Messages at CalvaryOKC

The difference between victory and defeat is often one decision.

Pastor Jason Sharp preached a powerful message from Judges 10 and Deuteronomy 28 about repentance, obedience, free will, and the incredible power of a made up mind.

Israel repeatedly found themselves trapped in cycles of blessing, compromise, bondage, repentance, and restoration. Yet every time they humbled themselves before God, God responded with mercy.

Why?

Because repentance changes everything.

God is not looking for perfect people.

God is looking for surrendered people.

The enemy wants you to believe that your failures define you.

God wants you to understand that your next decision can redefine your future.

It doesn't matter how many times you've fallen.

It matters how many times you get back up.

When a person makes up their mind to serve God, heaven responds.

Help comes.

Grace comes.

Strength comes.

Mercy comes.

A made up mind becomes a powerful weapon against doubt, fear, temptation, and failure.

The same free will that allows a person to walk away from God is the same free will that allows them to return.

God's blessing is not reserved for perfect people.

It's reserved for people who decide to obey.

One act of obedience can begin a completely different future.

And one moment of repentance can change everything.

Why did God choose Abraham?

Why Moses?

Why David?

Why Jacob?

Why Paul?

And perhaps the most important question of all:

Why did God choose you?

Bishop Paul Sharp took the church on a powerful journey through Scripture, examining some of the greatest men of God and asking what captured God's attention about their lives.

Abraham believed God when he couldn't fully understand what God was saying.

Moses loved God's people enough to fight for them.

David valued what God valued and feared nothing but God.

Jacob desired the promises of God more than comfort, convenience, or temporary satisfaction.

Paul loved souls so deeply that he would sacrifice everything to reach them.

What was the common thread?

They loved what God loves.

God is looking for people who treasure spiritual things above earthly things.

People who value the church.

People who value truth.

People who value God's promises.

People who refuse to sell their birthright for temporary pleasure.

The challenge of the message was simple:

What is the Kingdom worth to you?

What would you sacrifice?

What would you surrender?

What price are you willing to pay for the things of God?

The people God used most were people who loved what God loved.

And that invitation still stands today.

Sermon #1579 – The Power of a Unified Church

The enemy's greatest strategy is division.

God's greatest strategy is unity.

Pastor Jason Sharp preached a powerful message from Luke 11, reminding us that every kingdom divided against itself will fall, but a unified church becomes an unstoppable force in the Kingdom of God.

The enemy works through lies, offense, suspicion, fear, and isolation.

He wants families divided.

He wants churches divided.

He wants believers fighting one another instead of fighting the real enemy.

But God's plan has always been different.

The Body of Christ was designed to function together.

The blessing flows through unity.

The anointing flows through unity.

The gifts flow through unity.

The strength of the church is found when believers come together with one mind, one purpose, and one spirit.

The enemy wants you to believe you are alone.

God wants you connected.

The enemy wants you isolated.

God wants you in the body.

The enemy wants you fighting people.

God wants you fighting spiritual battles.

You're not alone.

You're not forgotten.

You're not fighting by yourself.

You are part of the Body of Christ.

And there is power in a unified church.

The greatest battle many believers face is not around them—it's between the voices speaking into their minds.

Pastor Jason Sharp delivered a direct and powerful message on spiritual warfare, temptation, identity, and discerning the voice of God from the voice of the enemy.

The devil has one language: lies.

From the Garden of Eden to the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness, the enemy's strategy has never changed. He questions God's Word. He attacks identity. He offers counterfeits. He plants doubt.

But every lie can be defeated by truth.

Jesus did not defeat temptation through emotion, opinion, or personal strength. He defeated it through the Word of God.

The message challenged believers to:

• Learn God's voice
• Recognize the enemy's voice
• Resist temptation
• Walk in spiritual authority
• Build a life of prayer and worship
• Replace lies with truth

The enemy wants worship.

He wants compromise.

He wants believers to question who they are.

But God calls His people sons and daughters.

Victory begins when we know whose voice we're listening to.

The devil is a liar.

God's Word is truth.

And truth still makes people free.

The world doesn't need more opinions.

It needs disciples.

Pastor Jason Sharp preached a powerful message from the Sermon on the Mount, reminding us that Jesus never called His followers to blend in with the world—He called them to change it.

"You are the salt of the earth."

"You are the light of the world."

Salt preserves.

Light exposes darkness.

And both influence everything around them.

The challenge of the message was simple:

Stop waiting for someone else to change the world around you.

Be the change.

World changers don't complain about darkness.

They become light.

World changers don't blend into culture.

They influence culture.

World changers don't merely hear the Word.

They obey it.

A teachable spirit allows God to shape us.

Obedience protects us.

Humility positions us.

And love demonstrates Christ to the world.

Jesus taught us to:

• Love our enemies
• Forgive offenses
• Pray for those who mistreat us
• Go the extra mile
• Live differently than the world

Because the greatest testimony is not what we say.

It's how we live.

"You'll never be a light until you do something different."

The world is changed when believers live like Jesus.

Sermon #1575 – A Place of Teaching

Every test is a teaching place.

Pastor Otilio Blanco preached a powerful lesson from Abraham's journey to Mount Moriah, reminding us that God uses tests, trials, and difficult seasons to teach us who He is and who we are called to become.

Before Abraham ever arrived at the mountain, God called his name.

And Abraham responded:

"Here I am."

That response became the foundation of the message.

When God speaks, our response should always be readiness, obedience, and trust.

Moriah was not simply a mountain.

It was a place of teaching.

A place where Abraham learned:

• God is a provider
• God can be trusted
• God wants first place in our lives
• Every test reveals something about our faith

Pastor Blanco challenged the church not to waste their trials.

Every struggle can become a classroom.

Every test can become a testimony.

Every challenge can reveal a deeper understanding of God's character.

"God never misses an opportunity to teach."

The same God who provided a lamb for Abraham is still providing today.

If you're in a difficult season, don't see it as your destination.

See it as a place of teaching.

God's supply is not limited by our circumstances.

Pastor Jason Sharp preached a faith-building message reminding us that God's provision does not operate according to human limitations. His ways are higher. His thoughts are higher. His resources are higher.

Too often we view our needs through the lens of what we can see, but God operates from a place of unlimited supply.

The same God who:

• Sent manna in the wilderness
• Parted the Red Sea
• Provided for Elijah
• Fed the multitudes
• Filled the upper room

is still working today.

Isaiah reminds us that God's Word never returns void. When God speaks a promise, He intends to fulfill it.

This message challenged us to stop focusing on scarcity and start focusing on God's sufficiency.

When we seek His face instead of merely His hand, we discover that provision is found in relationship.

The Holy Ghost is not simply an experience—it is access to God's power, wisdom, direction, and supernatural supply.

If God brought you to it, He will bring you through it.

God has more than enough.

On Wednesday night, Missionary Rev. Jonathan Strickland preached a deeply personal and powerful message about the value and impact of every believer’s testimony.

Your story matters.

Not because it’s polished.
Not because it’s dramatic.
Not because it’s perfect.

But because God is in it.

Rev. Strickland reminded the church that some of the most powerful ministry moments happen when ordinary people simply share what Jesus has done in their lives.

“They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.”

Whether you were:
• Lost and found
• Broken and restored
• Raised in church or rescued from addiction
• Young or old

God has given you a story with purpose.

This message challenged young people especially to stop living off someone else’s testimony and develop their own walk with God.

“You can’t just become a generation of inheritance. You’ve got to become a generation of conversion.”

Through moving missionary stories from Greece and beyond, Rev. Strickland showed how God can use one testimony, one conversation, one act of obedience, or one uncomfortable moment to completely transform lives.

Your story may take you places you don’t want to go.

But God uses surrendered stories to reach people no strategy alone ever could.

The Holy Ghost changes EVERYTHING.

On Pentecost Sunday, Pastor Jason Sharp preached a powerful message about what happens when the Spirit of God fills a person’s life.

The Holy Ghost is not just emotion.
It’s not tradition.
It’s not hype.

It is the Spirit of God living inside of you.

And when the Holy Ghost comes into your life:

• Peace replaces anxiety
• Joy replaces emptiness
• Purpose replaces confusion
• Freedom replaces bondage
• Alignment replaces conflict

Pastor Jason taught how humanity constantly searches for answers because there is a spiritual vacuum inside every person.

People try to fill it with:
Relationships
Success
Entertainment
Addictions
Money

But nothing satisfies the soul like the presence of God.

“The world can’t fix your problems. Jesus can.”

This message also walked through the biblical experience of Pentecost in Acts 2 and explained repentance, baptism in Jesus’ name, and receiving the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues.

The Holy Ghost is not just for a few people.

It is for everybody.

And the greatest thing about living for God?

The benefits.

Peace.
Joy.
Direction.
Provision.
Healing.
Purpose.
Relationship with God.

“Serving God is the best life you could ever live.”

our life follows your thinking.

Pastor Jason Sharp preached a powerful and practical message on the battlefield of the mind and how transformed thinking leads to transformed living.

“Change the way you view yourself. Change your entire life.”

This message challenged believers to stop agreeing with the lies of the enemy and begin replacing negative thoughts with the truth of God’s Word.

The enemy wants to fill minds with:
• Fear
• Shame
• Defeat
• Isolation
• Hopelessness

But God wants His people to walk in:
• Faith
• Confidence
• Victory
• Dominion
• Spiritual authority

The message also focused heavily on praying in the Holy Ghost and how praying in tongues builds faith, shifts thinking, and unlocks spiritual breakthrough.

Pastor shared incredible testimonies and moments from prayer where God used tongues and interpretation to encourage, strengthen, and minister to people in need.

“You are not your thoughts. You control your thoughts.”

This was more than a sermon about positive thinking.

It was a call to spiritual transformation.