Fortify | Message 1: Living Stones | Pastor Chad Dingess | 4/16/2023
April 16, 2023 / Bethesda Church Fortify
(definition): to protect or strengthen against attack; surround or provide with defensive military works. To furnish with a means of resisting force or standing strain or wear: to make strong; impart strength or vigor to: to increase the effectiveness of, as by additional ingredients: to strengthen mentally or morally:
1 Peter 2: 4-5 (NIV)
As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Joel 2: 28 (NIV)
“And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Isaiah 2: 2 (NIV
In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
John 4: 23-24 (NIV)
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”