The Housetop

We have to awaken to the idea that we are in a spiritual war. We are not wrestling against flesh and blood.  We are fighting demonic entities that have usurped godly creations, and we cannot fight in the spiritual arena with carnal means.

It's time to open our eyes to the spiritual forces around us. We are in a spiritual conquest and there’s a battle raging for our souls.  It’s time to get full of the Holy Ghost and fight like you're going to win. 

We are victors when we are fully dressed in the whole armor of God.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are in this sort of paradigm shift now. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grace is the divine influence upon the heart reflected in the life. It is powerful when God’s grace comes, and there’s a manifestion of it in the life.  Many argue that it is either grace or works, but it is actually grace and works.  We are not saved by good works, but we are kept by them.

Don’t pervert grace by saying you can live however you want to now and still be saved.  It’s a false doctrine.  We are predestined to reflect God’s glory on earth and do a good work.  He is raising up a people who are zealous about good works and want to do the things that glorify Him. 

The commandments have not been done away with.  If God’s grace doesn’t empower you to keep His commandments, then you are under a false grace.  If you are trying to live in lawless deeds, calling your continued sin liberty and grace, then you are frustrating the true grace of God.    

Christ didn’t die so we would keep sinning; He died so we could die with Him.  But instead of being dead to sin, we sit in church dead in our sins.  

There are many religious seekers of Christ who are still dying in their sins.  We have all but eradicated the holiness of God, twisting His glory and truth. Misrepresenting God, we have exalted a humanistic view of His love and seared our conscience towards sin.

We must get our blinders off and look soberly at our sin before a holy God.

There are so many people who have had real encounters with God who have never known the fullness of Jesus Christ in their life.  God wants to change you with His fullness inside of you.  We are His Church, His Body, the fullness of Him who fills all things.  Jesus Christ was filled with grace and truth, and He wants you as full as He is. 

We need the fullness today.  Why aren’t we pressing in to see the Church filled with the Holy Spirit? A spirit of slumber has rested on the churches. The gospel is way bigger than what we have made it today.  It is a powerful gospel that wants to save you: spirit, soul, and body. 

God wants to do a work in you and fill you with the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead; and when God fills you with Himself, you cannot be the same. 

There is an abundance of God’s Spirit that He wants to fill you with.  Some don’t even know to ask for His fullness or to pursue more of the Holy Ghost.  We have left so much on the table.

When the eyes of the understanding become enlightened, it means we are able to look at things with our spiritual eyes wide opened.  As the knowledge of God revolves in the head, it drops down into the spirit and becomes understanding. The heart sees something that is way deeper than the mind is able to.

In Ephesians, Paul prays for the spirit of understanding in three areas:  The hope of His calling, the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us who believe. 

Join us as Teryl Hebert explores the powerful truths in each area. 

Paul prayed for a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ Jesus.  The spirit of wisdom implies a continual unfolding of abiding, residing, and living wisdom.  This is something we are missing in the church today. 

We have overemphasized the knowledge of the cross without connecting with the brokenness that comes from the cross.  We have heads full of cognitive transfer, but this knowledge has not dropped into the spirit or changed the hearts of men.

We are transferring cognitive knowledge instead of enlarging on revelation.  Because of this, there’s no freedom, no healing, no deliverance, and no signs of the new birth.

Cognitive transfer does not stick.  What we need today are minds enlightened and transfigured from divine encounters.  We need the wisdom of God dwelling in the hearts and minds of men through revelation.

In this last age, there’s a revealing of the mystery that has been hidden throughout all the ages.  The mystery is that Jews and Gentiles would worship Jesus at the same alter of the cross.  God is gathering everything together into one through Christ Jesus and reconciling the world to Himself by the blood of Jesus Christ and making peace as the two become one, with no division in the heart or head. 

We all come in through the blood of the cross and worship God in the Kingdom come. Regardless of your background, all the nations can come into the Kingdom by the blood of Jesus Christ.  There is no other access.  Everything is coming under subjection of the Lordship of Jesus Christ for the purpose of eternal judgment.

It’s the duty of the Church in this generation to preach this gospel in such a way that principalities and powers in the heavenly places, some of the most powerful strongholds in the universe, would have to hear and quake that Jesus is the Son of God and God said, “Sit right here at My right hand until I make My enemies Your footstool.” We are now ministers of this reconciliation and commissioned to preach this gospel.

Redemption means to liberate someone and set them free at a purchase price.   We were captive and bound to demonic forces that held us to sin. But Christ paid the ransom fully; and through His blood, we have redemption. 

To understand what it cost God to forgive you, we must first understand the righteous requirements of the law and power of the blood. 

There’s redemption through the blood of Christ according to the riches of God’s grace. But to get this grace, you must go through the blood.  The redemption in His blood is what gives us the legal right to have our sins forgiven. 

One of the greatest needs we have is acceptance.  We all have experienced the pain of rejection; and if anyone understands the ramifications of rejection, it is Jesus.

Even when the whole world has rejected us, we have the ability to be accepted by God. This divine acceptance is the power of God working inside the life of a person, bringing joy unspeakable that is full of glory. 

It is by grace we are accepted in the Beloved.  Acceptance from God is based on what He has done for us through the blood of Jesus Christ to reconcile us back to Himself.  Many people have the knowledge of this, but their spirit has not yet had the revelation.  When this is revealed, a flood of life, joy, hope, and peace comes.

Seek and hear the voice of God speak to you and confirm in your spirit that He has made you accepted in the Beloved.

To be adopted as a child of God means our earthly life is dead with Christ on the cross. Now it is alive with God in Him.

I am in Him, and He is in me.  Like marriage, the two have become one. A oneness has been established. Everything of mine belongs to God, and everything that God has belongs to me. That’s how covenant works. 

To be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own from the law. But a righteousness through faith. It's not what I have achieved, my religious performance, devotions, or appearance.  It has everything to do with faith in what God has done.

When a seed is sown into good ground, the ground receives the seed, and it will bear fruit.  God commands fruit from those He redeems.  We are to bear fruit unto God worthy of repentance.

Can you imagine the revival that would happen overnight if every believer were bearing fruit 30, 60, or 90-fold?

We must ask ourselves: Do I have a fruitful life, bearing fruit for God?  Is there anything my life is producing with eternal value? Where is the fruit of souls?

Seeds sown among the thorns represent the one who becomes unfruitful because the Word is choked out by the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts or desires for other things.

The entire Western Church is littered with thorns. We are so overburdened and focused on the temporal that we have lost thought of the Kingdom of God. Asleep to the Kingdom but awake to the things of the world.

Have we allowed the thorns to make us fruitless?

In the Parable of the Sower, everyone was receiving the Word, but only one bore fruit. There are all types of relationships to the Word of God, but not all will bear fruit or have eternal life with Jesus.

The seed that fell along the wayside represents those who lack anointing. Their relationship is so loose with God the devil has free reign and access to their hearts, even while the Word is being preached. Immediately the enemy takes the seed away. The wayside is near the Way, running parallel to the Way, but it is not the Way.

The seed that fell on the rocks represents hardened hearts, so full of rocks it’s not conducive to growth. Because roots reach impenetrable areas, their growth is shallow. Immediately they receive and immediately they crumble. The first time a little heat is applied - persecution, affliction, pressure – they immediately go.

We must continually check the soil of our hearts to see if its conducive to receiving seed. Rocks must be removed and fallow ground broken up.

The first steps to understanding the mysteries of the Kingdom of God is to get alone with Jesus. We need revelation. God wants to reveal Himself to us.  When we begin to pursue Jesus on our own, and really see to understand, the eyes of our understanding will opened. This is the key to the new birth. 

The ministry of the sower is to sow the Word of God. This duty requires a preparing of the soil by breaking up fallow ground. The sower must be diligent to not waste precious seed, but to plant in good soil. 

James is a fitting end to this teaching on Wisdom’s Seven Pillars.  Many principles of the paradoxes of Jesus are repeated, and there's a common thread running throughout the book that fits perfectly to this study.

The world thinks differently than the Kingdom of God. We need so much wisdom from the cross to navigate through all the trials that are hitting us because the adulterous woman is calling out to the people of God, “Come eat at my table.”

We need the wisdom of God to navigate through the trials of the earth. We don't want to succumb to the temptation to blend the world’s wisdom with the wisdom of God. 

So many are unstable in their Christianity because they want to try to have a foot in both the world and God.

Everyone is striving to be number one.  Many want to be first - first in rank, influence, honor, and succession of anything or person.  People crave this position and prosperity.  But Jesus said the first will be last and the last first.  We need to sell out and learn more about this paradoxical teaching of Jesus.

The flesh desires greatness. But Jesus says unless we humble ourselves, be converted by God’s Word, and become like a little child, we cannot see the kingdom of God.

We must come through the new birth, being born again by the Word of God, and continue in this dependency.

Do you have the testimony of going back to childhood?  Learning how to walk, talk, think, act, and conduct yourself like Jesus. The greatest people in the kingdom of God are childlike, living in full dependency on God, where God is all in all.

The third pillar of wisdom is:  To be great, be a waiter, a minister.  To be first, become a slave. 

The will of God is that every person who names the name of Christ will enter the fellowship of His suffering. It is a test in the Christian walk and the point so many turn away or build an alternative theology because there is no doctrine of suffering in the Christian community any longer. 

Our soul says it doesn’t want to live like Jesus in this matter.  "I don’t want to serve.   I want to be first.  I want to be best.  I want a crown without any cross. I want heaven with no testing."

But the temple of God is built on a threshing floor, and that threshing floor is where He is building us. Judgment starts at the house of God as we are tested, tried, and afflicted to purify us. There will never be an untested person to enter the streets of glory.  If God lets you through the gates, He can trust that you won't be the next rebel. 

We are infatuated with our own self-promotion. Wanting to be first in everything. It is pride and makes us the enemy of God. The only way to break the pride is to humble ourselves.  Some of us need to dismantle our own pyramid, step down, serve, and repent of a controlling spirit.

Christ didn’t seek to be elevated.  He humbled Himself.  He did not try to make Himself known.  He made Himself of no reputation and became a servant. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.

As a disciple of Christ, you are called to forsake everything in this world and follow Christ without compromise.  The more you say to God, in a humble and contrite spirit, “God, I’m a pilgrim passing through, and I don’t belong here,” the Lord will draw near, and His life will attach to your life.  You will find eternal life in that separation from this world. 

The cross of Jesus Christ is a severing tool that will separate you from this world and anything that is sold out to it.  When you take up the cross, you take up a sword that will sever you from very close relationships.  You must forsake all to be His disciple. 

If you don’t hate your life in this world, you cannot keep it to eternal life. 

The first of the seven pillars of wisdom is the paradoxical teaching of Jesus: If you love your life, you're going to lose it.

A seed must fall to the ground and die in order to bear fruit. We too must first descend to a lower place through humility and die to self. It's a co-crucifixion with Christ.

Many people, sincere in their religion and in their church attendance, are in danger of hell. Not because of an overtly evil lifestyle. But because they love their own life too much to lay it down. Loving your life will render it useless.

The false message of self-promotion in this hour has permeated our brains. This popular voice pampers narcissism, and even spiritual narcissism.

We must examine ourselves. We can't depend on our church life, religious status, niceness, or goodness. They are all paths to hell unless we take up the cross and follow Christ.

We must follow Jesus to death if we will follow Him in resurrection.

There's a wisdom from God and a wisdom from this world. Both are putting out a call, inviting you to sit at their table and learn.

We must distinguish between God's wisdom and the world's wisdom.  God's wisdom is foolishness to the world, whereas the world's wisdom is foolishness to God.

The wisdom of God is the cross of Jesus Christ. God cut covenant with us at the cross of Christ; and we enter that covenant by faith.  

The wisdom of the world is putting out a seductive invitation that allures to the flesh. There are many who call themselves Christian but are functioning on the wisdom of the world. If we allow our minds to be persuaded by the world's wisdom, we fall into spiritual adultery. 

While God's wisdom has an eternal existence, this world's wisdom will perish, and all those who are governed and driven by it have a death sentence reigning inside of them. 

God wants us to flow in the gifts of the Spirit; and we are to covet earnestly the best gifts.  We should have a burning desire for this.  But in that zeal, if we lose our love for Jesus, what did we accomplish?  

The gifts of the Spirit are about us working with God.  If we get so enamored with how God is using us, then we fall in love with our abilities and not the Giver of the gift.  It is easy to lose sight of the miracle worker and get enamored with the miracle itself. 

If agape love isn’t at the very heart of what we do, then it is nothing but flesh. It should alarm us that we can have an appearance of a person of power, boldly moving in the gifts of God, and yet still go to hell.  Holy love accompanied with a holy life must be in the middle of it all.

God is love, and His love was epitomized at the cross of Jesus Christ. 

In 1 Corinthians chapter 12 there are nine gifts of the Spirit listed. They can be put into three groups of three: The Revelatory Gifts, The Power Gifts, and The Gifts of Utterance. In this session we discuss The Gifts of Utterance, comprised of Prophecy, Tongues, and The Interpretation of Tongues.

There is much disagreement surrounding the gifts of the Spirit in our generation. Scripture tells us to zealously burn with desire for the best gifts. We are to stir up the gifts that are in us and encourage others to do the same. But to make the giftings controversial by saying they are not for today is a great offence to the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is a river we won't stop. So, let’s not have Him bypass us. Let’s become New Testament worshipers who flow in the gifts of the Spirit.

The nine gifts of the Spirit can be divided into three separate groups: The Revelatory Gifts, The Power Gifts, and The Gifts of Utterance. The second group, The Power Gifts, is comprised of Faith, Healings, and Miracles.

People are hungry to see the genuine power of God.

We should see an increase in the power of God in our generation, but instead we are seeing it dimensioned. This is largely due to false doctrine and unbelief. We are plagued with unbelief in this hour. It is running rampant, even among those who claim they are believers.

The Kingdom of God is not in word but in power. Our faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

There's miraculous, wonder-working power in the true and living God.

We want to see a great reviving of the gifts of the Spirit in our generation.

The gifts are a manifestation of the Holy Spirit, given to each member within the interconnected Body for the profit of all. These nine gifts can be broken into three separate groups:  The Revelatory Gifts, The Power Gifts, and The Gifts of Utterance.  

In this teaching, The Revelatory Gifts are discussed, which are: The Word of Wisdom, The Word of Knowledge, and The Discerning of spirits.

Available to us is the full giftings of the Holy Spirit. Let us develop an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches and break the ignorance about the spirituals.

We are to let all things be done for edification. Edification is the building of the house of God. There are two purposes to edification:  1.) It is meant to build up and strengthen each member of the Body.  2.) It is meant to add to the Body of Christ by bringing new people in.  Both call for the gifts of the Spirit to be in full operation. 

God gave gifts to men to equip the saints for the work of the ministry to build up the Body of Christ.  There are diversities of gifts but it is God who works all in all.  We absolutely need each other to manifest the fullness of Christ. 

Very few know what Body building in the Spirit is like.  It has nothing to do with the strength of your faith, keenness of your mind, or the sensitivity of your emotion.  It has everything to do with all the carnal nature being put under the heart of the new birth.  Everything in your being is subjected to the Spirit of God.  This is the real work of faith with power. 

It’s time to see the work of God and the work of faith in power. 

By one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body – the Body of Christ.  To function as the Bible teaches the Body of Christ to function, we need a shift in our thinking. We are to be joined to one another and immersed into relationship.  This requires a burial to self as we are interconnected and intertwined.  We are dependent on one another to fitly frame together until the whole Body manifests Christ. 

The giftings of the Sprit are all to accomplish one thing:  The work of God. The work of God is the making of disciples. We are to spread the message of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

We are baptized by one Spirit into the Body of Christ with the duty of making disciples for Christ, and the gifts of the Spirit equip us to do exactly that. We need the gifts of the Spirit in full operation while we tell others about Jesus Christ.

The gifts of the Spirit empower us to accomplish the work of God. 

We are faced with a flood of lies, even coming across the pulpit.  In order to not be deceived, we must guard against receiving from the wrong people. Making it a habitual practice to vigorously exercise our discernment will develop our senses and help us grow in our ability to differentiate between what is true and false. 

Without a relationship with the Word of God, we are set up for deception.  Building a belief system around the authority of the Word of God will develop our skills of perception. The Word of God must be what we filter all we see and hear through so that we can become a good reader of people, able to discern the genuineness of others.    

When we begin to apply the Word of God through our perceptions, we will be able to recognize when a voice is in contradiction to the Shepherd’s voice.  Immersing our mind in the Word of God will help guard against doctrines of devils and spirits of error.  It is not being critical, but rather wise to be a discerner of good and evil. 

Do you want to keep your deliverance?  Let the Creator make you creative in worship.

God wants us to come to the place in our recreation where He, as our Creator, teaches us to be creative. We can release creativity in all of the five spiritual disciplines: prayer, bible study, fellowship, worship, and witnessing.

God is looking for true worshipers who worship in spirit and truth.  Become a powerful worshiper as you break off the traditional shackles and molds and let the creativity of God govern.

Let’s be extravagant worshipers of God and get creative in worship, thinking on His excellency and giving Him praise and glory.

Strongholds give place to demons who want to wage war by attacking the weaknesses in our lives and tormenting our walk with Christ.  We need to demolish these strongholds and bring them to where they are useless for any demonic activity.

Deliverance is found at the cross of Jesus Christ. It is the power of God for your deliverance. It is the power of God unto salvation. It is the power of God that will heal you.

The cross of Jesus Christ is the power of God to a full salvation that can set you free.

If you have a stronghold with a demon oppressing and tormenting you, you find yourself unable to control your actions, repeatedly cycling in sin, you cannot get out of this or that issue, it's time to go to the cross and through the cross. It's time to get your victory in Christ Jesus.

Just because you are a religious person does not mean you cannot be demonized.

We are in a great falling away. The devil has opened his mouth and released a flood of lies upon the earth. This deception is even within the church. An oversimplistic way to Christianity is being offered up that’s not biblical. People are attempting to enter through a door other than the cross.

Without signs of repentance, fruits unto holiness, a new birth, or a new creature, people are saying, “I'm saved, and I'm going to heaven in the end.” This is deception. We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are Christians when all we're doing is sitting there hearing things. It is a feast at the Tree of Knowledge, and it has permeated society.

The gospel is showing no restraining power because its presentation is false. There’s a foundational element that's wrong. This doctrine of demons is another gospel with another Jesus that has very little to do with biblical Christianity. 

There's a way to preach that will not deliver people from sin. Because of this, sin is rampant in church, with the church sinner being no different from the street sinner. We are seeing the manifestation of the man of sin because man has been unbridled in his lusts.

Don’t brush this off as though it couldn’t be you.

Religious affiliation, water baptism, or church attendance is not going to cut it. You need holiness, repentance, and the true cross of Jesus Christ.

Strongmen are demon spirits that literally torment the people of God.

Jesus cast demons out with His word, and likewise, the Word of God will drive demons out of our lives. That’s why it is so important to have a strong relationship with the Word of God. The more we saturate our heart and mind in God's Word, the less room a demon has to occupy our life. The Word of God is how we break though strongholds and the torment these demons can bring.

There are 4 realms of demons: Physical, soulish (mental/emotional), moral, and religious. The objective of this teaching is to identify and shine light on the strongmen who seek to mar the image of God in our lives.

We have been given authority and power to cast out devils, heal the sick, and raise the dead. We need a spirit of faith and expectancy to rise up, so we don’t fall in a position of unbelief, unable to do the job Jesus wants us to do.

When God gives someone truth and they refuse to obey, He gives them over to blindness in their heart and mind. Darkness on the imagination is the first move of the judgment of God. This volatile land is where demonic reasonings and arguments exalt themselves in our mind and come against what we know about God.

Hordes of demons attack the mind. The devil does not want us to think the way God thinks. Our victory in Christianity is found in our mind as we cast down these warped imaginations and we bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

We have patterns of thought, often developed in our youth, that we use to process anything that comes into our heart. When these are contrary to the Word of God, we need a changing of the way we think. This can be done through the gift of grace called repentance. This renewing of the mind is the way to demolish strongholds.

We need to know the truth and let it make us free.  The Word of God needs to be in us so we can discern the error and the folly of the wicked.

Where there was once darkened blindness, God wants to command the light to come on.

When the First Adam sinned, his breath kept going but his spirit died. This created an expiration date on the house of the soul, his physical body.

The First Adam was a man of the earth, and we are all born into this realm. We bear the image of the earthly and want the things of the earth. Apart from Christ, we have spiritual death inside and await the eventual physical death, followed by the eternal judgment of the soul.

While the First Adam was a fallen creature doomed, the Second Adam, Jesus, was a quickening spirit. His affection was not for the earth, but for heaven.

The Second Adam was a picture of the recreation of man to live within the Kingdom of God. He was the divine seed of God and bypassed the fallen seed of man. He lived a separated life detached from the world.

As sons and daughters of God, we are invited into this same transformation by which we can start a new life through the Son of God. Jesus is calling us out of the earthly into the image of the heavenly. It’s called being born again.

So many today who claim to be Christians live like the First Adam and are stuck in the soulish realm with a dead spirit. Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. We need the same quickening spirit as the Second Adam.

When the Spirit of God fills the heart of man, we begin to live as a Second Adam. The same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead quickens our mortal bodies, and now inside of these decaying vessels is an eternal spirit that is living. There’s a detachment from this world and a heart set on eternity when we become affiliated with the Second Adam. 

The power of the resurrection is not futuristic.  Jesus is calling sons and daughters to Himself to walk in the same power of the Holy Spirit that raised Him from the dead.

False prophets have infiltrated our churches. There are wolves in sheep's clothing of a lying gospel with a lying grace. Everything is about our prosperity, happiness, breakthrough, and destiny. We are a generation filled with lies. We have lost our collective minds in Christianity because we have lost the way.  We are following God based on what He can do for us, instead of what we can do for Him.

The separated life God wants for us isn’t popular today. We have learned to incorporate worldliness into Christianity and feel good about it. But this is a deception. The spirit of Antichrist teaches us to love the world and everything in the world, and through much wantonness they allure us through the flesh. They promise us everything our flesh desires.

Instead of being on the narrow path, many people today are following Jesus in a broad way. Being deceived by doctrines of devils, seducing spirits of error, and damnable heresies has put them on a wide, destructive path.

How do we know we are some of the few who have found the way of the cross and the way of holiness?