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Home Groups
are being held throughout the City…
If you are interested in joining a home group, there are
brochures available in the lobby with directions for each group. Pick up a brochure to pass on to a
friend!
Coming Soon:
Additional locations!
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Find Your Place in Our Homes!
Feb 26th – “REUNITED”
at the church at 7:30pm,
ALL HOME GROUPS PARTICIPATING
IN POTLUCK DINNER
We
will also be having a meeting for all the home group leaders and the hosts.
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Pastor’s Corner
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Pastor Angela Brown
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Turn Your Ship
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Pastor Joan Castle
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Confession
of Faith
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I was
reading in the 3rd chapter of James about the tongue being
like our rudder. We know in our hearts and souls that we are children of
the Most High God and that we will be with Him again one day. Our hearts
sing praise, but our mouths might be writing checks that
we don’t not want to cash. James states that the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts (v.
5). The tongue can be the course of our strength or our downfall,
depending on what we say when it gets to going. Steer your ship to the
heavenlies and let the enemy keep his words of destruction. Set our eyes
on God and you tongue will follow. Speak words of encouragement today and
if you should feel the negative on the tip of your tongue reclaim your
mouth for God’s glory.
Psalm 19:14 May the words of my mouth and the
meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my
Redeemer.
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In the Name of Jesus I will decree a thing and it will be
established unto me. Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
I declare in the name of Jesus that no weapon formed against me
shall prosper. God will perfect that which concerns me. I speak to my
physical body and declare in the name of Jesus that my body functions to
the perfection that God created it to function. Every sickness, every
germ, every disease that touches my body dies instantly for I live the
divine life and I walk in divine health.
I declare that every demon force is bound now! They cease their
maneuvers against me and I release the forces of heaven.
I declare in Jesus’ name that the angels watch over me lest I dash
my foot against a stone. I am out of debt forever! All my needs are met
right now! I have plenty more to put in store. I walk in the favor of God
and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit. I expect unexpected income for
money cometh to me now. I will say continually, Let the Lord be magnified
who takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant.
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 Benefit Package of Baptism in the Holy
Spirit
with the Evidence of Speaking in Tongues
By Deacon Tonna Eidson
Have you ever purchased anti-virus software and installed it
in your computer? Before you bought it there were researchers working
discovering what‘s out there and technicians worked making the software to
combat viruses that had not even made it to your computer yet. In many
cases, the cure was found before the problem began. Perhaps you really
didn‘t know how it worked, what it was attacking or what was being removed
or isolated. But, you had enough faith that the maker of the software knew
what your computer needed. So, you spent your hard-earned money to buy it
and you administered it to your computer. By doing so, you believed that
the effort you were making, you could avert some potentially disastrous
situation and make the computer run better.
Praying in tongues is something like that when it comes to
your own life. Our Maker knows what we have need
of even before we ask. He gives us the “anti-virus” by baptizing us in the
Holy Spirit, but it’s up to us to “run” it by opening up our mouths and
praying in the Spirit. As we pray in tongues, we often do not know how it
works, what is being attacked or what is being removed/isolated. But we
have confidence that the Holy Spirit knows and that we are avoiding
disasters in our life and things will just go better by doing so.
Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the assurance of
things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
Do we have to see the results immediately? Not always, but
we just trust that our “Holy Spirit Anti-Virus” is at work, perfecting that
which concerns us.
Jude 1:17-21 says, “But you, beloved, ought to
remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord
Jesus Christ, that they were saying to you, ‘In the last time there will be
mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.’ These are the ones who
cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit. But you, beloved, building
yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep
yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously for the mercy of our Lord
Jesus Christ to eternal life.”
What does this mean, “building yourselves
up”? In the language this was written in it meant the way we conceive
“brick upon brick” building methods. It means you get BIGGER in the
Spirit.
One day God showed it to me like this: There are radio and
television signals all around, but first you have to have a receiver (we
are receivers when we are born again). In the world around us, the bigger,
the better the receiver, the more channels you get. Well, according to the
Bible God is “transmitting” (speaking) to us all the time. Do
we always hear everything God is saying? Probably not. But praying in the spirit builds us up and makes
us have better receptors. Brick upon brick we become stronger, more
technologically advanced receiving devices for what God is saying. Instead
of hearing a word here and there or getting a small obscure picture, we can
get the full 3-D picture with surround sound.
When I was in Bible
College, we were
taught that praying in tongues “charges your battery.” That’s not entirely
incorrect. They may not have had the concept of a battery during the time
that the original text was written, but they did have the Holy Spirit
within. The Bible always interprets itself.:
Romans 10:17 says, “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.” Wait! Does the Bible contradict itself? This
verse says we get faith by hearing the word of God and we just read that we
build ourselves up in faith by praying in the Holy Spirit. Is this a conflict?
Absolutely not! When we pray in tongues, the Holy Spirit prays through us
the word of God (even though we may not understand it). So what happens? We
get faith because as we pray in tongues, we are hearing the word of God. A
faith battery charge--that’s a perk if I ever heard of one! Who doesn’t
need more faith?
Paul said in I Corinthians 14:19, “I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all.” Can
we give Paul a run for his money?
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