God's Spoken Ways: Recent Episodes

Pastor Cecil E. Barry

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Walking In Darkness – This is about how God’s uses darkness to bring things to light. He uses darkness to teach us about sin, ourselves, and the cares of the world. I know this is a subject most would like to skip over, and assume that because we accepted Christ, we go to church, and we pay offering darkness is not present in us. But that is not the case, God’s Word teaches us how to walk in the light of Christ Jesus so we are no longer walking in any parts of darkness. We must examine ourselves and grow our faith to fully walk in the light of Christ, where there is no traces of darkness in us at all.

God Is One – Is a teaching about how we see God. There are many theories about God being one, some are based on scripture, while others are modification of scripture to promote their doctrine understanding of God. But if we take God’s Word as the only truth, then we would see that God is the creator of all things, therefore all things are of God. Sense all things are of God, then you and I being received by the Father through his Son Christ Jesus through reconciliation which took a way the veil of sin that separated us from God, can be one with him. Through our acceptance and obedience to Christ Jesus we who believe and love God, can be one with the Father and the Son

God’s Loving Character – Is a teaching about working with the Holy Spirit to look at our character and nature to ensure we are growing and changing into the image of Christ Jesus. Without this transformation, our nature will continue to cause us to suffer while we are seeking God. Taking on the loving character of God will ensure we reach maturity in Christ Jesus by growing us and our faith. God’s loving character that is in Christ Jesus, must also be in us. The light of Christ must shine through us, so not only are we changed, but others will see and notice how much our character is like that of Christ Jesus

Keeping The Story Straight – Is about how the Power of God is founded in what God spoke, wrote, and revealed through Christ Jesus. If we decide to add, modify, or delete anything from God’s Word then we are impacting the Power of God to be effective in our lives. If we add made-up stories to God’s Word, then we nullify its power to transform us into the image of Christ Jesus. We must keep God’s Word straight, so it can have impact on lives that are yet to come. Keeping God’s Word straight requires that we change, not that we change God’s Word to suite our desires and passion. We need to keep God’s Word just as it was given, so many can be saved, and the Power of God can still be effective today

God’s Protection – is about learning how to live under God’s protection. One of the things that happens once we become a Christian is, we assume we are automatically put under God’s protection. But if we look into scripture it would become clear that we must seek God’s protection so we are shielded from the arrows of the devil, and our enemies. God’s does not extend his protection so we can keep on sinning, but to give us time to overcome our sin, and become more faithful and obedient to God.

Nothing Is Impossible With God – it’s about each one of us learning that there is nothing impossible for God. While we like to believe within ourselves, yet many things are impossible for us. We must recognize our limitations, there are many things we cannot achieve within ourselves. We must learn to trust and have faith in God the Father through Christ Jesus, it’s the only way we can make it and overcome our troubles. While there are many things impossible for mankind, nothing is too hard for God, nothing is impossible for the Lord. If we place all our hope in him, if we place our very lives in his hand, and seek him, then we will see that through Christ Jesus there is nothing we cannot do through him according to God’s Will

The Race – whether we want to admit it or not, we are all in a race. Some of us are running to obtain everything we can in this world, hoping when it’s all said and done we will find joy and happiness. While others of us have come to understand that running a race to achieve things of this world could never bring us the peace, joy, and love we seek. We need to think about the race we are running to ensure everything we do is preparing us to run our race so it leads to God. We can’t waste time running our race hoping towards the end we can jump over and start running a race for God, we won’t make it in this way. We need God to prepare us for the race he has marked out for us, we need to run the race his way, all the way to the end.

Prepared By God – is a teaching about letting God prepare us for the reason we were created. We have spent enough time in this world trying to prepare ourselves, trying to make a way for ourselves, it’s time to give ourselves over to God and let him prepare us for his calling. Only by being prepared by God will we be satisfied and not be in want, not desiring to chase after this world. Being prepared by God will change everything about us, it is the Lord who equips us and prepares us so what we do brings God glory.

God’s Will – This teaching is about learning to walk in God’s Will. Many of us believe we have a relationship with Christ Jesus, but we must ask ourselves the question, are we walking in God’s Will? It’s only by us following God’s Will can we achieve our purpose through Christ Jesus for our lives. God’s Will requires that we live a certain way, that we act a certain way, and that we obey his word in following his Son Christ Jesus. Do you know God’s Will for your life or you seeking his will, or are you just asking God to bless your will and plan?

No Time For God – Busy, busy …. We are all so busy, so we look for ways to shorten our time with God. We want the church service to be short, our prayers are short, our time studying God’s Word is short or none existing. We are too busy to spend time with God. God honors those who seek him, those who spend much time in prayer, and those who studies his Word. But for those who don’t have time for God, be assured God won’t have time for you. God’s Word is filled with scriptures teaching us about how we need to continuously seek the Lord so we can find him, so in our time of need, the Lord will answer our prayers. This requires you and I to spend a lot of time with God.

The Real You –This teaching is about realizing that we cannot grow our faith without being true to ourselves and with God. Today’s world is teaching us to be fake and false, but how can we serve God if we are not being true with who we really are? When our lives are based on the fake and false things that we wear, things we put on, and the things we do to ourselves that changes us into something that we are not. We must be true to ourselves, so we can be true to God. We know God only deals with truth, so if we want the Lord to answer our prayers, we better get real with God regarding who we are.

Crying Out To God – is a teaching about learning to cry out to God in good and bad times so he knows our name and answer us. We can’t be the type of believer who allows pride to control our faith. Pride will make us stiff-neck and we won’t humble ourselves and cry out to God. We need to come before the Lord on bending knees, with our heart open, and tears flowing from our eyes. Crying aloud, Lord we have sinned, we have done wrong. Lord we cry out to you because you have blessed us in so many ways and we want to thank you. We need your grace and mercy Lord. With tears flowing from our heart, Lord hear us, harken to our cries.

All Glory Belongs To God – in following, sharing, and preaching God’s Word, we receive blessings and favored from the Lord, but praise that are received should not be attached to us, but return to the throne of God. You and I cannot keep any of God’s glory for ourselves, allowing others to be lifted up and praised. We know that all things good comes from God, and he deserves all the glory. If God provided for us, then he deserves the glory. If the Lord healed us, then he deserves the glory. If God made a way for us, then he deserves all the praise and glory. All glory, honor, and praise belongs to God.

No Turning Back - After we have established our faith correctly in the Lord, it is important that we grow and work on our salvation as taught by the Lord. We have to reach a point in our faith where no trouble, no loss, no situation, no circumstance can cause us to turn back to our old ways, to turn back to seeking things in this world. We have come too far, we can’t turn back now. We have overcome much through leaning on Jesus, we can’t turn away, we can’t turn back; we must continue to grow our faith through it all. If we turn back, we won’t be fit, we won’t be able to enter in God’s Kingdom if we turn back.

Growing Through Storms – is a teaching about how we need to grow through all that life throws our way. We can chose to allow storms that come our way make us not believe or even worse, turn us away from God. We must come to understand and learn why storms are necessary in our lives, why storms are intended to help us grow in the Lord. Without a storm coming in our lives, nothing would make us take notice, nothing would make us change our behavior, and nothing would make us cry out to God.

Personal Walk With God - This is a teaching about the importance of developing a personal walk with God, so we not only know him, but he knows us. It’s through a personal walk with the Lord that we are able to grow and mature. We are not in the Old Testament times when God accepted as one group of people. This is about you and I have a personal relationship, a personal walk with Christ Jesus so he won’t tell us he never knew us, and to get away from him. He will call us friend, because we walked with him, we followed the Lord.

Conditions Of God – is a teaching about how God has established conditions (If’s) in his word that we must adhere to for blessings and favor to flow unto us. The Lord has given us his love unconditionally, but he has not given us his favor and blessings unconditionally, we must examine our lives as it relates God’s Word and the conditions in which God the Father will bless us through his Son Christ Jesus. For all the blessings and favor of God is manifested in Christ, but we must follow, obey, and apply God’s Word to our lives to receive.

Clinging To Self - This is a teaching about looking at our walk with the Lord and making sure we are not clinging to our old self. We have come to understand just how indulging our old self and old behaviors are, and how they will keep us from growing and maturing in Christ Jesus. We can’t serve the Lord while still desiring the things we did before coming to know Christ Jesus. All our old habits, behaviors, and sins have to be put to death, they must go for us to be able to faithfully follow and serve Christ Jesus in pleasing God the Father. It all must die, so we are free to serve, free to obey God

Only The Righteous - This is a teaching about the importance of us working to become a righteous Child of God as we grow in faith. God called us, but we must work to become righteous in his eyes. It’s not about being perfect, it is about being able to walk in the righteousness God has called us through Christ. In God’s Word he shares his standards by which we must live, teaching us how to do away with that which makes us unworthy. It is in God’s Righteousness that we elevate our lives beyond what we can do, because we know there is no good us outside of what God has poured into us. It is through us taking upon God’s Righteousness through Christ Jesus that we come to experience and know God for ourselves. Through God’s Righteousness we will be judged; only the righteous will see God

The Mind of Christ - This message is a about learning what it means for us to take on the Mind of Christ Jesus. How do we take on the Attitude of Christ in our lives? It’s not easy, because we really desire to do things our own way. This world and Satan is working hard to ensure you and I live our lives with a troubled mind, so we worry and are afraid of many things. A person with a troubled mind cannot focus on God, and their prayers are hampered by daily trouble that consumes their thinking. But Christ Jesus is calling for us to take upon his attitude, to take upon his Spirit, so with a clear conscience, and we are able to serve God with our mind stayed on Jesus.

Circumcised Heart - This is a teaching about the condition of our heart. God places a lot of emphasis on the condition of our heart, because it’s the gateway to our soul. The condition of our hearts represents the strength of our faith. Something’s in our heart has to be cut away by the Spirit of God so we can grow and have great faith. Everything that is in us that is not of the Lord needs to cut away. All anger, rage, adult, unfaithfulness, forgiveness, greed, selfness, and all sexual immorality has to be cut away so we can live before God with a circumcised heart by faith in Christ Jesus

Divided Body - This is a teaching about how the body of Christ needs to remember that we cannot function as a separated body. As the Word of God teaches us, a house that is divided cannot stand. So if the body of Christ is divided, it will not stand. As Christian’s we need to remove the divisions of faith, division of domination, and work together to achieve the plan of God, by being one in Christ Jesus. Our assignment is to strength the Body of Christ not to weaken it with our religion division.

Fear of God– Is a teaching about learning the importance of having a fear of God within every believer. Without a fear of God living on the inside of us, though we believe, we won’t do what it says. Though we want God through Christ Jesus to bless and love us, we won’t put away our sins. It’s through learning to fear the Lord that you and I will stop sinning, it’s the only way we will treat each other right, it’s the only way we will change our lifestyle to be pleasing to God. Without the fear of God working on the inside of us, we want to do good, but we don’t. We have a desire to help others, but we won’t. The fear of God living on the inside of will make us obey, will make us share, will make us love one another. Fearing the Lord will make us sawn evil

The Plank In Our Eyes– Is a teaching about removing any planks or obstacles that stops us from serving God, and hearing God’s truth about ourselves. We have to be courageous enough to make the tough changes in our lives, so we can receive all the blessings God has for us. For us to grow our faith in Christ Jesus, we have to be willing to listen to him and the Spirit talk to us about getting rid of the planks that keeps us from receiving, that keeps us from growing, that keeps us from becoming more and more like Christ. We can’t allow this world, religion, or desires keep us blinded from the grace and mercy that God the Father wants to lavish on us through Christ. We need to be able to see clearly, so we can receive it all.

Make Me Over – is a teaching about letting God prepare us for the reason we were created. Our Lord not only wants to prepare us, he wants to make us anew. It’s the process that many of us Christians miss in living our lives through Christ Jesus. We come to Christ just as we are, but we don’t see the need to be made over. We expect Christ to forgive us, but not to change us. We want Christ to bless us, but not to change the desires of our heart. We need to be made over, to become a new creation, old things must pass away; we must be born again. All things must be made new, including us.

Being Set Free – is a teaching about understanding how things in this world still has the ability to keep us bound so we are unable to fully serve the Lord. Even though we are Christians that within itself does not set us free. We have to not only accept Christ Jesus, we have to allow the work of the Holy Spirit to break ever chain that bounds us, so we can be truly free to live, free to love, free to worship, and free to share. It does not matter what binds us, whether its anger, jealous, rage, bitterness, un-forgiveness, adultery, immoral sexuality, greed, feeling unloved, bad behavior, worldly thinking, obsession with riches, or trying to be important. We all are bound by something, and we need to be set free. The Father is offering us a way to be free, we must accept Christ Jesus and be led by the Spirit so each one of us can be set free from it all. It’s a journey with Christ, so every wall in our lives come down, and every chain is truly broken.
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Making Godly Decision – This teaching challenges us to bring our decision making and planning under the control of the Lord. Too many times we make decisions and plans without the Lord, and we pray expecting for God to bless our decisions. But how can we expect God to be on our side, when we don’t include him when there is a decision to be made? Who knows better God or us? God wants to be Lord over our lives including our decision and planning. So many of us suffer as a Christian because of this very reason, excluding God from our decision making. We can’t make decision without God, and expect God to move in our lives. We have to seek God first in everything we do, which includes all the decisions and plans we make. We have to allow God to be part of our thinking through prayer, so our decisions are godly decisions which are blessed by God

Overcomer – Is a teaching about looking at the Word of God to comprehend what we must do to overcome Satan’s grip on our lives, and the strain that this world places on us each and every day. It teaches us how God wants us to learn to overcome so we can be used by him, as one who have overcome and become a living testimony for those who are being overwhelmed by life. We all will experience issues in this life, either sickness, family issues, work issues, financial issues, and even spiritual issues, but we can overcome them all by the power of God that is in Christ Jesus and that flows into a true believer and follower of Christ. We must overcome by our faith, being steadfast in the Lord all the days of our lives.

Justified by Christ Jesus– Is a teaching about understanding how we can be justified by living to achieve the Father’s Will through his Son Christ Jesus. It gets us to look at the ways we justify ourselves, justifying the things that displeases God. This teaching helps us to move beyond our reasoning and justification into a deep relationship with God the Father, through our Lord Christ Jesus. We cannot continue to be deceived and believe the deceptions of satin, reasoning and justifying ourselves, the only way you and I can ever be justified before God the Father is by us having faith in Christ Jesus, there is no other way.

Finding Our Path With God – Is a teaching about learning to walk on the path that God the Father through Christ Jesus has called us to walk. We cannot spend our time thinking that we can forge our own path, and then ask the Lord to bless the plans we have made. This is about allowing Jesus to lead each one of us onto the path and into plans that God has created for us. The path and plans God has for our lives have been determined by God, so we have to seek the Father through Christ Jesus so his plan is revealed to us. We have to stay faithful into what called has called us all the way to the end so our path brings glory to God.

Having Godly Expectations– Is a teaching about looking at our expectations that have been formed over the years by many different sources to ensure they are built on the foundation of Christ Jesus. For us to receive from the Lord, we have to ensure our expectations are founded on God’s Word, Son Christ Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Too many times we develop wrong or false expectations of each other and of God. Then when we are disappointed, when things don’t go our way, or turn out in our favor we forget about God. But if we develop godly expectations built solely on God, then what we seek will come to pass, because our expectations are godly.

Deliverance– Is a teaching about looking to God for deliverance and not for a breakthrough which is a religious teaching. We are taught by the Word of God to walk in the deliverance of the Lord, there is no such thing as God giving us a breakthrough. This teaching will help change how we approach God the Father and Christ Jesus as prescribed by the Word of God seeking true deliverance, as the Lord teaches us along the way. As the Lord delivers us, he will also change us, and transform us so we are more and more like Christ Jesus from one day to the next. We must seek God’s Deliverance

Being Accountable To God – this teaching is about understand how God holds us accountable. In the world, many of us see being held accountable as something that we can control. When we don’t want to be accountable anymore, we just disconnected from that which is holding us accountable. While it’s true, we can disconnect from Christ Jesus, what is not true is that we won’t be held accountable. Once you and I accept Christ, everything from that point is recorded, written down. God plans to bring everything we have done, and everything we have spoken in Christ into our remembrance, good or bad, on the day we stand before the Lord for judgement

Operating In Christ– this teaching is about learning to operate in Christ Jesus. We have been brought for a price, and we have decided to accept the Lord. Now it’s our responsibility to seek the Lord so we can learn how to operate in him in a way that pleases the Father. There are many levels that a Christian operates within Christ, but the goal is for us all to reach the highest level that we have been called. You know how they say “Let’s take it to the next level”, but they never explain the levels to you? This teaching explains the levels so you and I can achieve them in Christ Jesus, and give God the Father all the glory for the work done in us.

Whose To Blame – is a teaching about learning the effects of us spending our time blaming people, finding fault with others, including God. How can we say we have a forgiven heart when all we do is tag people with blame and fault? What if God, who is a forgiving God, remembers all our faults? What if God remembered all the wrong things we have done, and blame us for our lack of faith? Thank God, when we repent and confess our sins, God wipes them away and he finds no fault in us, because we have been cleansed by the blood of Christ Jesus.

A Relationship With God – is a teaching about checking to ensure we have a right relationship with God. As we established ourselves in God’s Will, lets understand how to develop a real and true relationship with God the Father and our Lord Christ Jesus, so it’s a deep and lasting relationship. Knowing how to walk in a real relationship with God, will teach us how to develop and have real relationships with each other. Our relationship with God cannot be fake, we need to know that we know, that God knows us, and calls us by our name. Our relationship with Christ Jesus has to be solid as a rock.

It’s Time To Grow – is a teaching about getting out of our religious practices and actually growing in God the Father and Christ Jesus. We must move forward in changing and being transformed so we can become what God has called each one of us to be. Not getting lost in the blame game, or focusing on whose fault it is, but allow the Spirit of the Lord to actually grow us in all of God’s Ways. It’s time to grow our faith so we can become a mature Child of God.

You Must Choose – is a teaching about how God can call us even though we are not worthy, but we must choose to serve the Lord. It’s not just about choosing to accept Christ Jesus, it’s not just about choosing to believe in God’s Word. It’s also about choosing how we will react, how we choose to respond to life’s situation and circumstances given we have chosen to follow Jesus. We must choose who we will serve day and night, every second of the day. We must choose how we will respond when life does not go our way. Will we choose to respond like Jesus or like this world?

Humbleness – is a teaching about learning humility, and walking humbly before God and our Lord Christ Jesus. This world have taught us how to be prideful, arrogant, and selfish. So when we are lead to follow Jesus, we struggle because there is no humbleness within us. But thank be to God he does not leave us this way, through his power and the work of the Holy Spirit we can put to death our pride and arrogance and seek the Lord with a humble heart. Only through humbleness will God hear our prayers, only through humbleness will God answer our needs, only with a humble heart can we faithfully serve God

Following Jesus – is a teaching about making sure we are not following the wrong person in seeking God. We have to understand the times we live in, the Word of God says deceivers and false teachers will be numerous in these last days. Their lie’s, their greed, and their lifestyle will mark them. For those who are seeking salvation and eternal life, there is only one person we can follow, and that is Christ Jesus. He is the only one who knows the way, he is the truth and the light, the only one we can lead and guide us into the Kingdom of God

God’s Grace – is a teaching about living under the Grace of God. We must learn to appreciate and honor God’s Grace, and not live our lives in vain. We honor God by following his Word, his Son, and the working of the Holy Spirit as we are transformed and changed under the protection of God’s Grace. It’s important we agree with God’s Word, that grace is not meat so you and I can go on sinning, but to give us time to learn of God, to overcome, and put sin to death in our bodies by Christ’s redeeming power at work in us.

Our Refuge – is a teaching about learning to depend on God as our refuge, and not ourselves. Truly believing that only God the Father, through Christ Jesus can protect and guide us through. Even though our faith may not be strong, even though our body may not be well, even though our money may be short, only by taking refuge in Christ Jesus can you and I experience what God is offering us when we seek and take refuge in him. No other place, no other person, no other religion can offer us a refuge filled with love, peace, joy, and contentment like the refuge we find in Jesus

The Veil – is a teaching about recognizing that no matter who we are, what position we in, or what title we hold, each one of us have at one time or another worn a veil. We have to understand the purpose of veils, it’s the very tools we use to try to cover up what we do in the dark, against other, and before God. We have to get every veil that is covering our faces removed, whether it’s a veil of religion, falsehood, selfishness, lies, greed, pleasure, or sexual lifestyle have to be removed, so with unveil faces we can approach God in truth.

In Our Weakness – is a teaching about recognizing our weakness, and learning to depend on God’s strength. We must be open about our weaknesses so we can be strong in Christ Jesus. Unfortunately, we don’t accept people who have weaknesses as someone who is able to teach us. We fool ourselves into thinking that a person who has it all together have no weaknesses because they have fame and money. But we all have weaknesses, and it is through the confession and acknowledgment of our weaknesses that God is able to demonstrate his love, power, and strength in our lives.

We Are Not Listening – is a teaching about us getting back to living our lives in a way that allows us to be in a position to better listen to God. Even those who have been in ministry for a long time still needs to be listening to God. We are living in an environment where everything we see, hear, desire, and do has a way for turning us away from listening to God. We are not listening to His Word, to His Son, nor to His Spirit. Yes we go to church, yes we hear the message, and yes we sometimes read God’s Word. But we are listening and apply what we hear to our lives. Therefore it is impacting how much God listens and answers us when we call on his name.

By Faith– is a teaching about encouraging us to not only learn how to walk by faith, but for us to increase and grow our faith, for it is by faith that you and I will be blessed by God. We can pray, we can pay offering, we can seek a religious person to help us, but if there is no faith, then there is nothing in us by which God can work in our lives. By faith you and I are healed, by faith we are allowed into the presence of God, by faith we have been saved, by faith our prayers will be answered, and it’s by faith we will enter into the kingdom of God

My Shield And Rock – is a teaching about understanding where our protection really comes from. We work hard to put things in place to protect us and our families. But there are many things in life that either we won’t have enough money, or the trouble is bigger than any amount of money we could ever have. It’s only then we decide to seek the Lord. But God wants to be our shield and our rock, in all conditions, in all situations, and at all times. Many of our troubles could be avoided if we allow the Lord to always be our protections, to always be our shield, and to always be the rock in which we always stand.

Mental and Spiritual Separation – is a teaching about understanding how God views separation. It encourages us to make sure that we build our relationships with each other and with God based on his truth so there is no mental or spiritual separation. It’s important that our relationships are established based on love, so when we get off the path, or when issues come up in our relationships, we can always turn and remember the truth and love that we established our relationship on, so separation never occurs between each other, or between us and God. [...]

• Seek And You Will Find – Once it is put upon our heart to come to Jesus, we begin our journey of seeking God. Unfortunately, some of us start to seek God in a way where we will never find him. Instead of seeking God through his Word, Son, and Spirit we seek God through the world, entertainment, music, and dance. Therefore we are unable to enter into God’s presence as he would want us to do. We must seek the Lord in his prescribed way so we can find our way to his throne. If we can find God, we will be healed, we will be blessed, and we will be guided into God’s presence.

· Only God Can – In almost all situations, we like to think a lot about ourselves and our abilities. That is just the way life has taught us to think, its only when we have lived for a while that we start to see that there are many things that are well beyond our abilities and intelligent to comprehend and resolve. Only then, do we come to an understanding that only God the Father and our Lord Christ Jesus can do all things. It’s only then that we look beyond ourselves so we are able to preserve God and who he is, and what he can do. Because only God Can!

· Believe and Trust – Since the time we come of age, we have been taught to believe and trust in many things, including ourselves. Many of us have spent hours in church listening to what we should believe and trust in to save our soul. So our faith in God the Father and our Lord Christ Jesus is based on what others have taught us to believe and trust in. But for us to ensure our faith and our beliefs are in-line with God’s Word, His Son, and His Spirit, we have to allow the Holy Spirit to examine what we believe and trust in. Many of us may have some wrong understandings about some things of God, therefore what we believe [...]

· No Turning Back – is a teaching about us accepting Christ Jesus as our master and Lord, accepting our part in doing God’s Will, and never turning back. We can’t allow the things of this world to turn us around, we can’t allow sickness to turn us away, and we can’t allow life’s disappointments to turn us back to this world, back to sin.We have come too far to turn around now, we can’t go back to our old ways. The Lord has called us to put our hands on the plow and do his work, if we look back, we will become unfit to serve in the kingdom of God. We must move forward, every day is a new day to take [...]

· Power Of Revelations – is a teaching about how we can be in Christ Jesus and still be enlighten through revelations so we can understand God’s plan for our lives and the lives of others. We have to be careful during these last days, as the Word of God has already revealed, mankind will be speaking of revelations even though God has not sent them into the world. They will not be revealing the things of Christ, but they will reveal that which glorifies themselves and their motives. We know Christ will only speak revelations he received from the Father’s so we can receive, many be touched, and God’s Will b [...]

· Blessings InGiving – is a teaching about learning to be givers. Almost every day we send up prayers to God asking him to bless us in one way or another. When blessings don’t come, we cry out to God why? When blessings docome, instead of us doing what the Word of God teaches us to do, which is to give and share, we spend what we get on ourselves and pleasure. We don’t understand that inside of every blessing that the Lord give us there is a teaching about sharing and giving, but we don’t receive the teaching. God wants you and I to be givers, so that his blessings will touch the lives of many.

· Being Misled – is a teaching about how we are being misled, and how sometimes we allow ourselves to be misled. We are living in a time that the Word of God prophesied about. A time when evil and sin will prevail upon the earth, and mislead many. We are living in a time the Word of God calls itching ear preaching, drawing many to chase after the world. We need to wake up and examine what we believe, those who are teaching us, and those we are following, so we are not lead astray. We don’t want to stand before Christ, and he tells us nothing we believed in came from what the Father spoke, or he revealed.

· God’s Love – is ateaching about the difference between God’s kind of love, and the world’s kindof love. On the outside it may seem that they are the same, but it’s only whenwe start getting involved, when we allow others to demonstrate their kind oflove, and we demonstrate our kind of love that we start to see the difference.The world’s kind of love is filled with selfishness, greed, it’s boastful,pride, and ignorant. When the world’s kind of love is done, it leaves behind alot of pain, hurt, disappointment, and anger. God’s Love is peaceful, built ontrust, it protects, it endures, it overcomes, it forgivin [...]

· Have We Not Heard – most of us were raised going to church, and being taught a particular type of religious doctrine. But Christ is asking us have we not heard the Word of God for ourselves, have we not heard what he spoke and revealed that came from the Father? Have we not heard what God says about our lifestyle, have we not heard how God feels about us rejecting his Word? Have we not heard what God says about us living in sin? What you and I are going to be judged on, is what the Lord has spoken and revealed. We won’t have any excuses, we won’t be able to say we have not heard the Lord. [...]

· A Relationship WithGod – is a teaching about how we need to work on building a relationship with God. Just like starting any relationship, it will take time to build a relationship with God based on faith, trust, love, devotion, his Spirit and Son. God the Father wants us to have a Holy and personal relationship with him through his Son Christ Jesus. We can’t develop a false relationship with God, based on lies, fear, immorality, lust, or deception and think that it will stand. We have to want a true and real relationship with God through Christ.

· The Fight Within – is a teaching about how we spend most of our time fighting with the Lord about how we should live our lives upright before him. We don’t like the way God is requiring for us to live and walk before him. When we are not fighting with the Lord, we are fighting against all that is in us that goes against the Will of God. We love worldly pleasure, we like lust driving our desires, we like to chase after money, so we can hoard it. There is so much fighting within us, no wonder we are in the shape we are in. But Christ has taken on our battles, and the Holy Spirit that is within us is warring against our sin [...]

· Hope In God – is a teaching about learning to place all our hope in God. We tend to place some hope in God, but we also place hope in our abilities and knowledge, and in others. But all of our hope has to be in God, for us to grow in the Lord. We have to desire God’s Power to be at work in our lives, which requires for us to have strong faith and hope in Christ Jesus. Our hope has to become steadfast in Christ, so we achieve our full measure in Christ.

· Suffering – We a reliving in a time where suffering is on the increase, there is more sickness, more disasters, more destruction, and attacks on our country are increasing. We have to seek the Lord to understand why? The Word of God teaches us that when we turn away from the Ways of God, the Lord will allow our suffering to increase. The Word of God teaches us that the Lord will allow our faith to be tested through suffering. God’s Word also gives us the answer we need. If we turn back to the Lord, if we seek God, and endure through suffering. We will [...]

· Order My Steps – We heard the call from the Lord to come, so we came, but we did not come to surrender all. When we came to Jesus, we came with all our plans and dreams in tack. We came hoping and expecting for the Lord to fulfill our plans and dreams, when he did not, we struggled as a Christian. The call was never about our plans and dreams, it’s all about God’s plan for our lives. The Lord called us, so he can order our steps through his Word and Spirit. We have to give the Lord control over our lives. No one knows better how to order our steps in life than Chr [...]

· Seeking God – We try to seek God from so many different angles. We try to seek God through this world,we try to seek God through theology, and we also use God’s Word. We try to combine these ways of seeking God, hoping we will find the Lord. But Christ isnot of the world, and Christ is not found in human knowledge. The only place we can look and truly find God is through his Word and Son Christ Jesus. All other ways will not lead us to the throne of God. As the scriptures teaches, we will have a sense of God, but we will not know God.

·The Enemy - is a teaching about how we need the Lord’s help in identifying the enemy. Just because someone has done us wrong, or we feel like someone is attacking us does not mean that they are our enemy. Sometimes we label someone as an enemy, but later on they become our best friend. Sometimes we label someone as a friend, but they become our worst enemy. We need the Spirit of the Lord to help us discern who the real enemy is, who is doing the devil’s work, so we can take it to the Lord and he can fight the battle.

·Obedience to God – is a teaching about how we need to learn to walk in obedience to God. Yes, we are a Christian and we have some faith. But for us to reach the maturity level that God is calling us into, we must be willing to connect our faith with our obedience so we are strong in the Lord. We cannot obey sin and obey God, for Christ Jesus has set us free from sin so we can serve God by faith and in his truth. We must obey God and our Lord Christ Jesus every hour of the day so we are counted worthy

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· Leaning on God – is a teaching about looking at who we really depend on. Many times we think are leaning on God because we attend church every week. But there is a big difference between having all our faith in God, and having faith in ourselves while we believe in God. We must learn to lean on Jesus every hour of the day and night, he is the only reliable source we can lean on. All others will fail us. We can’t lean on ourselves, we can’t leave on others, and we can’t lean on things, we can only lean on Jesus.

· Getting Passed The Past – is a teaching about helping us let go of that which has us bound. We all come out of this world, therefore we have a worldly past that has to be dealt with. Yes, when we came to Christ Jesus and accepted the Lord, all our past sins were forgiven. The problem is, Satan knows all about our past, and he uses our past to keep us chained to our past, so we cannot faithfully and through holiness serve the Lord. We have to get unchained from our past, so we can be made new in Christ Jesus.

· Come As You Are – is a teaching about us remembering how we came to Jesus. Many times we get a little lost, we get caught up in religion and forget who called us to come. We start believing that we came saved to the Lord, and we forget that the Lord called us just as we are. Through God’s grace and mercy we have been saved. We came with all our sickness, all our addiction, all our troubles, all our pain, and the Lord changed us. We came as we are and the Lord transformed our mind, body, and soul. All Christ wants from us, is for us to come as we are, without any religious traditions, and the Spirit of the Lord will teach [...]

· Way Maker – is a teaching about how Christ Jesus came and made a way for us to come to him. He poured out his blood so you and I have a way to come out of darkness, and enterinto his wonderful light. But many of us are stuck in a religious nightmare, because we are being taught to seek God through religious practices, and not through the way the Lord has made. Christ Jesus is calling us to fully cross over to him, to follow the path that he has laid out for us. He and no one else has made a way for us to stand with him in the Kingdom of God

· The Power Of Faith – is a teaching about how the Power of God impacts our faith. There are three levels of faith 1) Establishing our faith, 2) Growing our faith, and 3) Maturing our faith. If we properly connect our faith with Christ Jesus, we will start to feel the power of God moving in our lives. Our faith being connected to Christ will produce good works and deeds. There will be power flowing from our faith, from the power of Christ

· The Power Of God – is a teaching about understanding the Power of God and how we need it in our lives.We may think that the best thing the Lord can give us is riches, expensive houses, and prosperity. But the best thing the Lord can share with us is his power. What good is riches, prosperity, and possessions, when you have all power? Christ Jesus wants to share the Power of God with us, but who has faith enough to receive it, to believe in the Power of God?

· The Power of Prayer – this teaching is talks about the power and effectiveness of our prayers. We have been raised knowing that we should pray to God, so we pray for everything and anything. The Word of God gives us instructions to not only how we should pray to God, but what we should pray to God about. We need to develop a deep and strong prayer life, so our prayers can reach the throne of God. We need to make sure that our prayers are in-line with our faith and our walk, and God’s Will, so our prayers are powerful and effective.

· Cup Of Salvation –is a teaching about how our Lord Christ Jesus came in obedience to God the Father and shed his blood for the salvation of many. Christ took the cup of salvation that God the Father given him and he drank of it. Though it was not his will, Christ being faithful and obedient to God, drank from the cup and shed his blood so you and I have an opportunity to drink from the same cup of salvation as Christ our Lord. We need to keep drinking until the day we are able to drink with the Lord a ne [...]

· All My Help – is ateaching about the many sources that we turn to when we are in need. Though weare a Christian, when we are in need, we not only pray to God, but we also turnto the world, and those in the world. After we come out of our situations and circumstances,we turn away from God, and away from those in need. We have forgotten whobrought us out, and lifted us up when no one else cared. God is the only onewho can truly help us, he is the one who will send help, he is the one who makesa way out of no way. Christ Jesus is the only true source of our help. Where does your help come from?

· Trust Goes Both Ways – is a teaching about trusting in God. We have this habit of only seeking God for what we need, without really putting our trust in God. We like to spread our trust across many sources. We place our trust in ourselves, in others, in possessions, in knowledge, and we trust a little in God the Father and our Lord Christ Jesus. But we serve a jealous God, who is not willing share his glory with others. We need to place all our trust in God, and God needs to be able to trust us. We need to seek God with all our strength, all our mind, all our heart, and [...]

· Mastering Sin – this teachingis about how God the Father through Christ Jesus has made a way for us to befree from sin and live a holy life. I know this teaching is hard for many to believeand accept, but it is the Word of God. We must work out our salvation throughChrist Jesus. He has come and destroyed the power of sin and death, so we havea way to come to God. Now we have to do our part by submitting and surrenderingto the power of God. We can be set free, if we allow the Spirit of the Lord toteach us how to put to death all the sinful footholds the devil is holding onus. One by one, each of our sins must die. Sin has n [...]

· Loving Like God – this messagecompletes the teaching about God’s stern and loving side. Last week we learnedhow to hate what God hates. This week the Lord wants us to learn how to lovelike the Lord, so the Love of God can be complete in us. We have been taught humankind of love which is full of lying, un-forgiveness, selfishness, unmerciful,rage, and controlling. God wants us to take his love into our hearts, so we arefilled with mercy, forgiveness, kindness, compassion, grace, and tenderness.God’s Love is unfailing and unconditional. Only after we learn to love like theLord can we walk in God’s love, because God is [...]

· Hating What God Hates – is a teaching to encourage us as believers to go furter in our walk with the Lord. We are settling these days with worldly preaching and teaching. We have to get back to the Word of God, which teaching us about the things that God both hates and loves. We are called to become like Christ Jesus, therefore we have to learn to hate the things that God hates and finds detestable, even if those things are found in us. It’s the only way the blood of Christ Jesus can sanctify and purify us to be worthy of entering the kingdom of God.

· Willing Vessel – is a teaching about what it means to become a willing vessel of Christ Jesus. We all come out of the world, it has shaped us into an unwilling vessel, unusable by God. The Lord has the power, strength, and authority to broke and mold us into a new creation, into a useful vessel. Through Christ Jesus you and I can be made into a willing and holy vessel of God, established in Christ Jesus. We have to allow the Lord time to prepare and reshape us, so we are useful to the Master, useful for his purpose and will.

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· Doubt and Unbelief – is a teaching to help us with our struggle with doubt and unbelief in our Faith. We must overcome all doubt and unbelief so our faith is not weak, but strong. We have to allow the Holy Spirit examine all the different areas of our faith so we are aware of areas in our faith that has doubt and unbelief in it. Because where there is doubt and unbelief, this is no faith.

· God Reveals, Instructs, and Guides Us – is a teaching to help us to receive God’s plan for our lives. We need the Lord to reveal his Word and truth is to us, instruct us in His ways, and guide us through this sinful, evil, and dangerous world. If we allow the Lord to be our guide, then what we do will be please the Lord, and our lives will be spiritually enriched. We will rise every morning seeking to the Lord so he can guide us, as we follow him all the days of our lives.

· This World – is a teaching to about how God created a perfect world, and created mankind without sin. Be mankind has done everything to turn what was perfect into a sinful, wicked, defiled, and ungodly place. But thank God he did not give up on mankind. God looked beyond our faults, and proved a way for those who receive his Son to be set apart so we can make it through. We accept the fact that God has declared this world ungodly. We must accept the fact this world is not our home. We must look forward to a new earth and a new heaven, for the righteous people of God.

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· Establishing Our Faith – is a teaching to about making sure we have our faith established correctly in God. We have to be honest with ourselves, it’s very easy for us to have many things built into our faith. And when those other things fail us, then we lose all hope in God. But God says we should only have our faith in him, and not in someone else, or something else. We need to establish our faith in God and God alone.

· Willingness To Surrender – is a teaching to about us being willing to surrender our whole self to God. We struggle surrendering ourselves to God, we want to be in control, to have a say. But we can’t surrender just a part of ourselves and serve God. Just giving part of ourselves to God won’t due. We must be willing to totally surrender ourselves to God; all our desires, our being, our thoughts, our will, and our purpose so we can carry out God’s Purpose, Will, and Ways

· God Has Spoken – is a teaching to help us establish our faith in the Word of God. We need the Word to guide our feet, to nourish our body, and to keep our mind right. We need to feed God’s Word into our ears, read it with our eyes, and take it in as nourishment for our soul, so it’s alive within us. Christ Jesus uses the Word of God to save us, to extend us a life line when we are in trouble and need to be saved.

· Thankful and Blessed – This is a teaching about how we need to always be thankful for the things the Lord has done for us. Unfortunately, many of us have not been properly taught about the real blessings of God. We measure God’s blessings from what we get from the world, but true blessings are found in Christ Jesus

· The Light Of The World– This is a teaching about how we need to grow and mature so we can walk in the light of Christ Jesus. The questions is not if we are a Christian, but are we walking in the light. Is the light of Christ shining through us and in us, so there is no darkness that causes us to become a worthless servant of God? As a child of God, our goal is not prosperity of this world, but walking in the light Christ Jesus and the glory of God.

·Oneness Of God – In seeking God to grow into maturity, we have to stay with the Word of God. The Lord is calling us to a higher level of walking with him than we are achieving. Our God is calling for us to become one with him, through his Son Christ Jesus. By being one in the body of Christ, we can be one with the Father, because Christ and the Father are one. The oneness of God, the Father in Christ, Christ in us, and us in Christ Jesus and God the Father.

·Evidence – As we work on becoming mature, we have to demonstrate that there is evidence of our maturity. This is not about us claiming or declaring that there is evidence, this is about us living and practicing our faith so it is self-evident that we have been changed. Not only does there have be evidence, but there must be proof that the goodness of the Lord is present in our lives every day.<?xml:namespace prefix = “o” ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />< [...]

· Being Made New – When we first came to know of God, we were introduced to the Lord through religious teaching and doctrine. Unfortunately, our religion did not set us free, or change anything about us. Just as the Lord offered the Pharisees and the Sadducees a new beginning, a fresh start, the Lord is offering us a way to be made new through him. We cannot reject the Lord’s calling as the Pharisees and Sadducees did in keeping with their religious traditions. We need to be made new in Christ, in the attitudes of our mind and heart.

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· It Is Written – We come to the Lord with a lot of different beliefs, we have opinions on a lot of things, including how God operates. But for us to grow and mature in the Lord, we have to get away from our thinking and beliefs, and come to accept that which is spoken and written by God. To be one in the Lord, we cannot maintain our ways and ideas, we have to take on the mind of Christ Jesus.

· Choosing To Sin – After we have spent all this time coming to know the Lord, what is our thinking regard our sin. Do we still believe sin is something you and I can never escape, we can never really put it to death? Before we knew the Lord, doing sin was not really a choice for us. But now that we have the Lord, and the spirit of the Lord lives in us, now we have to choose to do sin

· To Know God– Many of us come to know of God by our parents making us attend church, we learned a few things about God. Was our upbringing enough for us to know God? There is a difference between knowing of God and to know God. When we come to know God for ourselves, we will develop a fear and love for God. Now we know what God can do, and we want to bypass the Lord having to disciple and correct us. Now we know that to know God, makes us a friend of God.

· Thirsty For God – This is a teaching about how we need to remain thirsty and hungry for God. We have tried drinking from worldly riches, and we are still thirsty. We have tried drinking from worldly knowledge, and we are still thirsty. We have tried drinking from worldly pleasure, but we are still thirsty. Only when we start drinking from the living water of the Lord will we never thirst again. Come, he is ready to pour into you.

· Spiritual Transformation – No matter how we look at it, coming to Christ Jesus is going to require that we change. Many of us are willing to change some for the Lord. But for us to be spiritually transformed into the likeness of Christ, we have to allow the Lord to change any and everything about us. Our spirit must change, our beliefs must change, our ways must change, and our soul must change. Everything must change for us to be like Christ.

Not Ashamed – After the Lord has taught us, touched our lives, it’s time for us to stand up for God. We cannot hide that we are not just a believer, we are a servant of God, called to do the Will of God. We cannot be ashamed of the Lord before anyone, not to our friends, not to our co-workers, not to our family, not to those we want to know. We don’t want Christ to be ashamed of us before the Father

On That Day – As believers we have been given understanding into God’s Word and Ways, therefore we should be prepared for the great day of the Lord. Christ Jesus came and revealed all that was hidden, so those who placed their faith in him will not be surprised on the day of the Lord. The Day of the Lord is coming, we have to be ready

Judgment – To prepare us for the coming judgment of God, it’s critical that we have done all that is required of us to make it through. All the prayers, all the service, all the devotion, and all the work on our salvation will pay off. It all comes to down to our ability to pass by the Judgment Seat of Christ. How we live and what we have done will be judged, we have to ensure there is nothing stopping us from going through

Hearing From God – after we have learned how to cry and plead to God, it opens up our heart and ears so we can better hear from God. We have to be able to hear the Word of God, we have to be able to hear the voice of Christ Jesus, and we have to be able to hear the Holy Spirit. It’s important that we understand where we are standing when we hear from the Lord, so we are able to fully receive.

· Crying Out To God – is a teaching about recognizing no matter how much we grow in the Lord, there will always be times when we have to cry out to God. There will always be times when we have to enter into the Lord’s presence, seeking his face for answers, for directions, and for understanding. Even a mature child of God knows when to cry and plead to their Father, seeking his help. We will always need God the Father, we will always need our Lord Christ Jesus to intercede fo [...]