Let’s recap: The first milestone Gilgal, represents circumcision and dealing with the flesh. The second milestone Bethel, represents encountering the presence of God. Today, in episode 7, we will look at the third milestone Jericho, and ‘Tearing down Strongholds’.

Jericho was a fortress city, with high walls. It was tightly shut and very well defended. Jericho represents an area of enemy power or sin – a stronghold - that prevents the advance of the Kingdom of God – our entering the Promised Land.

Today, in episode 6, we look at the last section of the second milestone - Bethel. We’re focusing on ‘Trials and the Believer’ and ‘Purified to Serve’.

How many times have you experienced that as we begin to connect with God and build a deeper relationship with Him, there are times when we hit a wall? Something may happen in our lives that will cause us to lose our equilibrium, and we become troubled and disturbed. Those who experience God at Bethel begin to understand these disturbances in a new light, and to see our struggles in the way that God does.

In the last session, I spoke about the work of imparting.  We prayed that God will help us impart his spirit.

In this final session, I want to look at a fundamental work in our spirits that is imparted, and that is honour.

If you think about it, doing everything as unto the Lord, is honouring God. At the same time, it is very liberating to man.

In this session, we look at another crucial spiritual work that we have been called to do – impart.

It was an important moment in history after Jesus rose from the dead, before he ascended to heaven.
The last words and commands he gave his disciples, and also to all of us who would become followers of Christ, is found in Matthew 28: 18-20.

In this session, we will talk about another spiritual work that co-heirs with Christ need to do, and that is build.

Great buildings are monuments to speaks of the talents, resources and unity in building it. It inspires us.  Similarly, the temple in Jerusalem at that time, represented to the Jews, God's presence. The magnificent temple that Herod the Great built, was magnificent, and must have won him popular approval from the Romans, the Jewish and the other people there.

In the previous session, we have talked about work.  In the next four sessions, we are going into four spiritual works of the followers of Christ, who are born again to live abundantly.

Wash.  In this session, we talk about wash.

In this session, we are looking at another fundamental of life in the spirit, work!

In this session, we will explore another fundamental of life, wear, as in putting on clothes.

We put on clothes since Adam and Eve's fall, to cover from the shame of nakedness.

We put on clothes for protection: it keeps us warm, and offers a layer of protection from the sun, and from abrasions and cuts.

We put on additional things like armour, to protect us in war, or a hard hat and work boots in construction.

In this session, we look at a basic fundamental of life—fasting.

I am sure some of you would start to have question marks, popping up all over your head: “What do mean by fasting is a basic fundamental of life?”

As you know, fasting is going without food, and many of us see eating as a necessity of life.  How can something which is the direct opposite seem to be a fundamental necessity as well?

In this session, we will talk about rest.