Therfore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him

the name which is above every name,

that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow.

__ Philippians 2:9-10

There is power to overcome everything in the world through the name of Jesus. ” There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” ( Acts 4:12).

Six people went into the house of a sick man to pray for him. He was a leader in the Episcopal Church, and he lay in his bed utterly helpless. He had read a little track about healing and had heard about people praying for the sick. So he sent for these friends, who, he thought, could pray “the prayer of faith” ( James 5:15). He was anointed according to James 5:14, but because he had no immediate manifestation of healing, he wept bitterly. The six people walked out of the room, somewhat concerned to see the man lying there in an unchanged condition.

When they were outside, one of the six said, ” There is one thing we could have done. I wish you all would go back with me and try it.” They all went back and got together in a group. This brother said, ” Let us whisper the name of Jesus.” At first, when they whispered this worthy name, nothing happened. But as they continued to whisper “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” the power began to fall. As they saw that God was beginning to work, their faith and joy increased, and they spoke the name louder and louder. As they did so, the man rose for his bed and dressed himself. The secret was just this: those six people had gotten their eyes off the sick man and were taken up with the Lord Jesus Himself. Their faith grasped the power in His name. Oh, if people would only appreciate the power of His name, there is no telling what would happen.

Thought for today: Through the name of Jesus and through the power of His name, we have access to God.

Have a great day everyone and God bless you all!

For God’s Glory,

Pastor Tom

I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense

toward God and men.

__ Acts 24:16

One thing that can hinder our faith is a conscience that is seared. In contrast, there is a conscience that is so open to the presence of God that the smallest thing in the world will drive it to God. when we can come into the presence of God with clear consciences and genuine faith, our hearts not condemning us, then we have confidence toward God ( 1John 3:21), “and whatever we ask we receive from Him” ( v. 22).

Sugarcoating won’t do. We must have reality, the real working of our God. We must know God. We must be able to go in and converse with God. We must also know the mind of God toward us, so that all our petitions are always in line with His will.

As this “like precious faith” ( 2 Peter 1:1) becomes a part of you, it will make you so that you will dare to do anything. and remember, God wants daring followers: people who will risk all, who will be strong in Him and willing to do exploits. How will we reach this place of faith? Give up your own mind. Let go of your own thoughts, and take the thoughts of God, the Word of God. If you build yourself on imaginations, you will go wrong. You have the Word  of God, and it is enough.

A man gave this remarkable testimony concerning the Word: ” Never compare this Book with other books. Comparisons are dangerous. Never think or say that this Book contains the Word of God. It is the Word of God. It is supernatueal in origin, eternal in duration, inexpressible in value, infinite in scope, regenerative in power, inspired in totality. Read it through. Write it down. Pray it in. Work it out. then pass it on.”

Thought for today: We need a conscience that does not allow one thing to come into and stay in our lives to break up our fellowship with God and shatter our faith in Him.

Have a great day everyone and God bless you all!

Pastor Tom

Now He did not do many works there

because of their unbelief.

__ Matthew 13:58

The Spirit of God wants us to understand there is nothing that can interfere with our coming into perfect blessing except unbelief. Unbelief is a terrible hindrance. As soon as we are willing to allow the Holy Spirit to have His way, we will find that great things will happen all the time. But oh, how much of our own human reason  we have to get rid of, how much human planning we have to become divorced from. What would happen right now if everybody believed God? i love the thought that God the Holy Spirit wants to emphasize the truth that if we will only yeild ourselves to the divine plan, He is right there to bring forth the mystery of truth.

How many of us believe the Word? It is easy to quote it, but it is more important to have it than to quote it. It is very easy for me to quote, ” Now we are children of God” ( 1 John 3:2), but it is more important for me to know whether I am a son of God. When the Son was on the earth, He was recognized by the people who heard Him. ” No man ever spoke like [Him]” ( John 7:46). His Word was with power, and that Word came to pass. Sometimes you have quoted, “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4), and you could tell where just to find the verse. But brother is it so? Can demons remain in your presents? You have to be greater than demons. Can disease lodge in the body that you touch? You have to be greater than the disease. Do you dare stand on the Word of God and face the facts of the difficultiesbefore us?

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for” ( Hebrews 11: 1). Faith is the Word . You were begotten of the word; the Word is in you; the life of the Son is in you; and God wants you to believe.

Thought for today: Can anything in the world stand against you and hold it’s place if it is a fact that He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world?

Have a great day everyone and God blesss you all!

For God’s glory,

Pastor Tom

Increase our faith.

-Luke 17:5

Inactivity must be brought to a place of victory. Inactivity- what wavers, what hesitates, what fears instead of having faith- closes up everything, because it doubts instead of believes in God. It is life; what is faith? Faith is the living principle of the Word of God. It is life, it produces life; it changes life. How great our faith should be, for we cannot be saved except by faith. We cannot be kept except by faith. therefore, faith in the living God is a blessed reality.

All the wonderful things that Jesus did were done so that people might be changed and made like Him. Oh, to be made like Him in thought,act, and plan! He went about His Fathers business and was eaten up with the zeal of His house ( Psalms 69:9). I am beginning to understand 1 John 3:2: Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” As I feed on the Word of God, my whole body will be changed by the process of the power of the Son of God.

The Lord dwells in a humble and contrite heart and makes His way into the dry places, so if you open up to Him, He will flood you with His life. You can never cleans sin, you can never purify sin; you can never be strong if in sin; you will never have a vision while in sin. Revelation stops when sin comes in. The human spirit must come to an end, but the Spirit of Christ must be alive and active. You must die to the human spirit, and then God will quicken your mortal body and make it alive ( Romans 8:11) . Without holiness no man will see god (Hebrews 12:14).

Thought for today: A little bit of sin will spoil a whole life.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but every word of God.

- Luke 4:4

God’s Word is:

Supernatural in origin.

Eternal in duration.

Inexpressible in valor.

Infinite in scope.

Regenerative in power.

Infallible in authority.

Universal in application.

Inspired in totality.

We should:

Read it through.

Write it down.

Pray it in.

Work it out.

Pass it on.

The Word of God changes a person until he becomes an epistle of God (2 Cor. 3:3). The Word transforms the mind, changes the character, and gives us an inheritance in the Spirit, until we are conformed-God coming in, dwelling in us, walking and talking through us. There is no God like our God.

God is love. “He who abides in love abides in God” (1 John 4:16). God wants to take ordinary men and bring them into extraordinary conditions . God has room for the thirsty man who is crying out for more of Himself. It is not what we are, But it is what God wants us to be. Friends , let us rededicate ourselves afresh to God!

Thought for today: God has promised to fulfill, fill full, the desire of those who fear him.

Have a great day everyone and God bless you all!

for God’s Glory,

Pastor Tom

This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do,

as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.

- 1 Corinthians 11:25

No service is so wonderful to me as the service of partaking in the Lord’s Supper, the Holy Communion. I would love to see the saints gather together at every meeting in order to remember Christ’s death, His resurrection, and his ascension. What a thought that Jesus Himself instituted this glorious memorail for us. Oh, that God would let us see that it is “as often” as we do it. It is not weekly, not monthly, not quarterly, but “as often’ as we do it. what a blessed rememberance it is to know that He took away our sins.

I am sure that every Christian has a great desire to do something for Jesus, and what He wants us to do is to keep in remembrance the cross, the grave, the Resurrection, and the Ascension; the memory of these four events will always bring us into a place of great blessing. You do not need, however, to continually live on the cross, or even in remembrance of the cross, ” It is finished” ( John 19;30). You do not need to live in the grave, but only keep in remembrance that ” He has Risen’ ( Matt. 28:6) out of the grave and that we are to be seated ” with Him in Glory”" (Col. 34).

The institution of the Lord’s Supper is one of those setting in Scipture, a time in the history of our Lord Jesus Christ, when the mystry of the glories of Christ was being unveiled. As the Master walked on this earth, the multitudes would gather with eagerness and longing in their hearts to hear the words that dropped from His gracious lips. But there was also those who had missed the vision. They saw the Christ, heard His words, but those wonderful words were like idle tales to them.

When we miss the vision and do not come into the fullness of the ministry of the Spirit, there is a reason. Friends , there is a deadness in us that must have the resurrection touch. Today we have the unveiled truth, for the disensation of the Holy Spirit has come to unfold the fullness of redemption so that we might be clothed with power. What brings us into the state where God can pour His blesings upon us is a broken spirit and a contrite heart (Psalms 51: 17). We need to examine ourselves to see what state we are in, whether we are just religious or whether we are truly in Christ.

The human spirit, when perfectly united with the Holy Spirit , has but one place, and that is death, death and deeper death. In this place, the human spirit will cease to desire to have its own way, and instead of “My will”, the cry of the heart will be, “May Your will, O Lord, be done in me.”

Thought for today: Jesus is interceding for us to keep us right, holy, ready,mighty, and filled with Himself so that we might bring the fragrance of Heaven to the world’s needs.

Have a great day everyone and God bless you all!

For God’s Glory,

Pastor Tom

Whoever….does not doubt in his heart,

but believes…., he will have whatever he says.

- Mark 11:23

Scripture Reading: James 1:2-15

I magine a young man and woman who have fallen in love. In a short while, there is a strong love for each other. What is a heart of love? It is a heart of faith. Faith and love are kin. In the measure that the young man and young woman love one another, they are true. One may go North and the other South, but because of their love, they will be faithful to one another.

It is the same when there is a deep love toward the Lord Jesus Christ. In this new life into which God has brought  us, Paul told us that we “have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that (we) may be married to another; to Him who was raised from the dead” ( Rom. 7:4). God brings us into a place of perfect love and perfect faith. A person who is born of God  is brought into a loyalty to the Lord Jesus that shrinks from anything impure. You see the purity of a man and woman when there is a deep natural affection between them; they disdain the thought of either of them being untrue. In the same way, in a measure of a person has faith in Jesus, he is pure.

We cannot doubt in our hearts. As we read His Word and believe the promises that He has so graciously given to us, we are made partakers of His very essence and life. The Lord is made a Bridegroom to us, and we are His Bride. His words to us are spirit and life ( John 6:63), transforming us and changing us, expelling what is natural and bringing in what is divine.

It is impossible to comprehend the love of God as we think in human terms. We must have a revelation from the Spirit of God. It was the love of God that brought Jesus, and it is this same love that helps you and me to believe.God will be your strength in every weakness. You who need His touch, remember that He loves you. If you are helpless or sick, look to the God of all grace, whose very essence is love, who delights to give liberally all life and strenght and power that you need.

Thought For Today: As we have heart fellowship with our Lord, our faith cannot be daunted.

Have a great day everyone and God bless you all!

For God’s Glory,

Pastor Tom

Peter…said, ” Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His Angel, and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the Jewish people.”  -Acts 12: 1-17

There is a lot in an amen. I find that you can have zeal without faith. The scripture reading shows the difference between the amen of faith and having zeal without faith.

When Peter was imprisoned by Herod, the church was in constant prayer for his release. They were even praying all night. They had zeal, but they did not have faith. Although there is much that could be commended to us from this passage, one thing is missing: faith. Young Rhoda had more faith than the rest of them. When the knock came at the door, she ran to answer it. The moment she heard Peter’s voice, she was so excited to share the good news that she didn’t even unlock the gate so that Peter could come in. She ran with joy to tell those praying that Peter stood at the gate.

All the people said, ” you are mad. It isn’t so.” She insisted that she had seen Peter, but the people had no faith at all. They said, “Perhaps God has sent an angel.”

But Rhoda said, ” It is Peter.” And Peter continued knocking. They went an found him at the door. They had zeal but no faith. God wants to bring us to the place where we will take hold of Him in a living way. We need to rest and always trust the plan of God.

There was such a difference between Zacharias and Mary. Zacharias definitely wanted a son, but even when the angel came and told him that he would be a father, he was full of unbelief. The angel said, “You will be mute and not able to speak… because you did not believe” (Luke 1:20). But when the angel came to Mary, she said, ” let it be to me according to your word” (v. 38). This was the beginning of the amen.

God wants us to have an inward amen, a mighty moving amen, This amen say’s, “It is,” because God has spoken.

Thought for Today: Believe that there can be a real amen in your life.

Have a great day everyone and God bless you all!

For God’s Glory,

Pastor Tom

As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word,

that you may grow thereby.

- 1Peter 2:2

Beloved don’t forget that every day must be a day of advancement. If you have not made any advancement since yesterday, in a measure, you are a backslider. There is only one way for you between Calvary and glory, and it is forward. It is every day forward. It is no day back. It is advancement with God. It is cooperation with Him in the spirit.

We must see these things, because if we live on the same plane day after day, our vision becomes stale; the principles lose their earnestness. But we must be like those who are catching the vision of the Master day by day. We must make inroads into every passion that would interfere, and we must bring everything to the slaughter that is not holy. For in these days, God wants us to know that He wishes to seat us on high.

Often the most trying times are the most beneficial to our Christian growth. Consider Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Remember Moses and the trails he faced. beloved , if you read the scriptures, you will never find anything about easy times. All the glory came out of hard times.

If you are to be really reconstructed, it will be in hard times. It won’t be in a singing meeting, but at a time when you think all things are dried up, when you think there is no hope for you and you have passed up everything. That is the time that God makes the person. And out of the experience, we will have a story to tell about what God has done for us. When the trial is severe, when you think that no one is being tried as much as you ; when the trial is so hard that you cannot sleep and do not know what to do; “count it all joy” (James 1:2). You are in a good place when you do not know what to do; look to God for the answer.

Thought for Today: It is when you are tried by fire that God purges you, takes the dross away, and brings forth pure gold.

Have a great day everyone and God bless you all!

For God’s Glory,

Pastor Tom

He is able to subdue all things to Himself.

- Philippians 3:21

I know of a man of God who knew of several mental cases. How difficult they are naturally, but hoe easy for God to deal with. One laady said to him, “Not to far from her is a young man terribly afficted, with no rest day or night.” he went with a very imperfect knowledge as to what he had to do, but in the weak places, God helps our infirmities. He rebuked the demon in the name of Jesus, and then he said , ” I’ll come again tomorrow.” The next day when he came back, he was quite well and with his father in the field working.

Fifty miles away, there was a fine young man, twenty- five years of age. He had lost his reason to reason, could have no communication with his mother, and was always wandering back and forth. The pastor knew that God was waiting to bless. He cast out the demon power and heard later that he had become quite well.

So the Holy Spirit takes us on from one place to another. So many thing happen;  Through this pastor and things that I have experienced I live in heaven on earth. Do not wait for inspiration if you are in need; the Holy Spirit is available, and you can have  perfect deliverance.

He was taken to three persons, one in the care of an attendant. As he entered the room, there was a terrible noise and quarreling. It was such a noise it seemed  as if all powers of hell were stirred up. He had to wait for God’s time. The Holy Spirit rose in him at the right time, and the three were delivered. That night, they were singing praises to God.

Christ is the same today. When He reigns in you, you know how to obey and how to work in conjunction with His will, His power, His light, and His life. When we have faith based on knowledge, we know He has come. “You shall receive power when the holy Spirit has come upon you” (Acts 1:8). God is with the preson who dares to stand upon His Word.

Thought for today: How bountiful God is when we depend on Him! He gives us enough to spare for others.