Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; Exodus 3:1-12
- People get attached to seasons, because things are attached to seasons.
- If we don't know our purpose, there is not one single thing that is going to make us happy.
- We were created with a purpose.
- To everything there is a season, but there is a time for every purpose under the sun.
- We will find our purpose through a relationship with the God who created us.
- We are not going to find our purpose where are, we're going to have to move.
- God has met us in our pain so that He can change us.
- The mourning period is a purposeful one.
- There is a time to move on from certain relationships.
- There are physical times and emotional times. All of it is linked to our purpose.
- Time to be at peace. To put into practice what you have learned.
- Time to go from debt to debt freedom. There is a purpose for our losing.
- There was a time for you to be silent. A time where you have learned, listened and grown. Now it's time for you to come forth and speak up.
- When you move, God is with you filling you with His power so that His purpose can be fulfilled in your life.
Acts 9 (the Story of Saul's Conversion)
- Too many of us are ignoring the burning bushes in our lives and not hearing the voice of God calling us to purpose.
- You are fully equipped for this next phase in your life.
- If God is calling you to more on, He has fully prepared for you to move on.
- Mar 14, 2021Time to Move
Mar 14, 2021Time to MoveSeries: General
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8; Exodus 3:1-12
- Things are attached to seasons, purpose is linked to time.- People get attached to seasons, because things are attached to seasons.
- If we don't know our purpose, there is not one single thing that is going to make us happy.
- We were created with a purpose.
- To everything there is a season, but there is a time for every purpose under the sun.
- We will find our purpose through a relationship with the God who created us.
- We are not going to find our purpose where are, we're going to have to move.
- God has met us in our pain so that He can change us.
- The mourning period is a purposeful one.
- There is a time to move on from certain relationships.
- There are physical times and emotional times. All of it is linked to our purpose.
- Time to be at peace. To put into practice what you have learned.
- Time to go from debt to debt freedom. There is a purpose for our losing.
- There was a time for you to be silent. A time where you have learned, listened and grown. Now it's time for you to come forth and speak up.
- When you move, God is with you filling you with His power so that His purpose can be fulfilled in your life.
Acts 9 (the Story of Saul's Conversion)
- Too many of us are ignoring the burning bushes in our lives and not hearing the voice of God calling us to purpose.
- You are fully equipped for this next phase in your life.
- If God is calling you to more on, He has fully prepared for you to move on.
- Mar 7, 2021All That I Need
Mar 7, 2021All That I NeedSeries: General
Colossians 2:8-10; Numbers 14:21; Matthew 12:43-45; Ephesians 4:27
- Some of the philosophies, the traditions we follow are man-made.
- We must not let anyone, including ourselves, capture us from following the teaching of Christ.
- God is not a God of fairness, He is a God of justice.
- We are not looking for things that seem right, we're looking for things that are right.
- All that God is and all that God can do is found in Jesus.
- God wants us full of Him. He fills.
- We can look in order and yet be empty. We need to be filled with God.
- When we are complete in Christ, we are missing nothing.
- Feb 28, 2021Stop that Runnin’! (Confronting Our Problems)
Feb 28, 2021Stop that Runnin’! (Confronting Our Problems)Series: General
Genesis 16:3-9, 21:16-19; Proverbs 28:1; John 4:4-5; Romans 8:35-37; James 4:7; 1 John 4:18; Luke 15:11-18
- The only true basis that we have that things will change is a Word from the Lord.
- It's easier to run away from problems than face them.
- We think that if we run and hide, the problem will go away.
- When we try to run away from our problems, we end up in a bigger mess, we end up in the wilderness.
- Some of us run from problems with no destination in mind.
- God commands us to go back. Return, submit and go back with the right and different attitude.
- God has a Word for us just like He had a Word for Hagar.
We have to listen and stop running.
- We need to do what we can to face or problems, instead of running away.
- Once Hager returned and faced her problems, then she saw a solution.
- We have to stir up on faith.
- Resist the devil.
- We resist lies with Truth.
- Focus on God and not the problem.
- We have to take extra steps of faith when problems arise.
- We have to avoid doing the bad opposite of running away with our problem, and not get too familiar with it.
- Our problems will not get any better by running away from them or getting comfortable with it.
- Feb 21, 2021The God of the House
Feb 21, 2021The God of the HouseSeries: General
Genesis 35:1-3,4-7, 25:20-28, 28:10-22, 31:11-13, 32:24-32, 34:1-30
- Just because your daddy and your grandfather knows God, does not mean you know God. You have to know God for yourself.
- God is with us and we don't even know it.
- Jacob renamed the place Bethel, the house of God when He realized God was with Him.
- There will always come a time when God is going to come to you and release you from the place where you are.
- Jacob was forever changed when He held on to God.
- God is calling us to go back to the place where we first met Him.
- We need to remember that God answered us in the time of our distress.
- God puts limits on our enemies and what they are able to do to us.
- We need to not only know the house of God, we need to know the God of the house.
- We don't mind hearing from the preacher, but we don't want to hear from God Himself.
- Feb 14, 2021Receive God’s Love
Feb 14, 2021Receive God’s LoveSeries: General
1 John 3:1-2, 4:16; 1 Corinthians 13:8; Romans 5:8, 8:38; Zephaniah 3:17; 2 Kings 4:8,18-26
- Knowing something goes beyond head knowledge... it's heart knowledge.
- We have to behold God's love. See it. Think about it.
- Love is decisional. Selfless choices that are made with your mind on someone else.
- God loves with an everlasting love.
- There is a difference between knowing and believing.
- Believing leads to receiving.
- God will quiet us by His love.
- God's love will quiet all our fears.
- God will be with us in trouble.
- God lavishes us with His love.
- We will only become better at loving people when we receive God's love.
- Our life will change when we love other people, not when people love us.
- God's love gives us a sense of security.
- When we know God loves us we don't run from our troubles, we run towards them.
- When we know the love of God, we will know that it's going to be alright, in spite of what is happening to us.
- Feb 7, 2021Take A Look Inside (Part 2)
Feb 7, 2021Take A Look Inside (Part 2)Series: GeneralMatthew 14:22-29, 21:19-22; John 14:12,15-17,20; Romans 4:17; 2 Corinthians 4:13; Ephesians 5:2; 1 John 2:6-The power to change our lives resides on the inside of us.- In spite of how Peter is talked about, Peter had faith.- Peter was telling Jesus if You walk on the water, I want to walk on water too.- Peter imitated Jesus.- If we are going to imitate Jesus, we have to take the time to observe Him.- God did not speak what He saw, He spoke what He wanted. Jesus was able to send the enemy away because He spoke it.- Faith speaks. The spirit of faith says something.- Our power can be diminished if we don't do as God does.- The more humble a person is, the more powerful they are and become.- Jesus encourages us to watch how He does it, then go and do likewise.- God did not say good enough, He said good. We have to be like Him on all points.- We cannot pick and choose how we want to be like God.- The minute we stop acting like Jesus, we can no longer do what Jesus can do.
- Jan 31, 2021Take A Look Inside
Jan 31, 2021Take A Look InsideSeries: GeneralEphesians 5:1; Psalm 8; Luke 3:37-38- We were made to operate as living, speaking spirits bursting with the power of God.- We have to be more focused on the inside.- The light of the day was in God. He simply spoke what was inside.- Use the creative force of words that God gave us to bring out what is already on the inside.- Adam lost it, Jesus restored it, and now it us up to us to use it.- Act like God.- The change we desire has always been on the inside of us.- The power is in you.- We can't be what we don't know we are.
- Jan 24, 2021Demolishing Strongholds, Part 2
Jan 24, 2021Demolishing Strongholds, Part 2Series: General
2 Corinthians 10:3-5, 2:11; Galatians 3:16; Psalm 119; Ephesians 6:10-11; Genesis 1:11-12; Luke 8:11; James 4:7; Isaiah 10:27; 1 John 2:20; 1 Corinthians 1
Examples of Strongholds
Pride, self-righteousness, stubbornness, judgmental attitudes, being critical, fear, insecurity, inferiority complex, rejection, bitterness; blaming others, envy, covetousness, controlling spirit, revenge, suspicion, anger, profanity, addictions, pornography, adultery.
- We all may have strongholds but we also have weapons to destroy them.
- We cannot come against strongholds with natural weapons, like will power.
- We cannot expect to get supernatural results with natural responses.
- The armor of God and the Fruit of the Spirit are our spiritual weapons.
- Repentance, turning away from our sin, is a spiritual weapon.
- Obedience is also a spiritual weapon.
- The enemy is looking to protect every high thing that comes against the Word of God. These are strongholds.
- One of the biggest tricks that the enemy plays on people is to convince them that he doesn't exist.
- As a man thinketh so is he.
- We have to plant the right seed.
- Seeds are made to produce after its own kind.
- If the enemy is after our minds we must be diligent in protecting our thought life.
- We must submit to God, first. If we don't we will be exposed.
- If we submit to God we won't have to submit to anything in this world.
- We cannot simply ignore the thought, we have to resist it.
- We fight a thought with a thought. A word with a Word.
- Yell a loud NO to the devil.
- Say a quiet yes to God with your obedience.
- When we speak the Word of God, we speak the anointing. The anointing removes the stronghold, the burdens we are carrying.
- Jan 17, 2021Demolishing Strongholds
Jan 17, 2021Demolishing StrongholdsSeries: General2 Corinthians 10:3-5; Deuteronomy 12:1-3- We all have strongholds in our life, they're called 'issues."- Strongholds, places that are fortified to protect it against attack.- A place where a particular cause on belief is staunchly defended.- A stronghold is a mindset, a way of thinking that hinders our growth and development.- The result of lies and accusations planted in our mind by the enemy.- He then erects walls around the lies, to keep out the Truth of God's Word and Who God is.- We cannot bring human weapons to a spiritual fight.- The best opinion is inferior to Truth.- We have to capture those thoughts and bring them under subjection to the Word of God.- Love is our most powerful weapon. Faith works by love.- Joy is a weapon also. The joy of the Lord is our strength.- God can remove the strongholds, but He wants us to do the work using the weapons He has given us.- Sometimes we have to trace the origin of the issues in his life.- Anything that competes with God and the supremacy of God is a stronghold.
- Jan 10, 2021This Time I’m Not Moving
Jan 10, 2021This Time I’m Not MovingSeries: General
Ephesians 6:10-18; Isaiah 14:12; Revelation 9:1; 12:3-4,7-9; Luke 10:18; Acts 4:7-14,18-21; 5:28-40; 1 Peter 5:8
- We cannot put off the putting on.
- We put on so we can fight off the schemes of the devil.
- Our battle is not against people.
- The devil does not act alone.
- They that be with us are more than they that be with them.
- This is not child's play.
- Because we are battling against spiritual forces, we have to fight spirit against spirit.
- We can't do things that make sense. The war is spiritual.
- We have to STAND.
- The Word of God is Rhema Word, specific for your situation.
- Peter went from someone who had denied Jesus to speaking boldly for Him.