Texts: John 7:37-39; Is. 28:12; Eph. 5:17-21. Choose to be hungry and to stir yourself up. Yield yourself to God and open your heart to Him. You can’t hear from God when you’re in fear and your spirit is “noisy”. Find out the will of God for you by pausing, praying the Spirit, giving thanks to God in Jesus’ name, submitting yourself to one another in the fear of God, and being filled with the Holy Spirit.

Texts: Ps. 15:4; Num. 23:19; Mark 9:23; Mark 10:27; Luke 1:37; Acts 27:25; James 5:14, 15. Faith is of the heart, and this sermon affirms that faith is based on the integrity of God. Faith to believe for the impossible is not based on your trying to have faith, but on the integrity of God and His Word. It’s not man’s ability, but God’s integrity, dependability, and reliability. God honors and uses His Word.

Texts: Col. 1:15:22; Rom. 5:12; Luke 3:22-38; and John 9. Before we were in Christ Jesus, we were in Adam, which means we were born in sin and were open to sickness, disease, and poverty. Jesus brought an end to the Old Testament. Abound in grace and mercy. Pastor Dale exhorted us to read and study Romans 5.

Scripture texts: Heb. 4:12, Is. 55:10-11, and Rom. 10:17. The Word is alive and ministers to a person’s heart (spirit). It’s only when the Word is received in the heart that faith can grow as a seed. It also makes it possible to reach people of all cultures because it causes change in the deepest part of man. The Word continues to produce. Prosperity, faith, and your relationship with God all take place in your heart, not in your head (mind). Principles and moral values are mind issues, and when fear comes, the mind shuts down. To get people born-again, they must believe the Word. If you don’t have faith in your heart, then God’s Word is not in your heart. Open your heart to the Spirit and the Word of God.

Moses, Daniel, Joseph, and other Old Testament leaders did not know what we know, and that is the mystery Paul told about in Col. 1:25-27. What is the mystery? It is Christ in us. No other religion believes that deity can live in the heart of man. Rom. 8:9 tells us that God lives in us and that we are the temple of God, and if Christ Jesus does not live in us, we are not believers. Pastor Dale preaches on I John 4:1-4 and I John 2:20 and 27. Some false religions believe that Jesus came in the flesh, but they do not believe that He comes into our flesh, our hearts. Everything Jesus did was so that He could dwell in us. II John 7 and Col. 2:8, 18, 19 warn of deception. How can you not be deceived? Begin and end with Jesus Christ.

In Matt. 9:27-30 Jesus healed the blind men because they cried out to Him in faith, and Jesus said that it would be done to them according to their faith. In Mark 9:14-27 a man brought his son to Jesus after His disciples couldn’t heal him, and Jesus told the father that if he could believe, all things are possible. The father told Him he could believe, but asked Jesus to help his unbelief. He delivered the child of a deaf and dumb spirit, and when asked why the disciples couldn’t cast it out, Jesus said, “This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.” Was He talking about this kind of demon? No, He was talking about that kind of unbelief. In Mark 10:46-52 when blind Bartimaeus was healed by Jesus, he had to leave behind his beggar’s clothes. Be specific when you ask God for something, and don’t quit believing for your miracle. Get your faith from the Word. (Find out the difference between unbelief and doubt.)

Pastor Dale teaches on how you can be victorious in resisting the devil. James 4:7 and 8 lets you know that if the devil is not fleeing from you, then you aren’t resisting him and submitting to God. HAVE AN ATTITUDE OF HATE TOWARD THE DEVIL. Matt. 6:24 informs you that you can’t love God and love the devil and his works. In Is. 1:19 you learn that you need to be willing and obedient to eat the good of the land. Get ANGRY at the devil and sin, sickness, lack, lying, overeating… Jesus taught that the people, not just the Pharisees and scribes, have authority in Mark 1:22-27. SHUT UP THE DEVIL! TURN AWAY FROM EVIL! USE YOUR AUTHORITY! Replace a negative thought with a higher thought. Jesus gives you the victory (I Cor. 15:57) and leads you in triumph (II Cor. 2:14). You get into God, and you’ll repel evil. HATE EVIL.

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