lifestyle of gratitude gives us victory over anxiety in our everyday problems. Thank You, Lord, that we h...

We want to be a Psalm 27:4 people committed to a Psalm 24:7 prayer movement unto a Matthew 24:14 outcome—Lord, consume us to love You with all our heart, soul, mind and strength! Let your Kingdom come and Your will be done in every area of our personal lives, families, city, nation and nations of the earth. Fill us with power to proclaim Your Kingdom wherever we go, so that as the world shakes aro...

Jesus said in Matthew 18:20, "Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” What does it mean to gather, or even just to live, in Jesus' name? It means to live in His likeness, as He would live, and to love the ones with whom we gather as He loves them. It's significant that this statement comes in the same passage as Jesus' instruction on godly conflict and His command to fo...

When the enemy would try to sideline us through deception, discouragement, doubt or disbelief, God calls us to be a House of Prayer that prays with authority. We can accomplish this through walking in humility, living in intimacy with God through simple obedience, and living a lifestyle of repentance. Lord, make us a people who pray with authority!

For any prayer needs we might have, we must first begin by remembering the Person of God—who He is and who He's promised to be to us. Then we can center our hearts rightly by glorifying Him for being everything to us. Third, we can locate a Scripture that shows the Promise of God in our area of need. As we pray the Scripture(s), we remain open to the Process of God molding our desires to match His...

Sometimes, God calls us to pray for something that requires persevering prayer. This can feel very difficult. The truth, though, is that God uses this persevering, persistent prayer to reward us with what is good and most advantageous. Prayer is not simply transactional; it is a vehicle through which we grow in relationship with God. God values persistent prayer and calls us to walk in it. He equi...

"When we try to step into supernatural calling, into these destinies that move our hearts, but we have not established the Lordship issue, quitting is inevitable. Because the minute we encounter a supernatural problem with our natural resources, we render our selves inert. We cannot move forward. You will either be one who serves the Lord Jesus and walks with Him and follows in HIs plans, or you w...

The Lord's Prayer provides a comprehensive model for how to abide with Jesus in God's presence throughout each day. Following the prayer line by line, we can begin the day worshiping God, seeking His will and trusting Him to be our Provider in every situation. We can walk into the day already confident that we are forgiven and that we have plenty of forgiveness to extend to others. We can know tha...

1 John 5:14 & 15 say, "This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him." How do we know what His will is? The key is the Word of God. We know that everything God says in Scripture is true, so we can pray the Bible over...

When Jesus' apostles asked him how they should pray, He taught them The Lord's Prayer. This week, we looked at just the first line: "Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name." It is because of the work of Jesus on the cross and the sacrifice of His blood that we can access Father God. Not only can we draw near to God, but He knows us intimately and crafted us with great intentionality. H...

When Jesus' apostles asked him how they should pray, He taught them The Lord's Prayer. This week, we looked at just the first line: "Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name." It is because of the work of Jesus on the cross and the sacrifice of His blood that we can access Father God. Not only can we draw near to God, but He knows us intimately and crafted each of us with great intention...

At Antioch, we want our relationship with Jesus to affect and infect every area of our lives, which is why we seek to embrace each of these circles continually. We want to have a deep devotional life in Jesus, seek to be and to make disciples, stay connected in community, serve and participate in our corporate gatherings and live on mission where God has planted each of us. As opposed to focusing...

We want to be a people with a passion for Jesus and His purposes in the earth, and we want to be a people that makes disciples who ENCOUNTER God, DISCIPLE others and live on MISSION. If we study the meaning of discipleship in Jesus' time, we see that a disciple was someone who dedicated years to learning the ways of his master by being with the Rabbi, learning the Rabbi's teachings and doing what...

Antioch is committed to being a people with "A Passion for Jesus and His Purposes in the Earth." The truth is that we are empowered to love God and be passionate for His purposes because He first loved us. This is how we know His love is true: He sees us, yet still pursues us; He forgives us FULLY; and He will never leave or forsake us. Thank you, Lord, for Your miraculous love—may we live our liv...

We read verses in all four Gospels that refer to the Kingdom of Heaven being here on earth right now. So often, we think of the Kingdom of Heaven as a place we'll go after we die if we believe in and follow Jesus. An evaluation of Jesus' words in the Bible, though, clarifies that Jesus' work on the cross has made the Kingdom of Heaven available to us every moment. Like Jesus taught us to pray in T...

Jehovah Jireh, translated literally, means "The Lord will see." The meaning of this in today's English is "the Lord will see to it," or "the Lord will provide." We first see this phrase in Genesis 22, when God miraculously provided a sacrifice for Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah. A thousand years later, God had mercy on the people of Israel when David offered a sacrifice in the same location. Af...

Throughout Scripture, we see God compare Himself to a shepherd about 100 times and refer to His followers as sheep about 400 times. Sheep are notoriously defenseless, stubborn and foolish. Shepherds, however, are loyal and sacrificial and are known for using two tools: a rod to prompt sheep toward food and safety, and a staff to pull sheep back from harm when they don't respond to the rod. We are...

In Exodus 3, we read the story of Moses and the burning bush. God called Moses to be Israel’s deliverer, but Moses was hesitant because of insecurity. When we’re tempted to give up because we’re insecure about our past, let us remember that God is the God of the past, present and future. He is I AM, and He redeems the past, is present today and covers our future, because He’s already there.

When the Israelites cried out to the Lord to be saved from their Midianite oppressors, God called Gideon to lead Israel to victory over Midian. God revealed himself to Gideon in a powerful and miraculous way. What did Gideon name the place where he had encountered God? Not “The Lord Is Power” or “The Lord Conquers,” but “The Lord Is Peace.” Like Gideon, may we surrender the outcome of every part o...

Exodus 17 tells a story of a battle between the Israelites and their long-time foes, the Amalekites. God promised the Israelites victory over the Amalekites, and He did so in a way that illustrates how He remains victorious in our lives today. Like Moses, when we are faced by modern-day Amalekites—sins that we find hard to overcome—let us find rest on the rock that is Jesus, and let us lean into o...

Mark 10 tells the story of a blind man—Bartimaeus—who hears that Jesus is near and repeatedly cries, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” Like Bartimaeus, when we are blinded by our limitations, our sin and the world we live in, may we hear our Savior, whose voice we know, and may we respond to his invitation to show us mercy.

Many of us know the gospel but miss the foundational truth of why Jesus had to die or if his death really did anything. Jesus' death didn't only forgive us of our sins; it completely set us free by putting our old self to death and replacing it with a new self. We are no longer slaves to sin or death regardless of our thoughts, temptations or emotions, and we are made holy and righteous through Je...

The Nature of God as Father doesn't only apply to earthly Fathers, but to all of us. We often have a distorted view of who God is because of sin, whether sin we've committed or sins committed against us. And, our insecurities from these things are directly tied to our misunderstandings of who God is and His character. God the Father is loving, forgiving and near. Amidst pain and brokenness, if we...

Pastor Carl Gulley is back! Carl shared with us this week about some of the powerful revelations he received from God while on sabbatical—not just helpful lessons, but a re-hardwiring of the spirit in the areas of rest, identity and the goodness of God (if you need breakthrough in any of these areas, make sure to give this a listen!). As Carl re-joins our staff, our leadership team has sought God...

The name YAHWEH represents God's name, "I AM." This name was so sacred in Judaism that throughout history, the nation of Israel would not speak it aloud for fear of taking the Lord's name in vain. Jewish scribes eventually combined its spoken replacement—"Adonai," or Lord—with Yahweh. Our current version of that combination is Jehovah, and its meaning is "He Is." This summer, we're going to spend...