What is a called person? A called person is someone who finds fulfillment in their work, not matter what that work is. It's all about your attitude, because your attitude is what tells God that He can trust you with whatever job He gives you.
The Old Testament tabernacle was a shadow of things to come. Then, there was a physical curtain that separated man from the presence of God. Today, that barrier is our flesh. Through salvation, God has removed that barrier in an invitation to commune with him.
There are 3 ways to live: Good Enough, Pursuing Greatness, or Greater. It is God's will that we live Greater, that we live with the understanding that God is going to accomplish great things in our lives out of human capability.
It's so easy to get information today. FaceBook and Twitter are right at our fingertips. The problem is, those sources are secondhand information and they only contain a small portion of truth. We can't be that way with our beliefs. We need to go straight to the source and find that rock to hold onto when the storms of life come.
There are times in your life where you can feel less effective in ministry, almost like serving the Lord is an appointment on the calendar. Every believer goes through this. You've just lost your spiritual edge, and you need to sharpen it.
The revival of the spiritual man, the inner man, is something that God intended to happen again and again. Like an animal shedding its skin, we have to continually throw off that old man and old attitude that is hindering us from the new blessings of God and a new time of refreshing.
It seems that more and more today's society is looking back on what once was, on how things used to be. Now, especially, is not the time for the church to stop being the church. We can't dwell on what God did for us in the past. He did it before then, and He can do it again now.
We center our lives around Christmas. We save money, put up decorations; it's a time to look forward to. It's a beautiful season, but we need to move past Bethlehem. We need to take that Spirit past Christmas and out into the world. Think beyond this season and look toward the future.
Kamikaze's, the suicide bombers of WW2, were designed to sink warships more effectively than any bomb. They were dedicated, they had a mission, and they saw it through to the end. The church has a mission to "Go ye therefore into all the world..." and we must see it through to the end.
Most of the time, we know we need a miracle in our situation. When God tells us He will provide, we get all excited and we try to help God along with our miracle. We pull out the big guns, we plan and prepare, we give God the tools we want Him to use. The problem is, if He does things our way, it's no longer a miracle and it will not solve the problem. We need to get out of the way and let God work the miraculous.
Society today is caught up in treating the symptoms of your problems, in taking care of the superficial instead of digging deep into he cause of your issue. Jesus isn't like that. No matter what anyone else may think, he looks past the disease and into your heart. He digs deep in order to heal.
We are lucky, to be living in a world and a society today that accepts us as opposed to the world that the early church lived in, but that luck is also our danger. We become lax and lazy; no longer wholly believing that Christ could return at any moment.
Real Faith, True Faith, is so important that it cannot be lost. If a miracle has happened in your life, your kids need to hear about it. If there is a great revival in your time, your kids need to hear it from your lips. The values and anointing that comes from this Faith, needs to be transferred to the next generation, so that new leaders and ministers can rise up.
In the Old Testament, there was a special oil created for the sole purpose of consecrating, or anointing, an object or person to be set apart for God's holy purpose. Today, the Holy Spirit is that anointing that can come and consecrate you for His purpose.
Sometimes you have to approach Jesus as a king, not as a friend. There is a different protocol for reaching out to a king. You have to cry out, maybe go a little crazy, to get the kings attention, because when your need is that great sometimes only a king can help you.
Sometimes you have to approach Jesus as a king, not as a friend. There is a different protocol for reaching out to a king. You have to cry out, maybe go a little crazy, to get the kings attention, because when your need is that great sometimes only a king can help you.
Living for God is not a cakewalk. It is a war against spiritual darkness. The devil wants to steal your faith, the core of your forward motion in the kingdom of God, and he will use any means necessary to take it from you.
The Devil's plan is to trap you in your sin using guilt and shame to tie you to that old identity as a sinner. God's plan is to turn you into a new creature with a new identity by being born again in the water and the Spirit.
What is it about the role of a father that is so important? Do we even need a father figure in our lives? This role/figure has been downplayed and deemed passé in our society, leaving a people crying, "Show us the Father!"
The church has been set on a hill, not to isolate ourselves and to kind of "survive" in this world, but we have been set on this hill to be a bridge over the great chasm of hurts, betrayals, and bitterness between the island of the lost and the island of the saved.
The essence of a thing is defined as what that thing was intended to be. Pentecost was intended to be annointing and power and pure, not the watered down presentation of it that the world would have us believe is true.
The thing that makes us distinctive is not our dress code, it is the revelation of the power and the oneness of God. Unity in the Apostolic church is the key to our power. God is only attracted to churches that speak and do the same thing, together.
There was one mother who didn't get any written credit in Scripture, but you know she was there. Daniel would not be the man of prayer and honor that we read about if there wasn't a mother who cared about instilling morals and values into her son.
We are either sons or servants in the eyes of God. We either have power with God or we are nothing to him. We limit ourselves by the way we act. Servants have no power in the house of the Master, but the son is second only to Him.
As children of God, we are destined for greatness, and we have a path that's been set before us. Sometimes though, we can't see the end of our journey and start to wish for the things that God has already brought us out from.
After we take the time to dream up crazy, impossible dreams and begin to pray for them, sometimes it feels like it gets hard and we want to stop praying for them. We can’t see a change in our situation, or we don’t feel that we are making a difference. Sometimes it seems like it would be easier to just give up.
God loves to give us big dreams; the bigger the dreams that He gives us, the more we have to pray and step out in faith. We must commit to these dreams, and commit to Gods way. Otherwise, that dream turns into a nightmare.
People think there is a cut and dried formula for getting God's favor, that "a" plus "b" equals "divine intervention." The truth is that they are missing a variable, that all important "x" named faith.
Within each man, there is a God-given desire to always return to the things of God. You will be drawn, metaphysically, always Westward in your decisions. You may choose to go East, but there will always be a pull on you to return West.
We cannot hope to hold on to our faith by relying solely on emotion to tie us to Jesus. We must be devoted to Him, so much so that we will do anything to reach out and touch Him. Opening testimony by Amber Huizar.
