Overcoming: You will decide a thing
The Enemy of our lives is seeking to plant weeds in our life garden. I am sharing tools to weeding out our gardens and planting intentional seeds of life.
Sermon messages, classes, teachings and trainings from Awake Church in Winston Salem, NC.

The Enemy of our lives is seeking to plant weeds in our life garden. I am sharing tools to weeding out our gardens and planting intentional seeds of life.
There are so many people that believe God has “cut them from the team” because of a mistake. There are those who have stopped contending to fulfill their purpose because of a past failure. God is so much more willing to work with our mistakes than we realize. In this message, David talks about becoming a servant, and a willing participant in the work of the Kingdom.
We are warned that deception will be rampant in the last days, leading to a falling away and loss of our faith. In this message, Matt shares some ways to remaining free of deception so that we can protect the precious truths that we have been given and remain in the love of God.
The raising of Jesus from the Dead changed everything and empowered all who follow and believe in Him to live fully alive. What was dark and full of death, changed to life, power, victory and hope for all into all of the future. We are celebrating not just a good man, but the Champion who loved with all that He had, ransomed all of mankind and arose from death with victory over death, hell, fear and the grave forever.
Jason Upton's message to Awake Church
Jesus doesn't just desire for people to follow and believe Him, but He has invited us to live united with Him. He gave us a picture of the power of living united with Him through the analogy of a vine that produces grapes, and invited His followers to take another step and actually live in Him. When we live and abide in Him, the juice and power of Christ flows through us and our lives will be fruitful.
Love is the greatest, unfailing power that we have. As believers, we are to live in love and love others lavishly. Our job isn't to try and convict people of sin, but to encourage everything that breathes and entrust people to the One who loves them even more than we do. Often, people don't get to hear how much they are loved from others until those words are shared at their funeral, when they are no longer there. We are to let love reach its destination and share it with others now.
Tracy Evans’ message to the Awake congregation.
Scott's journey with God through pain and sorrow in 2018 to discover joy. Highlights: Silence from heaven is not God ignoring you. During a test every teacher remains quiet, but God gives open book tests God sometimes hides the nutrition, encouragement and hope for our present trials in the amazing faith building works he has done in our past Singing Gods praises literally makes Satan quiver (vibrate) in terror
The Kingdom of Heaven that Jesus brought and gave to us includes healing. Jesus loved and healed everywhere that he went, and He hasn't changed. He still loves and He still heals. In this message, Matt shares about changing our mindset and posture to begin believing that what Jesus purchased for us is actually ours to lay ahold of and grasp by faith.
Jesus didn't heal to prove He had power, but because He loves people. He still loves and He still heals. In this message, Matt shares about the nature of God to heal, talks about some of the hindrances to healing and then two powerful testimonies from others about how Jesus healed them.
Matt concludes this four part series on the Kingdom of Heaven by highlighting the permeating nature of the Kingdom and practically how we are to view ourselves as carriers and agents of the Kingdom of Heaven, finding ways to allow it to saturate our beings, our businesses, our words and our thinking.
The Kingdom of Heaven is the domain and rule of Jesus that He initiated when He was here and gave us to spread while He is temporarily in heaven. This Kingdom is robust, filled with power, love, joy and peace that brings satisfaction for every heart. The marvelous Kingdom of Heaven is to be sought after, received, proclaimed, demonstrated and prayed.
The Kingdom of Heaven is to be the most sought after thing in our lives, and every failure of believers pursuing and sharing the kingdom has created a vacuum that has been filled with counterfeit "ism's" (socialism, communism, fascism, even capitalism). The Kingdom of Heaven is the invasion of the realm of the King, who is Jesus, and it is meant to fully invade every aspect of life, not be compartmentalized into a church experience.
There are many things to do and pursue during our lifetime here, but Jesus highlighted one thing above all - His Kingdom. He told us to seek, pursue and discover His Kingdom. It's not a list of rules, not the church and it's nothing boring. The Kingdom of Heaven is the spectacular, mysterious reign and realm of God that we are to pray comes to invade all that we see. It should be our waking desire and our single greatest pursuit.