Mission City Church w/ Pastor Josh Hershey

The Scriptures teach that “our citizenship is in heaven” (Phil. 3:20). And every citizen in this kingdom is called to be part of the army of the Lord. We are called to be “a good solider of Jesus Christ” (2 Tim. 2:3). We are called to “fight the good fight of faith” (1 Tim. 6:11). The citizen of heaven has a greater authority in Christ than many have dared imagine. Most of our eyes are just squinting at kingdom truths. They are barely open. But we are called to live with the eyes of our heart wide open (Eph. 1:20). To know our authority and the rights that belong to us as citizens. As we begin to know and act on those rights, we begin to reign in life through Jesus Christ! We begin to make meaningful blows against the Enemy that is waging a war against our souls and bodies!

Did healing cease with the apostles? Or, did it cease for a large portion of church history and come back like a flood during the Renewal and Pentecostal movements a century ago? The truth is that healing has ALWAYS been part of the Church. We have the same Chief Shepherd who has been the Great Physician to all of our mothers and fathers of faith. Join us as Josh begins to share healing testimonies from EVERY CENTURY of church history! Be encouraged that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever!

Jesus declared that those who believe in Him would be turned “from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God” (Acts 26:18). When someone becomes new creation in Christ they become a citizen of heaven and they are renewed to their primal God given position of authority. Paul declares, “those who receive God’s overflowing grace and gift of righteousness reign as kings in Life through the one individual, Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:17). What does it mean to reign? What are some of the rights of citizens of God’s kingdom? How does Jesus’ lordship relate to sickness and disease? Join us!

There was a “healing pool” in Jerusalem called Bethesda. It’s five porches were loaded with the blind, lame, and paralyzed. Occasionally an angel would come and stir the water causing miracles. When Jesus visited Bethesda He brought His own healing water. It was always “stirred.” It was the Living Water of the Holy Spirit! (Acts 10:38; John 7:39) Jesus is much greater than the angels (Heb.1). He is much better than Bethesda! And so is His Body, the Church! Join us as we learn some important truths about healing from this powerful story in the Gospel of John!

Paul wrote, “I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.” (2 Timothy 1:6). This gift is the Spirit. The Spirit who is power, love and a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7). The Spirit who has many gifts He wants us as a community to operate in. Join us as we continue to learn what it means to “stir up” that Gift and begin to walk in everything the Lord has for us. To be fully immersed in the life and the fiery power of God. Of the God who loves us completely with an everlasting love.

The whole Christian life is one of GIFT. We receive the gift of eternal life (Rom. 6:23). The gift of righteousness (Rom. 5:17). The gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 8:20). And within the Gift of the Holy Spirit is a multitude of other gifts that we can eagerly desire to have operate in our lives (1 Cor. 12, 14). Join us as we delve into the powerful “Promise of the Father” who wants to fill us to fullness and utilize us as vessels of blessing for a broken, sin scarred, and diseased world. It is always the right time to “pursue love” and “stir up the gift of God” which is in us (1 Cor. 14:1; 2 Tim. 1:6).

HEALING — THE IMPORTANCE OF TESTIMONY AND THANKSGIVING

The importance of giving testimony to the work of God in one’s life is a theme that occurs throughout Scripture. We give thanks to the Father and we testify to his great work and goodness before man. Testimony and thanksgiving should regularly be given for all that God has done and is doing for us. Our salvation, our redemption, our sanctification, our new life, and, yes, our healing! Join us as we dig into the stories of the twelve spies, David and the arc, the woman with the issue of blood, and the man born blind!

Did you know that our days in our current bodies are numbered? One day we will all take our last breath. The outward man is perishing day by day. While we have the down payment and vivifying effects of the Life of God now, there is still a longing to be fully clothed with our resurrected bodies. There is still a desire to be inundated by the fullness of Life and experience ultimate and total healing in our resurrected state. In light of the fact that we will all one day lay our current bodies down, and sow them as a seed, how are we to live? How are to utilize our current mortal bodies? We must say with the psalmist, “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12)

Join us as Pastor Fred Benzyl shares a powerful message todays service

Peter calls God’s hand a “mighty hand” (1 Pet. 5:6). This mighty hand of God was on full display in the ministry of Jesus. When Jesus’ hometown received Him they marveled “that such mighty works are performed by His hands” (Mark 6:2). This was a Man who would reach out and touch unclean lepers and bring them into wholeness (Mark 1:41). A Man who had such great compassion for the hurting that when confronted with a multitude of sick folk “He laid His hands on every one of them and healed them” (Luke 4:40). Throughout the Gospels Christ is constantly stretching out His mighty hand to bring sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, strength to the lame, and deliverance to all diseased. Christ has not stopped stretching out His mighty hand. A hand that is now nail-pierced. A hand with the signature of His carrying away of disease on the cross. This mighty hand of love is stretched out today through His body on earth—the church! Believers will lay hands on the sick and see them recover! (James 5:14-15; Mark 16:18) Join us as we delve into the truths about the Mighty Hand of God!