Steps

Steps

Foundational to our journey is a promise that we have made to God and one another that we will not initiate for the Lord. What that means is that rather than spending time planning how to best fulfill the call the Lord has given us, we endeavour  to lay aside our own wants, opinions, ideas, and plans to wait together on the Lord, refusing to move until He gives a clear rhema word (vision) to us.   We then corporately discern and test this word first as a team, and then, if there is a witness in the spirit, and then with other people of trusted discernment, including senior spiritual leaders.  We do this because we truly believe that wisdom and safety is found in a multitude of counsel.   (Proverbs 11:15)

Once we can say something “seems right to the Holy Spirit and to us”, then we wait on the Lord again for all the details: the what, how, when, where of each step  He wants us to take in order to see the vision He wants fulfilled.  So for us waiting on the Lord is not something we do only to receive a vision, but a lifestyle of continual hearing by which we try to give the Holy Spirit the maximum freedom to direct us.