Striving To Be "Christ-Like"!

As I've been in the Word and listening to a sermon, this message has really poured into my spirit. We have to stop adapting to the changes of the world, and we have to learn how to overcome the changes of the world. For Christians and churches at large, it will never be as it once was but that doesn't mean we should adapt and get comfortable and complacent with the compromise that's slipped in and slowly chipped away at what use to be... that's why we aren't seeing results and why some just brush off the rapture because it doesn't fit into their schedules and programs anymore. Let me tell you that ready or not, the rapture will happen whether you're looking for it or not... so you better get ready, be ready, and stay ready!! I do believe another move of God will come to His people before His return to get us, but not only do we need to remember our first love and get back to Him... we need to overcome the changes instead of allowing them to overcome us. We h...

Have we left or lost our first love? Are you (we) spiritually distracted? Has something else replaced your love for Jesus? We are responsible to act in a way that glorifies God. The Lord has reminded me how important it is to focus on Jesus rather than the battles the enemy labels us with. Sometimes fighting the spiritual battle before us can become so consuming that we take our spiritual eyes off God. Do not allow anything to come between you and your love for Jesus. Return to your first love lest you fall away and miss Heaven. We want a move of God in churches, we want revival, but we have become too complacent and compromise has slipped in. The enemy of your soul won’t try to change your heart overnight. A church on fire for Christ doesn’t suddenly change in one day. It happens slowly. It may take a generation. Israel turned away from following the Lord in a matter of one generation. The church in Ephesus was doing all the right things, and yet they needed to repent. They had left t...

There is so much power in prayer, but have we become so desensitized to prayer that we don't even comprehend there is power in it anymore? Have we decided there is not power in prayer anymore, because our prayers haven't been answered like we think they should be or in a timeframe we think they should be? It will take persistent prayer, faithful prayer, and genuine prayer to see the Hand of God move. When the enemy is doing his best to destroy things in your life; yourself, family, or church... you can become so desensitized to it or you can stand up and proclaim what thus says the Lord; "greater is He Who is me than he who is in the world". Not today or any day satan; you can't have me, my family, or my church! You can become so desensitized to the moving and operating of the Holy Spirit, that He's no longer moving in your life or the life of the church! But, in these bleak days were are living in, now is the time to pray and believe for that special, superna...