Each sermon this weekend will be different, so check back often for Pastor Candace’s notes!
6:15pm
If the devil can’t make you sick, he’ll make you busy!
Exodus 17:8-16
TURNING VALLEYS INTO VICTORIES
It’s amazing how one cup of bitter water can make us forget that God moved an entire sea!
Amalek was all about instant gratification. Literally means valley-dweller.
Valley dwellers want you to stay in the valley with them. When we begin to grumble like the Israelites, it invites the spirit of valley dwellers to come upon us! God has called you to turn your valleys into victories!
How do we do that?
Gain a new perspective. When the enemy comes low, you fix yours eyes on high. Stop allowing distractions. Lift God above your enemy (the posture of prayer!). Prayer isn’t intended to change God, prayer is intended to change YOU. Stop fixing your eyes on the problem, and fix your eyes on the answer: JESUS. Too many times we’re hanging around with losers.
Gain partners. You’re not called to live alone. Valley-dwellers are loners. They identify with the pain instead of identifying with the cure. Classic tactic of the enemy: ISOLATION. We get addicted to being alone. Admitting you need help, FEELS weak, but it’s the moment of strength. When we come together as the family. There would be a lot of prayers that wouldn’t need prayed, if we would just PRAISE THE LORD. Gods presence will always go before you, if His praise is always in your mouth. not everyone is a Moses or Aaron, we also need Joshua’s in the valleys. The battle is not yours, but the preparation is yours.
3. Gain promise. We turn valleys into victories by praising the Lord. There’s nothing you could do that would chase down the goodness and mercy—God’s goodness & mercy is supposed to chase YOU down.
9:15am
Lamentations 3:19-27
DARE TO HOPE
Hope is confident patience in the enduring love of God.
If people have to come to us to get to God, that’s just religion!
If God gave you everything you are praying for right now, you wouldn’t know what to do with it.
Maybe God isn’t answering your prayers right now because you aren’t praying for something big enough!
Dare to Hope.
Declare Hope. Moments where we’re gonna have to encourage OURSELVES. We will either speak hope or we’ll strangle it. Speak the goodness of God.
Depend on Hope. The Lord is good to those who depend on HIM. Not depend on yourself. RENEW your strength. You gotta learn to crawl before you can walk, then run, then fly.
11:15am
Ephesians 2:1-10
POETRY IN MOTION
Grace is more than just being saved.
1. Saved from death / forgiveness from the past. Death is a promotion to the Christian. “I’ve never had to teach my kids to misbehave.” It comes natural to us. If you haven’t run into the enemy, maybe it’s because you’re going the same direction he is. This is a spiritual battle.
2. Seated with distinction / freedom in the present. We become so familiar with the cross, we don’t want to get out of the tomb. We get so familiar with our pain and our sickness we forget to walk away from it. It’s time to get out of the tomb! We die on the cross, but we come alive when we step out of the tomb! You’re not labeled by what you went through.
3. Set into destiny / fire to reach the promise. Just because you can’t tell who won yet, doesn’t mean the victory hasn’t already been won! God has destined you for greatness! Nothing you can do to earn it or deserve it!
6:00pm
Gifts that help you think like God. Discernment. Gifts of knowledge. (Gifts of revelation)
Gifts that help your speak like God. Prophecy. Gifts of tongues & interpretation of tongues.
Gifts that help us act like God. Healing. Faith.
Without the fruit of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are no good.
5 ministry gifts to equip you. Apostle. Prophet. Evangelist. Pastor. Teacher.
An apostle works with all 5 gifts, taking new ground.
A prophet is very specific.
An evangelist. Can be abrasive.
The pastor. Married to the church.
The teacher. Bringing up disciples.
Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Why does it have to be speaking in tongues? The hardest part of the body to tame. Wherever the tongue goes, the body follows.