Scriptures: Isaiah 41, Ephesians 2:6, 1 Timothy 1

 Apostle Lewis Fisher Jr addressed the Covenant Churches with the title “Waking Up the Fight In You”. 

Apostle said that Paul communicates to Timothy that people were abandoning the faith.  They were bringing false doctrine, opposing the message of salvation by faith, and not by works.  Apostle Paul wanted to make sure there was somebody who would stand for the faith. 

Everything we need to help with victory is already in us.  We have expressed the nature of the Lamb long enough; it is not the time to be passive, accepting everything that the world brings to us. However, it is time for the Lion of Judah in the church to rise up and take dominion. The Lion must be seen in the streets.  We are King children and we have Kingdom Authority.

We must know that we are never alone. It is his will for us to never walk alone. We need to declare and depend on the word of God, because he will never fail.

God said in Hebrews 13:5, “I will never leave you nor forsake you. It is also God’ desire that we prosper and live in health. He said in 3 John 2 “I wish above all things that you will prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.”  God’s will is that we walk more than a conqueror. He walks with us, talks with us and tell us that we are his own. God wants us to discharge the hurt. The enemy wants you to think you still must carry it. Isaiah 53:4 tells us a different story, that he bore our griefs and carried our sorrows. If he bore and carried them, why are we? It is time for us to bear witness that Jesus Christ is Lord and he has done everything he said.  We need to shift our thinking and know that the source of our supply has been and always will be God. 

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“The Kingdom of God”


Scriptures:  Matthew 13:33 - Luke 17:20 - John 3:30 - Mark 5:15

Apostle reminded us that we are a spirit being, and we possess a soul, and we live in a body.  God has restored us in the spirit, but our soul still has a problem, so God is still saving the soul, therefore, salvation is not about the physical building.  The Holy Spirit is doing things that we can’t comprehend right now, but we will know in full as we allow the kingdom influence in us to continue. The Kingdom of God will completely over power wherever it goes.  The Kingdom must increase and we must decrease. We ask God to bring the Kingdom into various places like the prison and etc…, but the Kingdom of God is within us, therefore, when we go to the prison, the kingdom is there. The principle of the operation of the kingdom is this: The Kingdom does not come by observation, it works from the inside out.  The Kingdom of God will never become you, but you will become the Kingdom. Your way of thinking, talking and living will be consumed by the Kingdom. It might not be right now, but one day it will show up.

“Choose to keep on Living”
 
Scripture
2 Kings 6:8-24
2 Kings 7:1-11
 
Apostle continued on the subject “Beware of False Prophecy”, Choose to keep on living.”  If we are listening to the Holy Spirit, he told us circumstances were coming, but that he would have us outflank our enemy.  We must make a choice to live.  There is a difference in surviving and living, because surviving is not thriving.  God intended for his people to live through situations and the increase will come out.

Apostle said he prays that God gives us spiritual sight, and that he reveals the solution that has always been there. We can talk to God no matter what the situation is, and he listens.  It is costly to get God to start listening, but when he does, he reveals his will for the situation. We just need to make sure we listen to his will as he communicates it to us.  All the people Satan is using to do bad stuff to us; let us listen to the spirit and get them saved. God is sitting on the throne, walk before him and be perfect and he will lead them where they don’t want to be.  All the resources they had to kill Elisha, but God had other plans. 

God tells us if our enemy is hungry, feed him and if they are thirsty give them something to drink.  God wants us to display his righteousness and unending love. By loving kindness the Lord drew us to himself, and by loving kindness we will draw those against us. Everything that is done against you God can turn it around for your good.  Allow the love of God to work through you.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12: 13-14
 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.  Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

Guest Speakers:
Friday Night:
Pastor Alicia Hill
New Dixon Worship Center, Jacksonville, NC
 
Saturday Morning:
Pastor Lena Murrell
Great Joy Worship Center, Beaufort, NC
 
Apostle Delores Bailey
House of Prayer Outreach Ministry, Raleigh, NC
 
The women in attendance were excited about the Word of God that was shared by three powerful Women of God.  Each speaker’s theme centered around the power of Praise.   The speakers asked questions such as, “What do you need from the Lord?,  Why are you down in the dump dear soul?”  They each confirmed that praise is for our benefit.  Praise is our weapon of mass destruction. 

.  So wake up, creation is waiting for us to wake up in victory.  If God be for us who can be against us.  God will supply unto us, and we need to make the demand.  We have to have faith to believe that God will supply our every need.  After we have been taught the word of God, then put a demand on the power of the word.   We pray, believe you have received and it will be given unto you.   Pray to God who is our doctor, he has given us the  prescription, all we have to do is follow his word.   One speaker used the theme song from “The Lion’s King.”  It was “Hakuna Matata” which means no worries and no cares.  We were left with this thought, “Arise women for the glory of God has risen upon us.”
 

Apostle wanted to reinforce some things for us.  God knows that we are going through and being challenged in our lives.   But for every problem there has been made a solution.  During our storms there is a word from the Lord that will sustain us.  His grace is enough to take us through it.  We need to stop running away from our storms.  It is the nature of lives to have storms.  But we must be serious in our lives in what we want to do with God.

We must make sure that any plan we make is built on truth.  Apostle emphasized, “How many of us can admit that we are facing our own trials right now?  God said, everything was written is for our learning.  When you are going through family trials, don’t stop living.  While we are going through keep living.  As  we are going through different things we get to a point we don’t want to be bothered by anyone. But, we must keep living.  

 If a storm is coming our way, God has planned that storm to increase us.  No storm was meant to diminish us, but to grow us.  We need to follow suit in what God is speaking now and that is to not stop living.  People will shut themselves down, but we can’t stop living.  This means to continue living before God.  Like Noah, grab some stones and build an altar of praise before God. 

Give him praise so the enemy won’t know if you are affected or not, because you continually give God praise.  What God did promise that when you cry, he will be there.  There is only one Gospel and there is no where in this gospel that says you will not have trials or not have another rainy day.  There is safety in the word of God.  We have the authority to move God’s heart.  When our cry reaches heaven, he moves on our behalf.  Just keep on living.

Apostle Lewis Fisher, Jr opened with the topic “Beware of False Prophecy”.   Apostle made it plain by saying false prophecy is somebody telling you something God didn’t say.  God said he has already said everything he is going to say and sealed it in the book.  Beware of those who speak what is not written.
 
God is going to speak what He has already spoken.  Apostle asked, “Why did Jeremiah have to send a letter to those that were in Babylon?”  The answer, because Hananiah spoke falsely to the people, telling them that the king of Babylon’s yoke upon them would be broken in two years. When in fact, God had already spoken about them remaining there for 70 years.

Many people will try to speak into your hearing and prophesy about what God said, try every spirit by the spirit to see if it aligns with God’s word.    Many people are going through different things in life, and are anxious, making themselves prey to hear anything, because they are hoping on the wrong things. 
 
As it was in their day, even so it is in our day. We are going through circumstances and situations, but God won’t bring us out until we have learned what we need to learn. This prophet told them not to believe what Jeremiah said.  They had the assurance that God would bring them out but not until the time he had set.  When we want relief from what we are going through, often, we will believe a lie, just like the people believed the lie of Hananiah.  Keep in mind, when we make decisions and plans based upon a lie, then everything that is birthed from that lie is false. We must know, just like Jeremiah, that we are anchored in what God has spoken, and don’t allow anyone to add to that truth.