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Insecurity Is a Major Issue Holding Many In Bondage I want to focus on shifting your perspective from your own perceived limitations to God’s unchanging character and your identity in Christ   By moving from self-confidence to "Christ-confidence, " believers can find a security that external circumstances cannot shake.  Insecurity often stems from a "self-centered" focus —either trying to build ourselves up or being fixated on our own inadequacies. This creates a "disconnect"

HOW LONG BEFORE YOU BECOME WHO GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO BE During this Feast of Unleavened Bread, we need to find the leaven that is stopping us from entering His Rest A LITTLE LEAVEN   1 Corinthians 5:6  Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven  leaveneth the whole lump ? 7   Purge out  therefore the old leaven , that ye may be a new lump , as ye are unleavened . For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8  Therefore let us keep the feast , not with

Sunday morning was Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. This week signifies Jesus riding into town on a donkey, according to Zechariah 9:9, preparing Himself to be crucified on the cross as the perfect Lamb of God. God announces to Jerusalem on this day that Jesus was the lamb He selected to be sacrificed for them according to Exodus 12:1-6. Some rejoiced crying out "Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the the hig

The Sign of Jonah Have you ever felt like you were back at Square One? You tried to run, you tried to take a shortcut, and yet you found yourself right back where the "No" first started. In Jonah 1:1-3, we see a prophet who didn't just want to skip a mission; he wanted to exit God’s jurisdiction entirely. God said "Go East" to Nineveh (modern-day Iraq), but Jonah went as far West as the known world allowed—Tarshish (Spain). The Divine Strategy in the Detour  We often view Jon

In Matthew chapter 22 we learned that we are to love God and to love people.  As we explored the concept of forgiveness and healing.  The effects and residue that sin creates in our lives we have learned a deeper and more profound way to love people.  This also is a way to be loved and to truly love people we must experience being loved so that we can fully love people.  Proverbs talks about iron sharpening iron and how one can sharpen the countenance of another. The interact

The message is a continuation of the season of Purim. During the week leading up to this message some were called to a 3 day - no food/ no water- fast. Why? Sometimes God calls leaders to do something that is outside the normal. It stretches our faith. However, the ultimate reasoning is to get past our flesh and put our focus on Him and others. That is what Esther, Mordecai, and the Jews living in Shushan did. Esther used her delegated authority and asked them to fast for her

The Cross is the foundation of every believer but yet too many times we come to the cross for salvation but never carry our cross, endure our cross, which means we really do not walk in the full power of the cross. After we come to the cross and receive salvation we now need to take up our cross and follow Him. Jesus instructs HIS disciples that unless they take up their cross they cannot be His disciples, Matt 16: 21-26. After we carry our cross, God now wants us to help o

Have you ever noticed that we often only talk to God when we need something? It’s a common human tendency to treat the Creator like a cosmic vending machine insert prayer, receive blessing. But what if the real goal isn’t the blessing itself, but the Source? In Psalm 37:4, we are given a profound promise: "Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of your heart."  For a long time, I looked at that verse as a transactional formula. If I "delight" eno

One Extraordinary Call Jesus called and ordained twelve disciples (listeners, students, learners)  who later were called Apostles (sent ones)  to preach, heal, and continue the ministry He started. Jesus did not choose kings, scholars, or generals to change the world. He chose twelve ordinary men, each with strengths, weaknesses, victories, and failures. Their lives remind us that God does not call the qualified; He qualifies the called Jesus called fishermen, doubters, zealo

How Jesus Forms Disciples Jesus forms disciples through five circles of people The Five Thousand They heard teaching on the Kingdom of God, experienced God’s healing power, and saw miracles The Seventy They were appointed to exhibit what Jesus did for them, preach good news, prepare the way for Jesus, and heal and relieve people who were sick The Twelve They were given power and authority to preach the Kingdom, cure diseases by removing their source, and do the same things Je

Have you ever heard the words God's Presence or God's Glory? Or you heard people just saying the word Glory? Then you asked yourself what does those words mean. Well, as we learned in Exodus 33:14-23 those words have great meaning. Moses, after spending 40ish days with God, getting a download on guidelines how to live in God's Kingdom, anointing priests and those for workmanship, and being handed the Tablets of Testimonies hand written by God, and still... Moses asked and do

A Place Prepared  History is often written by the names on the marquee, but the Kingdom of God is built by the people in the shadows. We often think of "greatness" as a platform, a title, or a spotlight. But in the Economy of Heaven, greatness looks like an usher in a hot tent in North Carolina, or a friend carrying a heavy basket of bread through the dangerous streets of Rome. The Usher Who Changed History In 1934, two teenagers arrived at Mordecai Ham’s tent revival in Char

who will labor once again! When God says, "They don't write 'em like that anymore." He is saying that kind of quality, depth, or craftsmanship is rare today compared to the past.” What is really being implied beneath the words is that there has been a loss of depth. Maybe you have said it this way, “THEY DON’T MAKE ‘EM LIKE THAT ANYMORE." You were probably talking about a person or a product. The statement is made about a person who has persevered, one who has endured. One

Just as in an earthly courtroom, when disorder threatens the process, one declaration brings everything back into alignment: Order in the court.  I submit to you that God is speaking this same declaration today—not as a rebuke, but as a preparation. Disorder is threatening His process for creating the right conditions to awaken the seeds of possibility —the coming super bloom . This is not God reacting in anger. Scripture reminds us plainly: “For God is not the author of conf

Death Valley carries a misleading name. It looks barren. Dry. Lifeless.But scientists tell us something surprising: Death Valley isn’t dead—it’s dormant. Beneath the surface, seeds lie hidden for years…sometimes decades…waiting. And that truth doesn’t just apply to geography. BAM International is not dead—it has been dormant. You are not dead—you have been dormant. Your harvest field is not dead-it is possible it is dormant. Dormant does not mean finished. It means paused—wit

Is God logical or emotional the answer is yes, we were made in his image not the other way around.    In 1st Corinthians Paul speaks of how the message of the cross seems foolishness to those on the path of destruction but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. He spoke on how the Jews looked for a miraculous demonstration.  The Greeks lean on philosophical wisdom but the message of Jesus Christ crucified seemed absurd to them and they dismissed it and they

A SOUND RISING I hear the Spirit Saying: Come back to the Altar! Come back to the Fire! Come back to a life of Dedication! Dedication begins at the altar. The Apostle Paul explains that if we want the fire, we must present ourselves on the altar. Dedication is an offering. You cannot have the fire without the altar You cannot have the altar without the sacrifice God sends fire where God sees the sacrifice of surrender We present the sacrifice, and God sends the fire. When God

In John 10, we find Jesus in Jerusalem for a feast that many Christians know little about: Jesus is no longer just a baby in a manger. He is the risen Christ. John 10:22  Now it was the Feast of Dedication  in Jerusalem , and it was winter . And Jesus  walked in the temple. We can learn powerful truths from it —because Jesus Himself was in the Temple during this feast and made one of His boldest declarations there. John 8:9  Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the

We all need food to live in the natural to supply our body the necessary nutrients to function and survive. However, God was smart enough to know that man will NOT live the God kind of life without daily bread, aka His Word, being part of our daily life. Man will die spiritually without the Word of God being a daily part of our "food consumption," hence the God inspired phrase He gave to Bishop, to "Let the Word Become Life In Your Life." Spiritual nutrition is needed to

Our words have the power to change things around us. Just as God said, "Let there be light," and there was light, His words had a creative power that changed everything around Him. He went on to make man in His image and according to His likeness. This means that we share some of the same characteristics and attributes. What we say is going to cause something to be created. "Death and life are in the power of the tongue," we find this in Proverbs chapter 18:21 and we will be