The Winter Is Over!
_{Living The Blessed Life}

There is nothing like getting a fresh word from God except getting a fresh word from God when you really need it.Well, I am praising God and jumping for joy because God has given us a fresh word that is filling our hearts to overflowing with the rivers of life and joy unspeakable.The Holy Spirit says, “Didn’t I tell you that if you would turn to Him and ask Him that He would answer you and give you hope!” Well sure, but then when you do it, it just feeds your spirit. Well praise God! After we agreed in prayer that we believe the promises of God and that we are going to have faith and keep believing for God to move and build His church by His Spirit, we heard the testimony of one of our people getting a favorable judgment where he was wronged by the system and now he is becoming a citizen after a long fight. Then the phone rings and someone wants to know if this is a faith church.

Heavens yes!

Of course we are a faith church. We walk by faith, we believe the promises of God, we stand on the Word of God! When trouble comes and hard times hit, we believe what God says that as long as we are faithful and keep believing and trusting Him, He will bring us through and will give us the Victory. We will be doing the Victory Dance and singing and praising God.

Now is not the time to give up. 

But to give up the Victory Shout and Praise God for all His blessings and promises and faithfulness. God will not be mocked and He will not lose. Let's list His promises and proclaim them and stand on them together and see with our own eyes the Strong Arm Of The Lord Come Forth In Victory.  Our riches are in Christ.
 

1.  Through His Grace, Ephesians 1:7: "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace" 2:7: "In order that in the coming ages He might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in His kindness to us in Christ Jesus."
2. Through His Glory, Ephesians 1:18: "I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints. 3:16: " I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being."
3. Through His unsearchable riches, Ephesians 3:8: "Although I am less than the least of all God’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ."
   All the blessings of God are available to us in the Holy Spirit of God. Phil. 4:19: "And my God will meet all your need according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus." He does not say that we will not go through times of poverty or pain, but He does promise to go through those times with us and that we will be justified (find justice) through our faith. Romans 5:1-5: "Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God and through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand, and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because 
   God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit whom he has given us."

So let's turn our frown upside down into a smile, turn our winning into a victory shout, and raise the roof so that God can pour out His blessing upon us. And everyone shouted Hallelujah!!

Please pray with us that God would build His Church by His Spirit. Yes, Holy Spirit, come and build your church!

Pastor Steve and Dianne
PS: I just got off the phone with Mike who is building a church in California. He will be coming to NJ to work in Atlantic City. Please pray for Mike and Ruth that everything will fall into place for them and God will use them for his glory here. He was looking for a faith filled church and God directed him to call us. Hallelujah!