Gal. 2:20; Gal. 3:2-6; II Cor. 5:7. Listen to find out what change is, how it does not happen, and how it does come into your life. Is it moral reform? Is it fighting the devil until you’re dead? Does change come by trying to make it happen? Can you change someone else? How do you get the victory over addictions, pride, selfishness, etc.? Allow Christ to enforce the death principle in you and be transformed.

Joshua 1:5. Crossing the Jordan means you’re going where you’ve never gone before, whether that’s healing or freedom from debt or whatever. Each of us is irreplaceable. Find your place in what God has for you and obey Him. He will not ever fail you! Heb. 13:5 and 6 tells us that He spoke that to Joshua so we can say that the Lord is our helper. Find out who you are in Christ. Look on the positive and on what you do have. Turn on the switch of boldness in order to obtain grace and mercy. Heb. 12:1 – run to win. You’re not running against someone. You’re running to win your own race that God has for you. Say, “Somebody is going to make it, and it’s going to be me!” Possess what belongs to you and cut off anything that holds you back. God will never fail you.

Main texts: Ps. 139:23-24; Ps. 34:18-19. Other scriptures: II Chron. 16:8-9;Ezekiel 22:30; John 4:22-23. What is a broken heart? In Ps. 34 it refers to a heart that has been “tamed”, like a horse that has been broken to a bridle, bit, or a saddle. It’s when your heart becomes useable for God to move through. God “broke” Jacob. God is not the author of griefs and sorrows, so when He prunes and “breaks” us so that we become humble, NOT HUMILIATED, it’s so that we can bear more fruit. He wants to deal with your heart, so He can give you more. When you’re in trouble, your heart is the problem. Pressure reveals the heart problem. REPENT. It allows Gods to draw near to you. God wants revival, healings, and miracles, but He can’t unless there are people of a contrite, broken heart. #1 He needs people to stand in the gap on behalf of the land. That’s prayer and intercession. #2 He wants us to worship Him which glorifies Him. It takes work! The problem is lukewarm Christianity.

Do you want to be strong? Courageous? Prosperous? Meditate on Joshua 1:5-8, Ps. 1, and Ps. 112. Exposure and motivation help you to develop a desire for something. Get so much Word in you that you begin to mutter (meditate on) it. Worry is the opposite of meditation. Turn the negative to a positive and speak His Word aloud.

“…..the Lord’s not done with you yet”…”. In this message entitled “Our Identification with Christ”, Pastor Dale continues to teach along the theme of his Heart Search series. Learn how God wants you to know that you are a person of value. Key Scrpture: Luke chapter 4.

You can be confident that God, who started a good work in you, will finish it (Phil. 1:6). Finishing means taking the imperfections and rough edges off. Col. 2:6 indicates that you are to walk in Him as you have received Him. How did you receive Him? You received Him by believing and confessing Him aloud. Philemon 6- our manner of life becomes effective by acknowledging (identifying and affirming) every good thing in yourself. Identify and affirm the way God made you unique. What is your curriculum in Him? What’s He teaching you? God feeds you what you need in the local body. Col. 2:6 also teaches you that you must be rooted and built up in Him, which are two different and yet parallel directions. What’s another form of confession? Thanksgiving- it’s a witness of victory and a form of confession.

“No matter where you’re at in life, you know, God’s really not that concerned about your problems – Cause He’s really bigger”! In this message, Pastor Armstrong teaches on the compassion God has for you and the situations you face in life, but that He carries no worry or concern, because “He’s really bigger” than your problems. Learn how to best approach the dilemma of man’s free will versus God’s perfect will. Key Scripture: Mark chapter 10

Heart and Treasure” (offering message) Listen as Pastor Dale shares experiences he had obeying God concerning giving money that made huge changes in other people’s lives and how Church of the Word International was named. King David’s “biggest sin” was when he allowed Satan to tempt him to number Israel (take a census) and because of his pride 75,000 people died. He (King David) gave money to buy a threshing floor in order to stop the plague. Your treasure reveals your heart. “Desire and Your Thoughts” Sermon: Text: Col. 3:1, 2. Jesus is no longer on the cross (dead), but He was raised (alive), and so are we. Don’t seek the world and what it has to offer, but put your eyes on Jesus. Who owns your heart? God deserves it. You control your thoughts and desires, and when you desire the things of God, that desire will separate you from the past. How do your create your desires? (Prov. 18:1) By controlling your thoughts through: 1) exposure (getting in the right environment); 2) associations (eat, drink, sleep that desire); 3) meditation (early in the morning and again before going to sleep). Set your affections above and imprint the things of God on your mind.

Pastor Dale elaborates on prayer, including: a few conditions for answered prayer, strife being the result of a lack of prayer, desire being needed to motivate us to push out whatever is in the way of getting our prayers answered, acting on God’s promises, falling into joy, and patience ( we do not change because we know we have the answer). We need to ask for wisdom, which is a spirit, so that we know how to act on knowledge. If we lack wisdom, it’s a prayer failure. We need wisdom so that we don’t fall into temptation. Cry out for wisdom! When we keep His Word, but obey and live by His voice, blessings will overtake us. Scriptures: James 4:1-5; II Peter 1:3, 4; Eph. 1:16; Prov. 1:23; Prov. 2:1-6; Deut. 28:1-3