- 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 27, 2021Living By Faith, Part 4 (Faith for Healing, Part 2)
Jan 27, 2021Living By Faith, Part 4 (Faith for Healing, Part 2)Series: Bible Study
Isaiah 53:-3-5; Matthew 8:1-3,5-10,13-17; James 4:2, 5:15-16; Acts 3:11-16, 14:8-10; Psalm 107:20, 119:89
- We have to walk by faith for healing.
- It's the name of Jesus, through faith in His name, that heals us.
- God is looking for our faith. Faith can be seen.
- We have to be specific in what we are believing God for.
- Our faith is not equally strong in every area of our life.
- Faith is not generic.
- When we pray, we have to believe. Not before, not after.
- If Jesus is willing to heal a leper, He is willing to heal you.
- The Word of God heals.
- No matter what it is, God can heal.
- God wants us healthy and whole. He is more than willing to heal us.
- Sickness doesn't belong to us, because Jesus took it.
- We have to contend for the faith.
- 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 20, 2021Living By Faith, Part 3 “Faith For Healing”
Jan 20, 2021Living By Faith, Part 3 “Faith For Healing”Series: Bible Study
Isaiah 53:3-5, 35:5-6; Matthew 11:2-6, 4:23-25, 9:22, 27-29; Luke 4:40; James 4:2, 5:13-16; Matthew; John 5:3-8; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10; Hebrews 10: 23
- We cannot stay in the position where we need spiritual milk,, we need to have meat.
- Meat of the Word will help us to grow.
Why doesn't God always heal, if He is a healer?
- Sometimes God doesn't heal because we don't ask Him. (We have not, because we ask not).
- We need to always ask, and ask quickly.
- Because of sin or disobedience in our life.
Blessing blockers, unforgiveness, not walking in love.
- The absence or lack of faith.
- Our faith could be displaced.
- We don't want the healing.
- God is sovereign.
- Regardless of how God is moving or not, we need to keep praying.
-We must persevere in prayer and hold on to our faith.
- 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 13, 2021Living By Faith, Part 2
Jan 13, 2021Living By Faith, Part 2Series: Bible Study
Mark 4:35-41; Galatians 2:20; Matthew 3:17, 10:29-31; Ephesians 1:6; Psalm 121:3-4, 55:22, 139:17; 1 Peter 5:6-7; Isaiah 49:16
- Living by faith is living in the power of God.
- Our faith is growing stronger.
- We will live by faith more than ever before.
- Faith is a fruit of the Spirit. It is God-given.
- Just as the storm came quickly on the disciples, the storm comes quickly upon us.
- The storms of life can make us panic.
- There are times when we are so fearful.
- There is a level of fear that can totally negate faith and make it of no effect.
- If we doubt or question whether God cares for us, it is going to be outright impossible to have faith in God.
- The enemy wants us to get to the place where we are questioning God.
- We have to know that we know that we know that God loves and cares for us.
- God is pleased with you before you even do anything.
- God's love toward us is not based on anything that we can do.
- We have to rest in the love of God.
- Living by faith is bringing God into every situation.
- God thinks great things toward us.
- God values us.
- God inscribes us on the palm of His hand.
- 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.
- Jan 6, 2021Living By Faith
Jan 6, 2021Living By FaithSeries: Bible Study
Matthew 9:27-31, 8:10,13, 15:28; Habakkuk 2:4; Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Luke 8:11-18
- Faith is for day to day living.
- Faith is not an occasional thing. It’s not for special occasions.
- Living by faith means we stay in close contact with Jesus.
- We will start making better decisions if we live our life by faith.
- We have to be careful to how we hear the Word of God.
- Faith is not automatic, we have to take heed to what we hear.
- When it comes to faith we are either getting stronger or weaker.
- We need to stop and answer as if Jesus was asking us, "Do You believe that what you have prayed for, God is able to do?"
- Our life will speak the Truth of what we believe.
- As how we believe it will be done. According to our faith.
- Jan 3, 2021A Divine Reset
Jan 3, 2021A Divine ResetSeries: General
Luke 5:1-7; 2 Chronicles 20:17
-2021 has to pay for 2020.
- We need to stop tying the will of God to our earthly calendar.
- The idea that God waits until January 1st to do a new thing is man-made.
- Divine reset is not tied to any specific time of the year.
- When circuits get overloaded, they trip, so you might have to reset it. #selahmoment
- Things that are broken need to be reset. Things that have no power have to be reset.
- A new year brings people looking for new things.
- Sometimes we don't need something new, we simply need to throw our nets back in again.
- Reset is getting back in position, based on God's instructions.
- If it is not done with God's instruction it has no power.
- The difference in making a change is doing it with God's instruction.
- God has no obligation to back up something He has not promised.
- Power does not come from the calendar, it comes from God.
- The reset is available if we avail ourselves.
- Our belief without a Word is devoid of power.
- We have a specified place that God wants us to be.
- Our specified place is following God.
- Praise took a hit in 2020. Worship took a hit too. But they are a part of our specified place.
- Perseverance does not mean to keep doing things in our own strength.
- Nevertheless Master, key words to being reset.
- A divine reset is not a new year's message, not just for 2020, or just for 2021, this is an eternal one.
- Everything coming in our life was not caused by 2020. We have been out of position for a long time.
- Dec 30, 2020Valley Praise
Dec 30, 2020Valley PraiseSeries: Bible Study
Psalm 62:1-2; 63:1-8; 34:1
- It's easy to praise God when we're on the mountaintop. It emanates from a place of joy.
- Valley praise is different. There are shadows of death in the valley. Disappointments sorrow, troubles.
- If the God of the mountaintop is worthy of praise so is the God of the valley.
- A valley praise is more authentic than a mountaintop praise. A valley praise comes in spite of.
- David wrote Psalm 63 when he was in the wilderness.
- When we are in the wilderness, what do we say?
- Valleys are a part of our walk.
- Valley praise is not about the external.
- Our praise is essential if we are going to get through our valley.
- All times means ALL TIMES.
- God is with us in the valley.
- The biggest work in our life is not on the outside, it's the inside.
- Jan 31, 2021Take A Look Inside
- Jan 27, 2021Living By Faith, Part 4 (Faith for Healing, Part 2)
- Jan 24, 2021Demolishing Strongholds, Part 2
- Jan 20, 2021Living By Faith, Part 3 “Faith For Healing”
- Jan 17, 2021Demolishing Strongholds
- Jan 13, 2021Living By Faith, Part 2
- Jan 10, 2021This Time I’m Not Moving
- Jan 6, 2021Living By Faith
- Jan 3, 2021A Divine Reset
- Dec 30, 2020Valley Praise