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24 January,
2008
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Audio Sermon on Acts Chapter 9 from Apostle Randy Morgan
Now that we’ve got your attention!!!!
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Friday Intercessory Prayer at New Covenant – The begun meeting on Fridays at New Covenant at Contact Ron Rock
for any questions, atlronnie@aol.com ****************************************************************************************
On January 20th, we began two phases to our Sunday evening
services. The schedule is such that we
have our corporate service and ministry time from 6-7 PM on Sundays. Then, at 7:15, the Fire Institute convenes (after
the corporate service has been dismissed).
Everyone is invited to attend corporate worship from 6-7 PM, but the
Fire Institute (7:15-8:30 or so) is for registered participants only. If you are interested in going through the next session of the Fire Institute, there are registration forms
at Church or you can apply for pre-registration by sending the following
information to: pastor@newcovenantatlanta.com: 1. Name
2. Phone Number 3. E-mail address 4. Brief summary of your testimony –
salvation, baptism in Holy Spirit, church background (if any), and how you
came to be at New Covenant. Please remember, the Fire Institute is intensive ministry training and
is not for everyone. If you’re ready
to be used by God, if you’re ready for the next level, if you’re ready to
have your soul infused with the Word of God, then the Fire Institute if for
you!!! Questions and Comments, please
contact Pastor Randy Morgan…
There will be a brief active members meeting after church
Sunday Morning.
Covenant Kids children’s ministry will resume on February 2nd.
There will be worship, games, Bible
lessons, and Prizes! Children will be
learning more about God in a Fun and “Winter Refreshing Services” with Evangelist Evelyn Schave – 22-24
February 2008 Plan now to bring your
friends and family! Home Groups Home Groups are throughout the
city. In January are studying the Book
of John. Tuesday, |
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Put on Your Royal Robes Text: Esther 5:1-2 Now it came to pass on the third day, that
Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's
house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne
in the royal house, over against the gate of the house. And it was so, when
the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour
in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in
his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre. Prophetic Word "I
say it is time for my people to put on their royal robes. It's time for you
to find favor with Me,” says the Lord. “I require a girding time - put on the
garments I've given you. Don't depend on your own ways - take what I have
given you and come before Me.” For I
say, the enemy has garments, too. He's tried to robe you with anger, strife,
depression, lifelessness, fear, bitterness, and lust, but I say, rent, tear
off those garments. Burn those garments on a fire of my Spirit. Create a
spiritual bonfire and remove that which has robed you long enough. Respect
my Presence. Come before Me as those who have properly clothed themselves.
Display honor before Me. -Word
given to Pastor Randy during the week of In the book of Esther chapter 4, we
see that Esther has just learned that a death sentence had been pronounced
over her and her people. Modecai, who is a type of the Holy Spirit, tells her
to carry this need to the King. This is a beautiful illustration of
intercession's cooperation with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit must inspire
and author our prayer lives. With a death threat hanging over the
people, you would think that Esther would have run to the King screaming in a
panic; saying 'please, please, please save us.' But she didn't panic; she
rather took three days to prepare herself for the King's Presence by putting
on her royal robes. How often, when we have a need, do we run to God, quickly
blurt out the need, and leave the throne room without one moment of
acknowledging the Glory of the King. We often obsess over our own needs and
desires. Why me Lord? When Lord? I need a spouse, God... Etc. While obsessing
over our own needs, we often forget about ministering to the Lord first,
giving Him His Heart's Desires, getting our hearts ready for Him. Esther put on her royal robes and took the
time to prepare herself. Today, I say, we have been given royal robes that
must be worn when we go before the King. We must prepare ourselves before we
go to Him. These are the Robes: Isaiah 61: 10,3 I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my
soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments
of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth
herself with her jewels. To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give
unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of
praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of
righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
The Garment of Salvation. The Hebrew word here for 'garment' is
"Beged," which means an undergarment - basically it means,
underwear. Salvation is your spiritual underwear. It is the foundational
garment which must be put on before any other garment can be put on.
Salvation is put on by "Calling on the Name of the Lord Jesus and having
faith in Him" (Romans 10:13). The Robes of Righteousness. The Hebrew word here for 'robes' is
"Mahiyl," which means the clothes on the outside - the suit. We
have our underwear, now we have a suit of righteousness that we can put on. There are two aspects to righteousness:
The Garments of Praise. The Hebrew for 'garment' is
"Ma'ateh," which means the final wrap - a scarf, headdress. The
final beauty garment for our presentation to the King is the garment of
praise. We should never be so bogged down in the cares of this life that we
forget or overlook PRAISING HIM. Whether we feel it or not, we should always
come before our King with praise and adoration. Whatever you do, gird yourself up with the
proper garments to come before the King today. |
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Pastors’ Corner with Pastor Angela and Pastor Joan Helping
Feed the Family of God |
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Job Prep Every morning we get up and prep
ourselves for the day ahead. We all have our routines we follow to get our
mental and physical bodies ready to face the day. Most of us work Monday thru
Friday so that we can earn our paycheck and care for our households. We also
have work to do for God. Our requirements do not include dressing and
prepping as we would for our daily work. Being about our Father’s business
requires spiritual dressing and word covering. Just as you get your work
clothes ready, get you God clothes ready. Spend time with God everyday
because He wants to get to know you more. Gal 6:8-10 8 The one who sows to please his sinful nature,
from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the
Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become
weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do
not give up. 10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to
all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. |
Confession of Faith I am made
righteous and am accepted through the blood of Jesus. I am blessed and highly
favored of the Lord. I am the object
of Your affection. Your
favor surrounds me as a shield, and people go out of their way to bless me
and to help me. I have
favor with everyone that I deal with today. Doors are now opened for me that once were closed.
I declare
restoration of everything that the devil has stolen from me. I am
favored by God, I experience great victories,
supernatural and miraculous breakthroughs. I win battles
and have honor in the midst of my adversaries. I expand my territory today. I have
abundance and an increase of assets, for I experience the free favors of God.
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Ministries Available at God has blessed |
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Awesome Links for 2008 New Covenant’s
Daily Devotional from Pastor Joan Castle – e-mail her at pastorjoan@newcovenantatlanta.com
to receive it. This devotional has
daily prayer requests from your New Covenant Family, Daily Confessions, and
daily readings that will take you through the Bible from Cover to Cover in
Two Years. Pastor
Angela’s “Daily Word” – e-mail her at pastorangela@newcovenantatlanta.com
to get signed up for that awesome link. Kenneth
Copeland’s – From Faith to Faith - http://www.kcm.org/studycenter/devotional/f2f/index.php?l=eng |
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By I was born in When I was seven my pastor at the time had just given an altar call
and I went forward to pray. My grandmother had always told me that I would
know when the right time would be to give my life to God and I felt it was.
So, I gave my life to the Lord at that altar but I really didn’t live for God
as I grew older. I began dealing with knowing that I was gay in high school
but really only thought about it. My family had always taught against
homosexuality. On the night of my high school
graduation, my grandmother made me go to church with her. I was mad at her
for making me go. In the service a prophet told my family that I would be
doing something in church during my life. Two Sundays later another prophet
came to our church, and he told my mom exactly same thing. I thought he was
full himself and that I went away to college the next fall. I made friends with one of the
dorm hall monitors. He tried to get me involved with the Baptist Student
Union (BSU), but I was not going to be a part of it. One night he tricked me
into going by saying that he needed to go get his truck and then we would go
to eat. He took me to the BSU building after picking up his truck, and at
that moment, I knew that was where I was supposed to be. I was active with
the BSU from that point. One time I wanted to go to a BSU convention, so I managed to get
there. At the meeting I was on my face crying at the altar (which was very
unusual for me) and God started talking to me--even though there were about
nine hundred other people in the room it was like we were there alone. He
told me that He had a purpose for me. I was so overwhelmed that God was
talking to me, because my lifestyle was to hang out with a basketball team
that got drunk every night. My life began to change. I felt that God had a plan for me to do mission work so, investigated
the matter and soon was doing short-term missions: I traveled to One time I went to
A strange thing happened. At one of the churches we went to, I was hit
on by one of the people that were helping with the youth groups. He invited
me to a gay bar. I’m not a bar person, at that time I had never thought of
going to a gay bar or any bar for that matter. But, for some reason, I went
and my eyes were opened to the gay world. Later, my friend found out that I
was gay because he saw me talking in a gay chat room (not porn, just chat).
We talked about it and he told me he was going to love me for who I was, and that he would still be my friend.
Also during that time, I was sitting at the school’s cafeteria and
thinking. An African man came up to me and asked me if I was studying to be a
preacher. I said “No I don’t want to be a preacher!”.
But it got me started thinking about the prophets that had come to the church.
I never saw that man again. Once I was asleep in my bed and I was dreaming I went
to heaven and I was walking around the streets of gold and all my friends
were with me. Jesus walked up and was talking to them and then He asked me
“What are you doing here?” He said it twice. Then he told me that he was
sending me back because there was something I had not done for Him. While I
was asleep, my roommate at the time said he had been trying to wake me for 45
minutes, to no avail. I called my grandmother and she stated that I needed to
pray because there was something God had planned for me that I had not done
yet. That made quite an impact on my life.
After all, I was gay, so I tried dating the campus security officer.
He wanted me to be faithful to him but he wanted to date me, another man and
another woman at the same time. I ended up getting depressed and moved home.
I went to the beach and a married man met me and wanted to date me. I was
working at the high school part time and his son was a student there. I was
not going to go down that road.
Matthew 6:33 “But seek ye first
the Isaiah6:8 “Also I heard the
voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then
said I, Here am I; send me.” And to add to that, no matter whether you’re gay straight black white,
God will use you! We all have a testimony,
are you willing to share yours? There
might be someone out there that will be blessed by |
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Through the Bible in Two
Years Reading Schedule for January… If you’d like to subscribe to the New
Covenant Daily Devotional, please send an e-mail to pastorjoan@newcovenantatlanta.com. She will sign you up right away.
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What is The 150? Scriptural basis for GROWING: 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 (Jesus) (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 A
corporate confession based on the Scriptures above, say this out loud: Where Jesus
was, multitudes followed Him, gathered together with Him, were healed by Him,
and taught by Him. Father, your Word makes it plain that where Jesus
is, people come – we call them in through prayer first. You add to the
church and I thank you now that the church is being added to in number.
The Word will increase, so I thank you that as the people grow in their
understanding and hearing of the Word that you will increase. Your Word
increases and the people grow in their understanding of the Word; therefore,
people will be added to the church. In the Name of Jesus |
For God's Glory,
Pastors Randy and Johnny
http://www.newcovenantatlanta.com/
404.929.1400