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 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.
- Dec 27, 2020Saved From Our Sins
Dec 27, 2020Saved From Our SinsSeries: General
Matthew 1:18-21
- What we do affects other people.
- When we are in the midst of a thing, God appears and speaks right unto the heart of the matter.
- Jesus is the only One who can save us from our sins.
- We cannot play hide and seek with God. He knows where we are and He will always find us.
- We cannot be so quick to condemn something or someone because we don't understand.
- Dec 20, 2020Occupying the Silence
Dec 20, 2020Occupying the SilenceSeries: General
Hebrews 1:1-2, 11:6; Ecclesiastes 5:3; Romans 4:16-18; Mark 11:24; Luke 5:17-18, 25-26
- Speak only if you improve the silence.
- Filling the silence often reveals a lack of confidence or over-confidence.
- Self-assuredness is always measured.
- If God has not said He will do it, He is under no obligation to perform it.
- What God thinks is in no comparison to what you think.
- God chose a strange way to save the world. It caused people to stumble in their belief.
- When we don't believe, we are actually working against God.
- Without any reason to do so, we hope. We believe. God honors that.
- If we have a believing problem we will not get to receiving.
- Believing and receiving are connected.
- We cannot improve upon God ordained silence.
- God operates on an entirely different level.
- Believe God in the midst of the silence.
- Fill the silence with faith. Fill the silence with belief. Fill the silence with your confession.
- The power of God is present, but if you do not believe nothing will change.
- The best way to occupy the silence is with wisdom.
- Dec 19, 2020A Searching Love
Dec 19, 2020A Searching LoveSeries: GeneralLuke 19:10, 15:3-9; 2 Chronicles 16:9; Acts 1:8- Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost, the relationship, the peace, the joy, the hope, the authority. All that and more.- God is here to lash His love on us.- God never stops searching for us, even if we create the mess.- There are too many people who profess the love of God and do not display it in the searching.- We don't need to go looking to search out need. We can start right where we are.- We need to go and be what we need others to be.- The searching love is inside of us.- People need to know that they are worth the effort.