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Mercy Culture Conference
Faith Like a Martyr Brings Revival
Senior Pastor Heather Schott | Session 1
Locations & Times
Mercy Culture Fort Worth
1701 Oakhurst Scenic Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76111, USA
Friday 7:30 PM
⛪️ Vision
Mercy Culture Church exists to take people from corporate encounters with God to daily personal encounters with God.
🤠 Conference Info
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🏃♀️ Justice Run 🏃♂️
We run because every step has a purpose. Sex trafficking is a billion-dollar industry that preys on the vulnerable, but together we can push back against it. When we lace up our shoes and hit the pavement, we’re not just running for ourselves—we’re running for women who deserve freedom, safety, and a future filled with hope. Every mile we cover helps raise awareness and funds to support women breaking free from trafficking.
Join us, and let’s run with purpose, run with passion, and run for freedom!
This weekend only:
15% off Fort Worth and Austin Justice Run when you use the code JUSTICE at checkout.
Text RUN to 59090 or visit justicerun.com for more information.
Join us, and let’s run with purpose, run with passion, and run for freedom!
This weekend only:
15% off Fort Worth and Austin Justice Run when you use the code JUSTICE at checkout.
Text RUN to 59090 or visit justicerun.com for more information.
🌊 Baptisms
Baptisms will be taking place on Friday and Saturday night in the east parking lot immediately following the evening sessions.
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It’s the midnight hour and we are in revival!
So pick up the torch and steward revival!
So pick up the torch and steward revival!
But Jesus brought this warning to an end-time church in Revelation:
Remember what you have received and heard!
Jesus spoke in parables to make it easy for the hungry, but hard for the self-satisfied!
He made it easy for those spiritually intimate with Him, and hard for the religious.
He made it easy for those spiritually intimate with Him, and hard for the religious.
We are in revival!
Church, we are in revival. Do you perceive it? Do you see it? Do you understand the time we are in? Are you discerning of what the Lord is doing in this hour?
Question:
Are you engaged in your church? Are you all in?
Are you engaged in your church? Are you all in?
If you believe we are in end times, making us an end-time church—and you believe we are in revival—why aren’t you acting like it?
3 Ways to Live Like a Martyr for Christ
1. Intimacy with the Father — Your daily encounters—a daily personal relationship with the Lord—is what keeps your torch burning. This is the source of the oil!
1. Intimacy with the Father — Your daily encounters—a daily personal relationship with the Lord—is what keeps your torch burning. This is the source of the oil!
Allow pruning and discipline from the Father! Allow personal sifting to take place in your life so you aren’t separated from the wheat as the chaff when He returns!
When you reject the pruning, you reject the good fruit!
When you reject the pruning, you reject the Pruner!
The Pruner is coming back looking for good fruit!
Good fruit only comes when you are intimate with the Pruner, the One who loves you so much He won’t allow that bad fruit, the rotten fruit, the dead fruit to remain! Let Him cut it off!
Boldness without intimacy with the Lord makes a tyrant.
We cannot be noise that blends; we must carry spiritual authority that only comes from intimacy with God the Father! Authority comes from the Father; if you don’t know the Father, you will not be trusted with His authority!
You can chase influence all day long like the world teaches you to do, or you can pursue God with everything within you and potentially be trusted with authority that came through faith to move mountains, to take giants down, to arise as an end-time army preparing the way of the Lord.
Your relationship with God must be the foundation of everything you do, and if its weak, everything that you do will be weak. If it is strong, everything you do will be strong.
3 Ways to Live Like a Martyr for Christ
1. Intimacy with the Father — Your daily encounters—a daily personal relationship with the Lord—is what keeps your torch burning. This is the source of the oil!
2. Fear of the Lord = Wisdom — Wisdom from God allows us to operate in discernment. We must discern the times and seasons we are in!
1. Intimacy with the Father — Your daily encounters—a daily personal relationship with the Lord—is what keeps your torch burning. This is the source of the oil!
2. Fear of the Lord = Wisdom — Wisdom from God allows us to operate in discernment. We must discern the times and seasons we are in!
If you are one of the ones “not getting it”—what God is saying and what He is doing and not understanding why the Church has to get bold and walk in courage—be afraid, and let your fear turn to the Lord, because you’re on the wrong side. If you don’t get how His Word is speaking right now, start in Proverbs and ask the Lord to give you the fear of the Lord, which is the beginning of wisdom.
No wonder we have so many foolish and weak Christians—because we have lost our fear of the Lord!
In the opening parable, they were all virgins, all set themselves apart to remain pure, yet five were foolish, and five were wise. Five did not fear the Lord; five did not have enough oil or intimacy with the Father—but the other five were wise, feared God, waited on the Lord, and had overflow of oil from an intimate relationship with Him!
When you fear the Lord, wisdom says, “Be all in.” Obey whatever the Lord says to do, no matter the cost. Wisdom does not say, “Play it safe!”
When you fear the Lord only, you will be filled with boldness and courage!
Boldness and courage come from God!
Preachers and those that call themselves pastors yet question, “What is boldness or courage?” are hirelings like Jesus warns about in:
Jesus showed how a shepherd should act when wolves come to the sheep: He shows boldness; he shows courage to face the wolves! Jesus says, “True shepherds are those willing to die for their faith and the people they lead!” A good shepherd will lay his life down!
A good shepherd—a real Christian—will live as a martyr!
Question:
Where is the fire shut up in your bones—that you cannot hold in if you tried?
Where is the fire shut up in your bones—that you cannot hold in if you tried?
And if you have tried, and have been successful, then I say to you, “Therefore, be concerned because there is no fire.”
A fire that the Father lights will not be quenched!
If His fire can’t be quenched, why is there no fire in you?
If His fire can’t be quenched, why is there no fire in you?
3 Ways to Live Like a Martyr for Christ
1. Intimacy with the Father — Your daily encounters—a daily personal relationship with the Lord—is what keeps your torch burning. This is the source of the oil!
2. Fear of the Lord = Wisdom — Wisdom from God allows us to operate in discernment. We must discern the times and seasons we are in!
3. Remain faithful — Keep watch; keep your eyes on Him. Let nothing hinder you, let no sin in, let no deception in, let no offense or bitterness in; all of these things come for your flame to snuff it out!
1. Intimacy with the Father — Your daily encounters—a daily personal relationship with the Lord—is what keeps your torch burning. This is the source of the oil!
2. Fear of the Lord = Wisdom — Wisdom from God allows us to operate in discernment. We must discern the times and seasons we are in!
3. Remain faithful — Keep watch; keep your eyes on Him. Let nothing hinder you, let no sin in, let no deception in, let no offense or bitterness in; all of these things come for your flame to snuff it out!
Stand firm in your faith!
The people thought revival would look different!
This is what we want revival to be: “Jesus, fix our problems!”
The idol of our day and of our nation: Self!
This is the sifting and the separation of today: Who will stand firm in their faith to God? Who will bow to idols pretending they are faithful to God?
Their faithfulness, their faith as martyrs, brought revival!
Practical Advice:
Testify to the world what Jesus has done for you. Pray for people everywhere you go. Start groups to go on college campuses. Adopt children and raise them in the fear of the Lord. Fight injustice and set captives free so they may come to know Jesus. Serve and give to your church. Be all in at your church. This is how you pick up the torch of revival and steward the fire God has sent!
Testify to the world what Jesus has done for you. Pray for people everywhere you go. Start groups to go on college campuses. Adopt children and raise them in the fear of the Lord. Fight injustice and set captives free so they may come to know Jesus. Serve and give to your church. Be all in at your church. This is how you pick up the torch of revival and steward the fire God has sent!
It all means a great harvest for our coming King!
Revival comes when dead things come back to life!
God brings dead things back to life!
Question:
What needs to die in you? What needs to die in you to revive you and set you on fire?
What needs to die in you? What needs to die in you to revive you and set you on fire?
When you let things die that need to die, it prepares your faith as a martyr for Christ!
Jesus said, “Take this cup from Me, but let Your will be done.” He was saying, “My personal will doesn’t want to go through this, but I desire Your will over Mine! And if I have to die to revive them, I’ll die.”
This is the faith of a martyr: “Lord, let Your will be done!”
Oil cannot be borrowed!
“I do not know you.”
Those that stewarded their torches to the very end were welcomed in!
CHURCH WE ARE IN REVIVAL!
Church, we are in the midnight hour!
Are you ready for Him?
Are you ready for Him?
What needs to die in you to bring forth good fruit?
What needs to die in you to revive you and make you torchbearers for Christ?