- 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.
- 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 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.
- Dec 6, 2020Direct Access To Heaven
Dec 6, 2020Direct Access To HeavenSeries: GeneralJohn 1:23-28,20; 2 Kings 7:1-2,17; Hebrews 10:19-22; Luke 2:8-15- The testimony of the world is not ours.- We are not better than anyone else in the world, but we are in a better situation because we are people of God.- We have direct access to God. No intermediary is necessary. God loves us dearly.- We need to start asking God for the things He revealed to us.- We cannot scoff at the Word of God when it is revealed. We need to have the right spirit.- We don't have to wait on anything or anybody. We have direct access to God.- We need to go before God and receive.- There is a grace to help us in our time of need.- Heaven is speaking to earth like never before, because we have direct access.
- Nov 29, 2020Getting To A Place of Power
Nov 29, 2020Getting To A Place of PowerSeries: GeneralPsalm 51:10; Genesis 4:4-7; Numbers 13:30, 14:6-8,24; Hebrews 4:16; Joshua 14:6-12- We all need 'Nathans" in our life.- David drifted away. Sudden movements that overtime create distance.- God accepted Abel's offering but did not accept Cain's. Cain did not have the right spirit.- The right spirit will create intimacy between us and God.- God is not fooled by what is going on on the surface.- The inside must be made clean in order for the outside to work.- Right now the battle is not for ownership, it's for possession. It's already yours!- If we don't have the right spirit we cannot approach God in the right way.- If our heart is right, it is a lasting strength and power.- Rightness of spirit gives us intimacy, it gives us knowledge of what is to come, it gives us strength and power.- A right spirit differentiates us from others, even in the body of Christ.
- Jan 31, 2021Take A Look Inside
- Jan 24, 2021Demolishing Strongholds, Part 2
- Jan 17, 2021Demolishing Strongholds
- Jan 10, 2021This Time I’m Not Moving
- Jan 3, 2021A Divine Reset
- Dec 27, 2020Saved From Our Sins
- Dec 20, 2020Occupying the Silence
- Dec 19, 2020A Searching Love
- Dec 6, 2020Direct Access To Heaven
- Nov 29, 2020Getting To A Place of Power