The devil is a real adversary and foe who is after your soul.  He's doing everything to mess you up, thwart your efforts, ruin your witness, and make you blaspheme. Our human strength is no match for the demonic.  This is a reality of the Christian walk.

When we face the enemy, we are to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Our strength will fail but God will never fail.

As a Christian, you will experience spiritual warfare. God is readying and preparing us, but we have some duty in putting on His armor. We must make sure we do our diligence to sink into the armor of God so that we have the divine protection we need for battle.

God is greater than any adversary that we will ever meet. In Christ, we are well able to stand. We need to let our inner man agree with that, rise up, and stand in victory.

Christ has called us to servanthood. We should serve others like we are serving the Lord. Our jobs can be seen as the mission field as we aim to reflect His glory well wherever we go. Even in the workplace, we can make a difference and be witness and a real testimony for Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ was known as a servant. He served everyone He came in contact with. The Spirit of God will not rest on our pride and spirit of independence. It is vital we keep a right spirit.

When we become servants of the Lord, we must walk in a certain humility, knowing who and what we are. We are people under mercy. We were granted mercy and given a new opportunity. We need to treat others the same way.

As a Christian worker, we must ask ourselves whether we work with sincerity of heart or grumble and complain. It is the will of God we serve with gladness.

Christians should make peace and be the ones who up the morale and the atmosphere of the work environment with our good attitude. God has called us to a good work, and the first part of that good work is to shine His character.

The family is under unprecedented attack.  We must look at the warfare going on in the family, and in particular in regard to our children. We must train our children and help them navigate through these perilous times that we live in right now.  It takes hard work. 

It’s time for Christians to really take to heart the stewardship God has given us in our children. We have responsibilities and duties to our children as their parents to raise them, instill Christian value, and do everything we know how to bring our children to Christ. 

We've lost all Christian conviction about covenant because blood covenant is not appropriately taught from the pulpit. We need to understand, in the Christian home, that we are first submitted to Jesus Christ through a blood covenant. Then also, through a blood covenant, we are connected to our spouse. 

Both of these relationships are nurtured through communication. When we keep our hearts soft before the Lord, we can keep our relationships intact. Marriage vows should not be taken flippantly. 

Why doesn't our Christianity translate into good relationships? If there's any place the love of Christ should show up it's in our home. 

God wants to bring peace into our home through divine order once we are first mutually submitted to Jesus Christ.  When we have a true spiritual covenant with God, we have forsaken all others.  We belong to Christ - us in Him and Him in us.  This is the unity of faith, and we should see the same devotion in the covenant of marriage.  

Come to Christ, come through the cross, die to who you were, get a new life, be born again, and then the Spirit of Christ will reside in your heart and the Spirit of grace will lift you up in a higher law than sin and death.  It’s called the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.  

We are under a higher law.  He didn’t lower it.  He raised it above human reach.  He put it out of the capacity of human ability and in divine ability.  The Spirit of grace is there to empower us to live out what Christ wants us to do. 

Grace is not a crutch to live subpar to where Christ calls us to be.

We are in a new covenant made in the blood of Jesus Christ.  We are the temple of the living God and the Spirit of God moves in us.  There’s a light shining in us and it’s the character that comes from the new birth as we become partakers of divine nature.  We become the light of the world. 

Some of you need to hear this, awake, and rise from the dead and God will give you light.

The book of Ephesians is filled with the word walk.  Our walk is our manner of life. It is the way we live.   

We are to walk worthy of the calling. There should be a lifestyle change that aligns to what God has called us to. It is not that we walk in a rigidity of commandment or a lifestyle cleanup, but we are to walk in the love of God. 

The gospel should affect the way we live our lives. This is the new birth as God the Creator makes us new.  The divine power of God comes into us; and as the old man comes off, the new man comes in.

In the salvation of God, He has foreordained that we would be recreated in Christ Jesus for a good work.  The good work is for us to walk in this physical body in this present age in a way that manifests the Spirit of Christ.  It's the greatest work that can be done.  We are to walk in the full transfiguration of Christ Jesus and affect everyone around because of the power of God that is upon us.

Every one of us in Christ has been given a measure of Christ’s gifts. Jesus Christ Himself gifted men to be gifts to men.  These ministry gifts are to equip the ministry; however, they are the biggest things tradition stole from everyone. 

This demonic thief of tradition steals the priesthood of every believer.  It is a grief that we have taken these gifts and squeezed them down to one thing: Pastor.  It is a detriment to the gospel that all the church be in the hands of pastors. 

The paradigm is shifting back to an apostolic model with relational ministry led by the Holy Ghost. We need a fresh wave of powerful apostles and prophets who will set the foundations properly of Spirit and truth.  Spirit and truth must come together in the very foundation of Jesus Christ in these New Testament churches.   

The measure God wants us to walk in is fullness.  It is the absolute goal and aim in the Christian walk to be filled with Christ.  Let’s be a vessel who says, “Empty me out so I can be filled with You.”  We are to ask, seek, knock, and persistently pursue a fuller life with the Holy Ghost in us. 

There’s been a huge paradigm shift where God no longer dwells in temples made by men. He now dwells in men.

He's building Himself a house, and it’s those He has brought into the new birth and are being intertwined relationally in love. When we come together in that assembled love by the Spirit of God, we become a dwelling place for God. It is there God promises to manifest His presence.

God wants to do a mighty work in this new paradigm. He wants you to come to the mountain alone with Him where He can transfigure you. You are invited to meet with God until He strengthens you with might in your inner man according to the working of His power and He fills you with His glory.

God wants to come into you to save, heal, deliver, and transform you so Christ can live in you. It's all done through faith in His word. Faith pulls this out of heaven into your heart.

Instead of trying to find God in a temple, let Him find you in His temple and change you from the inside out.  Hear Him and become the tabernacle of God, a holy sanctuary, where He is pleased to dwell in you.

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All throughout the history of the church, every revival has resulted from the Holy Spirit blasting through existing orthodoxy and disrupting the standards and norms that were in control.

We are in this sort of paradigm shift now. 

The Holy Spirit is not looking to occupy a physical building.  He is wanting to live in the hearts of men.  God wants to live inside redeemed vessels.  Immanuel in the heart of every soul.  That’s the fullness of the gospel. 

Currently there‘s a lack of experiential Christianity.  We need to encounter the presence of God in a powerful way where we don’t remain the same.  We are the tabernacle of God only when He transfigures us through a divine encounter with Him.  Where faith comes alive, the Word begins to change you, and your mind is renewed. It’s called repentance. 

We must take care to build according to the New Testament pattern.  The building blocks of the New Testament are ransomed vessels who have received Christ in such a divine encounter they are transformed, and the Word of God continues to transfigure them throughout their life, so they are conformed to the image of Christ in all of His fullness.  And then we are joined together relationally, one to another, and build a community of faith and friendship that the world looks at and knows we are His disciples.

The building of God is not an organization of brick and mortar. It is a living organism, filled with people who are filled with God’s praises, with Jesus Christ as the Chief Cornerstone. However, the builders have rejected God’s design and the Chief Cornerstone.

God wanted the New Testament church to be structured relationally, not bureaucratically. Instead of the relational church God intended, many worship in an old paradigm, trying to mimic the Old Testament temple. We must start anew in the true new paradigm, where we are the temple of God.

We are to build carefully according to the pattern that Jesus gave His disciples. God wants to live in the hearts and minds of men, not in physical buildings. We are meant to worship in a relational church, where we are built together in relationships to be a habitation for be Holy Spirit.

There are so many American believers who have gotten disenchanted and fallen out of church. There’s another way. You can have church right there in your homes in the relational structure God intended. If you are sitting out of church, it’s time to get the vision.