The essence of a thing is defined as what that thing was intended to be. Pentecost was intended to be annointing and power and pure, not the watered down presentation of it that the world would have us believe is true.

The thing that makes us distinctive is not our dress code, it is the revelation of the power and the oneness of God. Unity in the Apostolic church is the key to our power. God is only attracted to churches that speak and do the same thing, together.

There was one mother who didn't get any written credit in Scripture, but you know she was there. Daniel would not be the man of prayer and honor that we read about if there wasn't a mother who cared about instilling morals and values into her son.

We are either sons or servants in the eyes of God. We either have power with God or we are nothing to him. We limit ourselves by the way we act. Servants have no power in the house of the Master, but the son is second only to Him.

As children of God, we are destined for greatness, and we have a path that's been set before us. Sometimes though, we can't see the end of our journey and start to wish for the things that God has already brought us out from.

After we take the time to dream up crazy, impossible dreams and begin to pray for them, sometimes it feels like it gets hard and we want to stop praying for them. We can’t see a change in our situation, or we don’t feel that we are making a difference. Sometimes it seems like it would be easier to just give up.

God loves to give us big dreams; the bigger the dreams that He gives us, the more we have to pray and step out in faith. We must commit to these dreams, and commit to Gods way. Otherwise, that dream turns into a nightmare.

People think there is a cut and dried formula for getting God's favor, that "a" plus "b" equals "divine intervention." The truth is that they are missing a variable, that all important "x" named faith.

Within each man, there is a God-given desire to always return to the things of God. You will be drawn, metaphysically, always Westward in your decisions. You may choose to go East, but there will always be a pull on you to return West.

We cannot hope to hold on to our faith by relying solely on emotion to tie us to Jesus. We must be devoted to Him, so much so that we will do anything to reach out and touch Him.

Opening testimony by Amber Huizar.