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Pastoral
Week-Alone-With-God |
August
27-31, Pastor Randy Morgan will be on a pastoral retreat in the New Covenant
sanctuary. During
this time, there is a general call to fasting and prayer.
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Some Announcements |
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There are
brand new updates to the audio sermon files, be sure to check them out
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What is The 150??? So pray to the Lord of the harvest to force out and thrust
laborers into His harvest (Matthew 9:38) Great multitudes followed Jesus (Matthew 4:25). Great multitudes gathered together unto Him (Matthew 13:2). Great multitudes came unto him having with Him those who were
lame, blind, dumb, and maimed and many others and cast them at Jesus’ feet
and He healed them … and the multitudes were amazed (Matthew 15:30). The multitudes resorted to Him (Jesus) and He taught them (Mark
2:13). And the believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes
both men and women (Acts 5:14) The Word increased and the number of disciples increased (Acts
6:7) The Hand of the Lord was with them and a great number believed
and turned to the Lord (Acts 11:21) We
are always setting goals here at New Covenant for higher, greater, more
excellent, and more powerful service to God. Without a vision people
perish and cast off all restraint, so goals are vital for any group to thrive
and grow, especially in the Kingdom. God has given us a vision and a
message that will reach the nations, help revolutionize lives, and lead souls
into a relationship with our God and King. With that in mind, in order
to fulfill the vision that God has given Will
you set your faith in agreement? Will you call friends, family, loved
ones, those who haven’t been to church in a while? Will you send cards,
e-mails, etc.? Will you call it forth in prayer? If so, thank
you. God is going to do amazing things here in this Body of Believers.
We need the exponential power of unity and growth to continue here at
New Covenant – to breakthrough the 100 or so mark in attendance, to increase
in order to sow out into the world. Let’s reach higher than we’ve ever
reached before |
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Pastors’
Corner with Pastor Angela and Pastor Joan |
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If you’d like to
receive Pastor Angela’s Daily Word, e-mail her at – pastorangela@newcovenantatlanta.com
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“And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief:
for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye
shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place’, and it shall
remove: and nothing shall be impossible unto you.” (Matthew 17:20) The disciples couldn’t cast the devil out and had apparently
tried to analyze their whys and came to the conclusion it was because of
their lack of faith. Jesus explains
why when he mentioned the small amount of faith needed to remove a problem in
our life. Unbelief had crept into
the faith life of the disciples. Jesus
said a very small amount of faith, the size of a mustard seed, would move a
mountain and also guarantee victory from that time on. A small bit of unbelief will void the power of
faith. The mustard seed has to be
unhindered by doubt to work. Faith was
never designed to be a tug of war.
When doubt is absent, a mustard-seed amount of faith will carry that
mountain right into the sea. Unbelief
acts as an opponent to faith and pulls on the mountain from the other
side. Faith is void and the mountain
remains. Jesus told the disciples that
unbelief was why they were unable to cast out the devil. Jesus was not moved by the crowd or what others thought
of Him or the critical attitude of the scribes. He was not intimidated by the young boy who
fell on the ground wallowing and foaming.
He cast out the devil and set the young boy free. Jesus was a man of faith. Jesus tells the disciples “this kind [of unbelief]
goes not out but by prayer and fasting.”
How much more should we be in prayer and fasting! We need FAITH to get through our daily
lives! If you’d like to receive
Pastor Joan’s Daily Devotional, e-mail her at – pastorjoan@newcovenantatlanta.com
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By: Pastor Randy Morgan There
are strategic moments of advancement in the Kingdom of God, moments, times,
seasons, when particular activities must be executed, certain things done for
Kingdom Growth and Local Church expansion. Over
the past couple of weeks, the Lord has begun to show me, through the Spirit
of Revelation, certain attacks that were coming on this Body of Believers,
and He gave me a directive that all of us must begin to close the door on
these spiritual, demonic influences, immediately, or those who refuse to do
so will not be able to “Go With Us” to the Higher Places of the Anointing.
These enemies are:
The Spirit of Slumber Laziness, unwillingness, and the primary
spiritual influence behind “Pew Warming.” This Spirit keeps believers
inside the four walls of a church, and never actively reaching out to
influence the spiritual realm of their city. This Spirit also
influences believers to feel too “tired” to go to church on a regular basis.
It lies and says, “you don’t need to be connected to the family of
faith… you can rest, and not work in the harvest fields with the pastor, with
the staff, etc…” This spirit causes exhaustion during the
preaching of the Word and/or during worship. It creates a lulling
effect, causing a heaviness of the natural and spiritual eyes. Proverbs 6:10-11 says, “a little sleep, a little
slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep, so will your poverty come
upon you with slowly but surely approaching steps” (Amp – paraphrased).
This spirit seeks to impoverish the people of God spiritually,
emotionally, and physically. The Spirit of Infirmity This spirit influences the aches, pains, misery,
coughing, sneezing, unrelenting allergies, headaches that seem to never go
away, bruises that are inexplicable, hurts, illnesses, etc. The Spirit of Heaviness This spirit influences depression, anguish,
loneliness, inexplicable feeling of a “down cast, hopeless soul.”
Heaviness is only correctable by “putting on the garment of praise”
(Isaiah 61:1-3). Since praise and worship is at the heart of
overcoming this spirit, it is this spirit that will seek to assault worship
teams and leaders, to make them feel “tired, weary, incapable,” and
eventually get them to “take an extended break from being a part of any
team.” The spirit of heaviness will seek to destroy the worship of a
church; that is why we must worship by faith, even when we don’t feel like
it. The Spirit of Fear Night terrors, inability to communicate because
of fear, a sense that nothing will ever be right with anything, a feeling
that one is not right with God and never will be. This spirit dominates
through intimidation and it seeks to choke the life out of every believer by
making them feel “not fit.” The Spirit of Whoredoms Hebrew word for this spirit is zenuneem, which
basically covers “fornication, adultery, prostitution, uncontrolled lust,
etc.” This is a covenant breaking spirit that seeks to destroy
relationships. This spirit is a chief influence behind why some
believers in some churches “Hook Up” inappropriately out of covenant.
It is the chief influence behind sexual hypocrisy in the church whether
gay-affirming or mainstream. It is this spirit that influences the
statement in our community, “Well, we can’t get legally married, so we’re ‘together’
for now, and if it works out great, if not, oh well, we weren’t ‘married’ to
begin with…” That is the spirit of whoredom, an uncontrollable lusting
spirit that seeks to justify its ways outside of covenant. Sex is a
sacred activity reserved for the marriage bed. We would do well to
remember that God has called us to holiness and righteousness, and we must
align ourselves with His principals. How do we overcome these spiritual influences and go higher??? 1.
The confessions of our mouths Our words carry power; life and death are in the power of our tongues
(Proverbs 18:21). When we speak life, by faith, when we make
Spirit-filled, life-giving confessions over our lives and the lives of
others, we activate the law of the Spirit of Life. So, in order to
overcome these spiritual strongholds, let’s begin to speak only words that
are edifying of our church and each other. 2.
Praise and Worship The garment of praise is the weapon against the spirit of heaviness
and many other influences. When we read the Word of God, we discover
very quickly that God set praise as a weapon that would defeat enemies.
And so it is ordained today. When we praise, the forces of the
enemy are ambushed and pushed back. 3.
Activation by faith beyond feelings. Faith has no feelings. When we obey God, whether we feel it or
not, we will see benefits. 4.
The Name of Jesus The Name of Jesus has all of heaven’s resources behind it. You
want to see results, use the Name. Let’s Make a Declaration Together (say this out loud): In the Name of Jesus, I repent and ask You, Father, to forgive me for
having open doors in my life to these demonic, spiritual influences. I
close the door in my life and in the life of my church on the spirits of
slumber, infirmity, heaviness, fear, and whoredoms. In Jesus’ Name, I
command these spiritual influences to take their hands off of our people’s
minds, hearts, wills, and emotions. We corporately break covenant with
these spirits. In Jesus Name, we are free. |
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By Prophetic
Deacon Ron Floda God has on
several occasions impressed upon me a message encouraging us to get prepared
to move to the next level in our church and in our ministries. The following
is a composite of stirring that I'm feeling. I heard a
voice calling across a large body of water, and it said that it’s time to cross
over to the other side, to the land of promise. And although the land flows
with the provisions of God, there will also be new obstacles to face and
overcome, and possessing it won’t be automatic and that we couldn’t just let
our guard down and think that the would be no more battles to fight. But there
seemed to be a hesitation by some to not cross over. Although the wilderness
had been difficult, some had gotten used to it and were content in the
familiarity of it. Not that they were comfortable in it, but that at least
they knew what to expect and how to deal with it. And there were still the
old stories of the Giants in the new land. They wondered if we were yet ready
to take on those battles and possess the land. But God said
that we are well able – with His help – to conquer the giants and
subdue/work/rule the new territory.
The only hindrance would be self-imposed limitations in the attitude
of our minds. The Lord says
“Now is the time to cross over, to leave the fears and the doubts behind. Now
is the time of fresh outlook and of a letting go of the things of the past.
The old strategies will be challenged, and new revelations will need to be
incorporated into the plan. The terrain will be different and we will need to
be flexible, teachable and ready to implement the new strategies without
grumbling, complaining or looking to the old way of doing things.” Engage your
faith and be proactive – ready to take these new mountains that the Lord has
given. Let your zeal be evident, and look eagerly for the new release of
wisdom from the Spirit, and God will let you run and
not be weary, and able to overcome and conquer in this new land. |
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Unbelief voids Faith
For God's Glory,
Pastors Randy
and Johnny
404.929.1400