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    Higher Ways
    Higher Ways
    Higher Ways
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    Higher Ways

    By John C. Fenn

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    Many have heard of the Isaiah 55:7-9 passage where God says His ways and thoughts are higher than ours, but don't realize in context, He is actually inviting us up to His ways and thoughts. Learn how to walk in the Father's higher ways and leave the old ways behind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn C. Fenn
    Release dateNov 24, 2015
    ISBN9781310477218
    Higher Ways
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    John C. Fenn

    John and Barbara Fenn were born in Kokomo, Indiana and grew up just a few miles from each other. They attended the same kindergarten, went to many of the same neighborhood birthday parties growing up, and had mutual friends. Barb even attended John's confirmation in the Episcopal Church when they were twelve years old. They began dating as teenagers and were born again together and baptized with the Holy Spirit at age sixteen. Each attended Indiana University after graduating high school and were then married in 1978. In early 2002 John and Barb founded the Church Without Walls International of Tulsa (CWOWI), a house church network, emphasizing relationship-based Christianity. The seeds of CWOWI were planted in 1992 during a time of prayer. The Lord Jesus appeared to John in a visitation and shared some of what He would be doing in the future. Part of the Lord's plan was an exodus from many of the "para-church" organizations that were raised up after the Charismatic renewal of the 1960s and 70s. This would produce a movement of more "para-church" organizations, home prayer meetings, and also home-based churches. On November 4, 2001, during an evening church meeting in Edmonton, Alberta, Jesus appeared again to John. As both John and the host pastor fell to their knees, Jesus laid hands on John and told him to start a home church network "based on my Word and the things you've learned through the people I've brought across your path this year." The Lord said He wanted it to be called The Church Without Walls International. The next month, CWOWI began meeting in the Fenn home, and is growing and gaining affiliate house churches as relationships develop. Known for teaching with anointing and by revelation and flowing with the gifts of the spirit, his heart's desire is to make known the ways of the Father God. Church Without Walls International (CWOWI) is dedicated to making disciples of Jesus Christ through the establishment of a network of related house churches around the world.

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      Higher Ways - John C. Fenn

      Higher Ways

      Copyright 2015 John C. Fenn

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      Higher Ways

      Part 1

      Hi all,

      I’m rearranging the scheduled topic of asking ‘Does heaven initiate experiences or does earth?’ to the topic of ‘Higher Ways’ because of some recent events in our family’s life.

      Isaiah 55:7-9: Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man (forsake) his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord…and He will have mercy on him…and abundantly pardon…for my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts (are higher) than your thoughts.

      This passage has been used from the pulpit to proclaim how much higher and loftier the Lord’s ways and thoughts are than ours, leaving congregants with the sting of hopelessness in their efforts to see their prayers answered and destinies fulfilled. He is SO high and I am SO low, how can I ever attain? How can I ever get victory?

      Invitation

      That is not the point of these verses. Note in verse 7 the wicked/unrighteous man forsakes his ways and thoughts, and returns to the Lord (and His ways and thoughts).

      The word ‘forsake’ means ‘to abandon and renounce’. The wicked and unrighteous man is abandoning and renouncing his ways and thoughts, and RETURNING to the Lord and His ways and thoughts. This is an invitation to leave our ways and thoughts and come up to the higher ways and thoughts of the Lord. This is what renewing the mind and walking daily with the Lord is all about, forsaking our way and learning to think in line with the Father as we walk with Him.

      Example from my own life: Weather change?

      Barb and I recently returned from a two-week trip that included a five

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