GOD HAS GIVEN ALL BELIEVERS SPIRITUAL POWER THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO USE THE POWER BECAUSE WE ARE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE MOST HIGH KING.  THIS IS A SUPERNATURAL POWER THAT ALLOW US TO LAY HANDS ON THE SICK, AND THIS SPIRITUAL POWER  TO COMMAND HEALING. THE POWER TO DRIVE OUT DEMONS. THIS IS NOT A PHYSICAL POWER, IT IS SPIRITUAL. JESUS, BEFORE HE  ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN, HE TOLD HIS DISCIPLES TO GO AND WAIT IN JERUSALEM UNTIL HE SENDS THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO WILL EMPOWER THEM TO CONTINUE THE WORK ON EARTH THAT HE STARTED.  HE TOLD THEM THAT GREATER WORK THEY WILL DO. IN OTHER WORDS, WHILE HE WAS ON EARTH TEY COULD ONLY SPREAD THE GOSPEL IN JERUSALEM, SAMARIA, AND JUDEA, BUT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH. TODAY THE GOSPEL HAS REACHED THE GLOBE AND IS STILL SPREADING. 

9/2/25

THE PROMISES OF GOD ARE ASSURANCES FOUND IN SCRIPTURE THAT ARE
ROOTED IN HIS UNCHANGING CHARACTER AND OFFER BELIEVERS HOPE,
GUIDANCE AND PROVISION. GODS PROMISES ARE GIVEN TO INCLUDE
SALVATION, ETERNAL LIFE, PROTECTION AND PROVISION FOR NEEDS, PEACE
AND COMFORT, FORGIVENESS, GUIDANCE AND WISDOM AND THE ASSURANCE
OF GOD’S PRESENCE AND FAITHFULNESS.
WHEN CHALLENGES ARISE, “STANDING ON GOD’S PROMISES” MEANS
HOLDING ONTO HOPE, AND TRUSTING THAT GOD WILL DELIVER ACCORDING
TO HIS WORD. GOD’S PROMISES HOLD GREAT POWER BECAUSE IT IS THE
FOUNDATION OF TRUST AND SECURITY. MANY TIMES THE PROMISES DOES
NOT COME THROUGH IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE THERE ARE SPIRITUAL
RESISTANCE, PROMISES ARE DELAYED BECAUSE OF PRINCIPALITIES AND
POWERS IN THE HEAVENLY REALM THAT PREVENT THE PROMISES FROM
TAKING EFFECTS. GOD IS WAITING ON BELIEVERS’ PERSONAL GROWTH,
SOMETIMES DISOBEDIENCE IN OUR LIVES. ANOTHER TIME WE GIVE UP
BECAUSE WE CANNOT WAIT ON GOD. WAITING ON GOD REQUIRE FAITH IN HIM,
BECAUSE WE KNOW THE GOD WE SERVE. LET US NOT GROW WEARY IN
DOING GOOD, BECAUSE WE WILL REAP IN DUE SEASON.

8/26/25

THE BIBLE  TELLS US NEVER TO QUENCH  OR GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.  THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES FOR DOING SO.  THERE WILL BE A DECLINE IN OUR SPIRITUAL LIVES. YOU WIL EXPERIENCE SPIRITUAL EMPTINESS, AND BECOME VULNERABLE TO SIN. 1 THESSALONIANS 5:16-22 TELLS NOT TO QUENCH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND YOU SHOULD NOT TREAT PROPHECIES WITH CONTEMPT, BUT YOU ARE TO TEST THE SPIRIT.  THE HOLY SPIRIT IS IS THE FIRE OF GOD THAT BURNS WITHIN US. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE ONE WHO GIVES THE NINE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. WE CAN DO NOTHING WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT  THE HOLY SPIRIT IS OUR ADVOCATE, OUR COMFORT AND HE IS THE ONE WHO CONVICTS US OF OUR SINS. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE '"RESTRAINER" THEREFORE, THE ANTICHRIST WILL NOT BE REVEALED UNTIL THE CHURCH IS TAKEN OUT OF THIS WORLD.. THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SIN CANNOT CO-EXIST IN ONE PLACE. HE IS SENSITIVE TO SIN BECAUSE OF HIS CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH US..  WHEN YOU GRIEVE THE HOLY SPIRIT YOU ARE ALLOWING YOURSELF TO DEPART FROM GOD.

8/19/25

THE BOOK OF EXODUS DOCUMENTED THAT AFTER GOD RESCUED THE
ISRAELITES FROM SLAVERY IN EGYPT. THEY CAMPED IN THE DESERT FOR
FORTY YEARS BEFORE THEY FINALLY ENTERED THEIR NEW TERRITORY.
WHILE THEY WERE IN THE WILDERNESS, GOD TAUGHT THEM A LOT ABOUT
HIMSELF AND GAVE THEM MANY RELIGIOUS LESSONS. HE GAVE MOSES
DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS TO BUILD A DWELLING PLACE FOR HIM, CALLED THE
TABERNACLE. THERE HE WOULD COMMUNE WITH THEM. THEY WOULD BE HIS
PEOPLE AND HE WOULD BE THEIR GOD. MOSES CAME DOWN FROM THE MOUNT
SINAI WITH THE TABLET OF LAW AND THE BLUEPRINT GOD HAD GIVEN HIM ON
HOW TO BUILD THE TABERNACLE. IT WAS PERFECT IN EVERY DETAIL THE
TABERNACLE HAD SEVEN PIECES OF FURNITURE, TWO PIECES IN THE OUTER
COURT, THREE PIECES IN THE HOLY PLACE AND TWO PIECES IN THE HOLY OF
HOLIES. ALL THE MATERIAL THAT WAS USED TO BUILD THE TABERNACLE WAS
WHAT THEY GOT FROM THE EGYPTIANS WHEN THEY PLUNDERED THEM,
BEFORE LEAVING EGYPT. AARON FROM THE TRIBE OF LEVI WAS ASSIGNED BY
GOD AS THE PRIEST WHO WOULD ATTEND TO THE CARING OF THE
TABERNACLE DAILY. EVERY PIECE OF FURNITURE HAD A
PROPHETIC AND REDEMPTIVE SIGNIFICANCE.

08/12/2025

THE ARMOR OF GOD

AS BELIEVERS, WE ARE IN A WAR. WE ARE IN A CONSTANT SPIRITUAL BATTLE DAILY. ONCE YOU ARE SAVED AND SERVING THE LORD, YOU COME UNDER THE ENEMIES A ATTACK MORE THAN THE UNBELIEVERS. APOSTHE PAUL SPEAKS ABOUT THE SIX PIECES OF ARMOR IN EPHESIANS 6:10-18

1) THE HELMET OF SALVATION

2) THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

3) THE BELT OF TRUTH

4) THE SHIELD OF FAITH

5) THE SHOE OF PEACE

6) THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT

THESE SIX PIECES OF THE ARMOR IS ALL THE WORD OF GOD. THE BATTLE WE FIGHT IS A SPIRITUAL BATTLE AND WE CANNOT FIGHT WITH TANGIBLE WEAPONS. TANGIBLE WEAPONS ARE INEFFECTIVE TO  FIGHT THE ENEMY.. HOWEVER, IF WE FOLLOW GOD'S INSTRUCTIONS FAITHFULLY, YOU WILL HAVE VICTORY OVER SATAN'S STRATEGY.

8/5/25

MATTHEW, MARK, AND LUKE ARE REFERRED TO AS THE SYNOPSIS GOSPELS. JOHN IS REFERRED TO AS THE GOSPEL OF JOHN. THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW, MARK & LUKE INCLUDE MANY OF THE  SAME STORIES, OFTEN IN SIMILAR SEQUENCE AND  IDENTICAL WORDING. THEY CARRY THE SAME STORIES, PARABLES,+ AND EVENTS FROM JESUS' LIFE IN A SIMILAR WAY. JOHN CONTENT IS LARGELY DISTINCT AND DIFFERENT. JOHN DOES NOT CARRY THE BIRTH STORY OF JESUS. JOHN RECORDS JESUS' TEACHING ON A THEOLOGICAL LEVEL.. JOHN IS TRYING TO GET THE MESSAGE ACROSS THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD, THAT THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND DWELLED AMONG US. JOHN WANTED HIS READERS TO KNOW  WHO JESUS IS AND TO BELIEVE IN HIM AS HE IS. . JOHN GOPSEL WAS WRITTEN TO A DIVERSE AUDIENCE.  JESUS' MINISTRY LASTED  THREE YEARS 

TEACHING THROUGHOUT JUDEA AND SAMARIA, TEACHING IN SIMPLE LANGUAGE USING  PARABLES, WHICH WAS EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND. THROUGHOUT THE REGION HE HEALED, OPENED THE EYES OF HE BLIND AND CAST OUT DEMONS. THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES DISPISED HIM BECAUSE HE TEACHES WITH AUTHORITY AND HE WAS POPULAR AMONG THE PEOPLE. JESUS LOVED ALL PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE POOR,  SUFFERING LOWLY , WIDOWS, STRANGERS, AND ORPHANS. HIS CENTRAL MESSAGE WAS ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 

7/22/25

MATTHEW 4:23-25 TELLS THAT JESUS WENT THROUGH GALILEE, HEALING EVERY PERSON WHO CAME TO HIM WITH SICKNESS AND DISEASE. PEOPLE WITH ALL KINDS OF DISEASES. THE LAME, BLIND, PARALYZED, EPILEPTIC, LUNATIC, SEVERE PAIN, AND THOSE POSSESSED BY DEVILS. JESUS HEALED BECAUSE HE WAS COMPASSIONATE; HE HEALED SO THAT HIS FATHER WOULD GET THE GLORY.  HE HEALED BECAUSE HEALING IS THE CHILDREN'S BREAD, HE HEALED TO FULFILL GOD'S PROMISES, HE HEALED TO CONFIRM GOD'S WORD, HE HEALED TO SHOW HOW POWERFUL THE BLOOD IS.  EVERY TIME THE LORD HEALS SATAN IS DEFEATED AT THE CROSS. THE SHEDDING OF GOD'S BLOOD ON THE CROSS IS A COVENANT THAT GOD HAS WITH HIS CHILDREN. IT IS THE BLOOD COVENANT.  THIS IS THE NEW COVENANT  OF GRACE, A NEWER AND BETTER COVENANT. HEBREWS 8:6 SAYS "IT IS A NEW COVENANT THAT IS SEALED, RATIFIED, APPROVED AND SIGNED WITH THE BLOOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THIS COVENANT IS SECURE.

7/15/25

REVELATION 13:1-15 TELLS ABOUT THE ANTICHRIST, SATAN THE DRAGON AND THE FALSE PROPHET. THEY WILL BE IN CONTROL AFTER THE RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS. ANYONE LEFT HERE ON EARTH IF THEY DID NOT TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST, THE NUMBER 666 OR WORSHIP THE ANTICHRIST WILL BE KILLED. PEOPLE WHO ARE LEFT HERE ON EARTH WHO WERE NOT RAPTURED WILL TRY TO ACCEPT JESUS, BUT THEY WILL BE KILLED BY THE ANTICHRIST BECAUSE HE WILL REQUIRE WORSHIP.

7/8/25

 PHILIPIANS 2;9-11 "THEREFORE GOD HAS HIGHLY EXALTED HIM AND HAS FREELY BESTOWED ON HIM THE NAME THAT IS ABOVE EVERY NAME, THAT AT THE MENTION OF THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW, OF THOSE IN HEAVEN, THOSE ON EARTH and those under the earth, and  that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of god the father"

THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST CARRIES SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY. IT IS SUPERIOR . IT IS GREATER, AND MORE POWERFUL THAN ANY OTHER NAME IN THE WORLD. ALL POWER AND AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN TO ADAM IN THE GARDEN TO HAVE DOMINION OVER ALL THINGS, HOWER THAT POWER WAS GIVEN TO SATAN BECAUSE OF ADAM'S DISOBEDIENCE. JESUS CHRIST CAME TO EARTH AND DIED FOR HUMANITY. IN SO DOING HE TOOK BACK THE POWER AND AUTHORITY FROM SATAN AND GAVE IT BACK TO MANKIND.  BECAUSE OF THE POWER AND AUTHORITY WE HAVE IN JESUS WE ARE SEATED WITH HIM IN HEAVENLY PLACE, THEREFORE WE ARE GIVE THE POWER AND AUTHORITY TO USE THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. THE NAME IS POWERFUL AND IS ABLE TO COMMAND HEALING AND WE ARE ABLE TO USE THE NAME TO DRIVE OUT DEMONS.

7/1/25

MANY BELIEVERS ARE GOING AROUND DEFEATED. BUT GOD WANTS HIS CHILDREN TO BE VICTORIOUS. AND LIVE A TRIUMPHANT LIFE. GOD AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST ARE VICTORS AND WE  TOO CAN SHARE IN THEIR VICTORIES.  1 JOHN 4:4 SAYS "GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD. CHRISTIANS HAVE THE POWER TO OVERCOME THE  CHALLENGES AND TEMPTATIONS PRESENTED BY THE WORLD.

GOD'S PEOPLE DEPENDED ON HIM AND HIM ALONE. HE GAVE THEM VICTORY OVER THEIR ENEMIES. JESUS COMING TO EARTH WON THE SUPREME VICTORY AT THE CROSS.  1 PETER SAYS WE HAVE AN ADVERSARY CALLED SATAN, WHO IS OUR OPPONENT. HE IS THE FATHER OF LIES, WHO ROAMS THE EARTH SEEKING WHOM HE CAN ATTACK AND DEVOUR. HE COMES WITH ONE AGENDA OR MISSION: TO STEAL, KILL, AND DESTROY. BUT NO WEAPONS FORMED AGAINST CAN EVER PROSPER. TO OVERCOME THE ENEMY AND TO BE VICTORIUOS, WE MUST PRAY, READ THE SCRIPTURES, PRAISE AND WORSHIP GOD EVERY DAY OF OUR LIVES.

6/24/25