Mercy Culture Church
2024 | Word of the Year Sunday
Mercy Culture Church | Pastor Landon Schott
Locations & Times
Mercy Culture Fort Worth
1701 Oakhurst Scenic Dr, Fort Worth, TX 76111, USA
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 11:30 AM
❤️ MC Connect
If you would like to learn more about our culture, how you connect with God, get plugged into community and begin your journey to encountering God daily, MC Connect is your next step!
Text CONNECT to 59090 or visit mercyculture.com/connect
Text CONNECT to 59090 or visit mercyculture.com/connect
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Welcome to Mercy Culture Church!
We are so excited you're here.
Text NEW to 59090 so we can connect with you.
For everyone that texts NEW, we will donate $10 to The Justice Reform, an organization that is answering the cry for justice by bringing reformation from city to city.
Learn more: thejusticereform.com
We are so excited you're here.
Text NEW to 59090 so we can connect with you.
For everyone that texts NEW, we will donate $10 to The Justice Reform, an organization that is answering the cry for justice by bringing reformation from city to city.
Learn more: thejusticereform.com
🙏 Solemn Assembly | January 8-13, 2024
Solemn Assembly is a week of prayer and worship to start the year off right.
Join us at your campus Monday, January 8 through Saturday, January 13 from 7-8PM. These nights are for the whole family, we encourage you to bring your kids with you to encounter God together.
Join us at your campus Monday, January 8 through Saturday, January 13 from 7-8PM. These nights are for the whole family, we encourage you to bring your kids with you to encounter God together.
🔥 21 Day Fast | January 8-28, 2024
Our corporate fast is coming up January 8-28, 2024!
Make sure to pause and ask the Lord about how to prepare for this fast, what to name your fast, and what to fast!
Text 21DAY to 59090 or visit mercyculture.com/21-day-fast for a daily bible reading plan, recommended sermons, and more!
Make sure to pause and ask the Lord about how to prepare for this fast, what to name your fast, and what to fast!
Text 21DAY to 59090 or visit mercyculture.com/21-day-fast for a daily bible reading plan, recommended sermons, and more!
WARNING
People planted in God’s house will spiritually grow.
People planted in God’s house will spiritually grow.
This is the year He must increase and we must decrease!
The word of the Lord over this church in 2024 is...
REFORMATION!
REFORMATION!
“I’m going to give you a reformation plan. You will plant with revival but you will be reformers!”
- Cindy Jacobs, January 2022
- Cindy Jacobs, January 2022
Reforming
The act of improving the existing form or condition of institutions or practices; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs.
Reform
To change a thing, a practice, or a doctrine in order to improve and correct it.
Reformation is to make wrong things right in God’s sight (righteousness)!
The act of improving the existing form or condition of institutions or practices; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs.
Reform
To change a thing, a practice, or a doctrine in order to improve and correct it.
Reformation is to make wrong things right in God’s sight (righteousness)!
Reforming
(Greek) diorthósis (dee-oar-ah-thor-sees) - a making straight, to make straight
a correction, a reform, amendment, improvement, correction, to correct evil
Making of a right arrangement, right ordering, restoration, amendment, bringing right again
Dia
(dee-ah') - thoroughly, on account of, because of
Orthos
(or-thos') - straight, upright, direct
(Greek) diorthósis (dee-oar-ah-thor-sees) - a making straight, to make straight
a correction, a reform, amendment, improvement, correction, to correct evil
Making of a right arrangement, right ordering, restoration, amendment, bringing right again
Dia
(dee-ah') - thoroughly, on account of, because of
Orthos
(or-thos') - straight, upright, direct
Reformation is when the revival in the Church begins to transform the culture outside the Church.
Holiness is the fuel of reformation!
Connect with God | Reformation
Reformation is when you partner with God to make the crooked ways straight.
https://www.mercyculture.com/reformationHistory remembers the reformers and the future belongs to the reformers!
5 Characteristics of Reformers
1. Reformers are consecrated
Consecrated = be set apart
1. Reformers are consecrated
Consecrated = be set apart
5 Characteristics of Reformers
2. Reformers are people of action!
2. Reformers are people of action!
Take ACTION by coming to Solemn Assembly this week!
Solemn Assembly 2024
Solemn Assembly is a week of prayer and worship to start the year off right. Join us Monday, January 8, through Saturday, January 13, from 7-8PM. These nights are for the whole family, we encourage you to bring your kids with you to encounter God together.
https://www.mercyculture.com/events/solemn-assembly-1-p8h675 Characteristics of Reformers
3. Reformers desire to please the Lord!
3. Reformers desire to please the Lord!
Reform
yatab (yaw-tab') = to be good, well, glad, or pleasing
yatab (yaw-tab') = to be good, well, glad, or pleasing
5 Characteristics of Reformers
4. Reformers use their influence. = Voice, Platform, Resources!
4. Reformers use their influence. = Voice, Platform, Resources!
If you don’t use your influence, you will lose it!
PRACTICAL ADVICE
Use whatever influence you have!
Use whatever influence you have!
5 Characteristics of Reformers
5. Reformers are fearless!
A reformer’s fearlessness gives them a greater authority with greater audiences.
5. Reformers are fearless!
A reformer’s fearlessness gives them a greater authority with greater audiences.
QUESTION
What happens if I’m resisted?
What happens if I’m resisted?
PRACTICAL ADVICE
Ask the Lord to teach you about reformation!
Ask the Lord to teach you about reformation!
Reformation and the Bible
- The greatest reformer was JESUS! (The Gospels)
- Noah (Genesis 6-9)
- Moses (Book of Exodus)
- The 12 judges of Israel (Book of Judges)
- David (Book of 1&2 Samuel, Kings, & Chronicles)
- Elijah (Book of 1 Kings)
- Esther (Book of Esther)
- Peter (Book of Romans & Acts)
- Paul (Book of Acts, 1 & 2 Corinthians, 1&2 Thessalonians, Philippians, Galatians, Colossians, Philemon, Ephesians, 1&2 Timothy, Titus, & Hebrews)
- Mary of Magdala (The Gospels)
- John the Baptist (The Gospels)
- The greatest reformer was JESUS! (The Gospels)
- Noah (Genesis 6-9)
- Moses (Book of Exodus)
- The 12 judges of Israel (Book of Judges)
- David (Book of 1&2 Samuel, Kings, & Chronicles)
- Elijah (Book of 1 Kings)
- Esther (Book of Esther)
- Peter (Book of Romans & Acts)
- Paul (Book of Acts, 1 & 2 Corinthians, 1&2 Thessalonians, Philippians, Galatians, Colossians, Philemon, Ephesians, 1&2 Timothy, Titus, & Hebrews)
- Mary of Magdala (The Gospels)
- John the Baptist (The Gospels)
WARNING
Anyone who rejects repentance
Anyone who rejects repentance
The heart’s cry of a reformer is, “Jesus must increase, I must decrease!"
QUESTION
Why would Jesus have John baptize Him?
Why would Jesus have John baptize Him?
WARNING
The spirit of Jezebel resists reformers and reformation!
The spirit of Jezebel resists reformers and reformation!
3 Encounters Reformers Will Have with Jesus
1. The Womb | A Place of Intimacy
1. The Womb | A Place of Intimacy
3 Encounters Reformers Will Have with Jesus
2. The Water | A Place of Glory
2. The Water | A Place of Glory
3 Encounters Reformers Will Have with Jesus
3. The Prison | A Place of Tyranny
3. The Prison | A Place of Tyranny
Reformers do not escape persecution.
Reformers encounter God!
Reformers encounter God!
Reformers are Heaven-minded. They are building the blueprints of Heaven!
2024 Prophetic Words
This is the Year of Reformation
This year, He increases, and we decrease!
This is the Year of Reformation
This year, He increases, and we decrease!
2024 Prophetic Words
This year, what He wants becomes more valuable to us than what we want.
This year, what He wants becomes more valuable to us than what we want.
2024 Prophetic Words
This year, you become more Kingdom and Heavenly minded.
This year, you become more Kingdom and Heavenly minded.
2024 Prophetic Words
You will become more spiritually sensitive this year.
You will become more spiritually sensitive this year.
2024 Prophetic Words
You will begin to really want what He wants this year!
You will begin to really want what He wants this year!
2024 Prophetic Words
This is a year of Heaven’s blueprints and strategies.
This is a year of Heaven’s blueprints and strategies.
2024 Prophetic Words
The Lord is inviting you to ask Him for wisdom this year.
The Lord is inviting you to ask Him for wisdom this year.
2024 Prophetic Words
It’s a year to get healthy.
This is the year of Heavenly order in your home, health, eating, medications... Order in your finances, and thought life!
It’s a year to get healthy.
This is the year of Heavenly order in your home, health, eating, medications... Order in your finances, and thought life!
WARNING
Stop listening to the false prophets of the media
Stop listening to the false prophets of the media
2024 Prophetic Words
You will spiritually grow this year!
Everyone will pick up the mantle of Reformation.
You give, we give, God our “YES!”
You will spiritually grow this year!
Everyone will pick up the mantle of Reformation.
You give, we give, God our “YES!”
WARNING
Stop telling God no!
Stop telling God no!
2024 Prophetic Words
This is a year you begin to find His favor!
This year you pass tests! Tests (temptations) from the enemy and tests of promotion from the Lord.
I heard, “It’s a season of promotion.”
It's a year to become trustworthy to God.
This is a year you begin to find His favor!
This year you pass tests! Tests (temptations) from the enemy and tests of promotion from the Lord.
I heard, “It’s a season of promotion.”
It's a year to become trustworthy to God.
2024 Prophetic Words
He will make you holy!
A reformation of HOLINESS is coming to the church!
It’s a year of consecration.
This consecration will cause a holy disruption to your life! Life’s normal patterns will be disrupted by setting yourself apart.
He will make you holy!
A reformation of HOLINESS is coming to the church!
It’s a year of consecration.
This consecration will cause a holy disruption to your life! Life’s normal patterns will be disrupted by setting yourself apart.
2024 Prophetic Words
What the enemy meant for evil, God will turn it for good!
What the enemy meant for evil, God will turn it for good!
2024 Prophetic Words
You will bite off more than you can chew!
You will bite off more than you can chew!
2024 Prophetic Words
Selfishness will be shaken off you this year.
Offenses will break off of you this year.
Persecution is coming – the escape is the embrace. There is JOY in His embrace!
I heard the Lord say, “I’m protecting my people,” like Israel and Egypt.
Selfishness will be shaken off you this year.
Offenses will break off of you this year.
Persecution is coming – the escape is the embrace. There is JOY in His embrace!
I heard the Lord say, “I’m protecting my people,” like Israel and Egypt.
2024 Prophetic Words
There will be mass and spontaneous baptisms this year.
There will be mass and spontaneous baptisms this year.
2024 Prophetic Words
We will see glimpses of glory!
What the enemy meant for evil, God will turn it for good!
You will bite off more than you can chew!
We will see glimpses of glory!
What the enemy meant for evil, God will turn it for good!
You will bite off more than you can chew!
Prayer of Reformation
“Lord, I ask for You to reform any crooked ways within me. I seek Heaven’s blueprint and ask for Your heart and Your mind in all things. I pray, less of me, more of You! I want what You want. Show me what pleases You. Let Your will be done! If I perish, I perish, but I will make straight the way of The Lord. Lord, You are holy, make me holy! I pray for revival and reformation in my family, city, state, America and the nations! Amen.”
“Lord, I ask for You to reform any crooked ways within me. I seek Heaven’s blueprint and ask for Your heart and Your mind in all things. I pray, less of me, more of You! I want what You want. Show me what pleases You. Let Your will be done! If I perish, I perish, but I will make straight the way of The Lord. Lord, You are holy, make me holy! I pray for revival and reformation in my family, city, state, America and the nations! Amen.”