Month: February 2023

Message Preached by Evangelist Amanda Campbell on February 5, 2023

Zechariah 10: 1-6; Zechariah 10:12

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The book of Zechariah’s purpose is to give hope to God’s people, by revealing God’s future deliverance through Jesus Christ. Restoration, is the act of returning something to its former condition or making new again. Restoring can also make things better than their current state. Our Heavenly Father’s restoring power is one of the greatest promises of scripture. Restoration only comes from God. Restoration is when God comes in, seeing the shape you are in and what you have been dealing with; and tells you to ‘come back home.’ If God allows you to remain out there in the world, you will only miss what He’s about to release. God, in this hour is saying He doesn’t want His people to miss the release.

Through the scripture and Zechariah, the Lord is saying ask for rain while the rain is falling. You need to make sure as you see the blessings are flowing in the House of the Lord, you ask for what you need right now. If you get the release of God’s power now, later is already taken care of. Pray for God to strengthen you and establish you, so you may believe the things He can do for you. There are four foundational truths you must know.

1. Restoration Can Happen In Your Body-Jeremiah 30:17

Health wise, you may not know what is going on in your physical body or maybe you do. Nonetheless, the Lord is restoring health to your physical body. You may have had aches and pain but God is restoring health because you need to have good success. So that you won’t get weak in this race. Health is being restored so you can be a witness that God is a healer. God will restore your health, as it brings honor to Him. God is able to heal you and restore your health.

2. Restoration Can Happen In Your Spirit- Psalm 51:12

Life struggles can rip the joy out of us and even the most positive person you’ll meet. God’s restoration doesn’t happen only to the physical but to the spiritual as well. David understood that when he was out of joy, he could go to the one who gives joy. The Hebrew word for restore in this particular scripture is defined as to return back. You need to get back to the joy that is in the Lord. Get back to the place where you first believed. Return to the place where your first love for Christ began. Get back and return to a place where you was desperate for God to do a new thing in you. Don’t get complacent in your spirit. For God will not strive with man always. Don’t get distracted chasing the wrong things. Seek God again and He will turn His heart towards you.

3. Restoration Can Happen In Your Circumstances & Surroundings–Job 42:10

Job in this scripture did not get the double until he went through the pain. We know that in the story of Job, the Bible tells us that he was a “just man.” Yet, God was the one who said ‘have you considered’ Job to go through these things; and not change his confession about God. God permitted a hard thing for Job to go through and he still did not denounce God. His friends, family, and his wife tested him. Too often you may have experience the same “testing” from those around you. God will allow you to go through some hard things. For your faithfulness, you will be tested. When you feel like you have lost it all, God promises to restore even more than what was stolen from you. Can you honor God in the hard things?

4. Restoration Will Be Visible On the Outside But It Happens On The Inside-2 Corinthians 5:17; Isaiah 61:7

Have you ever seen these home improvement shows, where they intend to fix the home in about six weeks. Only to tear it down to see the inside will need a lot more work than expected? There’s faulty things that need to be fixed and cleaned. In the same way, God desires to see deep changes in us. Beginning with the things that are not visible to others. When you pray for restoration, begin by asking God to reveal any unclean thing within you. Psalm 139: 23-24 is a great example of where to start by examining ourselves. Restoration will always take longer than expected. However, we can know that God is working on our behalf ALWAYS.

God is getting ready to strengthen you and your house. Any chains that is holding you must be broken. God will bring you to a place that you once was. He will have mercy on whom He pleases. His word tells us that He has been with us through labor pains. God is about to release those things you have been asking for. For after you have prayed and suffered for a while, He will establish you and give what you need.

There’s a release and you do not want to miss it!

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Message Preached by Elder Elyon Wells on January 29, 2023

Ecclesiastes 3:1; Genesis 7:16; Genesis 8:1-3

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God Shuts the Door

In life, you have to come to place to understand where you are and when you are in God. You must understand this because there are people who will pull on your heart string. They will abuse you and what you have to offer. There are people around you who will know exactly what to do. Be aware of this in your new season.

In scripture, we find that Noah was instructed to build an ark for himself and his family by God, because God was getting ready to send rain on the earth. God instructs him to enter the ark and God himself shuts the door. As they enter the ark and it begins to rain, you can imagine they hear the screams of those on the outside and the torture. People begging to enter the ark but God shut the door. The reason God shut the door? He did not want the old thing to contaminate the new thing. Why? There are some things you cannot take with you in the new season. It is okay to let God sever some things to move forward.

There is a place of sanctified isolation that God has had many and it is for our good. He will put you in a place that you cannot get out of. He’ll send tribulations your way, trials, troubles, family acting funny, friends, and more. Why? To position you to pray, when He needs you to pray. For if it was up to us, we would not pray and would want to run away from our troubles. But there’s something about that sanctified isolation that will make you. We need to get to a place spiritually where nothing can affect where we are.

God Remembers You

After a one hundred and fifty days of rain and Noah in the ark, God remembers him. God remembers why He chose Noah and why this ark was made. There’s something about when God remembers you. If you feel like God has forgotten you, know that He has not! You are in a season for a reason but He didn’t forget you there. He remembers you. There may have been trials and tribulations but God still remembered you. You may not always do what is right but God remembers you. The journey may have been rough but God has not forgotten how you prayed and fasted. He didn’t forget when you came to church, even though you didn’t want to come. Nor did He forget when you prayed when you didn’t want to. He saw the tears and more. He saw the obedience to your leader. What you needed in that season, did you get the understanding? The season is getting ready to pass!

The storm may have come but it didn’t kill you. The Lord has strengthened you and is encouraging you. A new beginning is on the way. You can have a new exodus if you desire it! For the Lord will get you through it. He has remembered you! The duration of your season is conditioned by the decisions you make in that season.

New Season

In welcoming your new season, welcome the change in your perception. Welcome to the change in mindset that will increase the change in behavior. Those that were in the Ark were spared because of the obedience of Noah. Noah’s ability to hear God, obey God, and wait, is what allowed his season to only be one hundred and fifty days. Your decisions can be better. You must make the decision that you will not make the same mistakes, that caused you to go through in the first place. You can have a new day but if you make the wrong decisions in the new day, you can see the same results as before. Make new decisions in your new season!

Allow God to strengthen you in your new season. Every promise God has for you, can be received. It’s yours! God has given you the ability to make new decisions. Think about those decisions and where it’ll lead to.

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Message Preached by Elder Elyon Wells on January 22, 2023

Acts 1:8; Acts 2:1-4: Acts 2:37-39

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What God has given you, is not enough to sustain you in your current place. Many of you have made it by with what you have had, in the years of early. Some even drifting on a memory. There’s no need to keep on drifting by on a memory. There’s enough for you to have all you need from God. According to the Word of God, it is the Father’s good pleasure to give unto you the Kingdom.

These scriptures are letting you know the Holy Spirit and it’s ability in the life of believers. How He walks with you, talks with you, and tells you you are His own. The Bible is telling you you were bought with a price. You are not your own. You must walk with God, as crucified to sin. Be dead to the things you use to do, and must now live in a new way. The only way to live in the new is by living in the Faith of the Son of God. Who loves you and gave Himself for you. “If any man be in Christ, He is a new creature……..”, 2 Corinthians 5:17.

Sometimes we struggle to walk the new way in Christ. Yet, all you need is more of Him. When you have more, there are certain things you wouldn’t do, say, and places you won’t even go. The Bible tells in order to do the work of the Lord and walk this faith walk, and live right, we need power. The Holy Ghost power! When you have power, you will be a witness unto God. You must know for yourself this power! This power will deliver you, will bring you out, and have no doubt about who He is.

A birthing is happening on the earth and you must wait for it. Wait on the power of the Lord. The apostles waited in the Upper Room for power. Once power came upon them, they went out and preached repentance and the promise that followed. If you want to make it in this hour, you need the Promise. The Promise is the Holy Ghost! The Promise helps you present your body as a living sacrifice. It keeps you from lying, stealing, it helps you to love your enemies and helps you to walk away from a fight.

The Holy Ghost gives us the ability to witness in impossible situations and places. Further, the Holy Ghost helps us with consistency and commitment. Allow the Holy Ghost to have you speak and walk in truth. Be full of the Holy Ghost! If there are certain behaviors that you cannot get rid of, examine yourself and ask God for more of the Holy Ghost. In order to make it, you need more!

Ask for more!

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Message Preached on January 15, 2023 by Deacon Jamie Hathaway

John 15: 7; Hebrews 11:1

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We have a tendency to clean our cars, homes, desk, and just about anything that needs cleaning right. What about a spiritual cleanse? A spiritual cleaning? We know the other things matter but a spiritual cleansing matters more. There are some things that we must put at the altar. Things that have been ailing us, blocking us, and more; we must leave them at the altar of the Lord. Anxiety, doubt, fear, and anything not limited to the seven deadly sins. Greed, anger, envy, gluttony, laziness, lust of the flesh & eyes, and the pride of life, have to be cleared out. The way to conquer these things and get rid of them is by being obedient to the word of God.

In the scripture in John, we find the word abide. The word abide, accept, trust, and act in accordance with. When we say we’re going to get rid of “things”, greed for instance, it is not of God but of the world. We only use 5% of our brains, imagine if we used 100% of it where things would go. How much wickedness would creep in because of the “power” we would have. This is why God has given us limited power in this area. He knows the mind of man. By having too much power, the enemy would tell us we are stronger than the God we serve. Why should we listen to him? The lust of the eye and desiring the power, would lead to greed. We would want to obtain everything the next man has, yet not willing to do the work. Stop trying to get what you want, when God supplies all of your needs.

To leave things at the altar, it is very important we learn to steward our time. Use it wisely to draw closer to God by reading the word. Our emotions is one that we must pay attention to. Our emotions bring back envy and wanting what others have. Envy brings on anger. Out of anger, we start making long term decisions for short term decisions. Why, because emotions kicked in and had you make a rash decision. Decisions that leads to laziness and comfortability, when this was never the plan of God. From the laziness, leads to gluttony which now is causing depression. Leave the emotions at the altar!

Lust of the eyes, the things that look appealing to you will lead to trouble. The lust of the eyes comes with conditions and you must be prepared to deal with them. Be aware of the lust of the flesh as well. The pride of life is one that really gets the best of us. Don’t let your pride hold you back from receiving the blessings the Lord has for you.The safest place to be to get rid of pride, any of the seven deadly sins, and anything else that is hindering you is in the church, at the altar.

We have today and tomorrow by Grace. Be obedient to the Word of God and step out by Faith. Trusting that God will remove those hindrances. Don’t be afraid to go to the altar. Faith has hope and fear has despair. Which one will you choose? Follow the leading of God and be free. By being obedient to Jesus and His Word, you will find peace.

What will you leave at the altar?

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