Then the angel spoke to the women. “Don’t be afraid!” he said. “I know you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He isn’t here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen. Come, see where his body was lying. And now, go quickly and tell his disciples that He has risen from the dead.” Matthew 28:5-7
The reality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ is our continual focus of celebration. I am thankful that we have the privilege of gathering and celebrating the victory that Jesus Christ has purchased and won for us. We are more than conquerors through Christ who loves us so. We lift our hearts in praise to the goodness of our Savior who has conquered death and hell, so let us rejoice. When Jesus is your personal Savior, He lives in you by the power of the Holy Spirit. His victory is our victory. Let’s rejoice that He ever lives, which gives us eternal victory through Christ who loves us so deeply that He died for us. Let us lift our hearts continually in one accord to the Lord. He is a Great God! And we love Him with all our hearts! Rejoice! He is Risen!
Pastor Darrell
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Romans 8:11
Romans 8:11 “The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, He will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.
As we grow in Christ, it seems difficult to realize all that God has done for us. We have forgiveness of sins through the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and this is no small gift. We are eternally secure in God’s love as we grow in His grace. The Word declares that by His stripes we are healed, so that means that we have healing through the stripes of beating that Jesus took.
Jesus emptied Himself of all His deity, and took on the form of man. He was just like us except He was 100% God and 100% man. When Jesus emptied Himself, He emptied Himself of all of His God powers. Well then, how did He do all the healings and miracles, you might say. He did it by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God, and this scripture says that God lives in us by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus had an intimate relationship with the Father, and Jesus only did and said what the Father was doing and saying. He walked in obedience to the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit. He is our example. We are to be like Jesus.
As we live our lives, we have a lot of distractions. We are burdened by cares of the world, our needs, brokenness that needs healing, deliverance that needs to be embraced, and abundant life to be enjoyed. So how can we be like Jesus? By faith, believing the scripture above. The Holy Spirit abides in you and me. Therefore our lives should read like one of the gospels. We are human, we do deal with our sin nature, but we are to recon it dead. We are to live only to God, so that we can fulfill His will and purposes here on earth. His kingdom come, His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. It’s our calling and anointing and equipping with Holy Spirit power that enables us to bring His kingdom here on earth. We have the power. This cannot be done aside from intimate relationship with the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit will enable us to enjoy intimate relationship with the Father and as we know Him, we will do and say what He is doing and saying. It sounds simple but we must embrace the truth that will free us, be filled with the Spirit that enables us, and we will fulfill His purposes in life and walk in the abundant life God desires to give us.
So will you embrace the intimate relationship that God has purposed and desires for us to have? He has provided everything we need, we only need to take the time and set our priorities. Let’s enjoy our Heavenly Father as we grow in Him.
I’m walking close to the Father and believing for even more of His life pouring through me. I have high expectations of even more of His life pouring through you too.
Pastor Darrell
As we grow in Christ, it seems difficult to realize all that God has done for us. We have forgiveness of sins through the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, and this is no small gift. We are eternally secure in God’s love as we grow in His grace. The Word declares that by His stripes we are healed, so that means that we have healing through the stripes of beating that Jesus took.
Jesus emptied Himself of all His deity, and took on the form of man. He was just like us except He was 100% God and 100% man. When Jesus emptied Himself, He emptied Himself of all of His God powers. Well then, how did He do all the healings and miracles, you might say. He did it by the power of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God, and this scripture says that God lives in us by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus had an intimate relationship with the Father, and Jesus only did and said what the Father was doing and saying. He walked in obedience to the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit. He is our example. We are to be like Jesus.
As we live our lives, we have a lot of distractions. We are burdened by cares of the world, our needs, brokenness that needs healing, deliverance that needs to be embraced, and abundant life to be enjoyed. So how can we be like Jesus? By faith, believing the scripture above. The Holy Spirit abides in you and me. Therefore our lives should read like one of the gospels. We are human, we do deal with our sin nature, but we are to recon it dead. We are to live only to God, so that we can fulfill His will and purposes here on earth. His kingdom come, His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. It’s our calling and anointing and equipping with Holy Spirit power that enables us to bring His kingdom here on earth. We have the power. This cannot be done aside from intimate relationship with the Father through our Lord Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit will enable us to enjoy intimate relationship with the Father and as we know Him, we will do and say what He is doing and saying. It sounds simple but we must embrace the truth that will free us, be filled with the Spirit that enables us, and we will fulfill His purposes in life and walk in the abundant life God desires to give us.
So will you embrace the intimate relationship that God has purposed and desires for us to have? He has provided everything we need, we only need to take the time and set our priorities. Let’s enjoy our Heavenly Father as we grow in Him.
I’m walking close to the Father and believing for even more of His life pouring through me. I have high expectations of even more of His life pouring through you too.
Pastor Darrell
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Matthew 6:9-13
This, then, is how you should pray: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” Matt 6:9-13,
This is an incredible model for prayer. Jesus spoke this to His disciples because they wanted what Jesus had; power. After watching his life they seemed to be able to perceive that prayer was Jesus’ power source. We often try to reduce the Lord’s Prayer into a system to manipulate the hand of God to get what we ask for. But the key is far deeper than a formula.
It starts with worship, an acknowledgement of Lordship, and finding our place in an intimate relationship with the Father through His precious Son, Jesus Christ. Until we are intimately connected with the Father, knowing His heart, knowing His voice, and able to be assured of our total forgiveness and the joy the Father has in our relationship, and the deep love He has for us, we need not move from this place in our hearts until it is established.
Then comes the declaration of His Kingdom. His is an invisible kingdom where He alone is the ruler. We all know what heaven will be like: perfection, no sickness, no pain, but total wholeness and a relationship with the Father and the Son that is beyond our highest expectations.
We declare His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. That means that we are to usher His will into this present world. We are His ambassadors to establish heaven right here on earth. We are to be like Jesus here on earth. We are to see those in bondage set free, see the sick healed, addictions broken, and people saved. If you want to know the will of the Father, look to heaven, and then be His hand and heart extended to a world in need of God. It’s God’s will to heal and save and deliver, for we know sickness is not in heaven, the devil is not in heaven, there is no brokenness in heaven and here on earth we are to usher in that kingdom. What an adventure and battle. What a joy to walk with purpose and power.
We ask for today’s bread. God will provide what we need when we are doing what He says. I’ve heard a lot of exploitation of God’s people on giving, but the truth is that God wants to provide abundantly for us. God wants to bless us for His own sake, not for ours. He wants to bless us so that we will give, not so that we will consume more for ourselves. Praise God for His goodness. It’s His will to provide. All we need to do is ask and follow His instructions.
Forgiveness is our key to relationship with a Holy God. Sin and God’s holiness can’t be in the same space. So God in His wisdom sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us that through His blood and victory of resurrection we can have right relationship with God. Because His grace is extended to us, we must extend forgiveness towards those who offend us.
The Lord doesn’t want you to fall into temptation. He gives us a way out. Always. Look for the way out and don’t yield to the temptations life brings. Pray for deliverance from the evil one. Let’s not be yielding to the devil. He’s to have no part in us as Jesus said, “the devil has no part in me.” We will do the will of the Father. We follow Him and we have the Holy Spirit abiding in us to enable us to walk out the power-filled life we see in this prayer. Let’s be full of God and walk out His will, so that here on earth His will can be established.
Until He returns
Pastor Darrell
This is an incredible model for prayer. Jesus spoke this to His disciples because they wanted what Jesus had; power. After watching his life they seemed to be able to perceive that prayer was Jesus’ power source. We often try to reduce the Lord’s Prayer into a system to manipulate the hand of God to get what we ask for. But the key is far deeper than a formula.
It starts with worship, an acknowledgement of Lordship, and finding our place in an intimate relationship with the Father through His precious Son, Jesus Christ. Until we are intimately connected with the Father, knowing His heart, knowing His voice, and able to be assured of our total forgiveness and the joy the Father has in our relationship, and the deep love He has for us, we need not move from this place in our hearts until it is established.
Then comes the declaration of His Kingdom. His is an invisible kingdom where He alone is the ruler. We all know what heaven will be like: perfection, no sickness, no pain, but total wholeness and a relationship with the Father and the Son that is beyond our highest expectations.
We declare His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. That means that we are to usher His will into this present world. We are His ambassadors to establish heaven right here on earth. We are to be like Jesus here on earth. We are to see those in bondage set free, see the sick healed, addictions broken, and people saved. If you want to know the will of the Father, look to heaven, and then be His hand and heart extended to a world in need of God. It’s God’s will to heal and save and deliver, for we know sickness is not in heaven, the devil is not in heaven, there is no brokenness in heaven and here on earth we are to usher in that kingdom. What an adventure and battle. What a joy to walk with purpose and power.
We ask for today’s bread. God will provide what we need when we are doing what He says. I’ve heard a lot of exploitation of God’s people on giving, but the truth is that God wants to provide abundantly for us. God wants to bless us for His own sake, not for ours. He wants to bless us so that we will give, not so that we will consume more for ourselves. Praise God for His goodness. It’s His will to provide. All we need to do is ask and follow His instructions.
Forgiveness is our key to relationship with a Holy God. Sin and God’s holiness can’t be in the same space. So God in His wisdom sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us that through His blood and victory of resurrection we can have right relationship with God. Because His grace is extended to us, we must extend forgiveness towards those who offend us.
The Lord doesn’t want you to fall into temptation. He gives us a way out. Always. Look for the way out and don’t yield to the temptations life brings. Pray for deliverance from the evil one. Let’s not be yielding to the devil. He’s to have no part in us as Jesus said, “the devil has no part in me.” We will do the will of the Father. We follow Him and we have the Holy Spirit abiding in us to enable us to walk out the power-filled life we see in this prayer. Let’s be full of God and walk out His will, so that here on earth His will can be established.
Until He returns
Pastor Darrell
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