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In this teaching activation message on praying in tongues, we will look at the Scriptures to open up the power of this gift for new covenant believers. May you be blessed, equipped, and filled with the Holy Spirit!

Moses asked God, "Who am I that I should go?" God answered, "I am with you." God told Moses, "My Name is I AM." God tells us, "Go, because you are the one I AM with. My Presence with you because of the blood of Jesus makes you worthy, makes you capable, makes you courageous, makes you bold, makes you powerful, makes you loving, makes you pure, makes you holy, makes you patient, makes you creative, makes you everything you need to be to overcome any obstacle in front of you or behind you because I AM in your present."

Living from a place of hope partners with God to affect our life in a powerful way. It produces hope in us and affects the world around us. Hope is not just positive thinking. It is a person--Jesus--and He lives in us! Hope is not an outside job. It's an inside job! It is believing that God really is good and His word supersedes any other words we hear or things we are faced with. True hope digs its heels in the goodness of God! Our future gets to be greater than our present because our God is so great! Let hope rise! Put your hope in Him and watch what happens in you and around you!

In Hebrews 12:28-29 it says: "Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire." In this message we share three keys to help guide us in offering God acceptable worship with reverence and awe.

The Great Commission is described as great because it's the greatest call on our lives as believers! No matter what you're doing in life, your greatest calling is to make Jesus known. There tends to be a separation between the Church of God and the Mission of God. It's time to bridge that gap! It's time to be driven by such a love for people that we can't help but represent and share Jesus everywhere we go! What if the great thing or great adventure that so many believers are waiting on would be found in the greatest calling on their life, sharing Jesus with the world!

There’s a door standing open in heaven. There is an invitation from the One Who sits on the throne to come up here and see—to see with the eyes of hope, to know our role in God’s plan, and to increase our awareness of His power and our victory. The more we choose to be in the Spirit and enter that door to see heaven, the more it will change the way we see earth.

God sent His Son, Jesus, so that we could have a personal relationship with Him. Within that relationship is a co-laboring partnership to be a part of the greatest thing in the history of our world--building God's Kingdom on the earth! Just because Jesus said, "it is finished" does not mean we do nothing. It means everything we do, we do it with Him. Jesus finished something so we could start something, a life partnering with God to change the world! We find ourselves waiting on God to reveal His plan to redeem the world. It's time to realize that we are His plan for redemption!

Is it possible that we can face every adversity with the expectation that its only purpose is to remove that which limits us and bring us into greater authority? When we face the fires of adversity, we can create an image of a god who will rescue us which will leave us enslaved and wounded, or we can walk through them with Jesus--unbound and unharmed.

The fear of the Lord is key to the outpouring of the Spirit and the fear of the Lord invites us to carry the burning heart of Jesus. It's in the ream of casting our crowns before Him where we truly begin to understand the weight of the sacrifice of Jesus and the authority we've been entrusted with as His chosen. You are born into a family, but you are invited into a legacy. Come up and come into the throne room of the Lord God Almighty with reverent awe and adoration before His holiness as you ascend above yourself and build an altar to the Lord Most High.

The Promises of God are beyond what our minds can conceive, but in relationship with Him we ascend into His understanding, we enforce His Word with His authority, and we worship in adoration for the magnitude of what He gives us.

Sharing Jesus with people is so important & urgent!  It’s because people are precious & worthy of us sharing with them about the one that’s changed our life forever--Jesus!!It was never Gods plan for us to keep Jesus to ourselves!  God demonstrated that by sending him to us to die on the cross!  God has always intended for Jesus to be released, shared, spread, encountered! Jesus said to his disciples, “Just as the Father sent me, I’m now sending you. “ -John 20:21.God blesses us so we can be a blessing. He encounters us so we can become an encounter. He fills us so we can be poured out! A huge part of following Jesus is sharing him with others, so they can have what we have and experience what we’ve experienced-- Jesus!  We get to step out, fully trusting him & full of love for everyone!

Warning: Mature Content A needed and timely conversation with professional therapist and child exploitation protection advocate, Melea Stephens. In this discussion we focus in on the problem of pornography in our world today, what it looks like to overcome pornography addiction, and the call to purity in the bride of Christ. There is a mighty invitation to partner with protection and establish healing. Take your place, righteous ones. The prayers of the saints are going forth and the purifying fire of Jesus is calling.

Deception twists the words of God to feed our desire to create our own definition of good. Deception convinces us that the words of God are not for our protection, and they are merely guidelines we may choose to follow or ignore without consequence while we forge our own path toward our own destination of good. When we aren’t growing in the knowledge of the goodness of God, we leave ourselves open to deception that gives us the power to define what is good. But deception robs us of the knowledge of how good God really is. We should never stop growing in the knowledge of the goodness of God.

It's one thing for Jesus to live in you. It's another thing for you to live IN, remain IN, and root yourself IN HIM! Abiding in Jesus is not just feeling His presence or just believing in Him. It's a daily decision to live with an awareness of Jesus throughout your day. It's a decision to walk with Him, talk with Him, spend time with Him, trust Him, obey Him, and partner with Him every moment of your life! What if our relationship with Jesus had no agenda, just HIM? What if we remained hungry for more of Him? What if it was not about what He could do, but who He is? What if we didn't live from the outside in, but the inside out? The things we want to see Him do in us and through us are a biproduct of us abiding in Him every day!

Are you ready to make up your mind to conquer excuses, intimidation, and unbelief? It's time for a new revelation. It's time to get to the end of yourself and let the Spirit take over. It's time to prophesy it and then occupy it. For you are well able to overcome it.

In difficult times, we can choose to be overwhelmed or we can choose to overcome. The key is to ask God to lead us higher--to ascend above our self where we gain heaven's perspective and access the strength of the Lord.

The Law was given through Moses, but Grace and Truth came through Jesus (John 1:17). God's grace is amazing! Jesus will absolutely set us free from sin; but when we begin to pursue the Truth of who He is and His word, that's when we set ourselves up to never sin again. Jesus came to eradicate sin in our life. When we go after the Truth of His word, our minds are renewed, our desires begin to change, and we begin to experience real freedom! Living out the Truth doesn't just affect us. It affects the world around us which is full of people who are searching for Truth. If we call ourselves Christians but are not walking in the Truth of God's word, the world sees a counterfeit version of Christianity. It's time to make up our mind about who we are going to serve--the world or Jesus? It's time to go all in! It's time to go after Jesus and the Truth of His word for your sake and the sake of the world!

Fix your gaze on Jesus. Experience the hope of becoming like Him. Encounter the freedom of His grace and truth.

The birth of Jesus was the most transformative event in the history of our world! The day he was born changed everything for us. He is the true Light and Life that everyone on earth had been waiting on. He was born so we could be born again and receive the greatest gift, Christ in us, the hope of glory.

Guest speaker, Michael French, teaches about the price God paid to be near us and the cost and holy responsibility of choosing to draw near to Him.