The Pastor's Corner

Resurrection Power

2011-03-27T09:47:00.004-05:00

In Zechariah chapter 3, we read that Joshua was standing before the Lord, Satan came to resist him. But it was the Lord that rebuked Satan. Don't fight unnecessary battles. Sometimes you just need the Lord to fight your battle. Sometimes you can get so content with what you have that you that move on without the Lord. We embrace secular techniques without seeking God. As you are seeking God and dwelling in his presence. As long as you continue to seek God, he will work it out. God will leave a remnant generation. This is the generation that was plucked out of the hands of God. God plucked you out and cleaned you out. Therefore don't forget God when he delivers you. It is time now for the body of Christ to shift but don't forget the basics principles that has gotten you where you are now. There is a level of the power of God that we want but don't want the flesh to die. Oftentimes, we don't embrace God because of our flesh. We have to deal with the sin that is preventing God's blessing from manifesting in my life. God is going to bless the generation of them that seek his face. Everything that we need is in the secret place of the most high God. Romans 8:5 "If you are after the things of the flesh, you mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit." You are looking for a spiritual result but acting in physical. In Philippians 3, Paul said that we are the circumcsion, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. Verse 10 Paul asks that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;" This flesh must be crucified daily. It is time for us to crucify this flesh so that we can operate in resurrection power. When you are operating in resurrection power, when it hears your voice everything becomes alive. Always Seek the Truth! From the Pastor's Corner

The Mindset of a Believer

2011-03-20T09:44:00.002-05:00

In order for you to get what God has for you, your mindset has to change. In Numbers the children of Israel did not see the God in them. When they saw the promise, the opposition was greater than they imagine themselves to be. They rather go back to the land of bondage because of fear. They children of Israel would rather go back than to fight. It is rebellion when God reveals what is for you and you decide not to posses it. You are accountable for the vision for what the Lord gave unto you. When you don't pursue the vision that is rebellion and you will be held accountable. You have to press forward. God wants to overcome the enemy of darkness through you. He wants you to press forward and have nothing to go back to. The battle is the Lord's and not yours. All of the victory and all of the battles, not that you are at the point of break through, God is saying that we cannot turn back now. Numbers 14 Verse 24 "Because Caleb had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it." They all saw the same thing but Caleb and Joshua saw things differently.

A generation can suffer because of your decision to not obey the Lord. However, as a result of your obedience, your children don't have to go through the struggles that you experienced. Your battles are not just for you; but it is for your children's children. Caleb saw the giants as an opportunity for God to establish victory over the kingdom of darkness. Deuteronomy 1:36-37, we read that Moses and the children of Israel that doubted God would not be able to enter into the promise land. The mindset of a believer must have a mindset to accept what God revealed. It requires that you trust God and what he has said by faith. Why God couldn't give them another land that was not full of giants. Have an understanding of your destiny. It is very important that you receive the report of the Lord. When your mindset changes, your attitude changes and it allows your faith to grow. Don't let nothing intimidate you, God said that it is for you so your attitude must change. Shift from a stressor to a possessor. Whose report will you believe. Hebrews 11:2 "...By faith the elders obtained a good report." The good report is that what is for you, is for you. From the first move, understand and know that you have victory. Don't allow negativity in your atmosphere. It is vital that you stay focus in this time and season.

Romans 8:31 "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?" Caleb had the revelation that God was for him. The spirit that Caleb had was that his name meant faithful. He had the mindset of a possessor and a conqueror and not a stressor. The first thing that you need to know is that God is with you. If God is on your side, that is all you need. People may doubt but don't worry about that. Many of your battle was designed for just you and God to win. Don't depend on other people to motivate you. Be motivate by what God has for you and you are not there yet. Settling for less is a form of rebellion. When something goes wrong it will not move you out of position. Rejection and no moves you into a faith position. God desires for you to be prosperous but on his terms. What was the biggest giant when you at the children of Israel. The biggest giant was in them. When we look at what God has for us, we can't blame the giant, we have to look at ourselves first. That is where your mindset has to be renewed. You have to train yourself to think in victory. That means you have to cast down the vain imaginations that will cause you to rebell against God and stopping you from possessing what God has called you to have.

There are two types of giant. There is the giant in your land and the giant that is in the inside of you. Giants in the land can be represented from judgment and principalities and ruling spirits of the air that are trying to stop the plan of God. Fear will hold you up just enough so that the enemy can get to you. The giant that is inside of you are the issues in life that make you feel unworthy of the promises of God. If you bring a giant into your promise it will eat off your promise and get bigger. The giant will always speak louder than the voice of God and cause you to go into habitual things. There has to be a renewing of your mindset. It will require faith and many Christians are too afraid of faith moves. The land that you have is going to be faith. Your faith creates a positive atmosphere. Maintain a level of focus so that everything is strategic and ordained by God. Possess the land.

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Victory in the Family

2011-03-13T09:39:00.003-05:00

The families are under attack. When you read Jeremiah 2, you read of what is happening in America now. The way that society is now is children are denied the opportunity to pray and have God in their lives. Families are under attack because they have replaced God. The virtuous women seeks after the things of her room. She discern what is coming into her home and seek if it is of God. There are things that might be in your house but because you have entertained the enemy, he has right to be there. In Proverbs 28:5 "evil man understands not judgment but they that seek the Lord understands everything." We need understanding in our lives. In seeking God, he will reveal the spiritual side to the problem. If you can look at the spiritual side of what is going on in your home, you will have victory quickly.

There are somethings that are attacking the family. The first thing is strife, the second thing is rebellion, the third thing is a familiar spirit. In James, it says that if there is strife then there is evil works all around. Unforgiveness can cause strife. When there is strife in the home, nothing can come through. It is like a door locked. After strife, there is rebellion and the word of God says that rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft. When God speaks to you, then you rebel against the authority of God. Then there is the familiar spirit. Familiar spirit comes from the word family. It is familiar with all of your family. When the familiar spirit comes in, then you see your children acting the same way that you used to do. If there is rebellion and strife, the word of God said that they did not seek God.

2 Corinthians 10:3 "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:" It is hard to do because it was the flesh that hurt you. It is hard to separate the flesh from the spirit. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong hold;" If you lose it in our mind, it is going to manifest in the way that you act. Verse 6 "And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled." You don't have to war in the flesh just pray and seek God. You have to fight the right war. It is time out for God's children to stop trying to figure things out in the flesh and get in the spirit. Take up your authority, put your foot down, and claim what is for you. Ask the Holy Spirit to show us what is not pleasing to his presence.

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Gift from God

2011-02-27T11:33:00.002-06:00

God can give you a gift to fix cars but don't limit yourself to just fixing cars; he has called you to fix any situation that you come into you. In your particular operation there is a level of gifting that you have but don't limit it to your job. James 1:17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." God is not like man that he should lie. You have a gifting from God but oftentimes someone else has control of the gift. Matthew 25:14 "For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods."Verse 21 "His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord." The joy of the Lord is that you don't have a want; it means that you took that which God gave you and entered into his joy.

Verse 25 "And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine." Fear is the biggest hindrance to your prosperity. Verse 27, lets us know that it is up to the servant to sow his seed to return a harvest at the coming of the Lord. If you are not obedient with the gift is that you don't lose the gift but it loses its power. The power is connected to your gift to get you wealth. When the gift is positioned it causes increase to it. Your gift is designed to increase and prosper you. Your gift or talent has two stages. The first stage is controlled by your occupation. When this is the case, then your gift can only shine when your job description allows it to. Occupation means employment or the act of occupying. When you gift is in control of your occupation, that means you are living of what God has put on the inside of you.

God strategically places gift inside of your children to break the spirit of poverty. In you there is a gift that is designed to take you and your children, your children's children into a level of prosperity that you have never seen before. Who controls the gift that is inside of you. God must have the gift. Be who God has called you to be. Why are you waiting on an opportunity when God has called you to do something to help yourself. Write down the vision and apply to the inside of what God has already given to you. God will add to it. When you take the gift and talent that is inside of you and it makes a profit, you cannot go back. Prosperity is in your hands you just have to focus in on what God wants you to do.

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From the Pastor's Corner

Your Next Level Of Faith

2011-02-20T11:41:00.002-06:00

Habakkuk 2:4 tells us that the just shall live by his faith. There are three dimensions of faith. Dimension is your magnitude of extension over the next level. You are saved by faith and not of yourself, the faith to believe Jesus as your saviour. The first dimension of faith is to come into the knowledge of Jesus Christ that you may be saved and come out of the world. The next dimension increases your personal territory and establishes you as a child of God. James 2:14"What doth it profit, my brethen, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? You have some power and authority to change your situation in this second dimension. Verse 17 tells us that faith without work is dead. Verse 22 tells us that faith is made perfect by our work. If God has called you to start your own business then you have to go out and do something.

If God revealed it, then your faith and works must work together. Write the vision down and make it plain. The ability to moblize your faith into manifestation is what is needed in this season. The third dimension of faith is only revealed after a level of crushing has occurred in your life. The crushing is meant to divide the previous level of faith from the third. The third level of faith goes beyond your situation and your house. It extends beyond your authority and goes into heaven. You have now authority in earth and heaven. You can't brag about it because it is all God. This dimension of faith is attached to your calling in God. When you get into this third dimension of faith, you are attacking all three levels: the earthly, demonic and heavenly realm. If you are operating in that third level of faith you have authority over the demons that is the school and regions.

This third dimension is where miracles are spoken into the earth realm. In this dimension your faith has no boundaries. You will be placed in a certain area to have authority. In this dimension there is resurrection power. Galatians 2:20"I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." This requires that we must die to ourselves. You are going from your faith to Son of God. The third level requires that your faith decreases so that the faith of Christ can be elevated. Another level of faith is required to get to your next level. When that resurrection power manifest it goes from the top all the way down. Sin is not tolerated in this level. The enemy knows where to attack you but you are refusing some promotion because of old issue. God wants to promote you because you are chosen. God crucified you but you are operating in resurrected power.

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From the Pastor's Corner

Revealing the New You

2011-02-13T11:37:00.003-06:00

Galatians 5:1 tells us to stand fast with the liberty which has Christ made us free and not to be entangled with the bondage of yoke again. You have somethings birth out in you while your were the flesh and some things birth out of you when you are in the spirit. That which was born in bondage was from the old you. In Galatians 4, there is a separation that is required of you from God that the old you and the new you must be separated. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature. The only time that the old man should be revisited is that you are giving a testimony. The old you will contaminate you. Ask yourself, what is holding you back from entering into the new you. The answer to this question requires that you do a self examination to establish where you are versus where you need to be. Before you are reconstructed you have to be torn down level by level then the rebuilding process begins.

When you allow the light of Christ to shine in your life it reveals the infestation. There are demons and all of the issue running to the hiding place of your life. The anointing of God is like raid; it must be sprayed into the hidden place of your life and it causes those things which were hidden to run out. You have to close the doors in your life that the demons are running in and out in your life. God needs to separate the old you from the new you because your promises are attached to the new you. Christ has made us free! Why would you want to go back. We as a body of Christ need to sacrifice the flesh to obtain the spiritual things of God. You have to forget about the old you and continually allow the light to shine in your life. When Christ reconstructs you, the materials that he uses are designed to be infestation proof. Since you are made new in Christ, you have to examine what you are built with. You are built with the fruits of the spirit in this new temple.

In order to obtain the prosperity of God, you have to sacrifice the flesh. Your prosperity is equivalent with your intimacy with God. Learn how to escape into God's presence. The new you is going to lead you into your purpose and destiny which is in God and not world. As Christians, we are the child of promise and because we entertain the world, something is birth.
Be free and don't go back!

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From the Pastor's Corner

Free From Our Inner Vows

2011-02-06T09:41:00.004-06:00

There is so much in the inside of you and only the Lord can help you. There is a voice in the inside of us that comes against the voice of God. When we are about to cross over it kicks in and causes us to be stagnant. Your motivation should be when you see what God has for you and that you are living beneath what God has for you. God is challenging you because he is displease when you are content and he has more. In the process of getting what God has for you, you must understand that you are your biggest hindrance. There is a new you that you have not been exposed to. We are trapped in the old us. Too many people are trying to carry the old you into the new you.

An inner vow can shape your life. Walking in deliverance is a process. The deeper you go in God, the Holy Spirit will shed light on your issues. God will always come against the sin that separates you from Him. We can make an inner vow that we elevated higher than God. The inner vow is the motivation for what you are doing. The inner vow is birth out of rejection and hurt. The inner vow is the strongman to all of your issues in your life. Oftentimes you feel the inner vow is God and that God gave you that inner vow. The inner vow is your last line of defense. If the inner vow is the strongman then you will always have lust and sin issues. The inner vow hides the issues and they keep coming up in your life during throughout stages. Luke 11:21-22"When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: 22But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils." The strong man is stronger than you and hinders you. The strongman if he is cast out but not dealt with can cause the person to become worse than he once was.

The inner vow can be the reason why you go to work and even how you go on in life. The inner vow has control of you and then will come against the voice of God. Your success is a tool to hold other people down. Your motivation to pray can become a means to prove to people and not to praise God. The motivation causes you not experience the peace and happiness of God. Demons are opportunist. Demons will empower you to have negative thoughts and allow you to have more inner vows. The new you is not motivated by the inner vow of the old you.

1 Corinthians 4:5 "Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God." In order to break the inner vow, you need to see it. You have to need to repent and denounce it. Then there is a need for healing in that area. The reason that you need to be healed is that someone is going to hurt you again and you will respond in the old self. Ephesians 4:That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. 25Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. 26Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
27Neither give place to the devil. 28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. 29Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

This new man is not created off an inner vow but by God. God has made it so that we don't need to establish an inner vow. He has sealed us with his promise.

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From the Pastor's Corner

The Testing From the Lord

2011-01-30T11:43:00.003-06:00

Matthew 3:17 "And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." At this time, Jesus had not done any miracles but yet his Father was well pleased. Chapter 14, we read that Jesus was sent into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil. The words need to be written in my heart because the Devil knows and tremble at God. Yet we read in Matthew 4 that Satan tempted Jesus with the word. Jesus being tempted in the wilderness is something that we need to evaluate. Why do you need to be tested. God needs to see what your response is to adversity. Sometimes you will need to make an adjustment. The test is concerning the things that God is teaching you over a period of time. He is testing you to determine if you have learned. He wants to see if there is any substance to your worship and trust in the word.

What caused the test? The test was not a result of Jesus sinning or him being prideful or stubborn. Sometimes we always assume a test is because we are doing something wrong. The result of the test was and will be promotion. Abraham, Jacob, and Jesus all had something in common....that is they all did nothing wrong yet they were tested. The test will determine if you are ready for your purpose and your call. It is very important to know what happened after the test. As a result of Jesus passing the test, he went about preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

Oftentimes people are looking at the test and saying why? God is saying that you have earned and are qualified for this test. The test is very important because after the test comes promotion. There are three times of testing. There is the testing that tests you to determine if you have been truly delivered. We have the testing of pride that tempts us to take the glory of God. Then there is the testing of purpose. The last test is hard to understand because it seem so unfair. It is totally beyond your control. You want to understand this season so that you will not curse God. This is a critical test. If you can pass this test, it is a test in promotion. When Jesus faced the Devil he had in the inside of him that was required to defeat the Devil. The same is true for you. You have what it takes to pass this test.

You are about to enter into another realm in God. There is promotion on the horizon but before all of the manifestations come there must be a sound check. God has to check your mouth, your heart to make sure his word is hidden in your heart, your flesh so that no flesh will glory in God's presence. God has to do a sound check in your entire life and he is excited about it. He is going to put you in position to defeat the Devil. God loves to defeat the Devil through your hands. Too often, Christians look at the test from the wrong perspective. We are resisting the test and God wants us to embrace the test. God is going to bless you but you just have to hold on. Understand why God is testing you. In the midst of the test, how are you going to give up and faint when promotion is right there. What you are going through is a direct relationship of how you will pass the test. God is going to amplify your victory on the other side. Promotion is coming.

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From the Pastor's Corner

The Foolishness of God

2011-01-16T11:29:00.003-06:00

Your belief of God has to be established and then believing God has to be continual. It does not stop. The totally of God is always being revealed day by day. Therefore your belief will be challenged by God for the supernatural things. Believing in God in the midst of the crisis that you are in requries that you be challenged. We are confined in our insecurities and don't want to step outside the box. 1 Corinthians 1:24 "But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Verse 25"Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. Verse 26 " For ye see your calling, brethen, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: Verse 27 "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; verse 29 "that no flesh should glory in his presence."

Foolish basically means the sense of humor of God. The part of God that takes the lesser and make it the greater. Proverbs talks about the self destructiveness of foolishness but 1 Corinthians talks about the foolishness of God. The foolishness of God will take a prostitute and turn them into a prophet. The foolishness of God is designed not to make sense. God had to take all of the children of Israel's strength so that God can have all the glory. The victory is yours on today. As God did for the children of Israel at the wall of Jericho, he will do for you. Take all of your strength and praise God.

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Strength in Weakness: Victory in Weakness

2010-12-19T11:40:00.002-06:00

In order for you to really understand how to be strengthen in your weakness you have to understand the life of Paul. In Acts 26, Paul describes his life to Agrippa who was to sentence Paul for his life as a Christian. Paul was raised as a Pharisee which was one of the strictest Jewish religious sect. He followed the traditions well and even persecuted the Christians previously. But then Jesus came into Paul's life and changed his life. In Acts 26:28 we read that Agrippa was so amazed at the transformation of Paul's conversation that he said "Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian."

Paul was the highest figure in his Jewish religion but now he was made low. Everything that has happened to Paul after his conversation was done in humility but yet he was strengthen the more. In Acts 27, we read of the favor of God upon his life that in the midst of a ship holding prisoners including Paul, we are able to see how Paul and all of the other prisoners were saved. In Acts 28, we read of Paul healing the people while yet he was considered a prison. He was weakened for purpose. It is required that we be weak for God's power to manifest. There are situations in life to which you are weak so that you can be strengthened.

2nd Corinthians 13:3-4 "Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you." Christ was weakened to be obedient. It is not that you are powerful in God, it is the fact that you are weak in God. It means that you have no strength on your own. God has to weaken you to strength you. In 2nd Corinthians 12:7-9 we read that Paul had a thorn in his flesh that we wanted removed but the Lord would not to keep him humble. The condition for the power of God to rest in you is that you be weak.

Until you come to the fact that you are nothing without Jesus, you will always get in the way. Bea available unto God. Be weak for God and be strengthened.

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From the Pastor's Corner

I Need God's Presence With Me

2010-12-05T11:50:00.002-06:00

When you accept Jesus, he is your Lord and Saviour. However, there should be a point and time in your life when Jesus has to be more than a Sunday worship. God's presence is awesome. Genesis 3:4-11. We read of Adam and Eve partaking of the tree of knowledge of God and Evil. Before they ate of the tree, they were always in the presence of God and had no desire for the things of the world. But when the enemy presented them with the fruit, it was pleasing to them because of the pull of the world. There is the pleasure of God and the pleasure of the world. If we will understand the peace and joy that is in the presence of God, many saints will do whatever is needful to stay in the presence of God.

Psalm 139:7 "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?" We can't run from God's presence because it is always before us. The presence of God goes before you and work things out on your behalf. We oftentimes are restricting his presence to a feeling or even praise and worship. Many of us don't want that level of God because of issues. The presence of God needs to be operating in every area of your life. There should be a presence of God in your life that you are not worried as much as you are right now. However, when you are submitted to the presence of God, his glory hovers over you. Is there enough presence of God around you for your light to really shine. If we understand how powerful and all knowing God is, many of the church members would run to him.

Take your expectation out of the world and put everything back into the presence of God. Sometimes you are giving over to a reprobate mind to do the things that you would not normally do. Don't let anything stop you for getting into the presence of God.

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Your Life Should be an Expression of God's Love

2010-11-14T11:43:00.002-06:00

Isaiah 64:4 "For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him." God knows what you like that he has something prepared for you that you don't even know exist. 1 Corinthians 2:9 "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son." It is frustrating thing to see what God has for you, but you don't feel that you are worthy of obtaining it. When God reveals something unto you but you have to step out and obtain what God has for you. Verse 10 tells us that "But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God." The Holy Spirit searches all things and brings instructions about what God is doing. Your flesh if not crucified will restrict the Holy Spirit. There are some access in the inside of you that cannot manifest because you are not asking the Holy Spirit. Verse 12 "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God." We have the Holy Spirit to guide us in life and all truth and unto all things that is freely given unto me of God. The children of Israel did not have access to God as we do now with Jesus Christ.

Therefore praise God in advance when you hear in the spirit what he has for you in the Spirit. In the process of being led by the spirit of God, He is going to bless you in every situation. Verse 16 "For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ." In order for you to have the mind of Christ you have to allow the Holy Spirit to dominante your thinking. This gift is given to us because God loved us. God gave us Jesus so that we will have no lack but have access to everything. The gift of Christmas is Jesus year round. The best gift that we can give Jesus is our life. God is working things out in the spiritual realm. Our obedience measures how much we love God. God has already gone before us and prepared the blessings for our future. Even as God loves me, I have to express my love for him. Your life should be a living expression of God's love. That means that wherever you go, people should say that God loves you. Your focus should be on pleasing God and therefore wherever you go, creation will respond to you. How deep is our love for God? Our love for God must be unconditional.

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From the Pastor's Corner

Faith Don't Fail Me Now

2010-11-07T11:51:00.003-06:00

Hebrews 11:1 "Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Faith is immovable. That is why faith without works is dead. Faith is work in action. Do we really have faith when we have some big mountains in our life. Faith demonstrates to the eye of your mind the spiritual thing that your natural minds can't see. If you are believing God for something, you might have to separate yourself from them. Faith walks. You might have to separate yourself from people that are not trying to go anywhere or people who are trying to drain you. Our first position is in the face of God. The enemy will try to come in like a flood and we will need the faith word to speak to our situations. When trouble comes we will have to walk with the faith of God. Faith is one of the twenty gifts of the spirit.

Faith is feeling anointed in times of hardness or hurt. We are going to have to run with God's faith. Our faith is our substance and our substance is our faith. Substance without faith is like going to church with no expectation. We are going to need faith now. We can't quit now because we are too close. That is why the master said well done my good and faithful servant. You need to adopt the saying faith don't fail me now when the trials of life come against you. God has made some promises to some people, you are going to need some immovable faith. Your faith has to be rooted and grounded in God. What is the verdict? 1 Peter 1:7 "The trials of your faith being much more precious than gold..." I am walking in faith, sowing in faith, and reaping in faith.

God is going to do exactly what he said that he is going to do. Hebrews 11:3 "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." We want to be remembered as people of faith. We need to speak those things as though they are. We speak but then we doubt because we don't have faith. We can do all things through Christ which giveth us strength. Faith is now. Speak everything in faith. Speak life, prosperity, healing, deliverance, and everything to our destiny. We have to begin to speak somethings and as a result we are speaking things that we ought not say. We need to get into our word so that our faith will not fail us now. Our faith is in God. It will not fail us for God is with us. God is all in you; he is omnipotent, and all knowing. Stop waivering over nothing. It can't move God.

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From the Pastor's Corner

Does He Know You

2010-10-31T11:33:00.003-05:00

A person merely profession Jesus Christ does not mean that we are going to inherit salvation. Many of us think that because we attend church that is enough. Matthew 7:21 tells us that only him who shall do the will of our Father which is heaven will enter into the kingdom of God. At some point, something inside of us have to die so that we can operate in the power of God's name. When you say know him it means a two way situation. We must know God to be obedient to him. There are some things in your life that cannot come to the otherside into your destiny.

The knowledge of Christ has to increase in you so that you can hear and know the voice of God. Your emotional fit cannot cross over. Read Numbers 2o:7-11. God spoke to Moses but because of Moses' anger he was disobedient to God and missed out on the destiny and purpose of God. God is going to use you because his people need what you need but he is tired of working around our mess just to bless his people. Moses represents an issue that is all of us that needs deliverance. Sometimes we get so disconnected with God that he doesn't even recognize us. Sometimes you might get to your life with a defining moment, depending upon your position with God it will determine if you go the way of the world or the way of God. There are some stubborn areas in our life that if God tries to deal with it, we try to rationalize why behave the way that we do. For God to know us, he has to approve our of lifestyle in him. If God does not approve of your lifestyle, you are outside of his will.

Does Jesus know you and do you know him in your situation not just church. Do you trust in the Lord. God is always pulling us closer and closer to him. Get into the intense love with Jesus. Whatever was afflicting you, if you get into the presence of God, then everything will have to leave.

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From the Pastor's Corner

2010-10-24T11:46:00.002-05:00

When we hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth (referenced Deuteronomy 28). God is wanting to do some supernatural manifestation to overtake you with his blessing. We ought to live off the proceeding word of God. God designed the blessings so that we can stay connected to him for a proceeding him. At some point you have to follow a proceeding word from God. We as Christians have to mature in the Spirit. Many of us are up for Spiritual promotion and keep falling short.

We want the Lord to bless everything we touch in this season we are in. There has to be a product in the economy system for the consumer to purchase to make a profit. As Christians, we have to position ourselves to obtain the world's money. Product is something produced. It is produced by raw materials to provide something that other people need. It has to become liquid or cash beyond what your job can provide. To produce means to give birth, or rise or expand. The product is you being extended beyond your mindset, insecurities, fear, and abilities.

God is our creator but he uses some thing to manufacture what he needs from us. He uses trials to serve as the manufacture. You are the product of your trials designed by God. Many of you didn't really pray, read your word, or even trust God until your trials came. Your victory will be birth through the trials that you experienced in life. Trial is designed to produce a product that the kindgom need. If it was not for the trial, you would not have any character, anointed, or wisdom. Even if the trial hurts, there is a goal and purpose for them. Your faith is a product of your trial. In John, Jesus is considered the Lord of the Harvest. You are in a season in your life where you are going through trials but these trials are designed to blind you in humility. There is a harvest of people, you are on a tree of suffering, but God will pluck you because you are ripe and sweat. The spiritual and natural has to come together and placed in the market place. This will cause a relocation in your life. This relocation is because of the particular product that Jesus has to feed his people.

When you take care of the spiritual the natural will line up. If God is trying to position you in the market place so that people can feed of what is inside of you that was produced from the trials of your life, then he desires that you use the product for his people. Your situation is an opportunity for God to show up in your life. If you are a product of God, then he will keep you blessed.

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From the Pastor's Corner

Another Level in Prayer

2010-10-10T11:41:00.003-05:00

We read in Acts 12 that Peter was arrested by Herod and put in prison but while the church was praying, the Guards had to be rendered helpless, the doors had to unlock by themselves, he passed by the streets and Peter was set free. The very thing that has been holding you captive, when you pray that very thing God is going to turn it around so that you can have dominion over it. Many of Christians are walking in anti Christ ways. God has called us to love and we are walking in hate.

You have to pray without ceasing because eventually your prayer is going to touch the heavens. There are angels that have been assigned to deliver you and to stop what the enemy was doing but you are not praying. Your own prayer life has to be processed and developed. Stop allowing the world to dictate how you are going to communicate with God. There are some supernatural things that we are not ready to embrace. When Peter appears to the people who were praying for him, they did not believe at first that it was him. Oftentimes, we are so defeated in our prayer that we don't know how to receive God's victory. But Peter understood the importance of returning to the people who prayed for him and he encouraged them that God heard their prayer.

Some of us, need to reflect on the victory that was won by prayer. If you don't establish any victory in prayer, you are not going to pray. God has spoken some visions to you but you are not praying over them. As a result, God is not able to activate them. It is required in God that whatever he provides to you be established in prayer. Prayer is free. When you pray, you draw your spirit to God's Spirit closer considering the will of God for your life. The next dimension of prayer, is when you are available and God sees something that he desires in his world. When give you an assignment in the earth realm, there is another level of authority that is assigned with it. When you speak, creation lines up with comes out of your mouth and then there is manifestation. We have to position ourselves to shift in prayer. Make yourself available to God in prayer. Be obedient to pray whenever God tells you and your prayer becomes a lifestyle, now your assignments will increase. God in Heaven will see your consistency in prayer. Your assignment needs another level of God's power. You will start walking in manifestations which you spoke in prayer.

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From the Pastor's Corner

What You are Going Through is an Opportunity for God

2010-10-03T11:43:00.002-05:00

God is an opportunist. An opportunist is someone who takes opportunity or situations without the regard for consequences. Nevertheless, opportunity is the good place for advancement. There are situations to you that are devastating, but to God it is an opportunity. God does not have regard of feelings but he is looking for opportunity. You must understand that the Devil is an opportunist too. The very thing that you are going through is your cross that you have to carry. In the process of carrying your cross you have to know how to warfare against the Devil. In the book of Job, Satan seeks permission of God to remove the hedge of protection around Job in every area. Imagine the hedge of God being lifted and you don't feel the presence of the Lord around you. Jesus too did not feel the presence of God on the cross but he continued to press through and be obedient to his assignment.

God loves for his servants to establish victory without him. God loves for you to grow up and be responsible in the spiritual realm. God was pleased with Job's situation when Job resisted the Devil and defeated him. God is always pleased when you and I resist the Devil and defeats him. In Job 42, God gave Job a double of what he had. In the midst of everything that he was going through, he trusted God and received double. Even Solomon in all of his wisdom and understanding had to lean on other understanding to go through life and deal with the demonic. Luke 10: 17 tells us that the seventy followed the instructions of God and saw miracles. In verse 18, Jesus tells them that he beheld Jesus fall from Heaven like lightning.

In the Old Testament if someone had a demon, the person was killed but the demonic spirit lived on. In the New Testament, Jesus dealt with casting the demonic spirit out but saved the person. Jesus talks to the Father and thank him for hiding to the wise and prudent and reveals it unto the babes. Jesus understood that God liked that his servants receive victory over the Devil. God did not want us to suffer as much as Job suffered, so he gave us power over the enemy. We don't have to lose everything to get victory over the Devil. Job did not have the tools to victory the Devil but we do. Many of you are in some situations, and it seems that you are losing everything but God is going to use this opportunity for you to defeat the Devil. God is on your side and wants you to win. God wants that power he has given us to manifest. He is pleased when we have victory over the Devil.

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From the Pastor's Corner

A Brand New You on the Horizon

2010-09-19T11:41:00.004-05:00

Matthew 9:16-17 Jesus tells us that we cannot put new wine in old bottles and old garment onto new garment. The old wine skin has already ran its course and the new wine causes the old wine skin to expand and burst the old wine skin and waste at the same time the new wine. Some of us are waiting on fresh revelation but operating on old wine skin. If God was to expand in us we would start leaking. There are some old issues that have ran its course in life. You are at a point where you can't function at that old level anymore. Jesus parables was symbolic of a traditional mind trying to understand and contain the things of the Spirit. Because of the pursuit of God, you have to break some traditional things. Ephesians tells us to be renewed in the spirit of our mind.

The old man has to be done away with so that the new man can shine. We need to cast aside, let fall, and put off the old wine skin of our mind. Don't mix what God is about to do with the old mindset. Some of us are dressing up the flesh but our spirit man is stinking. Some of us need some deliverance so that God can make some fresh deposit in the inside of us. The wine is symbolic of the newness that God is willing to do in our lives. Jesus is saying that I want to make a deposit but we are not expanding our minds. You have to shift from poverty to a mindset of prosperity. We need the faith to shift. Your shift will not be determined by the money that you have but according to your righteousness of living with God. We need to start applying the word of God to shift. God has everything for you; don't allow your current situation to distract you from believing God's word.

Somethings are designed to frustrate you on purpose. Many of us are on trial because of our man cannot cross over. Today crucify the flesh and old habits because your prosperity is equivalent to your intimacy. Evaluate where you are. God is trying to make a fresh deposit into your spirit. Because of your issues, if God is to deposit into you, then we are going to leak out his deposit. God wants to give us some new skin because he has fresh revelation for us.

If you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, then obviously you are not working the text. God has to get pass your tradition and how you thought about him. In these times, you will know them who walk by faith. Don't evaluate your checkbook, evaluate your spiritual life. Know that God is going to bring you out with a plan. The spirit of prosperity will always war against the spirit of poverty. The spirit of prosperity will not allow poverty to rule your mind. Prosperity is going to rule on the inside of you. Your situation is going to force you to operate into faith. Get into the presence of God, write down your plan and move forward in God.

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From the Pastors Corner

The Family Affair

2010-09-12T11:34:00.002-05:00

In the times before Jesus, there was no mercy given to the rebellious or stubborn children. But we see that when Jesus came he warned that it was better that you would not be born than to hurt a child. Luke 15 talks about the prodigal son and how he was so impatient with his father that he could not even wait for his father to die to ask for his inheritance. Many of us are striving and trying to maintain our family because we don't know how to cover our family. There are a lot of dysfunctional family, but the best thing that you can do for your family is to give them Jesus. Give your children Jesus if they happen to mess up in life and no one is able to help them at least they know that Jesus is going to help them.

Some of us are dysfunctional because we don't know how to talk to our family. So now you have family and familiar spirits. These familiar spirits can torment your family. These familiar spirits are trying to affect your children. You know that the patterning in which you were raised you cannot allow your children to grow up in the same way. You cannot allow the same mistakes. If you don't allow the Holy Spirit to guide you in your family affairs, the Devil will always have access. If the family is under attack then the church will be under attack. We have to learn how to recognize the enemy.

As a family, what should the family come in agreement on. You need to prepare a place and time so that the family can come in agreement on one accord. Ask yourself, where should we be in the next five years. What are our goals as a family. Every family should have a vision and everyone should be going to school or work concerning the vision of the family. Sit down and plan as a family so that your children's children can be blessed, the favor of God will show up. As a family, there should be a line of defense so that the enemy can't have access to what God has for us. If a family is not able to recognize the Devil, the will be stuck in the blame game. The Devil is a liar, that is not the plan of God.

Your reward is in your children. They are a reflection of you. If we can line up and structure our family to be blessed, then the favor of God will show up and bless you. Implement the plans of God so that you will not have to go through repeatedly. Most of the family are not on one accord; we have to stop. If there is no healing and deliverance brought to the family, the church will remain dsyfunction. Thank God for the Holy Spirit causing the family to return to Him.

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From the Pastor's Corner

Walking in the Divine Favor of God

2010-09-05T11:56:00.003-05:00

Luke 2:49-52 let us know that Jesus was about his father's business and he increased in wisdom and stature and favor with God and mine. The verb of favor means to be pleased with and to be graciously received. Favor pays a debt when you are in need. Jesus was given the spirit of God without measure. God wants us to walk in a level of favor that is birth out of righteousness. There is some situations where your giving is important but when you are in God's presence he can bless you financially. You will be blessed by being in God's favor. You don't have to buy God's favor. Get into God's presence and watch his favor work on your behalf.

If you can get into God's presence, start living righteous then watch how you get God's divine favor. It will free you up from relying on your finances. Hebrews 11:6 "He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." If you can just get in God's presence, he will reward you. Don't allow fear to keep you from operating in the favor of God. Test the waters and see how God will operate on your behalf. Don't be afraid to ask for the favor. It is established that you can be blessed by the favor of God. Now shift in another level of favor in God; there is another level of faith in God. Ephesians 1:3-9 are some divine instructions. Verse 3 that God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. Verse 4 also lets us know that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. It is all about Jesus. Grace and favor is connected together. We have redemption and everything in him according to his grace.

Your favor in the Lord has brought you so far but now your favor has exhausted now. Therefore you now have to walk in the favor of God. At this time in life you have by design, maxed out your favor. God is going to give you his favor after his good will to operate in your life. If seeking God is the measure of your favor; then you really can't complain about the favor that you have in your life. Your favor is lining up to how you are seeking God. When you are holy and living right it positions you so that the favor of God can operate in your life. You have to step up to another level of consecration in Christ, then you will see the favor of God operating in your life. Re-evaluate your spiritual walk with God. If you seek God more, then you position for the favor of God to come. The problem is that we are not in Him! Get in the favor of God and then all of creation has to respond to what God has for you. Go back to the word and start doing this by the book. We are up for evaluation because God is about to visit us. If you don't start doing this by the book you are going to miss out on your promotion and inheritance.

This next level of favor is your inheritance. You are suppose to have it. Be holy, be without blame so that it can position you to receive God's favor. There is another level of favor that needs to be in effect to receive all that you need from God. Apply the word of God. This level of favor is birth out of righteousness.

You want to walk in the favor of God continuously. Jesus said that he must be about his father's business and then he increased with God and with man. If you can establish the favor of God, then you don't have to worry about anything else. Some of you need the divine favor of God to operate in your life. We need to shift but it requires that we be holy and without blame.

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From the Pastor's Corner

A Closer Walk With God

2010-08-08T11:43:00.002-05:00

The enemy is after your relationship with God. He is envious of your relationship with God. He does not want worship and praise to occur. If we have this understanding then it should motivate us to resist the bait of Satan. Hebrews 11:5 "By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God." Before Enoch's translation he was pleased with God. Translate means to go to one place to another. If you were to translate by your own power, you would have to drive, swim, walk, ride and everything else by your own power. Enoch, however was translated by the power, word and Spirit of God. Paul in 2nd Corithians 12:2 he describes his partial translation in God where he was taken to another place. His body remained on earth but his Spirit was translated to another place in God.

If you worship God he will find you. Imagine for a second if you worship God and he becomes please with your walk. Can you imagine the doors and blessings that will unlock. Don't let anyone stop your worship because just in your worship, God can shift you. We have to get to know Christ as your friend. If you don't understand the level of friendship of God, you will think that he is mad at you. Those that are friends to the world are enemy to God. The friendship with Jesus is a covenant friendship in that he will die for you. People could not understand Jesus because he fellowship with sinner. Jesus will release you from other people so that you can be his friend.

We are not letting God in certain areas of our life and therefore the pull of the world is keeping us back. If you are living one foot in the world and one foot in God, then because you are balancing with your walk in God, it will take only one storm of life to knock you over. Stop allowing the world to taint our worship. God is not please with our worship. He wants us to walk side by side with him. The world has nothing to offer. The enemy will get you so down that you will not have strength to cry out for help. Your life should be to the point where the enemy can't use anything to pull you back into sin. Whatever it is, you need to break it.

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From the Pastor's Corner

Prosperity in God

2010-07-25T11:42:00.003-05:00

God is ready to bless us but in order for him to bless us. Three things have to occur, healing, deliverance and then the prosperity. Ecclesiastes 10:19 "A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things." In Matthew 21 Jesus cast out the money changers. Jesus said that my house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves or robbers. In Luke 6:34 "34And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again." Verse 38 "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again."

As long as we are obedient to God, he is obligated to bless us. The definition of Give means to lend unto another. What can you give to cause men to give unto your bosom. The more you learn about yourself, you more you can offer others. Some of us can give confidence, motivation, encouragement, wisdom, music. If you can evaluate your life, what can you give that will cause man to give unto you. What about me can be marketed to the world that will bring financial increase. We all have spiritual need, but without physical accomplishment will lead to a frustrated saint.

We are always following but don't know how to lead. Our situation should birth leadership out of you. A good leader masters change, maintains a clear vision of your goals, masters your vision by faith. God is trying to birth leadership in the inside of you. The first thing that you have to lead, is your self. We get so wrapped up in the church that we can't see God outside of the market place. Some of you have to rebuke the spirit of poverty. The spirit of poverty keeps you into survival mode. In times of going through a situation, you need a revelation concerning your situation. It is hard to get a revelation concerning your situation when you are wallowing in it. You therefore have to step into the presence of God. Some of you need to prophecy over your house. Some of us are living off of a miracle. The miracle was designed so that you don't need the same miracle again. We need to stop mis-managing the miracle so that we wouldn't be in the same position.

Some people have generational lack and need to break the curse. At some point, you are going to have to believe God's word. God said that I will send you provision when you write down the vision. When you write the vision, take God out of the box. Write the vision according to where God is taking you. Change your atmosphere and put yourself around God's creation. Know what God is calling you to do. There is always a way to get to the top but you have to be creative. Get up and stop being lazy. You are going to have to do something.

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From the Pastor's Corner

Consistency in God

2010-07-18T11:51:00.003-05:00

Hebrews 12:2 "looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Eventually what is on your mind is going to override everything else in your life. The Devil is skilled at taking what is in your mind and cause you to walk into it. How can we get some consistency in God and find pleasure in seeking God, our salvation, and even in church. God is saying that my children have not surrendered their mind unto God. There are certain area in your mind that you have not released it onto God. David was a prime example of someone seeking the Lord.

Imagine where you would be if God was the center of your life. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is released when pleasure arise. The pleasure center of the brain does not discriminate so if you engage in good or bad it does not matter. We can't find pleasure in the simple things because we are stimulated by the next thing. When your mind is persuaded by Christ you are able to enjoy the simple things of life. You will find yourself with joy unspeakable and are never tired God's presence. If your mind is not renewed you will not find pleasure in the things of God. If you are double minded (referenced James 1:8), the world and sin interrupts your pleasure flow of a submitted mind to God. That is how some people can be saved but find no pleasure in God. Your pleasure center is hijacked because the pleasure or dopamine is released through worldly things. The enemy is controlling your pleasure centers.

A mind that is transformed in Christ, delights in the God and finds out that the desires are given. The word of God keeps sin from interrupting your mind. Cast down those vain imagination that keeps trying to interrupt the flow of God. The joy of the Lord has to be restored; if we don't find complete pleasure in God it will cause us to drift into things that are sinful. There is power of positive thinking. You can meditate somethings into existence. Psalms 51:12 "Restore unto me the joy of my salvation." Some of us need healing in our mind into our pleasure center and change somethings in God. You ought to see yourself prosperous in God otherwise you will not be consistent.

Psalms 16:11 "thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." The best feeling of fulfillment is knowing that we have a God that is concerned and delights in the prosperity of his people. The thoughts that God thinks towards us is peace, love, joy and he has an expected end. The problem is the way that you think about yourself. Don't allow the world and situation to define you. Get your joy back.

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From the Pastor's Corner

Get to the Root Issue

2010-07-04T11:45:00.002-05:00

There are some issues that are preventing you form moving into the next dimension of God. According to Hebrew 12:14 "Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord." Blessed is the pure in heart for they shall see God. It is very important that our hearts maintain purity so that we can see God. Hebrews 12:15 "Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled." When some old issues spring up, they will defile me. It is difficult to maintain a level of focus when you are always wrestling with yourself. At some point, you have to press past your weakness to accomplish all that God has for you.

We have received the Lord and Savior, but the flesh refuses to stay dead. The root issues that are designed to rob and defile you from seeing God. Sometime the world will send storms of life and the storms of life will feed the root issues in your life and heart and then you look out that the stuff that sprung up is taller than your purity. Many of us wrestle so much that it hinder the growth. When you see the root issue, take it to the cross and stop entertaining. Paul said that I have to die daily. There are issues that are surfacing more than the holiness of God.

You cannot allow your flesh to hinder your purpose and destiny. 1 Peter 5:8 "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:" You need to know how the devil is manipulating and tricking you with the same thing. There is another level of deliverance, freedom, and healing that needs to occur. Search deligently inside of yourself so that God can reveal to you what is hindering you from pressing forth in God. No longer will you allow situations that you cannot control to make you depressed. We have to allow the Holy Spirit to go deep down into the root issue and pull them out.
At some point, your past is going to have to be the past.

Feed your Spirit and not your flesh. Allow God to get to the root issue.

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From the Pastor's Corner

2010-06-06T11:48:00.002-05:00

Jesus Christ is your foundation as a Christian. On the foundation of Christ you can't get any more solid than that. 1 Corinthians 3:11 "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." We can build on this foundation but the word of God said that whatever we build on this foundation will be tried by fire. There are some things that you will suffer as a Christian because the things that you stand are not fire proof. Verse 16"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" Verse 17 "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple are ye. "

When Christ invades our life he turns up the fire and burns up everything that is not of him. Fire reveals, tries, rewards, and saves. Only the Spiritual things are fire proof. Your flesh, your pride, deceptive motives and everything that is not built on the foundation of Christ will burn. Nothing can escape the wrath of fire. When you look at the natural foundation of fire, if a field had contamination, then that field would be set on fire. After the fire has come and after your slate is wiped clean, then the very fire will come and lay some manifestations. Now your walls are constructed of faith, your floor is love and everything that is constructed is built on faith in God. Get into position so that whatever you build can last. When God blesses you, then you will not be consumed with the blessings but with God. The fire also changes one material to another material. The fire also burns the haters out of your life and reveal the true friends. The fire will also burn your gift and purify it.

God has to send fire to us before the visitation comes. God is saying that his church needs fire to get the hell out of it If the fire of God be ignited then the disease will be burned up, deliverance will occur and it will run every spirit that is not of God out of the church. What issues are you wresting with that you can't have any victory. God is trying to get us to another level. After the fire, then comes the former and latter rain and the wind of change. You will have three elements of manifestations, the fire that tries, the rain that comes to restore and the wind to shift you into another level of God. Fire will usher in revival in the land. There are some stuff that is going to require some fire to come in.

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From the Pastors' Corner

If it was not for Jesus

2010-05-30T11:38:00.002-05:00

Jesus loves to inhabit the praise and presence of his people. In Matthew 26:36-46, we read of Jesus praying to his Father and asking his disciple to watch and pray with him. However, the burden was not theirs but God. Matthew 27:46 let us know that at this point Jesus had to become sin so that we might be free; he was separated from his Father and experienced that which he had never experienced. Jesus was without sin and therefore the very act of becoming sin, separated him from God and caused him more pain than anything. When we realize at this point what Jesus did, it will convict us of our sins. The separation was the sin; when you are separated from God you automatically go into sin nature. The deceitfulness of sin will cause your heart to harden and cause you to depart from God and eventually you will swallow death.

Jesus came to usher us back into fellowship with God. However, oftentimes, we think that separation from God is a way for the enemy to take us out. God has established a throne of grace to bring us back into fellowship with him. When you are separated from Jesus, God sees only wrath. Jesus is your high priest who covers and pray for you so that the wrath of God may not come against you. When we return back to Jesus, he reintroduces us back to God. Jesus grace and mercy is there to catch us if things are trying to come and separate us from God. Don't allow your trust to rely on the worldly things and not God. Stop separating yourself from God. Jesus is your everything. If it was not the for the blood of Jesus, none of us would be here. How long will we grieve the Holy Spirit. Thank God for his grace and mercy. Thank him that he would not separate himself from you. There are a lot of people, that don't understand the love of Jesus. They don't understand the cross; if it was not for Jesus interceding on our behalf the church would be desolate.

God is faithful. Hold onto the mighty hand of God. Don't allow the world to separate you from God. If you are not able to hear God's voice, then you are out of position and going at your own pace. You are resting when you and Jesus are hand-in-hand. God is trying to establish you into your purpose and destiny. He is going to deliver his children before they get to their destiny. God is going to deliver us all of the way. In our relationship with Jesus, we have to understand the Throne of Grace. His grace is there to get us back into position. We ought to appreciate his grace and mercy.

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From the Pastors Corner

Operating in Faith

2010-05-23T11:36:00.002-05:00

God wants us to operate in Faith. To operate a means to produce an effect. An example is that Advil operates quickly; to operate a business, or to operate on someones mind. To operate means you have to know how to use something. Some of us need to believe God in faith for deliverance and healing not just finance. One of the challenges we face in operating in faith is that you can only operate as far as you can see God. Our natural eye has to exhaust out so that our spiritual eyes can operate.

Let's read James 2:14 "What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?" If your water turns off, will faith turn it back on or will some money. Faith without works is dead as a doorknob. In the process of serving God, he will give you revelation regarding your purpose and destiny. You will soon realize that your resources are limited. It is by design that your faith grow. Don't sit back to wait for the materials to become apparent before applying faith which is the substance. The word of God says that Faith is the substance of things hope for and the evidence of things not seen.

If you are operating an airplane, at some point you are going to get so high that you can't see the ground of where you are going. At some point you have to trust the equipment to direct you. There are some things going on that you might not be able to see pass the door; but God is requiring you to operate your faith. You have to take your faith and add to my faith. God is trying to add to your substance. There are some things that have to be added to your faith so that it can work. Stop crying, God is giving you faith. If you have faith the size of the mustard seed, you can say to that mountain be thou removed and it should be. There is a difference between living in faith and operating in faith. There is a difference when you are operating in faith because you are proactive; believing that if you be obedient God is going to do that which he said.

Your belief in God is tested when storms come. Storms are designed to take your faith higher. You have to reach a maturity in God so that it will not require a storm for your faith to be elevated. You know that a storm is coming, you are prepared and soar like an eagle. You have to see beyond the natural and stop complaining. 2nd Peter 1:3-4 "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins."

Unto your faith, God is trying to add what you need to succeed. Your faith should take the form of a spiritual resume. You ought to be able to look at your faith and see how far it has brought us. Your faith of last season has to exhaust out so that God can add some substance to your faith to get you to the next level. God is going to add some patience, virtue and other things to your faith. Don't let your issue hinder your faith. God has to add some deliverance to your faith so that you can make it to the next level. When your faith is weak, understand that it is not that you have a lack of faith but that you need to go another level. God has to bring death to that faith so that you will not take the glory.

As Paul said in Galatains, he lives by the faith of Christ. Your faith is going to exhaust out and you have to have enough sense to grab the faith of Christ. Bring your faith to the cross so that God can give you his faith which has resurrection power. The gift of faith has to be empowered and now when you pray for someone by faith for healing it is not you but the faith of God manifesting in you. This next level of faith is coming from God; his faith operating through you...that is the gift of faith. So that now when you operate, you are operating in the whole vision of what God has called you to do. Now you have to operate in the vision of God. God is adding deliverance, healing, the word, and endurance to your faith to accomplish what God has called you. It is okay to exhaust out your faith; be still so that God can add what you need.

The key to God adding to your faith is your humility. In this season, there are more responsibilities and therefore you cannot afford to be blinded by the tribulations of this world. When you are empty on your faith, some old issues will resurface and it will difficult to move forward. Get up, shake yourself off and get busy for the Lord. God is not going to add to something that is not doing anything. Your mindset has to shift in this new season. Losing is not an option; you have to operate in the faith of God.

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From the Pastors Corner

The Seed of your Suffering

2010-05-02T11:52:00.003-05:00

God is always with us and he has not left us. Whatever your heart is going through, know that God has not forsaken you. Galatians 6:7-9 "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

When you are in transition don't be weary. When your due season comes, you want a supernatural return. There are some things that you are going through that are bringing forth seeds so that you may know it is from God. This seed is your suffering so that the manifestations of God to occur. When you look at your suffering as a seed being planted into some heavenly places, then you look at your enduring point differently. This should bring you some security to know that your suffering is going to bring some supernatural breakthroughs.

Romans 8:18 "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." The plural form of suffering means that there are more than just one suffering. What you are going through means that it cannot even be in comparison to what God is going to do in your life. The joy of the product of the end result is going to be worth it. You will be able to look back over what you endured and be amazed by the blessing that is ahead. 1st Peter 5:10 "But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you." After, not before but after means that by necessity, I need to suffer some things so that God can complete you in Him. Sufferings cannot be avoided. When the sufferings of Christ invades your life, nothing is off limits. Therefore you might as well surrender everything. When the reward of your suffering manifested, the blessing is unlimited.

In the midst of your struggling, God knows your doubt. When you suffer, God will allow people to see you suffer.Your suffering is a set up for the supernatural to manifest in your life. Look at your suffering in a different perspective so that you will not faint. If you faint, then some blessings can pass you by. You are about to give up but stand up and don't miss out your blessing. Your next level in God is not connected to a financial seed but the suffering that is inside of you. Humility will shorten your suffering stage. Therefore be persuaded to stay focus in God. For a little while can turn into some years because of your disobedience. You have to pass that trial so that you can graduate. Line up in the position of obedience to God so that you can obtain the things of God.

The supernatural blessing is in your future because it is going to be birth out of your suffering. It is your suffering that is going to make it supernatural. It is the fact that you are broke (suffering) that will make it supernatural. If you want to walk prophetically in God, then you will need to be crushed. The supernatural things of God stays with you. Therefore if you need healing, even though you might be sick, you will have to pay the price for your own healing so that you can lay hands on other people. Don't give up, throw in the towel, hold on and see God come through supernaturally. Look at every disappointments in our lives as a means to partipate in the sufferins of Christ. You don't complain or fight people because you know that you storm is over.

It might look like a storm but it is going to just pass on over. God is saying to us that my storm is passing over, my suffering is the seed for the supernatural things of God to manifest in my life.

Always Seek the Truth!
From the Pastor's Corner

The blessing of the Lord

2010-03-21T11:48:00.003-05:00

Proverbs 10:2 "The blessing of the Lord maketh rich and he addeth no sorrow with it." The first thing that you have to do before you experience prosperity is to get rid of the poverty mindset. Some of us need to go home and declare spiritual warfare against the spirit of poverty. Spirit of poverty and lack you are not welcome. You declare that you are blessed. When you come into the knowledge of God you realize that you have been living in a mess for years. God does not entertain the spirit of poverty; because of situation and lack we allow ourselves to get back into the spirit of poverty. When you read the word of God through the eyes of poverty, you don't read his word for any revelation but just for comfort. The spirit of poverty affects the way you respond.

Make up in your mind that you are blessed. Where is your wealthy place. God owns the cattle on the thousands hill and all of the silver and God. We have to change our ways; but it is hard when you have a spirit of poverty. You might have some money saved but you don't want God to pull you out of your comfort zone. The spirit of poverty has you trapped. Realize where you are and make the necessary adjustment of faith in God. There must be another level of increase that means you will have to be patient. Allow the overflow to accumulate so that we can enjoy the blessing of the Lord without any sorrow. If we are going to be prosperous it is going to be in the Lord. Deuteronomy 8:17-20 let's us know that it is God who giveth us power to obtain wealth so that he can establish his covenant with us. The power is there but it will not manifest unless you work it. If God empower you with wealth, you have to put the power in position. You can't say that you prosperous and you are lazy, and haven't done anything in 5 years towards obtaining that wealth. You have to put some action to it so that it can manifest in your life.

Many of you are still in survival mode which is stopping you to move forth in God. Stop daydreaming and do something by putting yourself in position to get the money. Be progressive and do something. Genesis 39 talks about Joseph. In this chapter we read that Joseph was a prosperous man even though he was a slave in Egypt. In the 11 verse, we read of his master, Potipher's wife who tried to make him lie with her but sometimes you got to run to stay blessed. God will put you in position to set you up. No matter where Joseph went the favor of God always showed up. Even after he was imprisoned because he stayed in position when it was time to meet Pharaoh. When God blesses you, you have to stay humble and refer unbelievers back to God. When you have a dream twice or more than once that means that God is establishing that thing to you and it going to come to pass shortly. Don't allow the money to throw you off track but use it as God wants you to. God will cause a covenant blessing to show you that you are coming out.

Joseph got the money from the world. You will not become a millionaire off the church. Position yourself to get the money from the world and bring it into the church. The God in you has to be on display. Our mindsets have to switch. We have to stop being lazy. Position yourself so that God can bring the increase.

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From the Pastor's Corner

God clean my mouth

2010-03-14T11:29:00.004-05:00

Your mouth is a tool. You can use it to build someone up or to tear them down. God wants to speak to us mouth to mouth. The love that Moses had with God no one had. Moses talked with God mouth to mouth. Many times we prophecy according to the vision that God shares with us. However, there is another type of communication that God established with Moses. Be careful who you put your mouth on because you don't know how God has established them. You are speaking against someone that had an intimate relationship. There are important instructions that God is giving you that you don't want no interference. Sometime you have to be mindful who you putting your mouth against.

In Isaiah 6, we read that Isaiah had coals from the altar placed his tongue and it touched his lips and he was purged from his iniquity and his sin was taken away. When Jesus healed the blind man, he use spit and took dirt and placed it on his eyes. It was what came out of Jesus' mouth that healed him. When you look at Jesus and Moses relationship with God they both walked face-to-face with God and talked mouth-to-mouth. These particular situations required that something to manifest from another level of intimacy. Paul said that blessings and cursing ought not come out of the same mouth. Stop using your mouth for the wrong reason. Your mouth is tool for intimacy with God. It is not a tool that the enemy can manipulate. Your mouth always trying to establish your flesh. Be mindful what God has empowered. You can't be exchanging salvia with people that you are not covenant with. Some of us need to keep kissing God and it will purify. We need to let the Holy Spirit be like listeren and wash out the germ.

God desires to use your mouth to speak into the earth realm. One of the hardest things that you will have to do is to tame your mouth. Your heart, God, and the Devil is trying to speak through your mouth. Therefore God finds himself in competition for your mouth. When we allow the enemy to control our mouth, we are going back and back. It is not what goes in our mouth, but what comes out. Sometime our mouths want to express the anger and frustration to come into your mind to come out of your mind. Despite of how frustrated you might be, don't allow your mouth to curse your situation. Depending on who you feed, that is what going to get the victory. You can't be luke warm with what comes out of mouth. We have used our mouth so long to establish yourself that it is difficult to do anything else. If God does not have control over your mouth then he can't use your mouth.

God is trying to open a door and our mouth opens and closes the door. If God has our mouth, then you don't have room for mess. Get into the presence of God and breathe the breath of God. He desires to have control over our mouth so that we can speak life into our situations. God is holding us accountable for what is coming out of this nasty trap (i.e. our mouth). There is opportunity after opportunity to speak life. We want to tear people down to build ourself up. There are some things that should not ever come out of your mouth. Your mouth has to be connected to God mouth to mouth. Let HIM use your mouth!

Always Seek the Truth!
From the Pastor's Corner

A Peculiar People

2010-02-14T11:47:00.006-06:00

1 Peter 2:9 "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;" If you read in 1 Corinthians 1:27 -29, it states "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things whihc are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not to brin to nought things that are; that no flesh should glory in his presence." It is awesome that the generation that God desires to use to usher into this end time movement is a broken generation. But our weaknesses are our strength. God has left some issues so that it can keep us humble. If the last mistake is on your mind, it is hindering you but it is humbling you. God designs that you do his will with humility. The flesh has to be out of the way so that the anointing can flow. In order for the power of God to be demonstrated in your life. You have to be crushed. Peculiar means distinctively odd, set apart. You don't try to do it, it is just on you. One of the things that will smother that light of God in you is sin. God wants us to know who he is through his word. We are set aside to do his work. You have to remind yourself of you who are. You are here for a purpose and destiny. Unfortunately, it is God's power that is missing in the earth realm. People don't want to stir it up. If you choose not to pick up your authority then you are beat up.

Many of us, God is calling you to do something but we are stagnated. What is hindering us is us. There are some things in life that are distracting us. We have to make and provide a productive atmosphere that the gift of God can come forth in and through us. Turn of the TV and or radio, get into prayer and stir up the atmosphere of God. Write your vision down and make it plain.

God wants us to be above average. He has called us a peculair, royal priesthood, a holy nation. These are ways that you can provide an productive atmosphere. If you allow the Holy Spirit, He will give you a strategy of success. We associate the Holy Spirit just with church. However, the Holy Spirit will give you strategies so that you can be a blessing to the kingdom of God. Read your word, pray and allow God to give you new vision and new idea. Opposition will come, no just means that is not the way. Don't allow oppositions to stop you; oppositions were designed to expose weakness so that we can deal with it. Stay positive. The reason why we are not positive is because we are not focus on God. You will fall when you think the world has everything and the word of God does not. Do not look at the world and allow the world to remove you from God. There are gifting that are waiting to come forth but we have to change our minds and attitudes so that we can accomplish the things that God has called us to accomplish. Manage the time that we have so that we can stay focus. God will lead you to some places just so that you can monitor the atmosphere. He is not trying to do the same thing but he is trying to do something different. If there are a lot of negativity around you, then God can't speak to you.

The chosen generation is not seeking prosperity, but are broken, and are able to seek God because their foundation is faith. Nothing will ever cause you to leave his presence. Everything that you have is in God and it is not in the world. You must be available to God to use you in this season, if you don't deal with your time, and your attitude you will not accomplish what God has called you to do. God created you for a purpose and a reason so that something can be birth. If you want somethings to come to pass you will have to get out of your house and get busy.

Come out of the box, do somethings different. Don't sit back and accept average. Pray, fast, get into God's presence, read, cut the TV off and whatever it takes to rise above average.

Always Seek the Truth!
From the Pastor's Corner

You are not alone

2010-02-07T12:08:00.003-06:00

In the book of Judges we hear of the redemptive story of God's people. In chapter 6, we read that the children of Israel committed the great sin of establishing Baal as their God. Baal was associated with fertility and rain. What resulted was that everytime increase came to the children of Israel, they were never able to enjoy their increase because they gave the enemy access to their house. You must know that if you give the enemy access, he will come and visit you. Eventually when the children of Israel cried out to the Lord, God said that he would send a prophet so that they could hear his voic Verse 11 said that there came an angel of the Lord that sat under the oak of the Lord who came to Gideon.

What we read in this chapter is that God will send a prophet to speak to his people so that they can hear his voice and get back to him. As you read, you will learn that Gideon was not trained to be a prophet, he needed signs after signs that he was continually with him. When the angel left, he embraced his mantle as a prophet and he was able to hear directly from God concerning God's people. When Gideon accepted his calling God spoke to him out of his calling and purpose. Then Gideon built an altar unto the Lord and called it Jehovah Shalom which means God of peace. God gave him the sign of Jehovah Shalom before Gideon moved forth. Many of us need to be led by the peace of God so that we will know that God is still with us. The first assignment that Gideon did was to go down to his father's house and tear down all the false altars that were erected there. The first thing that you need to do when God calls you, is to go and tear down those false altars. God does not want any other God influencing you when he is building you up in the things of him. Tearing down the things of the past will bring healing to your past so that he can usher in the real presence of God. As long as the false God was there, the enemy will have access and therefore you will not have any authority against the Devil.

Gideon's ultimate goal was to defeat the Midianites. However, the Lord felt that he had too many men to fight the battle and therefore he separted them until there were only 300 people. The 300 kept their eyes on the enemy. God will send you some people who will be watchful on the tactics of the enemy. He will send you some people who are on your side that will be focus on what God is doing. God told Gideon to put a trumphet in one hand and a vessel in another hand along with a lamp. The trumphet is symbolic of the praise, the vessel is symbolic of brokenness, the lamp is symbolic is of the light of God. God told Gideon to wait until the appointed time in the changing of shifts, and then have all 300 men to blow their trumphet. God told Gideon that if he was fearful to go and listen to what the host of the midianites were saying. When Gideon heard the enemies dream and they interptation of the dream and that they were afraid of him. Some of us a scared of the enemy, but God has already established you in the enemy camp. You just have to be obedient. Then Gideon went back and send to his army that God is with us and that he has given us victory. When the enemy heard the trumphet, they ran into each other and started killing each other and even themselves.

Creation is waiting for the sons of God to respond; when you are obedient to God, he lines everything up for you. God wants complete victory; unfortunately we give up on the first victory of the war. God wants to tear down the altar and he desires that you go into the enemies camp and possess it. He wants you to go back and get everything. God was with Gideon. It is amazing that some of us are in perfect position so that God can get victory in our life. We want everything in order for us to move out on God. Our victory was set up so that God can win the battle for us. But we are so easy to go out and fight on our own and the enemy is whopping us, but the battle is set up so that God can get the victory and glory. When the children of Israel heard of the victory that God had with the 300 people, the children of Israel had victory and peace for 40 years.

Be obedient and know that God is with you, he has not left you; he is there. You don't have to wait until all things line up. You have to face your enemy and situation. If God is for me, he is better than anything that can be against me. You can't do it on yourself, but God can. You might get tired and want to give up but in the midst of your trial, he will strengthen you. All they had was the light of Christ that was inside of them. All we have is our praise and the light of Christ in us to get the victory. Let your praise go before you.

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From the Pastor's Corner

Everlasting Doors

2010-01-16T21:20:00.001-06:00

Psalm 24 begins “The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” Later this Psalm talks about the pureness of heart and cleanness of hands of the person desiring to stand in his Holy presence. The word of God says that this is the generation that seeks God’s face [and not his hand.] God owns and has all things and therefore he does not need anything from you or I but he is looking for some pure worship. He is looking for those that are seeking his face without any motive. The question is can you praise God when your bills are behind or when your needs are not met. Verse 7 says lift up your heads oh ye gates, and be ye lifted up you everlasting doors. Who or what are these gates and doors referenced here. A door is a living portal, the point at which something enters into your body. Whenever, God decides to step into the earth realm, he is looking for a door, an available vessel. How liberating it would be that when needs an available vessel that we make ourselves available. You are a living portal and God is looking for someone with clean hands and a pure heart.

Jeremiah 24:7 states “And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and that they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.” Deuteronomy 30:6 also talks about the Lord purging our hearts (by circumcision) so that we can love him. God desires to manifest himself through us. God wants to have all of you. But too many Christians want to give God a certain hour and day of their lives. It is amazing how people have needs but don’t want to stir up the presence of God. Most of the time, we are vain and struggling with reoccurring issues. As Christians, did you know that you can entertain issues to the point that you don’t want to let them go.

God needs your heart. If you are tired of wrestling with your issue, then know that God is trying to get your attention so that you can grow in your relationship with him. Jeremiah 19: 11-13 lets us know that God knew the thoughts that he thinks towards you, thoughts of peace and an expected end. God has situated everything that HE owns so that the plans he has already made come to pass. God wants our hearts. The reason is that nothing else matters if your heart is not turned towards God. In fact, in Isaiah 29: 13 the Lord explains his anger towards his children who serve him with their mouths but their hearts were far removed from him. God is saying, that you have some really good lip service but when it comes down to it, He can’t use you.
Many have accepted a substitute of God’s presence for so long that when the taste his real presence, it is too strong. They have lost their taste for God. They have allowed the system of the world to give them a perception of God and have lost the flavor of God. For so long, they have assumed that going to church and clapping their hands is enough. If God tries to come in, they shut the door. They have been raised on a spiritual substitute. But now God is calling this new generation to experience the full and true presence of God.

God is providing his body the church with the spiritual nutrients that it will need to endure during this season. However, if you continue to eat the substituted things of this world, then it will cause you to experience a form of growth, but it will not be real or healthy growth. There are places that are blown up in the body of Christ, full of substitute, but they don’t have any power and they are not spiritually healthy. They have no desire to stir up the power of God. God is looking to come into and abide in us more than we are looking to get into him. We need more of His presence in our lives. Our desire should be to worship God in Spirit and Truth. When we open our mouth, the power of God has to increase. We are living in a time where it is required that we have the presence of God. However, God’s presence cannot come out of you when you are walking around with substitutes. We need to increase our capacity to live holy for God. God desires to manifest Himself at our jobs, in the earth realm and in every arena concerning us. The Devil wants to set you up so that people don’t the God in you. You have to line ourselves up so that can God can use you in twinkling of an eye. You are those everlasting doors that God will use in this earth.

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From the Pastor’s Corner

Without Interuption

2010-01-10T07:56:00.002-06:00

This is a New Year! 2009 is the past and it is time to embrace what God has in store for his children in 2010. You might have suffered some defeat in the last year but you are in a new season. Last year you might have experienced roller coasters of ups and downs. However, in 2010 in order for you to experience the freedom in God without interruption, you will need to do a new thing. In fact, what is needful of you is not hard. It is simple. Jude 1:9 "Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee."

The battles you fought in 2009 were not your battles to fight. They are the Lord's battle. Michael the archangel was a warring angel, yet he had enough resolve to not go head-to-toe with the devil. Michael said the "Lord rebuke thee." In 2010, don't engage in needless causalities with the Devil, let him know that the "Lord rebuke thee." The reason Michael the archangel was able to say "the Lord rebuke thee" is found in Deuteronomy 34:5-6. When Moses died, it was the duty of the archangel Michael to hide the body of the Lord's servant, Moses. Therefore Michael's authority was in the obedience of hiding Moses body. With this authority he was able to say “The Lord rebuke thee.” The battle is not ours, but is the Lord’s. Be obedient to what God has told you. The Devil was trying to make the archangel fight him rather than be obedient to God. But God is sovereign and he created the Devil and has already defeated him.

Haggai 2:3-9 references that we should be ye strong, and work for I [the Lord] will be with you. Zachariah 3: 1 tells of when Joshua the high priest was standing before the angel of the Lord, that Satan was standing at his right hand to resist him. Verse 2, of this same chapter lets us know that the Lord will rebuke Satan on our behalf when we are about his work. And the Lord said unto Satan, rebuke thee. Is this not my people that I have chosen to bring my work to fruition. Michael the archangel was working when the enemy came to him. When you are called to do something for God, the enemy will try to stop you. You have to reposition God in your life. The enemy is providing bait. The bait of Satan is to occupy your time. The enemy is trying to tie up your mind so that you can’t pursue the things of God. Every time you reposition God back into your life, you can rest in the pursuit of your purpose. Does God mean for it to be so hard for you to fulfill your purpose and destiny? No. When you rest in God, you will realize that it is God’s fight. Your authority is only in Christ. Your authority is not to fight Satan but to be obedient to what God has called you to do. Get behind Jesus and you wouldn’t get so beat down. When you come against Satan head on, your kids get sick, you suffer in your marriage and the list of causalities continue. You suffer defeat. Don’t fight with the same stuff, just focus on Jesus. Stay focus so that God can rebuke the Devil on your own behavior. We are entangled in warfare and think that we are winning. We are caught up in something that has us distracted.

You cannot let the same old thing keep throwing you for loops. It has your mind consume so that you cannot go any further in Jesus. When you are called by God, know how to warfare with the Devil. Never warfare head on. If you are not being obedient to God, then you cannot rebuke. When you are trying to do something for the Lord and the enemy lifts his head, say “the Lord rebuke you.” Until you learn how to position God in your life, you will not need a deliverance session all of the time. Stop falling for the bait of Satan. What is stopping you from repositioning God. You ought to get tired of falling short. Ask the Lord to go before you as oppose to you positioning the Lord behind you to catch you if you fall. Humble yourself before the mighty hands of God and he will order your steps.

Always Seek the Truth!
From the Pastor's Corner

Where is your joy

2009-11-29T08:21:00.003-06:00

In this season where joy and thanksgiving ought to be the central theme many people find themselves depressed. We have turned Thanksgiving and Christmas into shopping days and have lost focus of the true meaning of these Holidays. Read Psalm 100. In this Psalm of praise there are no criteria for praise or worship to our God. This Psalm reminds us that Y0u should not be motivated to get into the presence of God. There is no condition to this particular Psalm. Your response to God shows you your responsibility to God. Thanksgiving to God opens his gates. Find something to appreciate God this season. Everything that was made was made by; therefore give him God.

Your praise will give you access to his courts. Stop complaining about what you don’t have and give God praise. The courts is just the beginnning of getting into God's presence. In the natural you might find the pool grill, vineyard of fruit in the courts. However, to get into the palace it is going toake another level in your relationship with God by your worship. Sometimes the enemy tries to frustrate you. But don't allow the enemy to take you away from the presence of God. Rejoice in your salvation. Salvation will bring us joy unspeakable and bring us glory. God loves us unconditionally; But he is not obligated to do anything for you. God is only obligated to his word and his purpose towards you.

Don’t allow your situation (lack of money,lack of whatever) to rob you from the simple things in God. Don’t let this economy take your praise or your tithes. We need some foundational joy to be brought back to the Church. Start to enjoy praying, enjoy God’s word, enjoy the air that he has given you to breathe. Ask the Lord to restore unto to you the joy of your salvation.

Many Christians find themselves experiencing Anhedonia. Anhedonia is the feeling of joyless or cheerfulness or joyless pleasure. It is the ability in our decline pleasure, or the inability to obtain pleasure concerning simple things. This can be the source of anxiety, sexual addiction, or lust. It works when we push our stress level up. This is a condition that is natural in our brain. We are always seeking the next thing that provides us pleasure. This is how pornography takes over. In the body of Christ, we find no pleasure in God’s presence, but we are believing God for miracles. Many people have no joy in clapping their hands or enjoy the simplicity of God in the beauty of his presence. The enemy is addicting us to pleasure. Now you go to prescription drugs to get joy; however, the pill allows you experience joy one time.

Our brains are hijacked by the world’s system. A spirit of rejection, a pyton that is restricting your mind from pleasure from the simplicity of God’s pleasure. God is so awesome. God is not going to confirm to the way of our minds. We have to be renewed in the Spirit of our mind. We can embrace the simple things of God. Until you are able to do this, you will not be able to enjoy God’s presence. Upon the foundation of the joy of the Lord being your strength, that is what you are going to build your prosperity. We need to repent, because we don’t appreciate God, we don’t appreciate what he has created. Some of us are sitting in church and you don’t know what will bring you joy. When you are searching for joy the enemy will give you a substitute. Some of us have sick, we are bound, we don’t have no joy in giving God praise. We are always searching for something. We need to search for the altar and find our joy right in the midst of our God.

Always Seek the Truth!
From the Pastor's Corner

You are a Covenant Child

2009-10-04T08:12:00.005-05:00

Many of us are trying to buy our way out of faith. You want someone to give you a million dollars so that you would not have to use faith. However, it is impossible to please God without faith therefore you will have to operate in faith. Jeremiah 31:31 and Hebrews 8:6-10 references a new better promise that the Lord will establish with his people.

A covenant is a contract between two persons. Whereas a divine covenant is a contract between God and his people. God made covenants with people who fell into sin [who were not perfect]. He knew that about us and put something in the covenant (your ability to be in the blessing with Abraham) to get us back on track. Sadly, Christians allow things in life to disconnect them with Jesus. Jesus is in charge; he is the mediator of the new covenant. In the Old Testament covenant, if you sinned you forfeited the blessing. But God put a clause into the New Covenant to allow us to return back unto him. That clause is repentance. The awesome thing about repentance is that the grace of God will catch you when you do something wrong so that you can repent and not do it again so that you can be in position to receive your covenant blessing.

In this season, you need to be in position to rely on the Kingdom system. The thing about covenant blessings is that it is continual. Therefore you have to rely on a system that is consistent and established on faith. You don’t have to worry where your money is going in this economy. All you have to do is repent. God’s covenant blessing will cause people to give unto you. God’s covenant’s blessing will bring you down when men let you down. Get your mind in position. Why are you relying on something else when God has set out the better promises? Because you are in relationship with God, you have access to the better promises.

Remind yourself that you are covenant child. The enemy is always reminding you that you are always broke; but you have to learn how to close your ear to the enemy. His word says that you blessed coming and going. This covenant, God’s word, is everlasting. Remind ourselves that this covenant is already established. God’s word is it what it is. Remind myself of who you are in God…God said if you turn from your ways and seek him, you will receive blessings from nowhere!

God does not want you to settle for a substitute. You have no joy or fulfillment in the substitute. God presents to you what he have for you and you get tired of waiting and settle for the less. If you settle for less, then your faith is restricted. God will allow you to stay in a comfort zone because you don’t want to stay there. Within your means God is going to bless you with the desires of your heart. Your mind is a powerful thing when God has control over it. Liberate your mind to go outside your mind. You are covenant child.

Always Seek the Truth!
From the Pastor's Corner