With many personal stories and wonderful encouragement that everyone can hear from God, Bryan Emory outlined how God talks to us, and how much God wants to reveal His love and His purpose for each of us! Very persuasively and with supporting scripture, Bryan presented several ways God speaks to all people and especially gets the attention of each one that opens their heart to seek God and hear His voice.

God has been exposing the enemy’s tactics of delay, doubt and fear to try to lessen our faith in God. God wants His Church to partner with Him by continuing to move forward on His instructions, as declared in Isaiah 61. We are equipped to overcome the enemy’s attempts to cause us to become weary and to cause us to disengage from who our God is and who we are in Him. We move forward by realizing He is fighting for us, and we can go even deeper in our intensity and devotion to Him. Devotion is “being ardently dedicated and loyal” in your personal, private worship.

Pastor Dawn showed us in Psalm 18 how the enemy has used delay and doubt to project fear in our hearts to disengage us from God’s love and make us unresponsive to His Spirit. When the lies of the enemy make us feel as if we have no strength, and the delay becomes more real than the promises in God’s Word, then we begin to doubt God’s love and we begin to disengage. But if you just call His Name and remember that our God is “Lord Sabaoth—Mighty in Battle,” then He will show up in such a way that you re-engage. His Holy Spirit will illuminate your soul to behold His beauty once again. You will realize He has only love for you, and it will reawaken your soul to respond. You will begin to declare His truth once again, and remember that you are joined to Him. You will reconnect to the life and joy He has promised and become aware, once again, of your “oneness” with Him

Pastor Dawn ministered deeply in the prophetic before ministering deeply in the Word. Many of us have had our faith shaken and have fallen back into doing what we know to do, instead of walking in real faith and assurance of God’s love and being filled with the power and presence of God’s Word. Doubt and fear are consistent tactics of our enemy, the devil, but we need to counteract and consistently put our trust in Jesus. We need to partner with Him on purpose to defeat doubt by steadfastly remembering “how BIG our God is!” We need to go from “fear-based living” to “faith-based living,” focusing not on what could be better but focusing on what we have been promised in God’s Word. We have to take the Word of God and let the Word come up in us as our defense. He doesn’t fail! He is with us and for us!

Pastor Dawn has been seeking the Lord for the reason a spiritual alarm went ofǐf in her spirit earlier in the week. The Lord showed her very uniquely and specifically that the Church has fallen back on doing what we know to do instead of rising up to walk in the Spirit with the assurance of God, and be filled with His love, His power, His joy and His Presence. The enemy tried to shake our faith with hit after hit, and one significant way has been through delay. It is a test of faith when we expect God to move in a certain way or in a certain timeframe, and we become vulnerable to certain lies of the enemy when it doesn't happen the way we expect. God's remedy for building our faith solidly on Him as our strong foundation is to allow our own faith to be refreshed and revived by awakening faith and offering hope to others. Life comes from the flow of the Word coming out of our mouths into the midst of the storm.

Pastor Dawn asked three speakers to each give 10-minute sermons on our Liberty core value of Freedom. In a delightful puppet presentation by Susie, a puppy named Shaggy was set free when he asked Jesus to forgive him. Freedom comes at a cost, and our personal freedom from sin has been won at great cost by Jesus on the cross.

Renee reminded us that lining our lives up with the Word of God frees us from the bondage of sin. We have a free will to serve God and to serve others. True freedom is to be more dependent on God, not independent from Him.

Jeff declared many verses showing that clearly Christ wants us to enjoy freedom in every area of our lives. Christ's Kingdom is an "upside-down Kingdom," and that applies to our pursuit of freedom also. As disciples of Christ, we have given up our own free will to embrace His will. We have become bond-servants of Christ and found that we must embrace a higher concept of freedom because our true fulfillment and freedom in Christ is serving Him.

It delights God's heart for His people to be in UNITY. The spiritual principle is that with unity nothing will be impossible. Obviously, if God desires unity, then it is the devil stirring up division. It is fear that keeps us from being united to God, but we have authority over fear. We want God to act on our behalf in our timeframe, and when He stretches us to grow our faith and help us grow in relationship, we don't understand, but we will mature by going forward steadfastly in God. Obeying God brings unity, and unity brings blessing and a greater ability to receive in relationship with God and with others. God is changing us into His image and likeness, and making us all one with Him!

Pastor Dawn traced the reality of Jehovah Shammah, “The Lord Is There,” from first mention in Ezekiel 48:35b to Matthew 1:23 where it is recorded, “They called His name Immanuel, which means ‘God with us.’” God wants you to experience His Presence. God is here right now, and He wants to pour out on you and give you a taste of what is to come. As you acknowledge and seek Him, He will give you a hunger to have more of His glory. God is a Living Spirit, transforming you into His image and giving you true peace in His Presence. You ask, “Where is God?” He is here, He is there, and He is with you when you get a bad doctor’s report, and He is with you when you make major life-changing decisions. He is there when you’re lonely; He’s there when you are tempted; He’s there when you’re sad; He’s there when you are truthful. He’s always there, always offering His comfort, His love and His strength, even when you don’t feel Him. God wants you to be aware of this even when you’ve lost your faith: GOD IS THERE WITH YOU.

Pastor Dawn asked several people to share from their heart on the Love of God, one of Liberty’s six core values.

Alma gave glory to God for all the things He has brought her through in life, and it is only because God’s love is greater than any other love.

Grayson contrasted God’s love with family love and worldly love. He shared how God’s love helped him overcome in very difficult situations. He encouraged each of us to believe that He will never leave you or forsake you, and you will find out just how much He is for you, and that He is always by your side.

Joanna exhorted us to learn to allow God to love us. That is key to giving and receiving love from others.

Pastor Dawn encouraged us that God’s amazing, faithful love is always available to us each moment, and that is exactly why we must never take His love for granted. Set apart time to be with Him alone, and You will actually experience God because He IS love.

Jonathan Farrell illuminated the name of God of Yahweh Nissi, God is my Banner, that God gives me His banner of victory. His banner of love keeps us safe and unified, gives us God’s authority, gives each of us identity and purpose, and the knowledge that God will defend us and fight for us! We must focus on God and what He is doing, not on the battle down here. What is happening in the spirit realm is way more important and far-reaching than the part of the battle we can see. Make sure you are fighting under God’s banner.

Then Pastor Dawn encouraged us in these times (and in this election year) to rally to God’s banner as our ultimate authority. We must fight in the spiritual realm for righteousness and vote biblical principles, and let God’s banner fly higher than any other.