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Christ Church of the Heartland
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Pastor Zack Strong
Your Victory Has Come
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Jesus Is ____ : Part 4
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Breakthrough
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Jesus Is ____ : Part 3
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Richie Clendenen
LIFT Conference: Session 2
4 Responses to a Move of God
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John Aitken
LIFT Conference: Session 1
A Ramping Season
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Jesus Is ____ : Part 2
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Stir It Up!
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Jesus Is ____ : Part 1
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God is Moving Right Here
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Our Values: Part 6
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Releasing the Inheritance: Part 3
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Our Values: Part 5
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Releasing the Inheritance: Part 2
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Our Values: Part 4
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Releasing the Inheritance: Part 1
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Donald Sims
A Place Called There
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Our Values: Part 3
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Our Values: Part 2
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Our Values
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Vision Sunday 2023
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Let's Build an Ark
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The Christmas Story
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The Incredible Unfailing Love
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Being Citizens of the Kingdom
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Increase Your Level of Expectation
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Increase: It Doesn't Just Happen
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Gifts of the Spirit Class: Episode 2
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Increase
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Triumph Through Thanksgiving
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Gifts of the Spirit Class: Episode 1
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Pastor Chris Strong
Eternity
Text: John 14.1-5, Acts 1.9-11, Revelation 21.1-7, Philippians 3.12-14, 1 Thessalonians 4.17,
We cannot lose sight that Jesus will return and there is an eternity that matters more than this life. He longs to spend eternity with you.
God hasn’t returned because He doesn’t want anyone to perish. Another day alive is another day of mercy. If He comes back today, there’s still too many people who don’t know Him.
The prize for the body of Christ is standing face to face with Jesus and hearing “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
Everything you love on this earth doesn’t compare to the eternity that awaits us. This earth is not our home. It’s not our standards or good works that matter but His truth. He’s not sending anyone, it’s 100% your choice.
Pastor Zack Strong
It's a Family Affair
Text: Genesis 1.26, Matthew 1.1, Psalm 145.4, Deuteronomy 6.4-7, Psalm 127.3-5, Matthew 1.18-21, Luke 2.17-19
It’s about us, as a family, aligned in and for God’s purpose in a new season for our lives.
It’s standing with our teachers and systems to ensure the best for our children.
Far greater than anything we could participate in, is the health and wholeness of our family. The greatest asset you have is your family.
The family unit is the first institution formed in the Bible before any church or government.
It’s God’s design that the family is how God intended His glory and light to be displayed in the earth. Family should be the most powerful force against sin and the highest motivation for godliness.
God’s family is the foundation of society and everything should be built upon that. This is a revival about returning and restoring the church and family to it’s original intent so that God’s dominion would be in the earth again.
We must have God’s view for our children. We’ve got a responsibility to raise our children and train them in the things of God. The plan of God is to instill in children what God has spoken over their lives.
God valued the family unit so highly that He had to make sure Joseph stayed in the picture as Jesus’ earthly father so He could get everything He needed.
The greatest thing we can do for children is to tell them who they really are: sons and daughters of the most High.
3 Lies of Culture -You need to live your life alone outside of your family -Grandparents are just babysitters -Spend what you’ve earned on yourself
3 Things Families Can Do -Teach that God is the source of morality -Teach the gospel -Teach obedience to authority
Pastor Zack Strong
Let's Get On With It
Text: John 21.1-22, 13.36-37, Roman’s 12.1-2, Philippians 1.21-24, John 21.7-15, 2 Corinthians 5.21, Matthew 26.69-75
-Jesus didn’t need Peter to die for Him but to live for Him. We need to die to our will, our selfishness, our flesh. If you can’t die to your flesh then how could you ever lay down your life?
-Jesus has finished the work for us. It’s our human nature that feels like we have to cover our sin and work to earn our salvation.
Finished: to bring to an end, to complete, to accomplish, signifies a special end to a potential
Jesus didn’t come to earth for discovery but to be the sacrifice that would pay for our sins. If Jesus paid the price then there is nothing else owed. There is no work to do; it is completed.
-Don’t deny who you are. When we are in persecution, our flesh wants to give up.
Tend to my sheep; protect, guard, covering . If we want sheep in our pasture, then we’ll have to deal with their poop too.
Feed my sheep.
Pastor Zack Strong
Redeemed, Restored, or Renewed
Text: John 21.15-22, Matthew 4.18, 10.2, 14.31, 16.22-23, John 13.6-10, Matthew 26.41,75
To become a Christian is the experience of a moment. To be a Christian is the experience of a lifetime.
Peter was an ordinary man, a fisherman. Simon: hearing Peter: a rock
You are the purpose of God.
No one has everything we need or even everything they need. We can learn from everybody.
God wants to have a personal, intimate relationship with you; what concerns you, concerns Him. You have a personal God.
The moment Peter let himself think he shouldn’t be there, he began to sink. God doesn’t always stop your storms, sometimes he helps you through them.
We stumble when we try to operate out of someone else’s faith.
There’s a time we need to be following instead of trying to be in front. He was more concerned with the things of men than with God’s plan. It wasn’t a love issue but a thought process.
Even people mature in the faith can miss it. The wisdom of God is more important than how I feel. We get shipwrecked when we don’t keep the things of God first.
On the Mount of Transfiguration, Jesus wanted Peter to hear from another realm.
In the upper room, Jesus washed their feet. They were already clean but just needed their feet washed. We’ve been redeemed but need a reminder to keep our flesh pure.
When the disciples fell asleep in the garden, it was a picture of our flesh being weak. This is a journey.
When Peter cut off the soldier’s ear, he was only creating issues. Sometimes we fight things we weren’t called to fight. Pick your battles.
After Jesus’ resurrection, Peter was the first person Jesus wanted to see. He knew Peter would go back to his old life.
Jesus is asking us to -love Him with all of our heart, mind, and soul -trust His completed work at the cross; He didn’t come as a king but as a priest to give a sacrifice -give away what He’s given us, go help another one that’s sinking
You are redeemed. The price has already been paid. He will restore you and renew your life.
Pastor Zack Strong
From Here to There, Promise to Possession
Text: Exodus 3.6-8, 3.16, 1.7-Genesis 15.13
Covenant is greater than a promise; life and death is at it’s core.
When they put more burdens on the Israelites, their abundance increased. Maybe our difficulties are doing more to us than we realize.
3 Principles
-Promise God usually gives us a promise that has to do with our flesh to make us move. Promises don’t just happen. Promises require a decision.
-Process Process is a series of action of steps to achieve something. The process will cause you to be misunderstood by things around you. If we move out of time, we’ll move out of the gifting.
Process will always bring change. God created only one man because the seed was in Him.
Process will always reveal who we are. We want to go to Jerusalem but we are still in Egypt.
The process requires us to act, see, and function differently. The process was constantly revealing how much Egypt was still in Israel.
It causes us to do major reviews. Sometimes you have to tear down and uproot before you build back up.
-Possession From Egypt to possession, they had to be delivered. After deliverance, they had the ability to overthrow the Egyptians.
It’s time to say yes to the Lord and whatever change may come.
Pastor Zack Strong
Growing Pains
Text: Philippians 1.1-11, 2.6-9
This is the eighth month; 8 is the number of new beginnings. New: never been seen or done before, always existed but you’re just getting to it. We ought to be expecting something fresh from God every day.
Confident: inward assurance, come to a place of rest. Leave a place of striving and enter into rest. Strife makes you feel like you aren’t enough. If we all act and look alike, then only one is needed.
What is our assignment today? He’s not asking us to operate alone; we are partners with God.
When God says something is good, He’s only comparing it to Himself. This move of God is good. You are a good work of God. God is looking at us from the end and He’s already defined who we are.
We’ve gotten more excited about the move of God than the God who moves. Quit thinking of it as labor but a kingdom assignment instead.
We need to keep ourselves pure, out of and away from sin. You will feel disqualified because of your sin. Sin tells you you’re unworthy. Sin will block the flow of your anointing.
Jesus had to learn how to be a man in the same way we have to learn how to be a son.
It’s not wrong to be like your father; it’s acceptable. Religion tells you you’re not good enough. You are a son whether you’re in sin or not. Redemption is redeeming us back to our original form.
It takes humility to go from spirit to man and from man to spirit. Humility is not weakness but acknowledgment that there are others and greater than me.
When you walk in, the angels stand at attention.
Doctor Mike Smalley
Why Christians Aren't Getting Their Prayers Answered
Text: Colossians 1.13, Ephesians 1.3, 2 Peter 1.3, Isaiah 53.4, Matthew 8.16-17
We can’t criticize someone else’s battle that we’ve never had.
Stop focusing on what’s happening and focus on what’s already done.
Everything you’re wanting and needing from God, He’s already said yes to it. He’s already done it.
It doesn’t matter who you are, you can have a seat at the table. Christians don’t have a forgiven past, they have no past at all.
-We’re asking God for things He’s already said yes to. When we remove faith from the equation, God can’t move.
We don’t have to bear the fruit of sickness or sin.
-We’re positioning ourselves based on performance.
-We think answers to prayer come down from Heaven instead of out of our born again spirit. We don’t have to see God because we are the temple of God. Don’t ask him to be with you but thank Him that He always is.
What we say matters because we are training our brain to believe us or not.
Your pain has nothing to do with being healed.
Doing our best or less than our best doesn’t make us any more or less of a son or daughter.
Asking the same questions over and over implies that He hasn’t done what He said.
You don’t have to have victory over everything to be qualified to come to God.
As soon as you got saved, He made your spirit exactly like Jesus’.
Pastor Zack Strong
Unholy Strategies
Text: 2 Timothy 4.7, 2 Corinthians 2.10-11, Daniel 10.12-20, Nehemiah 2.19-20, 4.1-3, 6-5.1, Luke 14.28-29, 1 Corinthians 9.24-27, Philippians 4.3
American’s thrive on sensationalism but God is bigger than that. He’s doing more than what we can see with our natural eyes.
Don’t discount the little things that seem insignificant. What is the assignment?
The enemy is a strategist as well.
We have to choose our fights. If there is a good fight then there must be bad fights too. We are not ignorant of Satan’s strategies. We are not called to every battle. We’re not meant to fight constantly.
God wants more of the heavenly host engaged with us than ever before. But the enemy can disguise himself as an angel in our eyes.
Sanballat- hatred of the enemy, enemy in secret Tobiah- distinguished of Jehovah
Another assignment of the enemy is to wear us out or keep us busy. Rest should not be because we are worn out but to prepare for the next day.
The enemy will take advantage of our own voices and bodies. What we say is what we get. If we only hear about death then we become consumed with dying.
Then the people began to accuse each other. We have to guard ourselves to not point fingers at others.
We need to have a finishing mentality. We don’t finish because we don’t start properly. We have to set our priorities. We’ve taken away the discipline to work hard.
I will not quit trusting in Him. Get up and repent and get back in the race. Guard your heart with all diligence. We’ve got to know how to cover and protect others.
Tim Gidley
February 13th
Text: 2 Corinthians 9.8, Romans 5.2, Jeremiah 23.8, Psalm 147.3, Mark 11.22-25
Your faith changes God’s timetable. God will give you whatever you’re believing Him for. He desires to bring things to pass in your life.
Paul wasn’t looking for a circumstance to determine his leaving the earth but to when his course was finished.
There’s no situation that can bind itself to you that can’t be changed.
We are not emotionless zombies. Our emotions are like the check engine light. It doesn’t mean to go faster but to make repairs. Acknowledging our feelings shows us when we aren’t centered in God’s love.
God wants to put you in a situation where you can affect other people’s lives. You don’t have to be a minister to preach this glorious gospel.
Everything comes by faith. It’s not on you to get the job done. The enemy wants to stranglehold your supply. We are called to walk in faith. Faith is believing God.
It’s a fast skip from hope to faith but you can’t get into faith without hope. David killed the giant not just with his stone but with his words. David lifted his staff not as a weapon but as a reminder of all the enemies he had already defeated. David had a covenant and Goliath didn’t. David won with an old covenant. We walk in a much better covenant with better promises.
Jesus took care of sin forever and sat down. Priests were never seated because they were constantly making new sacrifices for new sins. Paul’s vision saw us seated with God in heavenly places.
Grace is not just unmerited favor but all the stuff required to live the life God has for you. Tell the devil to take his hands off of what you need. He walks as a roaring lion but he isn’t a roaring lion. Your faith is your hand reaching for what you need.
Our church is in a centurion moment. Jesus was in wide-eyed wonder that a Gentile centurion had more faith than the doctors of the law. This centurion loved the Jewish people and built a synagogue. Your giving opens doors. Your tithe represents your past but your offerings represent your future. Tithing is not a debt you owe but a seed you sow.
Faith always has a corresponding action. Mark 11.23 used the word believe once but the word saith three times. Start speaking the word.
Tim Woodson
Passion
You will never have passion for anything you don’t esteem higher than yourself.
We are full of God whether we feel it or not. If God be for you, who can be against you? The spirit of God is upon us, not just in us.
Your passion brings an unleashing effect. God won’t overwhelm you without your permission.
What God did 20 years ago won’t compare to the Holy Spirit that will be released on these young people.
Your passion is the kindling wood of that fire. Get your passion back. The Lord will use the sword to cut off your enemies. Stir up your passion. God wants your passion.
Pastor Zack Strong
Playing the Game
Text: Mark 8.22-25, Isaiah 61.1-3, 55.12, Matthew 3.8-10, 7.17-18, 5.13-16, Isaiah 8.18
Strategy- plan of action designed to achieve a major or overall aim
There are strategic people, places, and moves of God.
Don’t discount what seems to be small, insignificant moves.
Acceleration- change in speed or direction
Sometimes God has to position us before accelerating us.
Bethsaida- house of fish
He is positioning us for the greatest harvest the world has ever seen.
Blindness- blinded by sin before Jesus touched him, unaware of the reality around him, oblivious, ignorant of what God was doing
He is taking us out of our desire into what He desires for us. He is calling us out of the world and out of our flesh to empower us to be His true governing body throughout the earth.
Jesus’ saliva represented that His body carries the power to completely heal, save, deliver, and transform.
Men as trees- trees have branches, twigs, and flowers to bear fruit to nourish the hungry, needed for life. Relationship with God should bear fruit of changed relationships and moral character.
Four levels of creation: -Mineral -Vegetable -Animal -Man
You’re going to need the men you see to produce the life of God.
He is cutting away the spirit of religion.
How do you see yourself?
We need to see ourselves the way Jesus sees us. We have been pursuing purpose but we are the purpose. Christ in you, the hope of glory. If you want glory, then show up. We are the expression of His glory in the earth. Quit looking for a place to go and just be.
You’re supposed to be -a sign; point the way for others -a wonder; to make people think -a light; illuminate the way
How do we see others?
We have to see people through the spirit of God. Immerse yourself in the holy spirit. We’ve got to start believing who God says we are: anointed and appointed.
Pastor Zack Strong
In the Midst of the Storm
Text: Matthew 8.23-27, John 16.33, 2 Timothy 3.1, 1 Corinthians 10.13, Matthew 8.25, 1 John 1.9, Hebrews 10.25, Psalm 92.13, Ephesians 4.16, Ecclesiastes 4.9
Why do storms come? -weakness of our flesh -our decisions -economics -politics -media -religion
We struggle to find our purpose when we think it’s a destination. What if your purpose is to live with His breath in your lungs everywhere you go? Kingdom is life within me. We’ve been doing church instead of being the church; going to church instead of acting like the church.
Just because storms come doesn’t mean it has to destroy you.
-The storm in us can magnify the storms around us. Jesus was commanding the peace inside the disciples just as much as the wind and the waves. We have to find a place of greater peace with God. It’s time for believers to be all in.
-It’s time to get fully in the boat; the boat was made to weather the storm. The boat represents God’s church. It’s time to belong.
-We’ve got to work with the people around us. We’re not called to do this alone. If you’re not connected then you’re not growing. Who we connect with is greatly important. We grow and go deep together.
What kind of person in the boat are you? Are you creating fear or an encourager?
-It’s time to be filled with the spirit and operating in the spirit. We can operate in miracles. We can move through the storms of life by the spirit of God in us.
Pastor Zack Strong
When the Righteous Rule
Text: Proverbs 29.2, 21.2, 12.15, Isaiah 64.6, Philippians 3.8-10, Isaiah 53.5, Deuteronomy 6.4
Who are the righteous? There’s a difference between good and bad, light and dark, righteous and unrighteous. There is no middle ground.
Righteousness: acting in accordance with moral law
What is your standard of righteousness?
Feelings are a reality but that doesn’t make them God.
The righteous are those who believe in and adapt to Jesus and His ways. The righteousness of God produces the power of resurrection in our lives.
Transgression: inequity, wickedness
If the church isn’t living right then why would the world even look? God values freedom so much that He gave you a will to choose how you want to live.
God sets patterns to protect you from what will destroy you, not to keep you from being fulfilled.
We’ve got to make up our own mind to live right. Sin is missing the mark and there is a consequence. Grace is giving you another opportunity to get into the right position before God.
He expects us to be other than. The church is depending on signs and wonders to get the world’s attention instead of our own changed lives.
There is a position for righteousness. We can’t demand righteousness of others if we aren’t living right. It starts with us.
We’ve got to be righteous in our community so that our churches are governing our cities again.
Pastor Zack Strong
The Flow of the Second Half
Text: Joel 1.1-3, 2.18-29, Matthew 3.11, Joh. 7.38, Luke 4.2, 14
Joel: Yahweh is God
Restore: reciprocate, make amends, give again, make restitution
God is reestablishing the tabernacle of David in the earth for the glory of God.
The feast of tabernacles represented a time of great repentance and revival.
Quit looking for the river- it’s here. If it’s not flowing then you’re the problem. We can’t do anything without the river of God flowing through us. We need to seek the wisdom and direction of the Holy Spirit. He is the revealer of the secrets of God.
It’s Holy Spirit in you for you, but Holy Spirit on you for others.
He energizes your inner man and you’ll know things from the inside out when you pray in tongues.
If you’re going to be led, then you’ve got to be full. Whatever you are full of is what is leading you. What is in you will always come out.
When Holy Spirit touches you, we speak what is coming forth from the throne of God.
When He touches us, He’s going to touch our imaginations with visions and dreams. You can’t just dream it, you’ve got to tell it.
God isn’t done with America; He’s not going to lose this planet.
Pastor Zack Strong
What Manner of Man Are You?
Text: Luke 8.22-25, John 1.1, 14, Joshua 1.8, Luke 4.1, 14
What manner of man is this that even the wind and waves obey Him?
When you get to the other side, you will be confronted with the dominant spirit. He will take us into a new place to set the region and it’s people free.
It’s time for us to start governing our cities, dictating and declaring what happens. God intended us to guide, guard, and govern the land. The enemy will contend with the land just as much as we do.
Wind was created for God. After the fall, the wind became contrary. God’s people are to speak to the wind and tell it who it is.
Rest: cease work or movement, freedom from anxiety and disturbance; peace and rest with the completed work of Jesus
Master: teacher, rabbi, great one, one that is greater than us
-Jesus represents the Word. We have to be people of the Word. Reading the Word is literally feeding on God and taking Him in. Great faith is when the Word is what settles it for us.
-Jesus rested in His true identity as a son of God. Sons have the DNA and attributes of the Father. You carry what He carries- it’s already there. We’ve been called and we’ve been sent. There is purpose in our lives. Just act like Jesus and love people and you will walk right into it.
-Jesus was filled with the Spirit. Don’t be content with being a good church goer but be filled with the Holy Spirit. You won’t be led until you have fully embraced Him. We count the dust from the efforts of our own labor as the glory. When the river is flowing, the boat moves with ease. We know because we have the spirit of God inside of us.
Kneel down, stand up, speak up, and lay down your life.
Amanda Taylor
Yielding vs. Fighting / Feasting vs. Digging / Saying Yes vs. Saying No
Text: Revelation 4.1-2, John 12.1-7, Esther 4.10-17
“In” the spirit: referring to fountains, springs, wells, stationary, in a specified position, could be used as a landmark or monument, something at rest
You may have walked your way into what you’ve experienced thus far, but you will have to be carried into what you’re born for.
We treat the word like a magic 8 ball, asking until we find the answer we were looking for. We approach the word looking for confirmation for the decisions we’ve already made. Stop seeking understanding and start seeking Him. Western culture tells us that we have to understand before we believe. Middle eastern culture tells us that we believe first and then understanding comes.
He calls us to lean into the table. Feast on His word instead of digging. Operate out of a posture of rest.
Are you the one anointing Jesus’ feet or the one asking why? Are you experiencing excess worship or offense? Judas could only see the value of the gift but not the value of the recipient. His actions were saying that Jesus was not worth the cost.
What has more value: the things you seek or the One you seek?
The book of Esther starts with someone making a choice that was not Esther. If your approach to leadership is out of chaos instead of rest, then your house will operate out of chaos. The anointing that lives in you is the answer to the unrest and chaos.
Queen Vashti had a feast without the King. He calls her out of her inferior feast up to his feast. He didn’t want her to walk into the banquet; he wanted her to be carried in by the seven eunuchs. The other women also rejected the kings invitation; they were more comfortable in each other’s presence.
Your King wants to carry you into His presence and crown you. Queen Vashti refused to be carried and lost her authority, her inheritance, and her ability to stand before the king.
The only way to be carried is to yield. Yield: to give way to demands and pressure. We celebrate Samson for his strength and hand-to-hand combat as a warrior but Esther is never described as a warrior.
Is the sword our Savior or is Jesus? We celebrate scars but not those who yield and let Jesus fight the battles for them. Esther’s strength was proximity to the king. We think it’s easier to fight a battle than to say yes to God. What other warrior single-handedly stopped a holocaust? Esther did.
Samson had a no vow- to say no to the world. Esther had a yes vow- to say yes to the king.
Samson’s victory was out of line with his vow and covenant. He vowed to touch no dead thing yet fought with the jawbone of a donkey. Samson’s legacy ended with him losing his vision and his own death.
Esther produced through intimacy what Samson could not produce through physical strength. Esther’s legacy saved a nation and her son King Darius II rebuilt the temple.
Sometimes it’s easier to use the sword than the spirit. Sometimes we would rather cut. Samson’s vow was built on resisting but Esther’s vow was built on yielding.
Your worship is connected to the things you yielded to, not the things you resisted.
You may have walked your way into what you’ve experienced thus far, but you will have to be carried into what you’re born for.
Pastor Zack Strong
The People of the Next Step
Text: Genesis 1.31-2.3, James 3.3-5
A thousand steps: period of time, a journey
God has your welfare and future in sight. Sometimes the way He takes us through is to avoid warfare. Sometimes He has allowed us to suffer to see if we really trust Him.
The next step is faith. Faith is actually a place of rest. Quit striving to get what He’s already given. Receive what He said you could already have.
The next step is deep intimacy with God and with men. Religion is knowledge of God but intimacy is knowing God. Intimacy calls you to Him; you do things you wouldn’t normally do to be close to the one you love. God never intended us to life on our own.
The next step is speaking the things of the Lord. Our words are controlling the power God has put in us, one way or the other. Are you speaking the word of God or the words of your feelings?
The next step is to sow seeds and be fruitful. You can’t receive a harvest without planting seed.
Steve Sampson
Receive
If you’re not receiving, you’re not becoming. It should be normal to hear the prompting of the Holy Spirit. God wants us to receive.
If Jesus paid it all, then there’s nothing left for you to do but to receive. God doesn’t need your performance, just your response.
Marinate: adds flavor and tenderness
Prayer isn’t enough; marinate. Wait for God to speak to you. God and the devil are looking for the same thing: for you to receive and agree with him. God is committed to us receiving him and the devil is committed to us not receiving.
We are abortionists when we let ourselves forget what God has said and believe that it must be for someone else. We need to be more aggressive in receiving and using our authority. We buy in to the enemy too much.
His goal is to do more than just save us but to do a great work in us. Most people don’t reject God for who He is but for who He isn’t. They’re really rejecting religion and not God.
Luke 5.17 It was Jesus’ intention to heal Pharisees that day but they aborted His plans because they got offended.
Pastor Zack Strong
Will You Be Made Whole?
Text: John 5.1-13
Whole: all of, entire, in an unbroken undamaged state, complete, comprising the full quantity without compromising size or value, Jesus saying “all that I am”
A lot of people can get close to the move of God but never actually get in it. Do you want “all that I am”? Are you willing to take hold of everything He has for you?
There was a certain time when God stirred the waters…revival is in the earth. We are in the third great awakening. The river of God is being stirred. Now is the time for whosoever to get into the water.
38 years: 30- moment Jesus started His ministry 8- new beginnings
We’ve entered into new day time. We’ve got to get our doubt and unbelief out of the house. We’ve got to declare what the Lord is speaking.
Rise: we’ve got to get sick and tired of where we are and rise above it
Take up your bed: we’re resting in our own bed of brokenness and disappointment. Trouble comes to your because you’re resting in it.
Isaiah 55.10 The first seed released from you is out of your mouth. We were created to be sowers. If there’s fruit from your lips then there is seed coming out of your mouth. The bread that we eat is the harvest that comes from the words we just planted.
We speak what we hear Him doing. You only get what you talk about.
Pastor Zack Strong
What Is Your Name?
Text: Genesis 32.22-28, Proverbs 22.3, Genesis 22:16-19
We are cursing what God has already put His blessing on. You can’t live any way you want and still receive His blessing.
To be blessed: be fruitful, increase, subdue and have dominion
Abraham: father of nations
Part of blessing is speaking what God is saying. Is anything too hard for God?
Natural circumstances does not dictate the blessings of God on your life. Isaac sowed in a time of famine.
We are heirs according to the promise given to Abraham. We are under an open Heaven.
We are blessed to be a blessing. Where we go, other things are blessed.
Jacob was striving for what God said he could have without the fight.
We have completed the course of 1000 steps faithfully. We are in a new day of blessing. What you say will determine what you get.
Pastor Zack Strong
Are You Ready?
Text: Ecclesiastes 3.1, 1 Chronicles 12.32, 1 Thessalonians 5.1-2-4
The more we talk about what Jesus is doing, the greater the manifestation.
We should have a knowing of the times and seasons; we should not be caught off guard.
Moves of God Through History -1926 through baseball player Billy Sunday in Cape Girardeau; built an auditorium on the corner of Bellevue and Middle Street that would hold 5,000 people; 250,000 people costed within 5 weeks; that wood is now part of Houck Stadium Field House: also went to Paducah where 100,00 people came to Jesus. -1906 Azusa Street, the Second Blessing; marked by interracial crowds from around the world; daily meetings for three years; spurred the Assembly of God and Apostolic movements -Great Healing movement; Oral Robert’s, A.A. Allen, Jack Cole; ambulances would bring people for healing off of their stretchers -Latter Rain movement; gifts of the spirit, women in ministry, Joel 2.28 prophecies -Billy Graham, college movements -TV evangelism -The Jesus Movement/Charismatic Movement; turning from drugs and radical politics, taking the Bible at face value -Introduction of scripture songs and moving away from hymns; dancing -Full Gospel Businessmen -Discipleship/Shepherding Movement; family life, church growth, mega churches -Faith and Prosperity Movements; send and harvest time, positive living, speak the word -Prophecy Movements; prophetic ministry and worship, personal prophecy -Pensacola revivals; 4 million people over 5 years -Promise Keeper; 5 million men over 100 conferences -Kingdom Theology Movement; kingdom dominions instead of escaping from here
10 Marks of Great Revivals -timing during spiritual and moral decay -great times of prayer -word preached without compromise -great emphasis on the leading of the Holy Spirit -great conviction -glory to God only -reformation and renewal -manifestations of the power of God -brings controversy -has a cycle
We are in a movement that is a culmination of all the movements God has already released into the earth for us to use.
What happens here won’t look like anywhere else.
This is a no-name movement; there is an emphasis on the body of God.
Pastor Val Treece
The Wind of the Spirit
Text: Romans 5.12,17-18, 8.18-21, Genesis 3.17-19, Matthew 8,
Trespass: breaking of a law of covenant
The church has camped out at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and neglected the tree of life.
Futility: vanity, emptiness, depravity
Rebuke: to superimpose your will through the process of giving value to what you’re speaking to
One Holy Spirit manifestation of wind multiplied with the 120 people and 3,000 people were saved. You can’t stop the wind. Persecution is trying to quarantine the wind. God has a way to make the wind viable in any situation.
One function of the wind is to carry seed to replenish the earth. Supernatural wind makes you a carrier of the seed of life. Wherever He takes us, we distribute the seed wherever we go.
The wind was never made for destruction but to clear debris. God subjected creation into depravity in the hope that we will manifest sons of God.
Complete: perfected and matured
We can superimpose the will of God on creation by virtue and giving it value.
If the Word works, it works in every way.
His skirt is full of anointing. When He stands up, the oil begins to fall on is.
God does not operate in 24 hour days. We are in Him and His wind is in us.
It’s time for us to move in a greater measure.
Pastor Zack Strong
Reversing the Curse Through the Power of Blessing
Text: Proverbs 10.22, James 3.4-8, Proverbs 6.2, Genesis 1.28
Contentment: no labor or sorrow attached
Cussing means to use profanity but cursing means to cease activity and productivity.
We’re designed to walk in blessing and be a blessing.
There is power in our words and in our blessing.
We curse ourselves when -we are frustrated and angry -we get fearful -we’re disappointed
We get ourselves in agreement with what we feel instead of what God says.
We are given three names: -by God -by our parents -by the enemy
God gives us authority to put things in order that are out of order.
Three things we can do: -repent: have a change of heart, to forsake the sin, to reset -renounce: refuse what was once said, to say again as I should have said from the beginning -revoke: taking my legal authority by the power of the Holy Ghost to cancel the power of the words, to invalidate it
Janna McCracken
God is Enough
Text: Isaiah 54.3, Jeremiah 31.17, Deuteronomy 7.9
God doesn’t create mistakes- we are all miracles.
Even when you don’t know it, Jireh is enough.
You were born to speak Jesus. Let us be Jesus to the people who are hurting in the same way we did.
Even when you can’t speak the words, Jireh is still enough.
Lay down your burdens so you can freely love people the way God intended.
Jireh is more than enough in every circumstance.
It’s your responsibility to love like no other and speak Jesus over them.
God has a plan to turn every evil deed for His glory.
Apostle Anthony Sargent
Take Off the Old Identity
Text: Ephesians 5.14, Hebrews 11.1-4, 7-8, Mark 10.46-51
Our intimacy with God will be exposed in our daily lives; it affects every person in our lives.
God gave us imagination so that He could’ve imagine a nation through us.
This day is a time of pressuring. The pressure is ordained by God. Pressure brings exposure for healing. The end result of the pressure is fresh oil for a fresh anointing.
God is awakening the body to a new reality for a new day. The highest authority in the land is the body of Christ. The world has become corrupt because the church has accepted everything of the world. The great commission is to disciple nations as the original governing authority in the earth.
The original plan was to have sons of God in the earth so the Father can work through you and accomplish His will for the earth.
He’s given you a percentage of light so you can steward a percentage of darkness. A higher degree of light means you’re called to a higher degree of darkness.
Circumspectly- accurately and diligently
Redeeming-Payment of a price to recover from the power of another
We are agents of transformation. Faith is in a realm called seen which means we can pull from the realm called unseen and bring it into the realm called seen. Healing is an announcement that you have substance to back up your word.
Anything done outside of intimacy is formulation. When we are rooted in love, walking in faith is a natural occurrence.
Creation was birthed during a rhythmic love dance. Adam stepped out of that love dance but Jesus made a way back. He is in us and we are in Him so we automatically step back into the love dance and hope is birthed.
Grace is an empowerment of God to do what you can’t do on your own.
World- period of time Framed- repair
God redeems periods of time by repairing it. Noah repaired the period of time he lived in. Abraham repaired the time he lived in. This is how we mend a generation.
There’s a breakthrough coming that will bring a new identity to this place. Religion will call you by an old identity. He is calling you to a new identity. Are you willing to strip off the old before you can see the new?
Pastor Val Treece
Start Fresh
Text: 2 Peter 2, 1 Timothy 4.1-2, Hebrews 10.22-29, Galatians 5.16-6.11, 1 John 1.5-10
Repentance has moved from a sorrowful turning away from sin and back to Jesus to just a casual phrase.
Jesus didn’t remove the law, He completed the law.
We’re still eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
When you willfully operate in sin and think it’s covered by grace, you are insulting the spirit of grace, trampling His name, smiting Him.
The law is not imprinted on a paper but imprinted on your heart. The minute you sear your conscience and feel no conviction of sin, you crucify Jesus again and again.
You can’t start over but you can start fresh. Our Father wants to forgive us and wants us restored. He paid the price for us to have it and all the contingencies where we would fail.
God always gives a way back.
Pastor Zack Strong
Death Has Been Defeated (Easter Sunday)
Text: Revelation 1.18, 4.8, John 14.19, 1 John 3.8, Romans 8.11, 6.8-12, Ecclesiastes 8.12-13
Death doesn’t have a hold on us; it’s a transition from living on earth to living in Heaven.
Death wasn’t designed for us to deal with. Man was created to live forever.
In the garden, Adam and Eve ate from the tree of life but didn’t physically die. First, there was a spiritual death that separated them from the heart, presence, and glory of God. Second, there was a physical separation from the life we were intended to live.
Adam and Eve experienced emotions like fear and shame and loss for the first time ever. None of that was intended for us.
God never intended for man to die- that’s part of sin and the enemy’s plan. When sin enters the picture, death is automatic. All the medical help in the world can’t change our sin nature. You can’t even buy your way out of sin. Serving in the church won’t move you out of sin.
There is no sin nature in God. God is only good. Your answer is in Him alone. You will live forever but maybe not in your preferred state.
Jesus, at the cross, paid the price for sin. Jesus and the Father gave it all.
Jesus, out of the tomb, allowed us to be restored back to the glory before Adam ever sinned. He carried us and our sin, bound up in grave clothes, into the tomb with Him.
Now because He lives, we are alive with Him. He paid for it at the cross and modeled it at the tomb.
We’re so used to letting death have it’s way. Don’t be deceived with the sin around you; no one can get away with it without the wages of death being paid. Sin always has a wage.
But the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus.
3 Reasons God Doesn’t Immediately Punish Sin -You are part of His eternal plan. He could have started over or rewritten history. The shadow of God holds death back from us. -His great love for each of us. His love overshadows us. -His grace and mercy for us. Grace gives us what we don’t deserve.
Adrienne Ross
The Language of the Spirit
Text: Psalm 138.2, John 1.1, Romans 12.1-2, Proverbs 23.7, Matthew 12.34, 4.4, Psalm 103.20, Jeremiah 1.12, 1 Samuel 13.19, Job 22.28, Genesis 2.19
“I speak Jesus” is not only a name but a language. There is a language called Jesus. The name of Jesus is important but not just to say at the end of a prayer. It’s time to take on the language of the spirit.
With His face comes His hand. It’s not a rare occurrence but what God wants to do all the time. You can’t separate the language of the spirit from receiving His signs, wonders, and miracles.
He exalted His word and His language above His own name. The word of God is the language of the spirit. When we speak His language, we are infusing the Spirit into every situation. We can’t separate the word from His name. When we speak the name of Jesus, we are creators. What you say is what you’ll have.
The language we speak is the language we think. We think in our native language. What is your native language? Native: associated with the place of one’s birth. We are born into a sin nature and then we’re born again. We have dual natures to contend with. We choose which nature to build up and obey. We build up the one that we want to dominate.
It’s a moment by moment decision to choose our nature; it’s not automatic. We have to continually renew our minds.
We have to steward our souls well. The language of the spirit develops as we lean into His spirit. Who you are will reveal itself in your language.
We are the voice of the Lord. Our words can commission angels. We speak, we release.
We are given the language of the spirit. He’s not intimidated by our questions or our lack of knowledge. The language of the spirit didn’t originate with the Bible but existed before; the Bible records the language of the spirit.
God honors what we’ve spoken. Alignment with God means God allows us to decree a thing. God trusted Adam to get it right because they were in alignment, so intertwined, that God agreed to let it be. He trusts us to steward the language of the spirit so that He can back up what we say and not let our words fall to the ground. He’s looking for the one who dares to speak the word. He wants to hear from me!
We have to be careful what we are thinking and speaking because we are creating. It is worth contending for the creative power of God.
God is moving and the language of God is a key.
Pastor Zack Strong
Preparing for a Greater Realm of Faith and Authority
Text: Mark 11.12-24
Jerusalem: place of peace
This story is an illustrated sermon. The emphasis is about the temple of you and I, not a building.
He’s coming to the place of peace to make peace for all of us.
Bethany: house of figs
In the OT, figs represents Israel. (Hosea 9.10, Micah 7.1, Jeremiah 29.17) Their rebellion made them like rotten figs- not worthy to partake of. In Joel 2.22, He promises restoration.
The fig tree had no fruit. He abhors the emptiness when we have the walk and talk but no actual fruit.
After the fig tree, He enters the temple. Men had perverted the sale of wares that Jesus gave permission for and began to block the way of the Gentiles getting in to the temple. They were blocking the way to Jesus.
We are to be a worship unto the Lord wherever we we are.
The greatest sin part of the curse is thinking we no longer need the Lord and we can live life on our own. We’ve lost the idea that we need God. There is something supernatural when the church comes together.
Faith and authority goes hand in hand. We want what God can do so we have to declare what God can do. Don’t put limits on God.
We struggle with how to receive.
If we can’t obey Him in forgiving others, we won’t obey Him in big miracles.
He wants His house back for Him…not for the show, not for the reputation, not for the lights, not for the music. For His glory.
Pastor Zack Strong
Palm Sunday Communion
Text: John 12.12-23, Genesis 3, Isaiah 53.1-5
Bethany: house of the poor, house of suffering
We are poor because of our sin.
Jesus walked a path of suffering to the cross.
Hosanna: oh king come save us, salvation has come
Jesus rode in on a donkey to show he came as man instead of riding on a stallion as a king.
Raising Lazarus from the dead was Jesus’ last significant miracle. He waited four days because they believed that after 3 days his soul might still be there.
As he rode into Jerusalem, he was calling them all from death to life.
If your life is in sin then you are not where God intended you to be. He doesn’t intend for us to be sick, poor, or broken.
We have given the enemy the legal right to hang around. The mercy and grace of God keeps sin from annihilating you.
Adam represented the male and female as one but after the fall, Adam named his wife Eve, no longer identified as one but as a separate identity.
After the fall, man now sees himself as a god unto himself, thinks that he can live life on his own without God.
Salvation has come.
Pastor Zack Strong
Preparing for the Great Harvest
Text: Matthew 28.18-20, Philippians 4.9
Pay attention to: -healing -deliverance -discipleship
The more people we disciple, the more dominion we have over the earth.
Disciple- learner, student, follower of Jesus, growing in love, learning to trust Jesus until they are totally devoted to Him
We have a responsibility to make a difference in the earth. There is work to do besides having meetings.
To become a Christian is the experience of a moment. But to be a Christian is the experience of a lifetime.
A sign of a mature disciple is when they are willing to reach out to other people.
What makes a disciple? -one who is following Christ -one who is being changed by Him -one who is living out His mission with Him -one who is leading others to do the same
Healthy things grow. Healthy things reproduce.
It takes six things from the pattern of Jesus’ life with the disciples. -Be better at building relationship -Teach what’s expected of a child of God -Model how to live a pattern of family life -Demonstrate and Empower -Give an assignment and release -Time -Holy Ghost
Attributes of a Disciple -submit to a teacher who teaches them to follow Jesus -learn Jesus’ words -learn Jesus’ ways of ministry -find and teach others to follow Jesus
Jennifer and LaDon Hamilton
March 27th, 2022
Jesus is not scared of your sin.
There is no expiration date on God’s miracles.
There’s no expiration date on His love. His heart does flip flops for every person dead in sin who calls on His name.
Quit making choices based on your past and walk in your deliverance.
Jesus didn’t come to condemn but to bring a remedy.
The gospel doesn’t judge; it liberates.
His grace is bigger than your sin. He wants to change you.
God wants you to be free. God wants you to walk in prosperity.
Pastor Zack Strong
Prepare: Are You Ready?
Text: Matthew 9.35, Ephesians 4.11-12, 1 Corinthians 12.2-7, Matthew 4.23, Isaiah 53.5, Mark 2.5, John 6.2
Sometimes the manifestation of things happening is just waiting on the church to align itself with what God is doing.
We’ve got to stop chasing glory and start releasing glory.
Prepare- make something ready for use, to make someone ready or able to do or deal with someone
The harvest comes in because: -it’s the command of the great commission -it’s harvest season -the trouble happening in our land -healing of signs, miracles, and wonders -of your obedience
The majority don’t feel ready or adequate but it’s not about you. Religion always convinces you that you don’t have enough to get the job done. We feel inadequate because we see the flesh in a man instead of Jesus in a man and what He can do. God can straighten you up and work through you at the same time.
We are in a supernatural moment of time in the kingdom of God; a Holy Ghost time.
-Ascension gifts -Gifts of the Holy Ghost -Motivational gifts
Instead of saying “God move”, ask “What do you want to do?” He’s already here and moving. It’s time to release our faith. Healing is not in the name of a man but in the name of Jesus.
Why did healing play a major role in Jesus’ miracles? Sickness is not of Him or His plan for you.
We are ordinary people with extraordinary power; but we don’t give it room to operate. You are the holy of holies, the epicenter of His presence. You are a carrier. You are surrounded and protected by the angelic. They will see you out in the natural because they are seeking Him out in the supernatural.
Pastor Zack Strong
The Bewitching of a Generation
Text: Galatians 3.1, Deuteronomy 6.1, Judges 2.10
Bewitched- cast a spell over, attract or interest someone a lot so that you have power to influence them, to charm, to fascinate
Foolish- one that has become dull and sluggish of mind, stupid, reckless in thinking
We’ve become a generation that has built upon a truth but not the truth.
You can be religious and not a Christian. Religious people do religious activity. You can be religious but not godly.
Religion without the pursuit and hunger for Jesus is not Christianity. Pursuit and hunger shown through demonstration, in the passion of our worship, and in our passion for actions that pleases God.
Three things said of Peter: -You’ve been with Him -You’re of Him -You sound like Him
The enemy’s assignment is to pull us out of our position. He takes a truth out of the truth to deceive. The truth has been watered down so much that only a connoisseur knows the real thing.
If we don’t get the first four commandments right, we’ll never get the last six right.
There’s a difference between insulated and isolated. Insulated keeps the world from touching us but isolated keeps us from touching the world.
Six Dangers of Our Generation -religion without the Holy Ghost -Christianity without Christ -forgiveness without repentance -salvation without regeneration -politics without God -Heaven without hell
Pastor Zack Strong
Be It Unto Me
Text: Luke 1.26-38, Ephesians 5.26-27
The greatest darkness we can experience is no revelation of God in our lives.
Gabriel- man of God, messenger of the Lord
These short verses show a complete story of redemption in the totality of God.
Mary- beloved, bitter, rebellious
Before the earth began, God had already chosen who He would bring His Som through. God was looking for a bride to partner with to rule and reign throughout eternity. God is refilling the earth with light and hope through his beloved who is in a state of bitterness and rebellion. Mary was favored because God bent down and offered her gifts and resources.
In Numbers 6.24-26, God extends His arms to lavish us with His gifts.
God wasn’t speaking just to Mary but to His beloved church to offer His gifts. Mary’s status as a virgin represents God’s redemptive work making us completely pure again as if we had never sinned.
Christ died before the foundation of the earth, not just at Calvary. Just as Mary produced a son, the church produces sons.
God is the only one who can make the church clean through the washing of the Word, a kind of baptism. The only time the enemy has our ear is when we don’t have the Word in us.
If we could get rid of spots or wrinkles on our own, we already would have. God can deal with the things we can’t and renew our youth.
Joseph- the increase of God
Five Things God Asked of Mary
- Will you give me your dream? He wants to do something bigger.
- Will you give me yourself? God will not violate your will.
- Will you carry the Savior of the world? Everything God wants to do in us is for a redemptive work in someone else’s life.
- Will you fulfill the promise? Angels can assist us but they can’t do our jobs for us. And our job is not to tell anyone how sinful they are but who they really are.
- Will you take a step of faith? It’s not about our works or our ability but our trust in Him.
Pastor Zack Strong
March 9th
Text: John 12.1-11, 18-2
The first step to discipleship is not a class but a connection.
Bethany- house of figs, a fruitful place, place of affliction
Out of affliction comes fruit. All that we’ve been through is to bring the church to a place of great harvest.
Martha- dominant Mary- bitter, rebellious Lazarus- God has ruled Iscariot- man of murder
Judas Iscariot was possibly Simon Peter’s son. Peter denies the Lord and Judas betrays Him so He has to deal with the generational curses. God has blessed us and we have kept it for ourselves; we are no better than Judas Iscariot, a thief of what God is doing.
There’s always time to do good things and help the poor but now is always the right time to do what God is saying in the moment.
Signs and wonders are a sign to unbelievers on their way to believing in God. Do believers need signs? Everyone coming to God won’t always enter with the right motives.
Today we are holding last year’s harvest. If we eat it, that’s all we’ll ever have. We’ve got to die to the ideas of yesterday to do the thing that God has for us today. God has been plowing the ground. If we plant what God is doing into the earth, only then can it produce a harvest.
Everything on the mind of Jesus is to save the entire world. We need the harvest of God continuously on our minds.
He isn’t just moving, He is with us.
Prophet Fred Aguilar
I've Come to Start a Fire
Text: Luke 12.49-50, Exodus 3.1-3, Leviticus 9.24, 1 Kings 18.30-32, 38
He has come to start a fire in the heartland.
Why do we need a fire? -More than 33% of online traffic is porn -25% of online searches are porn related -Porn hub gained 50 million viewers in 19 days. -50% of pastors view porn on a regular basis. -76% of 18-24 year olds actively search for porn -56% of divorces involve one partner obsessing over porn
It’s time for the church to get back to holiness.
-Josiah generation (under 25)- tore down the high place where the gods of sexual immorality were. This generation will restore holiness. -Elisha generation (25-55)- receive a double portion of understanding, wisdom, anointing. They will unite the generations and help the Josiah generation when they fall. -Mordecai generation (55-85)- called to prepare the bride for the groom.
Moses came to understand that the burning bush was not a manmade fire. God’s fire burns away the impure and leaves what has value. It sanctifies, purifies, and makes that which is on fire holy.
Manmade fire requires fuel, wood, a chemical reaction. God’s fire requires a broken and contrite, repentant spirit.
Both fires require air. Manmade requires oxygen. God’s fire requires the breath of God.
God was adamant that the fire burned continuously because it wasn’t manmade but it was man’s responsibility to keep the fire burning.
An altar that doesn’t burn with God’s fire is a pagan altar. What transforms a burning altar to a pagan altar? When the fire is replaced with manmade fire, when God’s grace is replaced with permissive grace that gives no consequences for sin, when the required sacrifices are no longer a sacrifice.
Manmade fire says that if it feels good it must be from God. Manmade fire replaces prayer rooms with fellowship rooms and donuts.
The altars of church will be on fire and people will come to get some of the fire and take it back to where they are from. It will be our responsibility to keep the fire burning.
When we don’t invite people to the altars of repentance, the stones of the altar fall into disrepair. Many churches are not preaching the whole message.
Is your altar in ruins? Is there an altar in your home? Rebuild the altars and make the sacrifices. Let the stones of holiness be laid according to His word and held together with the mortar of intercessory prayer.
Intercessors are not just women, He is looking for men to be spiritual leaders in church and in your home.
Amanda Taylor
March 2nd, 2022
Text: John 15.1-2
Open your spirit before you approach His word. Open your heart before you approach His presence.
Knowing Him and knowing about Him are two different things. He’s not hiding from us.
He puts things in order by making a statement. He is the vine, He bridges the gap. He can do what we cannot do.
In order to be pruned, you have to be cut. Pruning is not enjoyable. He wants us to be like Him so some things need to be cut away. Covenant requires cutting.
Revelation comes from abiding. He’s pursuing us. He props us up and takes us away. If we’re not fruitful, we’re removed.
What qualifies as a vine? A plant that climbs. Cut leaves wrap around the vine and become strong to bear fruit. We attach ourselves to the one who cannot fail. We are tied in union.
If you change the rules of abiding to being held, you change the definition. When He calls us to abide, He’s calling us back to union with Him.
He is delighted in you. The things you try to achieve are the things He wants to give you.
Pastor Zack The Goodness of God
Text: Acts 10, John 1.9, Psalm 52.9, Exodus 33.5-34.7, Romans 2.4
God repeated the vision three times to establish something new, that the common and unclean would no longer be common or unclean in His eyes. Three voices to establish every truth.
God shows no partiality but accepts whoever accepts Him. God is not your enemy. God is working for you and not against you. God wants you to have “it” more than you want “it”.
The enemy will remind you of your past to keep you from everything in your present. Quit hanging on to the residue of yesterday. The longer the grave clothes are on, the stronger you will smell the stench. Entering the inner court means you no longer smell the death of the sacrifices but the smell of the oils and fragrance of the spirit.
Good: approval, better than average, offers favorable results, effective, sufficient, enjoyable, adequate, morally sound, kind, generous, sympathetic
Three aspects of God’s goodness:
-In Genesis, God compared creation to Himself. “This is so good” —> “This so me” Good: functioning as God intended it to be. We each cause God to dance because He delights in His creation. The only thing God can do is good. Loving like the world doesn’t assure you that all things work together for good but loving God does.
-In Exodus, He made His goodness pass before Moses. The goodness and glory of God are connected. Good: mercy and longsuffering . Sickness and disease are not God putting it on you.
-Goodness is God’s mercy to a broken, fallen creation. Who are we to be worthy of anything God has? Only because of His unfailing love. His mercy endureth forever. The only qualification is faith in what Jesus did.
Pastor Val Treece
Creating an Atmosphere of Unwavering Belief Text: Mark 9.14-25, 1 Peter 1.13-16, Hebrews 10.23, Philippians 4.8, John 3.16-17, Colossians 1.19-23
We are creating an atmosphere where it is easier for us to believe.
Fasting and prayer brings you closer to understanding God’s will and how it’s going to be done.
What do we know about God when we say “He is:”? Do I really believe God?
Belief: confidence, trust, that which we believe is true Wavering: to fluctuate in opinion, allegiance to God
Real royalty walks as a a servant with the understanding that they are walking with the authority to do something about the problem. God has given them the answer and empowered them to make it happen.
It’s God or nothing. It’s His power or nothing.
God’s love for us ripped a veil so there is no division or separation from Him any longer. He is faithful. We no longer come into His sight in reproach.
Pastor Zack Strong
Accessing the Blessing
Isaiah 55.1-11, 54.1-17
If you’re not going to walk in freedom and blessing, it’s not God’s fault. He’s already sent the answer, His plan, into the earth.
Come you who are thirsty…water represents the spirit, refreshment, restoring.
Come buy without price….the spent, burnout, beat up, and broken. Milk is nourishment and wine is exhilaration and excitement.
Sing oh barren…it’s time to let go of politics and covid and get our praise back. It’s time to sing again.
Enlarge the place of your tent…it’s time to start expecting it. God is doing it.
It’s time for us to access the blessing.
The book of Isaiah is about prophecy and restoration.
If your focus is how wicked the world is then you will miss how great God is.
As rain and snow comes to the earth and doesn’t go back, it comes to water the earth and to bud and bring seed to the sower, so does the Word.
When we think God isn’t moving, we’re believing a lie.
Jesus came first to conquer the things around us so we could live above it.
He left but He also left His spirit in us, in the earth.
How did God plan for the earth to be taken care of? By seed and harvest. He gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater. Some people are planters and some are eaters.
The first thing that came forth was God’s spoken word. Unplanted seed does no good.
The word is always working, we just can’t see the 100%.
Open Our Eyes
Ephesians 1.16-20, Isaiah 42.7, 60.1-3, 61.1-3, Luke 4.16-19, 2 Corinthians 4.1-4, Psalm 146.8
It’s imperative that we see what God sees. See what God is doing so we can take hold of it.
What if everything happening in the world is so that God can fulfill His plan?
We’re all looking for glory to come and God says it’s already here. The glory is Jesus. The earth will be filled with the knowledge of Jesus.
All sickness, disease, trouble, slavery, and bondage is because we are blind to what He has done for us. He came to open our eyes.
We get distracted and discouraged when we can’t see. The enemy has blinded our minds. The only thing that will change it is when the people of God will shine the light on it.
If we’re blind, where are we going? Blind people look for anything to help them survive. Blindness puts us in a beggar situation. We’re blind and don’t know it.
Blindness: destitute of seeing, not able to discern, unable to understand, ignorant, in a place of darkness, to be obscure, inconsiderate, moral depravity
How can we change?
-Matthew 20.31-33 Ask God to see and believe God to open your eyes
-Mark 8.22-26 Why did he see men as trees? A Hebrew sees through creation. Trees make branches and flowers and fruit. Men have the ability to cover like branches, to bring warmth of a fire, to provide nourishment like fruit, to provide beauty like flowers. If you want to see what Jesus sees, you’ve got to walk with Him.
-John 9.1-6 When your eyes are filled with the world, it’s harder to see God. We’ve got to sell ourselves fully into the plan of God.
Don’t look back and get cues from the past. Follow God forward from here.
In Revelation, Jesus’ last words to the church are about being blind. Do we come to church and worship in utter darkness?
God wants to open our eyes.
Prophet Mitch Clay
Intentional Obedience
Preparing for a Greater Glory Conference 2022
The Lord wants us to intentionally cooperate with Him. As we choose to agree and obey, His will comes to earth. Your obedience to His will manifest God’s will on earth.
That which is seen is temporal. Temporal: subject to change. The unseen is eternal.
In Hebrews 11, by faith we reach into the eternal unseen so we can pull it into the seen.
God doesn’t want us accidentally or lackadaisically living but living intentionally. Intentionality gives direction.
We have to make spiritual choices that come from revelation. What is the Spirit saying? What is the will of God?
When you ask God to do what He already wants to do, you don’t have to convince Him.
It’s not what you do, it’s why you do it.
The living sword is sharp because it divides and causes us to see what it is. He will divide the soul and spirit and expose your motives. Welcome it.
We must remember that God had a plan before the very creation of the world. He hasn’t changed His plan and you are included. God wants to have a family and bring Heaven to the earth through that family. He has chosen to make Himself seen through His children. It begins and ends with His eternal purpose.
Romana 1.11 Established: to be turned resolutely in a certain direction, resolved
The extension of God’s heart came through Adam’s actions and activities. Because they were connected with no disruption, God’s will became Adam’s will. Adam naming the animals was speaking God’s heart.
When Adam chose outside the will of God, he separated from his direct connection with God. God sent them out of the garden and protected the tree of life so that Adam wouldn’t eat of it and stay in that condition forever.
Separated from God, Adam and Eve had to figure out how to survive. Adam’s choice caused the blessed earth to turn into cursed earth. To eat, you had to scratch the cursed earth instead of just reaching for blessed fruit.
Psuche: separated from life, had to figure out survival through inventing and through the senses, through his mind, doesn’t facilitate eternal life, orphan life
Zoe: eternal life, the life of the trinity, the life Adam enjoyed of unbroken fellowship with the Father
When we live in the natural world, we’re living the psuche life. God came to reconnect man to the Father so that we could be restored to unbroken fellowship.
There are radical changes coming to this place. It is a supernatural well for this region. We, as the body of Christ, are the well. If the supernatural is going to come to pass, it’s through us.
We are calling the body to supernatural ministry but we’ve forgotten to tell them that the supernatural life is in them right now. Are you going to live from your soul or your senses or data or from the Holy Spirit of truth?
In John 10.11, God compares Himself to a hireling. He came like Adam and was willing to live a crucified life. Jesus learned obedience through his suffering; when you don’t get to do what you want.
John 12.25 He who loves his own life less will keep it into eternal life. The choice has to be made, where are we going to live from? From what source?
The reason we exist is to bring honor to God through establishing God’s will on earth.
2 Corinthians 4.7-12 We have to have revelation to cooperate with the Father. The choice of death to yourself is to give life away to the people He’s called you to.
John 14 We enter into this process for Jesus’ sake, not our sake. So that the life of Jesus is immortalized through our mortal flesh.
We’ve catered to the psuche life, the convenience of people, to bring people to a building. The world sees a form of godliness with no power.
The Lord has great things for you but you have to choose yes. Death will be in us so life can be in them.
Pastor Val Treece
The Body, The Bride, & The Kingdom
Preparing for a Greater Glory Conference 2022
Christ Church of the Heartland
Bro Steve Sampson
God's Momentum
Preparing for a Greater Glory Conference 2022
Christ Church of the Heartland
Pastor Zack Strong
We’ve Got To Move Beyond a Good Word!
Christ Church of the Heartland
Pastor Zack Strong Will You Be Made Whole? Christ Church of the Heartland Text: John 5.2-11, 1 Thessalonians 5.23, Matthew 16.24, Isaiah 53.5, Ephesians 2.21, 4.16, Joshua 24.15, Acts 2.38, 3 John 1.2, Psalm 112.3, Matthew 18.7
The number 22 stands for chaos but the people of God will walk in peace.
Whole: -healthy -well in body -true to doctrine -sound, solid and firm
Whole: unbroken, undamaged, complete
-It wasn’t the first opportunity for the man to be whole -He’s been this way a long time -Wholeness is God’s will -It’s a choice -He had to do something different -He had to do something -Quit blaming and making excuses
Everything that is healthy is designed to reproduce. It’s the will of God for you to increase and enlarge.
We’ve got to choose to step into the will of God or live the rest of our lives this way.
Jesus paid to give us the legal right to claim what has already been promised to us.
We need to live in wholeness; anything less is stealing from you. If you aren’t living whole then there is another dominating force in your life. Your issue becomes the focus.
If you aren’t trusting God then you are living in someone else’s leftovers. Our brokenness steals from us and dictates what we can and cannot have.
The woman’s (with an issue of blood) issue was stealing her time, energy, and resources.
5 Areas To Be Whole In * Physically * Relational * Spiritually * Financially * Emotionally
When God showed up in the garden, it was His voice, even when He couldn’t be seen.
God wanted Adam to realize he couldn’t fulfill His purpose without a helper.
Everyone is carrying a supply for someone else’s kingdom purpose.
He wants you to have the best but because we are broken, we accept less.
After the fall, death came emotionally through fear, shame, and insecurity.
God is calling us to wholeness.
Hebrews 12.26 The excuse that no one is perfect has given us permission to not even pursue perfection.
When you’re in the presence of God, time does not exist. This church will be a habitation of His glory. You cannot have fulfilled prophecies without holiness. When you begin to know Him, you begin to walk in holiness.
The shaking that is coming will be far more violent. Fear is the enemy’s greatest weapon. Unrestrained fear takes control of man’s mind, will, and emotions. What is coming will affect the just and unjust alike. Because you’ve been washed in the blood, you have Someone to call on.
2020 was the biggest challenge to the church’s faith since Bible times. Satan hasn’t been more frustrated since he attacked Job.
God supplies all of our needs and throws in the wants as a blessing. Because He wants the best for us, He’s calling us higher. It’s a step you must pursue. You will encounter difficulties that will only be overcome by your praise.
In the face of chaos, Job’s faith was not shaken. It may have taken a pandemic but the church is rising up to the level God has called us to.
God is saying to stop listening to the naysayers. Ignore the negative reports. Stand on His word.
For this region, you are the heartland of America. You’re designed to pump life back into this nation.
Text: Ruth 1, Philippians 1.6
10 is the number of testing and redemption
Distress can be a doorway to destiny.
2020 is a year of tying up loose connections. It will open the doorway to a generational thrust to a group of warriors. Once He births a new thing, you will forget the labor pains.
Text: Job 22.28, Psalm 81.10, Mark 11.23, Psalm 34.8
- Open your mouth
- Watch your mouth
Decree- command by written authority (the Bible) Declare- to make clear or make known
The Word backs up your words. The Word produces the power of the promise.
This is a year of declaring the impossible, possible.
Text: 2 Samuel 23.8-12
In order to receive our blessings, we must be willing to stand our ground.
The devil is trying to distract us from what’s good.
You’ve got to be willing to stand during the testing time.
A little thing can come in and spoil your faith but you have to stand your ground.
Text: 2 Corinthians 6.1-2
Eternity is endless and we are eternal beings. Time is found when God takes a piece of His eternal purpose and sets us in it. A divinely created sphere of God’s preserving and redemptive work and the arena of man’s decision on his way to an eternal destiny.
Exodus 3.7
The year 2020 is the year 5780 on the Hebrew calendar; the year that slaves are freed, debts are forgiven, and Gods mercies are manifested to the fullest extent.
3 things God is restoring us to: -His glory -Our fullest identity, authority and understanding -His promises
Text: Exodus 19:20-25, Romans 1.18-27
When a father is not there we begin to flow out of our own knowledge and sometimes we miss the flow of the spirit.
Encounters come to transform us into who we really are.
The story of the Israelites being brought out to Sinai is a story of redemption and restoration.
God is asking us to present ourselves as lively stones who are willing to let God’s finger write His image upon us as carriers of His glory.
Follow The Pattern
Exodus 25.1-9
God is saying He wants to reveal His glory in a manner that shows no doubt about who He is.
He didn’t put His glory in a building or location but in His creation, mankind.
God wants to smell your fragrance; what box will you break for Him today?
The Oil
Exodus 27:20-21,35.30-32 Isaiah 10.27, 61.1
Do we want God to be big or do we want Him to fit into our comfort zone?
Are we going to follow our flesh or be a church of the spirit?
The oil represents the life and the flow of the Holy Spirit in us and through us.
Feeding the flesh doesn’t change lives.