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Thursday Apr 21, 2022

Death Has Been Defeated

Thursday Apr 21, 2022

Pastor Zack Strong

Death Has Been Defeated (Easter Sunday)

Text: Revelation 1.18, 4.8, John 14.19, 1 John 3.8, Romans 8.11, 6.8-12, Ecclesiastes 8.12-13

Death doesn’t have a hold on us; it’s a transition from living on earth to living in Heaven.

Death wasn’t designed for us to deal with. Man was created to live forever.

In the garden, Adam and Eve ate from the tree of life but didn’t physically die. First, there was a spiritual death that separated them from the heart, presence, and glory of God. Second, there was a physical separation from the life we were intended to live.

Adam and Eve experienced emotions like fear and shame and loss for the first time ever. None of that was intended for us.

God never intended for man to die- that’s part of sin and the enemy’s plan. When sin enters the picture, death is automatic. All the medical help in the world can’t change our sin nature. You can’t even buy your way out of sin. Serving in the church won’t move you out of sin.

There is no sin nature in God. God is only good. Your answer is in Him alone. You will live forever but maybe not in your preferred state.

Jesus, at the cross, paid the price for sin. Jesus and the Father gave it all.

Jesus, out of the tomb, allowed us to be restored back to the glory before Adam ever sinned. He carried us and our sin, bound up in grave clothes, into the tomb with Him.

Now because He lives, we are alive with Him. He paid for it at the cross and modeled it at the tomb.

We’re so used to letting death have it’s way. Don’t be deceived with the sin around you; no one can get away with it without the wages of death being paid. Sin always has a wage.

But the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus.

3 Reasons God Doesn’t Immediately Punish Sin

-You are part of His eternal plan. He could have started over or rewritten history. The shadow of God holds death back from us.

-His great love for each of us. His love overshadows us.

-His grace and mercy for us. Grace gives us what we don’t deserve.

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Thursday Apr 21, 2022

The Language of the Spirit - Adrienne Ross

Thursday Apr 21, 2022

Adrienne Ross

The Language of the Spirit

Text: Psalm 138.2, John 1.1, Romans 12.1-2, Proverbs 23.7, Matthew 12.34, 4.4, Psalm 103.20, Jeremiah 1.12, 1 Samuel 13.19, Job 22.28, Genesis 2.19

“I speak Jesus” is not only a name but a language. There is a language called Jesus.
The name of Jesus is important but not just to say at the end of a prayer. It’s time to take on the language of the spirit.

With His face comes His hand. It’s not a rare occurrence but what God wants to do all the time. You can’t separate the language of the spirit from receiving His signs, wonders, and miracles.

He exalted His word and His language above His own name. The word of God is the language of the spirit. When we speak His language, we are infusing the Spirit into every situation. We can’t separate the word from His name. When we speak the name of Jesus, we are creators. What you say is what you’ll have.

The language we speak is the language we think. We think in our native language. What is your native language? Native: associated with the place of one’s birth. We are born into a sin nature and then we’re born again. We have dual natures to contend with. We choose which nature to build up and obey. We build up the one that we want to dominate.

It’s a moment by moment decision to choose our nature; it’s not automatic. We have to continually renew our minds.

We have to steward our souls well. The language of the spirit develops as we lean into His spirit. Who you are will reveal itself in your language.

We are the voice of the Lord. Our words can commission angels. We speak, we release.

We are given the language of the spirit. He’s not intimidated by our questions or our lack of knowledge. The language of the spirit didn’t originate with the Bible but existed before; the Bible records the language of the spirit.

God honors what we’ve spoken. Alignment with God means God allows us to decree a thing. God trusted Adam to get it right because they were in alignment, so intertwined, that God agreed to let it be. He trusts us to steward the language of the spirit so that He can back up what we say and not let our words fall to the ground. He’s looking for the one who dares to speak the word. He wants to hear from me!

We have to be careful what we are thinking and speaking because we are creating. It is worth contending for the creative power of God.

God is moving and the language of God is a key.

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Thursday Apr 14, 2022

Preparing for a Greater Realm of Faith and Authority

Thursday Apr 14, 2022

Pastor Zack Strong

Preparing for a Greater Realm of Faith and Authority

Text: Mark 11.12-24

Jerusalem: place of peace

This story is an illustrated sermon. The emphasis is about the temple of you and I, not a building.

He’s coming to the place of peace to make peace for all of us.

Bethany: house of figs

In the OT, figs represents Israel. (Hosea 9.10, Micah 7.1, Jeremiah 29.17) Their rebellion made them like rotten figs- not worthy to partake of. In Joel 2.22, He promises restoration.

The fig tree had no fruit. He abhors the emptiness when we have the walk and talk but no actual fruit.

After the fig tree, He enters the temple. Men had perverted the sale of wares that Jesus gave permission for and began to block the way of the Gentiles getting in to the temple. They were blocking the way to Jesus.

We are to be a worship unto the Lord wherever we we are.

The greatest sin part of the curse is thinking we no longer need the Lord and we can live life on our own. We’ve lost the idea that we need God. There is something supernatural when the church comes together.

Faith and authority goes hand in hand. We want what God can do so we have to declare what God can do. Don’t put limits on God.

We struggle with how to receive.

If we can’t obey Him in forgiving others, we won’t obey Him in big miracles.

He wants His house back for Him…not for the show, not for the reputation, not for the lights, not for the music. For His glory.

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Thursday Apr 14, 2022

Palm Sunday Communion

Thursday Apr 14, 2022

Pastor Zack Strong

Palm Sunday Communion

Text: John 12.12-23, Genesis 3, Isaiah 53.1-5

Bethany: house of the poor, house of suffering

We are poor because of our sin.

Jesus walked a path of suffering to the cross.

Hosanna: oh king come save us, salvation has come

Jesus rode in on a donkey to show he came as man instead of riding on a stallion as a king.

Raising Lazarus from the dead was Jesus’ last significant miracle. He waited four days because they believed that after 3 days his soul might still be there.

As he rode into Jerusalem, he was calling them all from death to life.

If your life is in sin then you are not where God intended you to be. He doesn’t intend for us to be sick, poor, or broken.

We have given the enemy the legal right to hang around. The mercy and grace of God keeps sin from annihilating you.

Adam represented the male and female as one but after the fall, Adam named his wife Eve, no longer identified as one but as a separate identity.

After the fall, man now sees himself as a god unto himself, thinks that he can live life on his own without God.

Salvation has come.

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Thursday Apr 07, 2022

Preparing for the Great Harvest

Thursday Apr 07, 2022

Pastor Zack Strong

Preparing for the Great Harvest

Text: Matthew 28.18-20, Philippians 4.9

Pay attention to:
-healing
-deliverance
-discipleship

The more people we disciple, the more dominion we have over the earth.

Disciple- learner, student, follower of Jesus, growing in love, learning to trust Jesus until they are totally devoted to Him

We have a responsibility to make a difference in the earth. There is work to do besides having meetings.

To become a Christian is the experience of a moment. But to be a Christian is the experience of a lifetime.

A sign of a mature disciple is when they are willing to reach out to other people.

What makes a disciple?
-one who is following Christ
-one who is being changed by Him
-one who is living out His mission with Him
-one who is leading others to do the same

Healthy things grow. Healthy things reproduce.

It takes six things from the pattern of Jesus’ life with the disciples.
-Be better at building relationship
-Teach what’s expected of a child of God
-Model how to live a pattern of family life
-Demonstrate and Empower
-Give an assignment and release
-Time
-Holy Ghost

Attributes of a Disciple
-submit to a teacher who teaches them to follow Jesus
-learn Jesus’ words
-learn Jesus’ ways of ministry
-find and teach others to follow Jesus

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Thursday Apr 07, 2022

Jennifer and LaDon Hamilton - March 27th, 2022

Thursday Apr 07, 2022

Jennifer and LaDon Hamilton

March 27th, 2022

Jesus is not scared of your sin.

There is no expiration date on God’s miracles.

There’s no expiration date on His love. His heart does flip flops for every person dead in sin who calls on His name.

Quit making choices based on your past and walk in your deliverance.

Jesus didn’t come to condemn but to bring a remedy.

The gospel doesn’t judge; it liberates.

His grace is bigger than your sin. He wants to change you.

God wants you to be free. God wants you to walk in prosperity.

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Thursday Apr 07, 2022

Prepare: Are You Ready?

Thursday Apr 07, 2022

Pastor Zack Strong

Prepare: Are You Ready?

Text: Matthew 9.35, Ephesians 4.11-12, 1 Corinthians 12.2-7, Matthew 4.23, Isaiah 53.5, Mark 2.5, John 6.2

Sometimes the manifestation of things happening is just waiting on the church to align itself with what God is doing.

We’ve got to stop chasing glory and start releasing glory.

Prepare- make something ready for use, to make someone ready or able to do or deal with someone

The harvest comes in because:
-it’s the command of the great commission
-it’s harvest season
-the trouble happening in our land
-healing of signs, miracles, and wonders
-of your obedience

The majority don’t feel ready or adequate but it’s not about you. Religion always convinces you that you don’t have enough to get the job done. We feel inadequate because we see the flesh in a man instead of Jesus in a man and what He can do. God can straighten you up and work through you at the same time.

We are in a supernatural moment of time in the kingdom of God; a Holy Ghost time.

-Ascension gifts
-Gifts of the Holy Ghost
-Motivational gifts

Instead of saying “God move”, ask “What do you want to do?” He’s already here and moving. It’s time to release our faith. Healing is not in the name of a man but in the name of Jesus.

Why did healing play a major role in Jesus’ miracles? Sickness is not of Him or His plan for you.

We are ordinary people with extraordinary power; but we don’t give it room to operate. You are the holy of holies, the epicenter of His presence. You are a carrier. You are surrounded and protected by the angelic. They will see you out in the natural because they are seeking Him out in the supernatural.

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Thursday Apr 07, 2022

The Bewitching of a Generation

Thursday Apr 07, 2022

Pastor Zack Strong

The Bewitching of a Generation

Text: Galatians 3.1, Deuteronomy 6.1, Judges 2.10

Bewitched- cast a spell over, attract or interest someone a lot so that you have power to influence them, to charm, to fascinate

Foolish- one that has become dull and sluggish of mind, stupid, reckless in thinking

We’ve become a generation that has built upon a truth but not the truth.

You can be religious and not a Christian. Religious people do religious activity. You can be religious but not godly.

Religion without the pursuit and hunger for Jesus is not Christianity. Pursuit and hunger shown through demonstration, in the passion of our worship, and in our passion for actions that pleases God.

Three things said of Peter:
-You’ve been with Him
-You’re of Him
-You sound like Him

The enemy’s assignment is to pull us out of our position. He takes a truth out of the truth to deceive. The truth has been watered down so much that only a connoisseur knows the real thing.

If we don’t get the first four commandments right, we’ll never get the last six right.

There’s a difference between insulated and isolated. Insulated keeps the world from touching us but isolated keeps us from touching the world.

Six Dangers of Our Generation
-religion without the Holy Ghost
-Christianity without Christ
-forgiveness without repentance
-salvation without regeneration
-politics without God
-Heaven without hell

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Thursday Apr 07, 2022

Be It Unto Me

Thursday Apr 07, 2022

Pastor Zack Strong

Be It Unto Me

Text: Luke 1.26-38, Ephesians 5.26-27

The greatest darkness we can experience is no revelation of God in our lives.

Gabriel- man of God, messenger of the Lord

These short verses show a complete story of redemption in the totality of God.

Mary- beloved, bitter, rebellious

Before the earth began, God had already chosen who He would bring His Som through. God was looking for a bride to partner with to rule and reign throughout eternity. God is refilling the earth with light and hope through his beloved who is in a state of bitterness and rebellion. Mary was favored because God bent down and offered her gifts and resources.

In Numbers 6.24-26, God extends His arms to lavish us with His gifts.

God wasn’t speaking just to Mary but to His beloved church to offer His gifts. Mary’s status as a virgin represents God’s redemptive work making us completely pure again as if we had never sinned.

Christ died before the foundation of the earth, not just at Calvary. Just as Mary produced a son, the church produces sons.

God is the only one who can make the church clean through the washing of the Word, a kind of baptism. The only time the enemy has our ear is when we don’t have the Word in us.

If we could get rid of spots or wrinkles on our own, we already would have. God can deal with the things we can’t and renew our youth.

Joseph- the increase of God

Five Things God Asked of Mary

1. Will you give me your dream? He wants to do something bigger.
2. Will you give me yourself? God will not violate your will.
3. Will you carry the Savior of the world? Everything God wants to do in us is for a redemptive work in someone else’s life.
4. Will you fulfill the promise? Angels can assist us but they can’t do our jobs for us. And our job is not to tell anyone how sinful they are but who they really are.
5. Will you take a step of faith? It’s not about our works or our ability but our trust in Him.

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