1. My Friend’s Heart For Nations One Body Together we can change a Nation

2. My Friend’s Heart For Nations What and Why? Together we can change a Nation

3. My Friend’s Heart For Nations Ekklesia Kaleo – To Call Ek – Out Kuriakon – Dedicated to the Lord 1 Corinthians 12:13 – We were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one Body – whether Jew or Gentiles, slave or free – and we were given the One Spirit to drink.

4. My Friend’s Heart For Nations We are the called out ones, dedicated to the Lord to form one Body through One Spirit, even though we are made up of many parts. 1 Corinthians 12:13 – We were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form on Body – whether Jew or Gentiles, slave or free – and we were given the One Spirit to drink.

5. My Friend’s Heart For Nations We are a group of people coming together to fulfill a purpose, NOT based on what is in our will to do, but what is and has been in the mind of God. Ephesians 1:11-12 – In Him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will, in order that we, who were first to put our hope in Christ might be for the praise of His glory. Ephesians 2:10 – We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

6. My Friend’s Heart For Nations We are the Ekklesia, chosen to be included, destined to be conformed to the purpose of God’s will.

7. My Friend’s Heart For Nations A prayer for the Ekklesia Ephesians 1:13-23 Paul prayed for the Ephesians to know Christ better. He prayed for them to know: -The hope they have been called to -The riches of His glorious inheritance -His incomparably great power -Christ’s headship, and His body (place and function) -The Ekklesia is to bring the fullness of His glory into existence in every way.

8. My Friend’s Heart For Nations A prayer for the Ekklesia Ephesians 3:16-19 Paul continued to pray that the Ephesians, together with ALL the Lord’s people, would be able to Grasp how wide, long, and deep the LOVE of Christ really is. So the Ekklesia would be filled to the measure of ALL the fullness of God – To become a body wholly flooded by God

9. My Friend’s Heart For Nations A prayer for the Ekklesia Ephesians 3:16-19 Who can comprehend or fathom this type of love? If this is set as a spiritual target that we as One body are able to reach, then we MUST reach past what we physically know to embrace something totally different. We cannot settle. We would have to do this together. We need one another!

10. My Friend’s Heart For Nations We are Commissioned To reveal a TRUE message Not according to our standards or methods, but through Gods. Isaiah 55:8 Philippians 2:13 John 6:13 John 6:38 John 4:34 John 5:19

11. My Friend’s Heart For Nations Anything that comes from our own self, is tainted with some sort of untruth, But if our reliance is on the Holy Spirit (the one Spirit we, the Ekklesia, have been given to drink) We can know the mind of God. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. (1 Corinthians 2:10)

12. My Friend’s Heart For Nations For no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him. We have a mandate to go into all the world and spread the message that God has great things in store for those who love Him. It’s not what we do, it’s not where we go, But it’s what we’ve GOT