Faint, Yet Pursuing.

Judges 8:4-5, Proverbs 24:5-6, 10; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Isaiah 40:29, 30-31; 1 Peter 5:7; Psalm 121:1-3; 2 Chronicles 20:3; Romans 8:28; 1 Samuel 30:8; Numbers 23:19; Proverbs 16:25Numbers 23:19bNumbers 23:19

We are walking in today:  Faint, Yet Pursuing!

Judges 8:4-5 4) And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them. 5) And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.  Gideon had been raised up to defeat the Midianites.  He had about 32,000 in his army but the Lord whittled them down until there was just 300 men left.  His army was no longer big yet they had a mighty God behind them.  They had just what they needed in God!  Gideon had already taken two of the Midianite princes and was after two others.  We see here that by this time he and his men were faint.  Yes they were faint, yet pursing!  Now this was a natural war but we want to think about fighting the spiritual battles that we face.  We become faint, yet we continue pursing.  He gives us strength in times of weakness.  Proverbs 24:5-6, 10 5) A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. 6) For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety. 10) If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.  Our strength is not measured in good times, but it is measured by the bad times.  When we face the battles and trials of this life--then we will see just how strong we really are.  Many times we think we are going to be over taken by our problems, and the pressures that come our way.  The Lord has promised that He will not put more on us than we can bear!  1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.  I don't know if you have noticed on this line for the past couple of weeks that, that particular scripture has been coming up over and over again!  God says that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God!  Sometimes God will give you that same word over and over again.  No matter what test, trial or tribulation you are going through, He is never gonna put more on us than we can bear!  He is always with us--that He makes a way to escape every temptation.  Sometimes we think we can't bear anymore.  Things are getting pretty heavy at times.  We think we will be swept away by this trial, but thanks be to God!  He is always there and with us!  That He gives us what we need and want, to go on.  Faith believes God even when the circumstances deny His promises.  We can stand by faith--believing the Lord!  In trials know His word is true and draw strength from them.  Isaiah 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.  Here is a promise that He gives us strength--we will need strength to fight this battle.  No one else can fight for us but God!  Wait on Him, the Lord increases our strength in hard times.  Isaiah 40:30-31 30) Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31) But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.  This is something we have to do.  Take the time to wait on Him!  He renews our strength, even giving power to the faint.  Sometimes we face trials and battles and then more, trials after those trials and battles.  Look to God, there is one who cares--1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.  Thank God that He cares for us.  He understands, that we will cry out for help when there is no other strength.  He has already won and given us the victory!  Look to God, help will come.  We don't have to be long faced about our troubles.  We must keep our eyes on Jesus not on our circumstances.  It won't be long until they are sinking and in despair when we don’t have our eyes on God!  God will give us what we need, He has already won the victory!  When the battle is so long we begin to wonder--God knows why and when.  Psalm 121:1-3 1) I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. 2) My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. 3) He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.  The Lord is not sleeping!  He is very aware and concerned about out lives.  He will keep us walking with Jesus as we keep our minds stayed on Him.  Sometimes it seems like we are in a constant rain storm in this life.  In 2 Chronicles 20, the Bible teaches us how to face spiritual battles.  2 Chronicles 20:3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.  When we are afraid we should just seek God!  Jehoshaphat feared because of the circumstances they are facing.  Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.  We should take Him at His word.  We may not understand the works of God, but He gets good out of it.  No matter what is going on in our life.  Faint, yet pursing God.  For every fight, trial, battle or circumstances that comes, we will keep pursing!  We are to pray and not to faint!  We shall reap the harvest if we faint not!  Call on Jesus!  This battle is not yours, it is the Lord's!  Faint, yet pursing.  For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.  With God for us who can stand against us?!  We must adapt for winter, that we would launch out into the deep, faint yet pursing.  God keeps getting us up every morning,  as we seek Him at 5am--for an on-time word and time in His presence.  You said, in Your word, that when we seek You first and Your righteousness that all things shall be added unto us.  That Your strength is made perfect in our weakness.  We are to walk this out by faith.  We have to pray and fast and keep on pursing after Him!  Even when faint.  1 Samuel 30:8And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.We shall surely overtake the enemy, we are to pursue and take over!  For those that are feeling faint in your marriage, pursue the God of reconciliation.  For those that are feeling faint in your finances, pursue Jehovah Jireh, it is the Lord that provides for us!  For those that are feeling faint in your mind, keep your mind on His word--He will keep you in perfect peace.  That you can renew your mind by reading His word!  For those that are feeling faint in your peace, rest in and trust God, He will keep you in perfect peace.  He gives peace that surpasses all understanding!  Greater is He that is in us, than he that is within this world!  Acknowledge Him in all of your ways!  Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?  We are to walk by faith and not by sight.  Faint, yet pursing!  We must be in pursuit of His joy, that is our strength!  We must be in pursuit of His peace, where we can find rest.  Pursue more and more of Him--from Genesis to Revelation and then back to Genesis again!  We must be still pursuing after what God has promised us!  God is opening up a window and pouring out a blessing that there is not room enough to receive!  Faint, yet pursuing!  We must stay, trust and chase after God!  This is about relationship with the Father!  We shall reap the harvest if we faint not.  With God, all things are possible!  Keep pursuing after God!  Adapt in the winter, look to God, He already has an escape for you.  He will not put more on us than we can bear.  Keep pursuing Him!--the way out of no way!  Don't get tired nor stop running for the Lord!  Endure!  Stand on His word.  Don't bend or break!  We know that the joy of the Lord is our strength!  That it is God who makes the weak, strong!  There are something’s that have been a hard press in 2012--pursue after His wisdom and relationship with Him.  The steps of the righteous are ordered by the Lord.  It is not about you, it is about the Lord!  Get out of self.  It is not about your ways or thoughts but God's ways and thoughts!  This is God's plan and His way, that is why our way is not working!  Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.  Put down the ways of man and take up the ways of God!  Amen!  Pursue after godly things and godly ways!  To hear more of this message click here

Launch Out Into The Deep!

Luke 5:1-7; Proverbs 16:25; Isaiah 55:8; Luke 8:24-26, Matthew 4:4;  Luke 21:32-34; Job 8:7; Psalm 119:140-142

We are walking in today:  Launch Out Into The Deep!

Luke 5:1-7  1) And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret, 2) And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. 3) And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. 4) Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. 5) And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. 6) And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake. 7) And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.  We must learn to adapt to the winter, and this morning—we must learn to launch out into the deep.  It is going to take blind faith in this season--God seems to have a habit of doing His best work when we are at out lowest.  When we are at our wits end then and only then, God comes and provides the real miracle that we desperately need.  There are many that have worked for a very long time and have nothing thing to show for it.  I know of some people that, have worked all of their lives and have nothing to show for it.  They have lost their houses or live in a smaller home, while everyone else lives in nicer homes.  What do you do when your boat is empty?  Do what Jesus told them--to launch out again, to try it again. Go into the deep water and launch out further than you have ever gone been before.  Your miracle might not happen if you don't go out there where the big miracle happen.  They don't happen in shallow water.  Just don't throw in the towel, don't turn your back on Jesus--keep trying.  Finally they get there nets clean and ready for the next trip and Jesus says cast your clean nets into that dirty, filthy place again, the fish-less place.  They throw in again.  Everybody knows that you can't catch fish in the daytime with a net, they are going to see it.  Fish can easily swim away and they would.  Peter knew Jesus' idea was not good or rather it didn't make sense to a skilled fisherman.  Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.  What Peter's problem was that he wasn't listening.  This is amazing, Jesus could see the entire lake.  Peter could only see as far as the bottom of the boat.  In your life you can't see what Jesus can see.  So don't doubt Jesus, when He leads you to do something, do it and do it now!  Peter may have thought, 'I'm the fisherman here.  My father and grandfather were fishermen.  My whole family are fishermen! I know all that there is to know about fishing.  What does this carpenter turned preacher know about fishing, anyway?  With my vast experience that tells me that the heart of the day is a bad time for fishing.  The only thing that it will accomplish is getting my nets all dirty again.'  So Peter at this point was like so many of us, throwing out excuse after excuse of why we can't.  'Lord, I can't do what You want me to do.  I can't move now Lord, houses are not selling it won't work.  Lord my marriage is over and I tried and tried.'  Then the Lord says launch out into the deep and do it again.  'My kids are gone over a fool's hill, Lord.  It is too late now my property won't sell, I give up.  I am just gonna turn it in and go bankrupt.  My enemies are horrible, Lord--I can't forgive them!  My taxes are too high, I am not going to report the money.  I can't do that God.'  But the Lord says, you launch out into the deep.  Go for it!  God wants to take us from a shallow faith to a deep faith.  He wants to strengthen our faith.  Think about how the waves appear in the shallow water, they really seem to move and trouble the water.  As you go deeper out into the water the movement of the water seems a lot less.  Due to all of that space between the surface of the water and the ground way below, you are really out there in the deep.  Where things are so different than on land,  There is nothing to grab on to--like the illustration that Pastor Taffe used last night, from Matthew 14 with Peter walking on water.  When he became distracted he began to sink.  He was too far way from the boat to reach out for that.  He instead made the best choice of all to cry out to the Lord, reaching for Jesus.  Could that be why God would want us in the deep where we can only depend on Him?  Not on other things that seem and give the appearance or safety or salvation but are doomed to crumble and fail?  That we could be out there where no man could take the credit for the mighty move of God in your life?  As you look around out there in the deep where you are not able to touch the ground and still keep your head above water, but that you are surrounded by water.  Water, water everywhere!  That the giver of living water would come to see about us, that He cares for us!  That He is watchful over us!  Luke 8:24-26 24) And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm. 25) And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him. 26) And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.  That while we are out there in the deep, unknown, on a sea with storms, that all that we contain in our natural intellect, is made obsolete, that we have to take on His thoughts and ways.  Look at the text above Jesus was asleep in the boat during this storm.  The fear and worry was all on the disciple’s part.  Would a fearful, nervous or worried person be asleep during a storm that has everyone on the boat concerned?!  That is like when you are on a airplane ride and hit some turbulence and get that little feeling of fear in your gut.  But as you look around at the flight attendants are just going about their day like nothing unusual has happened.   Due to their many years in that profession they are not swayed by small or even bigger bumps.  There calmness helps to keep you calm--surely if it was more they would take precautions.  So it could be said that Jesus rebuked the storm to give the others on the boat peace.  He was not moved by the storm, remember He was asleep.  Can we come to trust, lean on and rely in God so much that we relax and rest in Him in the midst of the storm, or winds or rains all around us?  God is showing us repeatedly in His word that if, and we do have Him, there is nothing else that you need!  There is nothing too hard for Him.  He is in control and the creator of all things!  All of which was created by the word of God!  Which goes back to what Jesus gave in reply to the devil--Matthew 4:4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.  As this one speaker said one time:    That she would just sit in awe looking up at the sky that the moon was up there hanging in the sky, sitting on nothing--but the word of God!  That this planet is rotating and not colliding into anything else controlled and held by His word.  That everything that was, is and will be all, by what God has uttered from His very own lips.  We have to look at this with spiritual eyes!  This focus on the limited and natural is hindering our faith--could that be why the devil keeps throwing it in our face?  We have to unlearn the old ways and look to God and walk this out by faith!  He knows all and sees all!  He knows the end from the very beginning. There is nothing that escapes His notice or has not already been planned for!  Hold on to what if real and true!  The everlasting word of Almighty God!  Luke 21:32-34 (AMP) 32) Truly I tell you, this generation (those living at that definite period of time) will not perish and pass away until all has taken place. 33) The  sky and the earth ( the universe, the world) will pass away, but My words will not pass away. 34) But take heed to yourselves and be on your guard, lest your hearts be overburdened and depressed (weighed down) with the  giddiness and headache and  nausea of self-indulgence, drunkenness, and worldly worries and cares pertaining to [the  business of] this life, and [lest] that day come upon you suddenly like a trap or a noose.  Fiveamprayer while we are launching out into the deep will we find less distractions?  Less of this world to weight on us, God tells us that we are to cast our cares on Him for He cares for us.  While those cares wash away as we go out deeper and deeper in obedience to God?  That we are no longer looking for man's answer but God's truth and knowledge!  That will carry and keep us, answering questions before we even finish asking!  That with God we will end up with more that what we stared with, in the natural you may not have enough to even begin but God tells us in,  Job 8:7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. Psalm 119:140-142 140) Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. 141) I am small and despised: yet do not I forget thy precepts. 142) Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.  When God wants to take us out into the deep we have our proper response in Luke 5:5 in the King James it says nevertheless, in the NIV it says  but because You say so, I will let the nets down.  And off Peter heads out into the deep. 
I admire Peter, you know that the Sea of Galilee is about 700 feet deep and at sea level another 150 feet deep.  It is a deep lake.  Well I don't like deep water.  I am not comfortable in the deep, I looked at the boat asking myself, do I really want to get into this boat?  Then you think about yourself.  But God often wants us to move out of our comfort zone because it is in deep water where the big and deep miracles happen.  We are like Peter--we have to walk this out by faith!  Take that step in and on faith!  Are you wading in the shallow water--waiting on God for a miracle?  You need to launch out into the deep water!  Out there in the deep where you can not touch the ground and still have your head above water.  This is the place where all you have is your trust in God.  That is where God wants you to be.  He may even move you out into the deep.  Let down your nets, meaning plural, all.  After cleaning them, you let them down again--all because God said so!  You need a miracle?  Do all that God tells you to do.  Jesus communicates with all things.  He speaks to the fish and orchestrates them all to be in position to be caught up in the net.  That the fish are ready and awaiting to be caught all at His command.  We are to walk by faith, not by sight!  Launch out into the deep.  He is bidding you to cast down your nets.  We have to trust Him, walk this out with blind faith.  Doing all that God has said.  I'll do it!  He will make away out of no way!  It is already done, it is already finished!  Look to God He will make a way of escape for you!  Launch out into the deep.  Trust God--in your finances, you marriage and with your children.  He will do all that He has promised us!  Launch out into the deep.  Hold on to His word!  All that He has said, shall come to pass!  We are to speak those things that be not as though they already are!  Launch out into the deep.  We are to be the head and not the tail, above only and never beneath!  Victory is ours!  Do all things through Christ which strengthens us!  You have gotta give Him praise and glory!  We have to launch out into the deep to have a deeper relationship with God!  Do you believe and trust in Him?  All the way out there in the deep?  No distractions just you and Him!  Fiveamprayer, He is calling us out into the deep.  For a one on one with Him!  We have to learn to trust God in all things!  No matter how it looks--launch out into the deep again in your marriage, your business and your ministry.  Trust Him with blind faith!  Do it again!  He will fill you to the overflow!  They are dropping down their nets out in the deep for a draught.  At God's word and their obedience they were so blessed that they had to call others over to receive the goodness from the Lord!    Don't be stuck in what happened last time.  We have got to launch out into the deep.  The devil doesn't want you to be in alignment with what God has planned for you!  Peter's response, that he had been out all night and caught nothing--go out and do it again.  You are going in the word of the Lord and His word will accomplish all that He sends it out to do!  That is the difference from the last time or even those other times.   This time you have God's word on it.  He is sending you out, He is ordering your steps, He is positioning all things to line up according to His way and His will!  Never forget that we serve the God that can do all things and He does new things.  So that unheard of thing, that He is telling you to do, that is a new thing.  There may not be anyone else that has the same assignment.  God made us all in His image and yet we are so very different.  We have to set down how we think it should be.  If we had our way we would stay in the shallow water, very likely stuck since our boat would not have enough water to float in.  The blessing is in obedience to God.  We know that obedience is better than sacrifice!  If God told you, than you better do it!  Launch out into the deep!  Trust ME, says the Lord.  Take your eyes off of the situation, circumstance and your finances.  Do it again, launch out into the deep!  Write the vision and make it plain.  Do it again, go back to the old landmark!  It is not over until God says that it is over!  Go out into the deep, cast your nets again!  Your blessing is in that place--you don't want to go  back into all of that shallow water!  Out in the deep, you are no longer trusting in what you can produce, but you are standing on the word of God!  That you would say:  not my will, but Thy will be done!  Halleluiah God!  This is a faith walk!  God will tell you what to do, and you will do it eventually.  You may have to do something different, He did not give us the spirit of fear.  Do what God says that you can do.  Fiveamprayer we are launching out into the deep!  Trust God He knows the number of hairs on our head.  That we are known by Him before we were born from our mother's womb.  Why not go about this God's way?  You say that it is too hard, that it doesn't look right?  Hold on to His word.  Persecution will come as well as long suffering.  Launch out into the deep.  We are coming up against adversity and pressing our way through!  We lift up fiveamprayer, we are launching out into the deep!  While we are out in the deep, we will cast our cares on You, for You care for us!  That we have finished cleaning our nets and have set forth to cast down our nets again at the word of God.  We are to pray without ceasing--that we are to pray and not faint!  Do it again, in that same place--cast out into the deep!  We trust You God!  We lift up prayer requests, this morning there was someone who was looking for an answer--launch out into the deep! Thank You God.  We come today to lay out on our faces and repent for wanting to do it our own way.  We lay down our will.  You have been waiting for us to submit and turn it all over to You.  Use us Lord!  We give ourselves away!  We are Your earthen vessels--use us in our marriages, with our children, and on our jobs.  Have us to line up with You and to launch out into the deep.  That we are also transformed by the renewing of our minds!  That we run to the throne instead of the phone.  That we are seeking Your counsel and not the advise of men.  That we would stand still saying, Lord I trust You!  We know that God works all things together for the good of them that Him and are called according to His purpose.  Fiveamprayer, all things are working of us!  We will launch out into the deep!  I am going to get my blessing and miracle.  God wants us to be doers of His word, not those who listen only.    What are you doing, get in motion and get in position for your blessing! Do something for God!  Launch out into the deep!  Do it this time!  We have got to get to the other side of your faith!  The word says, faith without works is dead!  While you are waiting on God, He is waiting on you to get into position.  Thank You Lord for forgiving us for not launching out into the deep.  We must crucify our flesh daily and only operate in the spirit!  What did God say?  That is all that we have ears to hear! 


We seal this prayer in His precious blood, by His Spirit:  Launch out into the deep, do it again!

Consider Yourselves: One Body, Many Members!

2 Chronicles 7:14; 1 Corinthians 1:10, Colossians 3:1-17 

We are walking in today:  Consider Yourselves: One Body, Many Members!

T his morning we welcome Deacon Troy Wagner who is bringing us a word from the following scriptures:
2 Chronicles 7:14 (AMP) If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
1 Corinthians 1:10 (AMP) But I urge and entreat you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in perfect harmony and full agreement in what you say, and that there be no dissensions or factions or divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in your common understanding and in your opinions and judgments.
Colossians 3:1-17 (AMP) 1) If then you have been raised with Christ [to a new life, thus sharing His resurrection from the dead], aim at and seek the [rich, eternal treasures] that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2) And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth. 3) For [as far as this world is concerned] you have died, and your [new, real] life is hidden with Christ in God. 4) When Christ, Who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in [the splendor of His] glory. 5) So kill (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God). 6) It is on account of these [very sins] that the [holy] anger of God is ever coming upon the sons of disobedience (those who are obstinately opposed to the divine will), 7) Among whom you also once walked, when you were living in and addicted to [such practices]. 8) But now put away and rid yourselves [completely] of all these things: anger, rage, bad feeling toward others, curses and slander, and foulmouthed abuse and shameful utterances from your lips! 9) Do not lie to one another, for you have stripped off the old (unregenerate) self with its evil practices, 10) And have clothed yourselves with the new [spiritual self], which is [ever in the process of being] renewed and remolded into [fuller and more perfect knowledge upon] knowledge after the image (the likeness) of Him Who created it. 11) [In this new creation all distinctions vanish.] There is no room for and there can be neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, [nor difference between nations whether alien] barbarians or Scythians [who are the most savage of all], nor slave or free man; but Christ is all and in all [everything and everywhere, to all men, without distinction of person]. 12) Clothe yourselves therefore, as God’s own chosen ones (His own picked representatives), [who are] purified and holy and well-beloved [by God Himself, by putting on behavior marked by] tenderhearted pity and mercy, kind feeling, a lowly opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, [and] patience [which is tireless and long-suffering, and has the power to endure whatever comes, with good temper]. 13) Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference (a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive]. 14) And above all these [put on] love and enfold yourselves with the bond of perfectness [which binds everything together completely in ideal harmony]. 15) And let the peace (soul harmony which comes) from Christ rule (act as umpire continually) in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in that peaceful state] to which as [members of Christ’s] one body you were also called [to live]. And be thankful (appreciative), [giving praise to God always]. 16) Let the word [spoken by] Christ (the Messiah) have its home [in your hearts and minds] and dwell in you in [all its] richness, as you teach and admonish and train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom [in spiritual things, and as you sing] psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making melody to God with [His] grace in your hearts. 17) And whatever you do [no matter what it is] in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in [dependence upon] His Person, giving praise to God the Father through Him.

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Who Do You Say I AM, Is?

Revelation 12:11; Matthew 16:15; Exodus 3:14; Isaiah 26:4; Colossians 3; Matthew 15:25-28; Ephesians 3:20;  Acts 10:34; 1 Corinthians 10:13; Isaiah 43:19; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Exodus 23:20; Psalm 121:5;  James 4:8, 5:8; 1 Chronicles 29:12, 22:18; Joshua 7; Amos 3:3; Genesis 13:14; Romans 12:4-5

We are walking in today:  Who Do You Say I AM, Is?

Thank you for joining us this morning on Testimony Tuesday where we share the goodness of our God, our King of Kings, our great I AM, our Rock of Ages!  We are His handiwork and are marvelous in His sight!  To hear testimonies of what God has done for us personally click here.

Revelation 12:11
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Matthew 16:15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?
Exodus 3:14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Isaiah 26:4 Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength:
Colossians 3
Matthew 15:25-28 25) Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. 26) But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. 27) And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table. 28) Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
1 Corinthians 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
Exodus 23:20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Psalm 121:5 The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
James 5:8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
1 Chronicles 29:12 Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
1 Chronicles 22:18
Is not the LORD your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land is subdued before the LORD, and before his people.
Joshua 7
Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Genesis 13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
Romans 12:4-5 4) For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: 5) So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

Take some time out today to spend time reading your Bible.  This is all about relationship as Regina testified to this morning.  That she was kept by God three times!  We must not have this as business as usual, not caught up in religion, but seeking the deeper things of God.  A closer relationship with Him of our very own.  He is seeking His own personal time with each one of us, not only when you attend church services or functions.  Is He your personal God?  Your personal Savior?  The Lover of your soul?  The righteous run to Him and are saved--that scripture speaks to relationship.  Most of the time, you are not running in to be saved or to a safe place if there is no trust.  How do come to trust some one?  By spending time with them, so that you can have some insight on who they are and their character.  Are they trustworthy?  Can they be relied on?  Will they hold up and deliver on their word?  No one but the Almighty God can answer yes to every question, all the time, every time!  Praise His name!  Thank You God for showing us that we have to go deeper, that this is not a surface type of thing.  You gave Your only Begotten for us, the surface just won't do!  God paid our ransom that we could never pay and we would then in turn only give Him, a part time, iffy relationship that is not consistently claimed?!  That those around you may not even know that you are a Christian?  Due to how you walk and portray yourself?!  We must be in such a close relationship, that we begin to take on the characteristics of the Father.  You know when best friends, family or married couples have known each other for a while others will say that you look alike or sound the same or even have the same expressions?  Who would others say that you look like?  Take some time and reflect on that today.  Have a blessed and awesome day!  Visit us on facebook, it will encourage you.

Adapt To The Winter.

Psalm 62:8; Isaiah 43:18-19; Joel 2:25-26; 2 Timothy 2:3; Isaiah 54:17; Psalm 27:13; Hebrews 10:23; Philippians 2:10; Romans 10:17; Luke 2:37

We are walking in today:  Adapt To The Winter.

Psalm 62:8 (AMP) Trust in, lean on, rely on, and have confidence in Him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is a refuge for us (a fortress and a high tower). Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! 

This mornings prayer has excerpts from the book by Millicent Hunter, Don't Die In The Winter:  Your Season Is Coming.  For more details and a preview of the book click here

Isaiah 43:18-19 (AMP) 18) Do not [earnestly] remember the former things; neither consider the things of old. 19) Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Joel 2:25-26 (AMP)25) And I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten—the hopping locust, the stripping locust, and the crawling locust, My great army which I sent among you. 26) And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord, your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you. And My people shall never be put to shame.
2 Timothy 2:3 (AMP) Take [with me] your share of the hardships and suffering [which you are called to endure] as a good (first-class) soldier of Christ Jesus.

Oh Father God, I come thanking You this morning.  That You would come to give us a word that we must adapt to the winter season.  When the enemy is coming in we can stand on His word, Isaiah 54:17 (AMP) But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced]; this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification], says the Lord.  We must adapt in this winter season--in our marriages, in our finances, and with our children.  Hold on, spring is coming!  God is calling on His son's and daughter's--He will get all of the glory, out of everything!  In every test, trial and tribulation, the glory goes to Him!  How can you stand if you have not been tested?  He comes in right on time!  Trust in what He has done in the past, reach back and grab a hold of your testimony.  It is not only for others but also as an encouragement of what God has already brought you out of.  He has done it once and will do it again!  Why would He deliver you back then and not now?!  We must continue to labor in our marriages, our finances and with our children.  Keep looking to the God who makes a way out of no way.  No matter what keep looking to God, He is your keeper, your shelter, your Provider!  No matter how hard it gets or how things appear.  Be not moved by false evidence appearing real.  Hold on to His unchanging hand, which changes not!  All that He has promised shall be delivered and will come to pass.  We must adapt in our winter season!  Don't give up, He may be teaching you obedience to get you through. Get yourself out of the way, that you would say not my will, Lord but Your will be done!  We may be in a winter season, but will shall taste and see that the Lord is good!  Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.  Hold on to His unchanging hand, fiveamprayer!  That we would press towards the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus!  In Him alone will I trust!  God is the one that shall and will do it!  Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)  I am coming out and crossing over Jordan into my promised land!  Some times it gets cold in your marriage, with your children or in your finances, even in your mind!  Look to God, He is a keeper!  Late in the midnight hour when the tears are falling down your face.  We know that weeping may endure for the night but joy comes in the morning!  We have to learn to adapt in winter!  Paul said, I die to the flesh daily!  Keep on trusting God.  He is the only one who is worthy and able to carry your trust!  As we can see in the natural everything is showing it instability and getting ready to crumble and be dashed to the ground.  God will be glorified!  Philippians 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.  Keep trusting God, do you see how things don't cause you to respond like you used to?  We must always pray and not faint!  A praying wife can save her husband.  Hold on in the winter season.  When the seasons change we have gotta shift with the season.  We have gotta wait upon the Lord and trust in His holy word.  He's never failed me yet!  No matter the circumstances, even in the winter season, hold on spring is around the corner.  We must learn to adapt.  That we would be still and know that He is God!  That we would learn how to hear God and trust in Him always!   Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.  What are you wrapped up in?  Is it the word of God?  What are you covered up in during your winter season?  Is it self doubt and pity?  Or the rehearsing of the nay-sayers?  He came that we would have life and that more abundantly!  So the instruction in the winter season is similar to what we do in the natural add more blankets and put on a sweater!  Get several scriptures or even whole chapters to stand on while you are in this winter season.  God's word is so good that you can layer Genesis on top of Exodus, and then Psalms!  The season has grown cold and we must layer up and bundle up in the word of God!  God is shaping you in this winter season!  Wait on Him!  It is winter in your life, you must learn to adapt.  Don't die in the winter!  Get ready and set your face like flint.  We must dig deeper into the word.  Just like in the natural you would eat more hearty foods while it is colder outside.  We must also seek for more meaning in the scriptures.  Do a study of a section of scripture, check out the cross references to the other scriptures.  Don't let your time in the word just be a fly by night.  Really spend some time in study and seeking out God!  Don't die in the winter season, dig in and get you some meat!  Get a word to study in your winter season.  Seek Him more and more that is what this time is for.  That we would focus even more on Him!  Taste and see that the Lord is good!  Look to Him, He is ordering our steps!  No matter how it seems.  I may get cold in your winter season--that you would have a time when you can't call on anybody else, call on Jesus.  Look to God, He will never leave nor forsake you!  Thank You God for leaving us with the Holy Spirit!  Don't give up, nor bend or break!  How are you gonna give up with spring right around the corner?!  All the while God  keeps on blessing you!  Stand on His word--His grace is sufficient!  Stand on His word, having done all to stand, stand therefore!  Stand on His word, the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want!  Stand on His word, many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers them out of them all!    Stand on His word in this winter season!  Just add another blanket to the bed to keep warm!   We need to be wrapped up in the word--fiveamprayer let us be covered up in Genesis and Job wrapped up in Revelation--saying though He slays me, yet will I trust Him!  Wrap up in Psalms that you will believe to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!  Wrap up in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.  Add more blankets, from Exodus and Joshua, which you have chosen this day who you will serve--the Lord God Almighty!  Now is the time that we get intimate with God.  Did you ever think that the distractions are all gone so that you would have more time to rest in and seek His presence?!  That you basically had your schedule cleared so that you would have uninterrupted time the Father?  Fiveamprayer, He is beckoning us closer to Him.  That we would spend time with Him, and even reside there on a permanent basis.  Luke 2:37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.  We are to serve the Lord in our winter season--Dig deeper into His word!  Get closer to God, He said if we would draw nigh to Him, He would draw nigh to us!  Get intimate with God.  He gives us joy unspeakable, that we would have peace beyond our understanding!  Take on an extra comforter in Ezekiel and prophecy over yourself!  No, we are not giving up!  Wrap up it is cold, in Habakkuk, Jonah and Hosea.  I am coming out!  I win!  Wrap up in the word of God  Get an extra blanket today--go through the word of God from the books to the Corinthians on to Philippians, then Revelation back to Genesis.  Sometimes you have to go back to the beginning.  He is a rewarder to those that diligently seek Him!  Spring is right around the corner, the enemy wants you to die in your winter season.    So many of us give up in this season.  It seems way too long and way too cold.  Hold on for spring!  Really there are may things that we used to do, that we no longer do that were actually too long and too cold.  Don't be deceived, God has a purpose for this winter season--He is building us up and drawing us closer to Him!    Get your blanket from the word of God.  It is His word that will keep and protect you!  In our winter season, we have been struggling for quite a while.  We lift up prayer requests, those known and unknown.  You know Lord what we are standing in the need of!  We repent for wanting to give up because is long, cold and dark.  Thank You God for bringing us Your light that warms our lives by You sending Your only begotten Son!  We know that it is always darkest before day break.


We seal this prayer in His precious blood, by His Spirit:  We will adapt in this winter season!


Welcome to the overflow...
We must make the fruits of the spirit a blanket that we are covered in, to walk out of this winter season!  That we would be totally wrapped in the word of God, from Genesis to Revelation!  We will brace ourselves for the long haul.  This long, cold winter season we will spend seeking Your face, studying Your word.  We are placing our trust in You and You alone.  We no longer lean to our own understanding.  Look to the Lord, He directs our path.  The joy of the Lord is our strength!  His strength is made perfect in our weakness.  Because of who He is, the weak can say that they are strong!  Get wrapped up in His word!  Get ready for your winter season.  That you would have fire shut up in your bones like Jeremiah, who was on fire with the Holy Ghost.  That we are being lead by fire by night and cloud by day.  When it gets cold, hold on there is nothing too hard for God!  Adapt in your winter season.  What a mighty God that we serve!  He walks us through the season that we experience!  Some of us have been in the cold and wanna give up.  Get an extra blanket of the word of God and get wrapped up in God.  Thank You God!  For Your amazing grace!  They that seek, will find!  Visit us on facebook and take time out today to get into His word, that you would dig a little deeper!  Get layered up to keep your warmth, by the word of God!  Amen!  Have a blessed and awesome day!

We Can't Be Stopped!

Matthew 16:13-18

We are walking in today:  We Can't Be Stopped!

Matthew 16:13-18 13) When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am? 14) And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. 15) He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? 16) And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. 17) And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. 18) And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  That sounds like we are moving forward!  Christ said that He would build His church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.  What He was saying in today's language was, we, the church--and we are the church, ain't no stopping us now!  How many of us this morning remember that Macfadden and Whitehead song, Ain't No Stopping Us Now?  Because, fiveamprayer, we can not be stopped!  Who knows what I am talking about?  That is something to rejoice about this morning!  For us to shout and give God glory.  We used to fall short at everything we tried our hands at.  We used to hit every red light on the road to nowhere.  We used to get stopped before we even got started.  But, ain't no stopping us now!  Let's all stand and rejoice right now!  Let us dance like David danced!  Let us clap out hands and stomp our feet!  Because we know that there is not stopping us now!  To hear more of this powerful word from God click here.

The Just Shall Live By Faith!

 Hebrews 6:1-2; Romans 1:17; Proverbs 18:22; Psalms 37:23; Ephesians 6:15; Psalm 23:3; Proverbs 4:8; Ephesians 2:8; Romans 3:23, 3:10; Ephesians 2:3; Romans 12:3, 10:7; 2 Corinthians 4:13; Ephesians 6:10-17; 2 Corinthians 5:7; Matthew 6:24; Ephesians 3:9; Colossians 1:16; Revelation 4:11; Psalm 68:1, 45:7; 1 Timothy 6:12; John 10:10; 2 Timothy 4:7; Isaiah 55:11; Hebrews 11:1; Romans 8:31; Romans 14:11; James 4:7; 2 Timothy 1:7

We are walking in today:  The Just Shall Live By Faith!

Hebrews 6:1-2 1) Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, 2) Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.   Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.  Now that we have made the decision not to return to our own vomit, we need to learn how to walk this process out.  We are to walk this out by faith!  the word of God says, the just shall live by faith!  That relationship that you have had for years, may have come to an end.  Have faith in God and live by His word.  Proverbs 18:22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.  We are at the point of no return, let us use scripture as our prescription that we must take daily to save our lives.  That we would live a lifestyle of faith that transforms us from being just a man--to, a just man because we allow the Holy Ghost to lead us and choreograph our lives.  That we would always be in the right place at the right time.  Even when it seems like everything is going wrong.  Psalms 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.  Ephesians 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.  You will live a life of peace if you let faith guide your feet!  Psalm 23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.  He will put you back on the right track--if you learn to live by faith!  Therefore, there are no misunderstandings or no mistakes--faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God!  The only way we are gonna walk through this thing is out and not return to our own vomit.    We are gonna have to walk in some scriptures this morning.  Proverbs 4:8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.  He will take you from good, to better, to best!  30, 60, 100 fold increase if you learn to live by faith!  We get saved by grace, through faith.  Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.  Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.  Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.  Ephesians 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.  We all had our conversations and lifestyles and our backgrounds in sin, but the good news is, Romans 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.  Romans 10:7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)  God makes sure we hear what we need to hear, so we can believe what we need to believe.  We stand by faith!  Take a stand today, fiveamprayer and say something by faith.  If you believe it , then you will say it.  2 Corinthians 4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.  The word of God is your uniform for prayer!  It is an armor, full of ammunition for taking a stand by the faith that is already inside of you.  That is how we can stand against the devil.  Ephesians 6:10-17 10) Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11) Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12) For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13) Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14) Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15) And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16) Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17) And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.  There is no armor for the back because we don't surrender!  Nor do we retreat!  Fiveamprayer does not give in or give up!  We don't bend or bow!  We won't break!  We don't back down or back up!  We are to take a stand and speak up--for what we believe.  We walk by faith and not by sight!  2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)  Step out and do something by faith!  It takes two steps to make a walk.  When you take a step, you will met opposition from the adversary because you are stepping into the devil's camp, taking back all that he stole and is withholding from you!  This becomes a walk when you take more than one step, don't back up!  Take another step.  When you have God backing you up and ordering your steps--you. will. not. fail!  Don't let the enemy convince you that you can't do something that God has already told you, that you can.  Who will you believe?!  Who is it that you are serving?  Did not you choose who you will serve?!  Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.  That opposition that the devil brings is not a match to our all knowing, all powerful God, the Creator of all things!   Ephesians 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:  Colossians 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: Revelation 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.  Fiveamprayer when you are facing opposition from the devil in what you are doing, do it again!  Psalm 68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.  Psalm 45:7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.  Step two is what makes this a walk of faith instead of just a step of faith.  The second step is what makes this trusting in God, instead of just trying God!  Step to the devil and walk by faith, not by sight!  We fight by faith.  1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.  The good fight of faith is the fight to lay hold of eternal life and to preach the gospel to as many people as possible.  There is a revelation of a difference, eternal life and everlasting life.  Everlasting life starts again after you have died.  Eternal life is living while you are alive.  John 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.  That is a description of eternal life.  The Bible says that the wages of sin is death.  But the gift of God is eternal life.  The same way we can experience the effects of sin, is starting to die before you.  We die.  We can experience the effects of faith and start living before we die.  Eternal life is living this life for the everlasting life.  Eternal life is also making this life more and more like everlasting life by flooding the Earth with the influence of heaven.  If making a difference in this life, so somebody can make it into the next life.  By living the eternal life and preaching the gospel before many witnesses we are fighting the good fight of faith.  2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.  We are to live a life according to 1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.  We are to give according to 2 Timothy 4:7, it is called the good fight of faith because the devil does not know who to stop you from doing either one!  So the out come is, you win!  It is not fighting to keep your faith, it is fighting to be a keeper of the faith!  As a keeper of the faith, I keep the faith by sharing it.  When you preach the gospel, you hear it, Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.  The more that you give the faith, the more you get it.  Paul kept the faith because he kept on preaching the faith!  Also every one that you shared the gospel with--they win!  Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.  Even if they don't receive the gospel that you preach, a seed has been planted or watered.  We win!  It is a win/win situation!  If I share the faith, I keep it!  If I give the faith, I get it!  If only one person gets saved, that is one person that satan has lost.  We win!
So now we gotta think about this thing, we have gotta know.  The just shall live by faith!  We must fight the good fight of faith!  Fiveamprayer, we must endure until the end.  This is a faith walk!  We walk by faith and not by sight, fiveamprayer!  We must take the next step for our future.  He came that we would have life and that more abundantly!  We are to cast our cares on Him for He cares for us.  We are coming out by the faith of God!  The just shall live by faith.  Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God!  God told us not to be like a dog that returns to his vomit nor be like the fool returning to their folly.  Fight the good fight of faith.  Come out of sin and addiction, the just shall live by faith!  Hold on to the word of God and your faith!  His word takes root and begins to grow.  We will no longer go to the same places, nor say the same things.  The just shall live by faith.  That is what we are holding on to!  Faith.  Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  We are holding on to our faith!  Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?  Hold on to His word, it does not return void, it does all that He sent it out to do!  We are the righteousness of God!  He has made us overcomers, conquers.  We win!  Every time the devil  comes up, take a step towards him to head him off.  That he can no longer take any ground.  That you would instead have him to back up and retreat!  Where ever God leads, we will follow.  We know that He is always in control!  That there is nothing too hard for the Creator of all things!  We must fight the good fight of faith!  Trust and believe His word!  We can do all things through Christ which strengthens us!  Trust Him, we are told not to lean to our own understanding.  Don't turn around, walk by faith!  He has gone before us and made the crooked places straight!  How are you gonna make it?!  We have been given faith and we must learn how to use it!  Fight the good fight of faith!  The just shall live by faith!  There is no turning around or going back.  The old man and the old ways are dead, walk in the newness of your life in Christ, washed and redeemed by the blood of the Lamb that was slain.  Keep on holding on to your faith.  Others around you may not understand, hold on to your faith!  God has changed us!  Fiveamprayer, you are starting to take after your Father!  We have to look and align ourselves with Him!  We were made in His image, should not our actions line up with His as well?  We must have a good fight of faith, the devil can not stop us!  It takes faith to fight!  Get in your battlefield position, on your knees in prayer!  It takes faith to fight!   We must swing  and keep on swinging with the weapons of mass destruction that God has given us!  Even if you are tired of fighting, we must keep the good fight of faith!  Hallelujah!  Put on the whole armor of God and stand on your faith!  Faith comes by hearing, what are you listening to?  He gave us so many scriptures today, take time out to read them out loud for yourself.  The just shall live by faith.  Suit up in the word of God, so that you will be able to walk this out.  We have scripture after scripture, the just shall live by faith.  Pick up your sword and start swinging!  Fight the good fight of faith!  The joy of the Lord is our strength!  I am the just and I shall live by faith!  His strength is made perfect in our weakness!  Fight the good fight of faith!  We are in the enemies camp and have been given the power to trample all over snakes and scorpions.  We can take you out, devil,  with one word--Jesus.  Romans 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.  We rebuke you in the name of Jesus!  2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.  When the devil tries to get you backed up in the corner, or to make you quit--call on the name of Jesus!  I know who I serve!  The mighty, awesome and amazing God!  It is by Your stripes we are already healed!  We have to fight the good fight of faith!  We must not become weary in well doing, for we shall reap the harvest if we faint not!  The devil can't stop me!  There is no weapon that is formed against me that shall prosper!  The devil can't stop me and he is under my feet!  I am walking around, up and down him!   The just shall live by faith, because of who our Father is!  Take the next step, we can do all things through Christ Jesus!  Hallelujah God!  We lift You up for refreshing and reviving us.  We come to see  Your face.  Thank You God!  We lift up fiveamprayer to live and walk this out by faith.  He gave us eternal life which is right now!  He came that we would have life and that more abundantly.  Fight the good fight of faith.  We lift up prayer requests, that they would fight the good fight of faith.  Keep on fighting, fiveamprayer.  We come to repent for being tired, you have been running for God a long time and no, you are not tired yet!  You shall live and not die!  The just shall live by faith!  Look how God put all of this together!  So that we know that we have to fight the good fight of faith!

We seal this prayer in His precious blood, by His Spirit:  I shall live by faith!  I shall live by faith!  I shall live by faith!


Welcome to the overflow...
Hallelujah God!  Glory to Your name!  We give you all of the honor, glory and praise!  We bless Your name!  We declare, demand and decree--and seal it in the blood of Jesus!  I shall live by faith!  Hallelujah Lord!  Thank You God!  You, Lord are the lifter of my head.  Thank You God!  He is our strong tower, every hour!  He is our Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star.  Hallelujah God!  Keep telling yourself all day today, I shall live by faith!  Visit us on facebook and have a blessed day!


Musical Selection
Marcus Cole, Remember To Breathe
Marcus Cole, Persuaded
Chris Clark, Canton Jones and 21:03, Keep The Faith