Happy Monday Everyone!
Hope you all had a super amazing weekend!
On Saturday, we did a waterfall hike, then hosted Coree and Heavens friends for the first patio party of the year… went to bed late, lost an hour… and woke up EXHAUSTED Sunday morning!
On Sunday, church was OUTSTANDING… then we hosted a group that comes to our church from Richmond (a church ALIVE is worth the drive)… we all had lunch on the patio! (loving the beautiful weather) After that, Emily and I went to Bible College… all I had to do was administer an exam and introduce a new instructor! Then I wrote in my book while Emily finished her classes… then we went home and RESTED until “The Celebrity Apprentice” and LOVED every minute of that! The day ended praying with Coree and Heaven… and drifting off into the land of DREAMS! (except I didn’t have a single dream last night… highly unusual)
I woke up feeling really confident today… almost like a few thousand angles moved onto my property and they are awaiting my orders! I felt this yesterday while I was in my office getting ready to preach… and then in a BIG way while I was preaching… and this confidence still remains almost 20 hours later! Hmmm… there must be something going on. Feels to be something GOOD.
Proverbs 29:25 NIV “Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.”
Psalm 3:5-7 NIV “I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me. I will not fear the tens of thousands drawn up against me on every side. Arise, O LORD! Deliver me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.”
My own fear of peope and circumstances seems to be going away these days… I have never in all my life felt this secure in who I am! I have never in all my life felt this INDESTRUCTABLE! I have never in all my life felt so guaranteed of success! I almost wonder if I’m going to look out the window and see a pen of 777 chickens laying golden eggs! If I look hard enough… I see warrior angels with swords drawn against all intruders! My car looks safer than President Obamas new missile proof Cadillac! I feel a new divine FAVOR in my life… with God, angels, and humans!
All of these things I am experiencing today can be experienced by all of us in varying degrees throughout our lives. While I believe that some of my experience is attributed to the current prophetic assignment on my life… I also believe that much of this is the result of having FAITH for it!
Every biblical promise is accessed and enjoyed through FAITH. If we need healing, we believe in the biblical promise healing and we stand IN FAITH until the physical symptoms recede! If we need a restoration in one of our relationships, we STAND IN FAITH that God is able to work out all things for his glory… and we STAND BELIEVING until the relationship is restored!
When it comes to having favor and achieving success… we must BELIEVE like this! Because as long as we live under the fear of people and circumstances, we will always come up short. We become what we believe we SHOULD become… nothing more than that!
So, today… change how you believe about your current situation! Start to believe God that there is an ASSIGNMENT on your life… and you cannot fail as long as you go forward! Rise above the low expectations of others… climb up over every disempowering voice… the real ones, and the ones whispered from demon spirits in dark places. Believing like you are a CHAMPION is the biggest hurdle to becoming a CHAMPION!
I pray that each of you get a little caught up in my personal experience today… I pray that you also rise above your fears to be MIGHTY throughout this next decade! God bless you all… leave your comments… let’s chat throughout the day!
Wow, What an amazing message and how just reading it electrifies (if that’s a word) my insides. In a good way of course. It shows me and confirms how God speaks through you to me. I hope everyone reading your blog and attending Destiny Family Center can experience these moments like I have knowing its definitely an alignment with God – You – Me – My assignment in life.
I understand so much more now after attending Life Christian Univ bible college there at Destiny and sitting under your teaching and Mr Potter’s too, WOW! I know this is random but it makes sense in my head. Hopefully when it’s out in print you can make sense of my word salad here and just maybe the bloggers will get something out of it if they happen to read it. But mainly Pastor, I have a deep appreciation for all you have sown into my life, most you do not even know about. I know I briefly mentioned how I watched on the internet for years and gave you one example of how your words touched my life but there is so much more attached to how your preaching tied into my journey and those around me for the years that I watched and you never knew me.
I saw you before I really knew you (and I still do) as the most confident person, secure, steadfast, not waivering but most of all a Man of God who hears the Voice of God and Listens. To read this blog today its like you finally see yourself as others see you. Like the dream you had about the Angels. Maybe that was to show you back then, you had all the confidence you needed inside and out but YOU needed to know that. I’m very excited that you see that in yourself now.
Your blog today is just one more example of God speaking as if He was speaking directly to me. Your words bring encouragement with power and authority that I know beyond a doubt I was placed in your path for a reason and that’s why I say bible college has taught me more about what those reasons mean and why its so important I stay faithful to whatever God is speaking to me in this season.
God has blessed me and my family is so many ways that we could never have dreamed or imagined possible in every area of our lives! You know a lot of our journey but not all. You know, God has been the glue that has held us together.
I have added a lot to my plate lately which I pray about first and keep FIRST THINGS FIRST always. I am excited about moving forward and possibly taking some bigger steps (still waiting and praying on that) but things are moving and its all looking like its a big picture coming together.
Over the past 5 years since our accident we have faced medical challenges that has put the brakes on me. Either doctor ordered brakes or me physically taking on too much and just not having enough energy to keep on. I have learned from experience to seek God on everything or else I’m not doing the right stuff. If I’m doing what God wants me to do, I’m good.
Healing is by faith and I have declared healing. I know too, we must be good stewards of our bodies and do the things we are supposed to do and God will do the rest! I have learned to listen.
I know God has an assignment for my life, actually I feel its a family assignment. Over the past few years when I would get confident of that and know I am going in the right direction some circumstance would knock me back but not for long. That was one of the times I heard the “get up off the couch” sermons. Granted, if you read my doctors reports, you would understand why I was down! God is stronger and so am I because He lives in me!
Last Friday, I received a letter from AMC telling me a mammogram I had a week prior showed stuff they didn’t want to see so I am to come back and take more pictures. I still have not talked to the doctor. He didn’t even call me. It’s ok. I have God’s report! 1 Peter 2:24 -who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we having died to sins, might live for righteousness-by whose stripes you WERE healed.
My feelings today which are different from the past years are this: The past I would have put my life on hold in whatever I was doing to wait and see what this new medical report brought into my life. I had faith then too to know that God would take care of me and all would be well but I still was put down or put back or put on hold for a moment in time. NOT THIS TIME! I’m standing on my faith knowing all is well and I will follow thru with the x rays but I am believing there is nothing wrong! I will not waste my thought time on worry, and I will not put life on hold until test results come back normal. I’m thanking God for giving me a normal reading today and believing it!
Yes, Pastor I wrote a lot on your blog! sorry. Have a beautimus day. My kids are out of school and we are gonna have fun !!!!
This is to encourage everyone to not just read Pastors blog but send it out to all your friends and contacts. There is power in the messages and its for someone! hit the send button and send it on!
Wow Vickie!!! Praise God for your healing!!! Where 2 or more or gathered in His name!!
Pastor Chuck…..thanks for listening to God and putting Him first!!! Your words are of great value!!! We must believe!!! We must believe God!!!
“Everything is possible for him who believes.” Mark 9:23