Month: July 2022

Your Remaining Years

Valerie Sanon

Messaged Preached on July 24, 2022 by Pastor Cynthia D. Bellamy

1 Chronicles 29

In 1 Chronicles 29, before King David was called home to be with the Lord, David had some specific instructions to leave behind. A final task remained that David himself would not see nor complete with his own hands. What final task could have possibly remained for David to complete; with leaving such a legacy behind already? To build a temple unto the Lord, as promised (see 2 Samuel 7; 1 Chronicles 22:7-8; 28:1-3). David made sure his final promise unto the Lord was uttered, for his son Solomon to know specific instructions, and for David to see those in the congregation who were willing to give their service unto the Lord.

What are you going to do with your remaining years? Are you going to play with your life and the lives of others? Or are you going to live out doing the work of the Lord? Above all in these last and evil days, more preaching of deliverance and getting into a relationship with Jesus Christ more than anything else, is essential. Now is the time to build a relationship with God, and not with people. David built his relationship with God over his lifespan.

What are you doing?

“God, forgive me”, is where you can start before you can begin the work of the Lord. David was preparing his son Solomon and was leaving him a word of instruction. Are you prepared for the will of the Lord? You may have the desire to do something but when God says no, his final word is just that, a no. Surely, David had the will to build the temple, but God knew there was too much blood on David’s hands to build the temple. However, there was something about Solomon, where David needed someone who was going to follow the commandments and will of God to finish what he couldn’t. Are you someone who will follow the commandments and will of the Lord?

Are you steadfast?

To do what God is calling you to do, you must be steadfast. Instructions come with anything you must put together, with steps to follow. Step 1, tells you to take everything out of the box. For with the first instruction, you need to know you have everything you need. If we were to overlook the first step, down the finish line we would be missing something and would have to stop to look for the missing piece, delaying the process. Instructions are important in your walk with Christ! You don’t want to delay God’s process in your life.

 Step 2, instructions tell you how to lay things out; to make it easy for you. In which, you won’t have to go over things that you don’t need to. Consider your life now, you don’t need to do things you have no business of doing. No need to revisit cycles where you’re up today and down today. Lay everything out before God! The Gospel is an influence, and it will never leave people how they have been found! The Gospel will bring you out and set you free, save you, restore you and will help you. YOU NEED THE GOSPEL! It purifies your imperfections.

Step 3, with instructions you have to completely obey and follow what is written. With God you MUST obey to do His will! Do not walk in disobedience nor complete any instructions disobediently. Walk and live in obedience to God. Know that after walking in obedience to Him, doing His will, now you become the patient to be able to obtain the promises He has laid up for you. When God makes a promise it doesn’t matter how much it cost; it shall come to pass. You want the promises, OBEY GOD! When David passed on the instructions to Solomon, Solomon followed every instruction, obeyed, and reaped the promises of God. A genuine relationship with God was the key to David’s success. Solomon followed suit, had a genuine relationship with God, and reaped all of God’s promises.

Will you obey and follow the instructions of the Lord in your remaining years? Or will you spend your remaining disobeying and missing out of the promises of God? You have a desire to succeed, right? The only way is to have a genuine relationship with God.

Hear the Gospel!

Hear the instructions and obey God’s Will, and you WILL reap His promises!

I Shall Not Want

Valerie Sanon

Message Preached on July 17, 2022 by Pastor Cynthia D. Bellamy

Psalm 23: 1-3

Psalm 23 1:1 tells us “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want”. Thus, you must come to a place of understanding that you have what you need; and that is God! There is no room for want in your life because you have what you need. The only time that we begin to want for something is when we do not have it. However, Psalm is reminding us that when the Lord is your shepherd, you lack nothing.

When you acknowledge God as your shepherd, the God that makes provision, makes room for you, puts you in a place of “green pastures”; it’s all you need. We know too often we’re asking for certain “wants” in life (money, husbands, job, etc..) but God be your shepherd, He has what you “need”. It doesn’t mean these “wants” won’t come your way but God, has EXACTLY what you “need”. For we know, what we really want is not what we really need. Even the things we crave after, we know is not the best thing for us. Even with the people in your surroundings, you must watch because their “behavior” can be an indication they “want something” from you. Yet with God, it’s never so and need to remember He has what you need!

What are you lacking when you have God?

Have you ever considered actual shepherds and their sheep, where after a while the shepherd must shave the hair of a sheep? The shaving needs to happen because the hair on the sheep becomes to heavy, which leads to infection and other diseases. In saying all of this, God is shaving you and what’s underneath you must come out. The process may be hurtful but remember, the Lord is your shepherd, and He has what you need.

God makes it possible for us to lie down in green pastures, to lie down in plenty, not worry, to not want, and to realize God has what I need. For when we need to get up, we know that everything is going to be there, waiting. Take a minute and think, do you acknowledge the Lord is your shepherd, and wherever He leads you shall follow?

There is nothing that you need that God does not already have!

Even in leading us to still waters, God can’t lead if you’re in the front! Whoever is leading should be in the front; yet we tend to try and take control of our own lives. When God is not moving fast enough, we try and take the driver seat. Knowing all too well going around and being impatient with God will only stir more trouble. The reason we’re not obtaining what God has for us is not because He doesn’t have it, but it’s because we get impatient and try to make our own way out.

God doesn’t compromise with us! He already has a plan in place for your life; a plan in place for you.

How do you depend on God? How do you trust him? The only way is to learn how to lean on Him. If you lean on Jesus, He will never let you fall. The way you learn this is to know when God brings you through hardship, remember that He can surely bring you through once again. To that moment where you can hear His voice say, “I got you.”

Remember and write it on the tablet of your heart, The LORD is my Shepherd, I have what I need!

Where Did You Fall?

Valerie Sanon

Message Preached on July 10, 2022 by Pastor Cynthia D. Bellamy

" The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. " --Matthew 13: 1-9

Jesus spoke in parables to the crowd in Matthew 13: 1-9, but in its deeper context one cannot help but view the teaching as a moment of self-examination of their walk with Christ. “Have I falling by the wayside and devoured?” “Am I in a stony place with no earth beneath me, springing up nothing?” “Am I scorched by the sun, because there’s no root and I’m withering away?” “Did I fall on thorns and choked?” “Or am I on good ground, bearing fruit a hundredfold, sixtyfold, and thirtyfold?“

Asking oneself these questions, you must examine your connection with God. How connected are you to the heavenly father? Consider how God feels when the connection with us severs? When we walk away or allow the troubles of life to consume us and not reach out to the father; it tugs on God’s heart. Think about moments where we escape our troubles repeatedly, it is because of the connection we have with God. Consequently, when fallen away from God, take into consideration where your seed sown and how deep are you planted in God. Are you rooted well-enough?

In planting, the roots are important and the lifeline to a plant. Roots of a plant are for primarily three major functioning. The roots of a plant are for absorbing water and mineral, for anchor & support, and for storing food. Your roots in God, are they well-nourished beneath you? Are you well-watered, anchored, and supported? If not, check the ground and dirt beneath you and take heed to the parable in the text.

Where Did I Fall?

Is my seed on good ground?

Be Still, and know that I am God!

Valerie Sanon

Message Preached on June 26, 2022, by Pastor Cynthia D. Bellamy

Psalm 46:10

This is what God wants us know and remember, to know that HE IS GOD. Too often we’re trying to figure out on our very own what and who God is; stressing, fighting, rejecting, and running. Yet God is telling us to STOP! We must STOP and know “I AM THAT I AM” is with us. Just as Moses had asked what shall I say to them that asked of his name in Exodus 3:13-14; God responded, “I AM THAT I AM”!

The message, from Pastor Cynthia Bellamy came in power and authority, to remind us we need to KNOW who God is. We’re living in a day in age where too many Christians are falling for false ideologies, false doctrines, going to and fro from one thing to another. Yet, forgetting the one and only thing that is without a doubt factual and never wavering; that is the word of God. We have to be careful to stop breaking out of the “Apostolic Box”. What does that even mean? God is STILL HOLY! For it is written in 1 Peter 1:16, “Be Ye Holy; for I am Holy”. Everything else around us seems to be failing, but God’s name will never go out.

Does the word of God have your attention or is everything else around grabbing a hold of you? Stop, and know who God is! What will it take for you to confess that He is God? We must come to honor and reverence the I AM.

Stop, and know the ways of God. In order to walk like Him, talk like Him, think like Him, we MUST know the word of God. Once we know the word of God, we will be able to live right, so we can die right.

So ask yourself, am I still enough to know the I AM? For God knows the real from the counterfeits in the church. Do you want to be real in his sight or do you want to be a counterfeit that He rejects?

Be Still, and know the I AM!