Law or faith?

    LAW OR FAITH?



Are you working under the law for God’s promises? Or believing by faith?

Our natural carnal mind wants to do everything on it’s own with out the spirit of God flowing through us- so we do things on our own. That’s because in America you have to work for everything in the natural. I know for me, I had to work for everything in my life so far. I had to put in long tedious hours for the things I wanted. I never had anything handed to me or had a break in my life. I had a mentality growing up with the “law of Moses” meaning everything that everything had to be perfect and if it wasn’t something would happen..

Here is a bible verse to go with it:
Romans 4:4&5 “ When people work, their wages are not a gift, but something they have earned. But people are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners.”
After seeing that verse I had to remember that I was a daughter of Christ and that I didn’t have to work for the promises of God- but that I just had to believe in Faith that they would come to pass.

Lets look at the story of Abraham back in the book of Genesis 22 and see how story was similar.  God told Abraham to use his son Isaac as a burn offering to the Lord. So Abraham obeyed God, and traveled for three days to the spot where God wanted him to sacrifice his son. Abraham built an alter where God wanted him to build one- and did everything he was told. Just as he was ready to kill his son Isaac an angel of the Lord came down and told Abraham to stop and not to kill his son. So then after a ram appeared and they used that as a sacrifice instead.
So you’re thinking why did I just tell you all this and what does it have to do with anything. God asked Abraham to do this task to see how much faith He had and if he would obey the Lord 100% and he did so he got his promise.

Genesis 22:17&18 “ I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed—all because you have obeyed me.” (Great nation, Land promise, and seed promise.)
So if we continually strive and work for something on our own then what’s the point of having a relationship with Christ? If we are going to strive then faith is not necessary..
Romans 4:14 “If God’s promise is only for those who obey the law, then faith is not necessary and the promise is pointless.” Romans 4:16 “So the promise is received by faith. It is given as a free gift. And we are all certain to receive it, whether or not we live according to the Law of Moses, if we have faith like Abraham’s. For Abraham is the father of all who believe.” If we have faith we receive just as Abraham!

Abraham had so much faith knowing that God was His God and everything that He promised would come to pass. So with out a doubt that’s why Abraham is the father of our faith. Romans 4:20 “Abraham never wavered in believing God’s promise. In fact, his faith grew stronger, and in this he brought glory to God.”

So what do we do with we have been faithless in God
Hosea 14:4 “The Lord says, Then I will heal you of your faithlessness, my love will know no bounds, for my anger will be gone forever.” So what does this mean for us?
"That God wants to hell our faithlessness and freely love us.  Why? Because He can and it pleases Him. God always loves us. He may not always love everything we do, but He does love us. His love is unconditional. It is love based on Him, not on us, we recieve gods love with out deserving it. God’s unconditional love is the power that forgives our sings, heals our emotional wounds, and mends our broken hearts psalms 147:3 “He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds.”


So everything about God is just “Yes and Amen” you just need to have the faith to believe that Gods promises will come to pass. If they can come to pass in Abrahams life, they can come to pass into yours.

Fill our hearts!

Our hearts are so dry

We hunger and thirst

After you oh Lord.

You’re all we want to see

Come quench our hearts.

Come pour down your heavenly rain

Take us out of this drought!

Oh Lord

Oh Lord

And lead our hearts,

Back to repentance

Take us back to the secret places.

Reign your presence down on your people

Show us glimpses of Your glory

Come captivate our hearts again!

Reign down

Reign down

Oh Lord!

Come consume your people with Your fire.

Set our hearts ablaze with Your love.

Hear our hearts cries

Hear our hearts cries

Fill us will revival!

What is this generation seeking?

                      What is this generation seeking?

This Generation has been so torn apart, by broken families, awful circumstances, and just a world that doesn’t care about anything but themselves.  And what does this leave our generation searching for? Well let’s take a peak and see what the bible has to say.

Our generation has been so hurt by things in life that leave them turning to the media and world. They are looking for something authentic with power and a fresh touch. Basically they are hungry for encounters with God but don’t know where to turn to, to get that encounter with God.  So that means “we” as a church have to go outside the four walls of the church and share Christ. (Holy Spirit activity will be found outside the church.) They need a fresh revival of GODS love!

1)   The church must go outside the four walls—our time is to short the hour that we are in things are getting too dark in the world. As we see the move of God through the church, we are becoming the “Acts 2 church.”  Jesus said that we would go out and do greater exploits then He did. But we are not seeing them because we are not rising up and fulfilling the calling that God has placed on our lives. Every year for years generations have thought that their year was it, hoping that they would have the most anointed year and see the greatest move of God. But it never happens, because people give up and don’t finish what they started so every single generation has to start off fresh that’s why the church must arise and have an awakening. (Ephesians 5.14.) Our generation needs to be encountering the love of God and being equipped with the gifts of the Holy Spirit and being sent out. We don’t see this because the western church is afraid of spiritual encounters- so they organize everything on faith. The Acts 2 church (Act 2.41-47) was based on community and power, any believer can walk in the “kingdom power.” (This is what our church is finally turning into.)  Elijah recaptured the hearts of the people of God, before God brought rain. This is what is happening to us, God is trying to recapture the hearts of His sons and daughters before He brings the latter rain. Are we ready for the spirit of Elijah?

2) Since the church is rising up in the darkest hour what does this leave the world doing? It’s rising up people to become “fooled” as they release demonic shadows across the country. These people that are being raised up in demonic forces were even talked about in the bible, but as Christians power increases so does the demonic realm. (But Christians always have the victory!) Worldly people can also have revelatory and healing gifting. In exodus 7. 11 it talks about sorcers doing magic tricks, that were not from God. Demonic voices speak through the magicians and bring entertainment to others with their “magic tricks.” Now days besides bible times to we still see black magic? Yes we sure do! In witchcraft, new age, astrology, sorcery, spiritualism, astral travel, and anything else that is not/of from God. But some big warning signs so you can differentiate between-- is it from God or is it black magic. If it’s not done in the name of Jesus then it’s not the right stuff. An example would be back in the time of Moses when he threw his staff and it turned into a snake, and then the sorcerer threw their staffs and they turned into snakes. But at the end of it Moses snake and the entire sorcerer snakes and then turned back into Moses staff. How cool is that? That’s another example of how Jesus always has victory.

Sorcery brings out hate, pride, power, depression, oppression, and jealousy among other various things that leave people in very destructive behavior. But they think it’s okay to act this way because they have enough power from the devil so why would they want to change to Christ? These demonic forces are being released across America and more people are following the ways of the devil than Jesus. This is why the churches need a spiritual awakening.

3) So where does this leave us now? We have Christians that can perform signs and wonders along with the world that can do black magic… In later years in this generation I believe that we are going to see a showdown. Just like they did in Baal. Just like in 1 Kings 18. Elijah against the prophets of Baal. He defeated 450 “false prophets” and this is the point that it’s going to get to light verse the darkness. This is why it’s so great-- that we need to have a spiritual awakening NOW. Not tomorrow, not till next week.  People are not coming into community like in the Acts 2 church- Elijah got depressed in Baal because he was all-alone. This is why we need to come together as the local church and get planted in the house of God, get activated in our giftings and go bring light into the world. If we can all continue to fulfill the will of God in all of our lives and live it fearlessly we will be able to set up a great pace for the next generation to come!

Sermon: "Kingdom Perspective (Matthew)"

*Matthew 8:3

Jesus  reached out and touched him…( a leper)

So basically back in that time, lepers were not supposed to be touched because everyone was scared of getting the disease. But Jesus healed the man with leprosy. He had enough love and compassion to heal the leper. Jesus always did His healing one on one, never in a huge setting so he could show each individual how much they were to Him.

 If Jesus had the faith to heal anyone, then as Christians we shouldn’t be scared to reach out to others like the homeless for example. Just as Jesus reached out to that leper, we should be able to reach out to others no matter what they look or act like. We really need to just reach out to them with love and compassion. Then my view of compassion would be: giving a taste of God to unsuspecting people..anyone, anytime, in YOUR area of influence. Really though.. Who are you reaching? Who is in YOUR area of influence? (family friends?) It might be easier for us to look at people as a “soul” than as a person. God showed me a few days ago and spoke to me, “that it doesn’t matter what the person looks like or how smart they are. But it’s about there soul.” That said to me that everyone has value, there like a hidden gem and that we all need and deserve to enter the kingdom. It kind of reminded me of the verse “the kingdom of God is like a treasure hidden in the field” but that there souls are the hidden treasures that we need to reach! That really put a new perspective for me, and now I look at people completely different. “with a kingdom perspective.”

 Then if we go back and look at the verse in Matthew “Jesus reached out and touched him and he was healed.” It made me think about the homeless.. That we just don’t give them a second though and just look beyond them. And I compare the leper and a homeless person because they are alot alike. All they are looking for is that loving hand to reach out and touch them, so they can encounter Gods love and His healing power. But still do we pass them by? In John 14:12 it says, "I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works that I have done or even GREATER! So if Jesus said right there in that verse that we can go out and do greater works, then why aren’t we doing them?! It takes faith and desire to take a step out in faith, and as I said before there are only certain people you can reach in YOUR life. God is looking for people that want to serve HIM and would do anything bodly for His kingdom, no matter the cost. People are FRESH and waiting for some JESUS. The harvest is ripe. Next time the Holy Spirit tells you to go talk to someone, please go do it. It could be your last chance seeing them or the possibility of there last day of being able to enter the kingdom. Be bold and step out in faith, there is nothing to lose if you obey the Holy SPirit. God will give you so much more if you continue to follow His ways he will show you much more you could never dream or imagine of..

 Lastly but not least in James 1:27 it says " real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father is this: reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight and guard against corruptive of the Godless world." God blesses those who reach out to the homeless and protects them. God sure does love the homeless just as much as the leper. So my point being know matter if it’s a leper or a homeless person or someone that needs to be reached.. I challenge you to step out in and reach that person know matter how hard it is. God will bless you. If Jesus is Love, we can show His love to other and be the salt and light in the world!

relationships.. a friend sticks closer than a brother?

*Are friendships really supposed to be hard and complicated? Especially christian friendships? I really hope not, or at least that's what I thought. I always looked at the bible and the biblical relationships and tried to model my relationships with a "Jonathan and David" relationship or even a "Naomi and Ruth" but it turns out it doesn't work that way. We all are not perfect and have flaws in our lives. Because we are ALL sinners- meaning we all fall short of the glory of God, that there will be times in our relationships that we just have to forgive and move on. (Letting God's grace come in.)
*Your probably thinking what if this person does the same thing to me over and over and keeps hurting me, then what do I do? Well if you really are a good friend all you can do is love them and hold them accountable for their actions, because that's what true friends are right? Maybe they have come from a different background from you, and just don't have everything together. If you look at the bible here's another example.. Jesus with His disciples. His disciples were not all perfect and had everything together shoot.. Look at what Peter did! But Jesus still had enough grace and forgiveness and love to still call Peter one of His disciples.
*Where are you relationships going? Or what is the value you are getting out of your relationships with various people? If your relationships are going way-ward maybe you need to take sometime and pray about them. See what God wants to do in and through your relationships. Maybe you find a characteristic or trait in your friend that you want, and that's why you are friends with them, or maybe you need a good accountability partner and you both hold each other accountable very well.. But just make sure your number one focus is that your relationships are pointing both of you to JESUS. If Jesus is the number 1 in your relationships there shall not be very many problems. Because Jesus has the answers for everything.
*This one is a tough one.. But you really will only have a few friends in your life that will be with you your whole life.. And then there will be some that only stick around for some seasons, and that's just how God operates sometimes. I know it may hurt- but he will bring you even more.

I don't know why I wrote this.. it's really random and had friendships on my mind.