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THE STORY Of SOTERIA®

{so-tay-ree’-ah} Greek word for SALVATION

Gates!...Last month we saw that the Lord had opened doors of opportunity for most of us who are discerning and hearing His voice to follow where He is leading. The month of December, for us, was a time to start rebuilding the walls of our city as Nehemiah did with the beginning of a plan. The Word for last month was concerning those gates. Now we are seeing the Lord allowing us to pursue each one of these gates both in our city and in our hearts. He is showing us through the book of Nehemiah how to restore the walls of the city and our hearts by rebuilding each gate. There are twelve gates to rebuild; sheep gate, fish gate, old city gate, valley gate, dung gate, fountain gate, water gate, horse gate, east gate, inspection gate, Ephraim gate, and prison gate.

Each one of these gates represents an area of restoration in our city and in our hearts. As each week of revelation is brought forth, in a weekly message each Sunday @ our new Soteria downtown location, we will record it and post it to our website for you to listen.

Already the Lord has allowed great revelation to come forth in the opening two weeks. The first week was the introduction for the plan and a review of the purposes God has for His Church now and in the near future. He is telling us that He is going to dissolve the walls of denominations between us so that we can build real walls of righteousness for Him to reside. Denominations are nothing more than smoke and mirrors the enemy has set up to keep us all from being united and coming to the full knowledge of Christ (Eph 4:13). Satan knows that as long as we have differences we can not accept who Christ really is in our lives today.

He is alive in each one of us! He is desiring for each one of us to recognize which part of His body we are, both individually and in our respective groups. As part of His body we have to move out in force to bring His

Text Box: kingdom to Earth as it is in Heaven. The Kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent take it by force (Mathew 11:12). Does that mean you go out and beat up people with your Bible to get them saved? No way! Since Christ is in us we have the opportunity to show Him to others through us. Our most sincere desire is to train people how to do this through the releasing of the gifts and callings for the destiny of each person in the body of Christ. Our entire mission is to set up training centers for the equipping of the Saints for the work of the ministry. As an adjunct to this we also want to release the many who desire to learn how to pray properly and worship intimately with the Lord. Intimacy with Him is very important to allowing Him to be seen through you in everyday life. The “closer” you are to Him, the more you’ll “look” like Him. The more you look like Him the more of Him people will see through you. It’s really very simple. Spend time with Jesus in prayer, worship, the Word, and attending training classes where you can begin to learn what your gift and calling is to do the work of the ministry and help equip others. This is the first part of the restoration taking place right now in the church. The first gate we have to rebuild is the sheep gate. The Lord is telling us he wants to heal His sheep. Too many of us are walking wounded and have built walls of defense from offenses taken from others in the church. Too many shepherds have abused the flock and taken the wrong course in leading the sheep to Jesus. Instead many have lost control of their own direction and balance by allowing con’t

Text Box: WORD FOR THE MONTH John 5:2—Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep [market] a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. Bethesda = "house of mercy" or "flowing water"; the name of a pool near the sheep-gate at Jerusalem, whose waters had curative powers. “My desire is to heal my sheep. There are five porches that represent the five offices of the church. Each office is a porch for healing. Each minister is a minister of healing. Therefore, let there no longer be porches of judgment or condemnation, but offices of equipping and healing. Send forth the Prophets and Apostles to rebuild the foundations of my complete Word that is alive in the Teachers. Send forth the Evangelists to proclaim the good news to everyone. Send for the Shepherds to heal and guide the sheep into greener pastures continually, not stopping for denominational traditions. My Word is alive and not dead a deceased. My Word is living in you and ready to bring life and life more abundantly to your life everyday. My mercy is new every morning and my Word for you is new every day. I am the Lord and I change not. But I am continually revealing new things and opening new doors for you to rebuild the gates of the city of your heart and where you live. Rebuild my place of Glory, my Temple, that is each of you!”

Text Box: SPECIAL THANKS! “Cathy Beck” For her generous Love

Our SOTERIA At Work is a monthly publication to inform and enlist everyone

to work out their Salvation by Loving others and living a disciplined life unto CHRIST!