Atmosphere of Revelation

Atmosphere Revelation 10 23 16

October 23, 2016
Amazing Life Church
“The Atmosphere of Revelation”
Greet People
This has been an awesome week. God has blessed Betty
and I with strength and favor as we follow Him. It is our
consistent honor to serve this congregation. There is a
bond here that is strong. It is something that the enemy
has attacked more than once. We must all give God
praise for His consistent blessings and favor as we walk
together in His Holy purpose.
We are yet to be perfected, but the process continues to
move us forward.
I have thought much this week on the power available to
the church from the presence of God. I am hungry and I
believe that this hunger for God is stirring people
throughout the world. It is a hunger for change. Taking
down walls of doubt. Ridding our minds from the boxes
we fill with people who are not like us.
A hunger for change will require us to reject our
limitations and stretch ourselves in faith.Page 2
Augustine said, “If you want change in your world.
The change will come when the change comes
through you.”
I want to share some thoughts today titled, “The
Atmosphere of Revelation”
Before I get into my scriptures I want to share some
words from a song written by St. Bernard somewhere
around 900 years ago. “We taste Thee, oh Thou living
Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of
Thee the Fountainhead, and thirst our souls from
Thee to fill.”
There is a hunger for His presence.
1 Samuel the 4 th chapter records a very sad event in the
history of the nation of Israel. Eli was an elderly prophet
in the land and the people were in a war with the
Philistines. The 2 sons of Eli brought the ark into the
area and the people were excited and began to shout so
that the earth was filled with the noise. The Philistines
knew the ark was there and they began to be afraid of
being destroyed. “They encouraged themselves.”
“You must believe in what you have!!!!”Page 3
1 Samuel 4:9-11 NASB
9 Take courage and be men, O Philistines, or you will
become slaves to the Hebrews, as they have been slaves
to you; therefore, be men and fight.”
10 So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated, and
every man fled to his tent; and the slaughter was very
great, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot
soldiers.
11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of
Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
A man from the battle ran to Eli. The prophet asked
about the noise from the battlefield. He replied, Israel
has been defeated, your sons are dead, and the ark of
God has been taken.
1 Samuel 4:18 NASB
When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat
backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken and
he died, for he was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel
forty years.
Eli’s son Phineas had a wife who was pregnant and
about to give birth. When she heard of the death of her
husband and father in law she gave birth and it caused
her death. Before she died she named the boy Ichabod.Page 4
The name means the glory has departed. The Hebrew
word means, no glory.
I Samuel 4:22 NASB
She said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the
ark of God was taken.”
The word glory from the Hebrew means this, glory
honour, glorious abundance, abundance riches,
honour, splendor, honour dignity, honour reputation,
honour reverance.”
“They lost all this because they didn’t understand what
they had”
They had been a divided nation for generations.
Preach Vision
David eventually came and got the Ark. Long story in
between for another time. He brought it to Jerusalem
and put it in a tent. Many of his Psalms were written
while He worshiped in the tent, in the presence of God.
In His glory.Page 5
I will try to finish with this.
In Exodus 32 Moses had spent a long time on the
mountain talking with God. The people needed to see a
God so they had Aaron make one. This created quite a
problem and God sent Moses down to see. Near the end
of the chapter Moses said I am going back up to see if I
can fix this with God. Exodus 33 begins with God
saying the people are obstinate. I will send an angel
before you but I am not going. “Moses Intercedes”
Exodus 33:13-16 NASB
13 Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in
Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know
You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider
too, that this nation is Your people.”
14 And He said, “My presence shall go with you, and I
will give you rest.”
15 Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go
with us, do not lead us up from here.
16 For how then can it be known that I have found favor
in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going
with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be
distinguished from all the other people who are upon the
face of the earth?”Page 6
There has always been something different about the
people of God.
Preach
Exodus 33:17-18 NASB
17 The L ORD said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of
which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My
sight and I have known you by name.”
18 Then Moses said, “I pray You, show me Your
glory!”
Let me remind you what Moses was asking God to
show him. honour, abundance, riches, honour,
splendor, dignity, reputation, reverance.”
That is what makes glory. Moses had entered His
presence. He hungered for His presence.
Jude 1:24 AMPC
Now to Him Who is able to keep you without stumbling
or slipping or falling, and to present you unblemished
(blameless and faultless) before the presence of His
glory in triumphant joy and exultation with
unspeakable, ecstatic delight.
The word presence means, “Before the face.” The
word glory means “magnificence, excellence, dignity,
and grace.” Preach in His Glory!!!!!

Learn to Know

Learn to Know 10 16 16

October 16, 2016
Amazing Life Church
“Learn to Know”
Greet People
I love the Lord. I see with the confident eyes of faith
His greatness moving in this world. His grace has not
been depleted and His love is everlasting. What an
amazing time we live in. Fields ripe for harvest.
Footsteps ordered with favor and blessings. Trials,
tragedies, failures, and more have brought many to their
knees in prayer. Prayer is the beginning of revelation
and healing. Nothing happens until you pray. God is
moving across this land.
It is my love for Him that continues to move me
forward. I have always been in His hands, and I will
always be in His hands.
“For God so loved Marvin, that He gave His only
begotten Son, that when Marvin believed in Him, he
shall not perish, but he shall have eternal life.”
I want to share some thoughts today titled, “Learn to
Know”Page 2
There is a hunger in my life to know Him in His glory.
I believe that this is happening across the world. Young
and old. Many have served the Lord for years. There is
a hunger for His presence. I speak of an inward
anointing. It is easy to make the flesh feel good. It takes
God to move from the inside out.
I have several passages to share with the hope that as we
close, the need for more will arise in our lives.
John 17:1-5 NASB
1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to
heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify
Your Son, that the Son may glorify You,
2 even as You gave Him authority over all flesh, that to
all whom You have given Him, He may give eternal life.
3 This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only
true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
4 I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the
work which You have given Me to do.
5 Now, Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with
the glory which I had with You before the world was.
There are some things that need our attention.Page 3
The word glorify found twice in verse 1 comes from the
Greek word, dox-ad’-zo, it has several meanings. I will
share the relevant ones. “hold in honour, to make
glorious, adorn with lustre, clothe with splendour,
render it excellent, render illustrious, to cause the
dignity and worth of some person or thing to become
manifest and acknowledged”
Preach-“Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son,
that the Son may glorify You”
In verse 5 the word glorify has the same meaning. The
word glory is taken from the the Greek word, dox’ah. It
is more specific. It means, “magnificence, excellence,
preeminence,a thing belonging to God, the kingly
majesty of the Messiah, the absolutely perfect inward or
personal excellency of Christ; the majesty”
“Preach-Now, Father, glorify Me together with
Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before
the world was.”Page 4
All of these awesome descriptions of God’s glory and,
and the glory that Christ shared with Him in Heaven.
What does all this mean to us? Let’s read verse 3 again
from the Amplified
John 17:3 Amplified
Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, the
only true supreme and sovereign God, and in the same
manner know Jesus as the Christ whom You have sent.
The word know means, “to come to know, learn to
know, perceive, to understand.”
Preach knowing Him
Philippians 3:7-11 NASB
7 But whatever things were gain to me, those things I
have counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of
the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,
for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and
count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,
9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness
of my own derived from the Law, but that which is
through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes
from God on the basis of faith.Page 5
10 that I may know Him and the power of His
resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being
conformed to His death;
11 in order that I may attain to the resurrection from the
dead.
Verses 7-8 are Paul sharing the tremendous loss that he
had when he followed Christ. He was very educated in
philosophy and the law. His tent making skills could
have been a source of wealth but instead he used them
to survive and help others.
His encounter with Christ changed his thinking. “He
gave it all up to know Jesus”
There is something about an encounter with Christ that
changes our priorities.
Verse 9 is awesome. Paul is saying I am not righteous
because I obey the law. My righteousness comes from
God because of my faith in Christ.
Preach Grace-God’s undeserved favorPage 6
verse 10.
Philippians 3:10 Amplified
And this, so that I may know Him experientially,
becoming more thoroughly acquainted with Him,
understanding the remarkable wonders of His Person
more completely and in that same way experience the
power of His resurrection which overflows and is active
in believers, and that I may share the fellowship of His
sufferings, by being continually conformed inwardly
into His likeness even to His death dying as He did.
Preach
to know Him
To experience Him
Understanding Him
Jeremiah 9:23-24 NASB
23 Thus says the L ORD , “Let not a wise man boast of his
wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might,
let not a rich man boast of his riches;
24 but let him who boasts boast of this, that he
understands and knows Me, that I am the L ORD who
exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on
earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the L ORD .
Preach-We must learn to know Him

The War For Greatness

War for Greatness 10 9 16

October 9, 2016
Amazing Life Church
“The War For Greatness”
Greet People
Well it seems the years are moving faster than ever.
What a joy and blessing for Betty and I to have
ministered together with such an awesome group of
people. We love you and we pray for you daily.
We believe that God has positioned us to make a
difference in this region. As I have said for years this
church has plowed a path to Christ that previously
excluded people deemed unacceptable by religious
standards. What an awesome God that continues to
honor and humble us with His presence. It is not a
coincidence that He is faithful in this area. He is
strengthening us, encouraging us, establishing us,
redeeming us, loving us with His unconditional love.
By His Kingdom authority that He has vested in me,
and you as well. I want to speak a blessing over you and
your families. “May the richness of His favor and the
joy of His presence bring you peace and unity; In
Jesus Name”Page 2
I want to share some thoughts today titled, “The War
For Greatness”
I have shared many times that everything we need to
live in victory. Live in Kingdom authority. Live
redeemed and fulfilled because of the story of Christ.
When Christ ascended the Spirit came to lead, guide,
reveal, fill, and confirm everything that the Bible says;
as well as the universal and individual mission of the
church and its members.
There is nothing else that God can do to establish His
kingdom in our lives, and give us the full authority of
His Finished Work.
“Here comes an indisputable truth”
There is a war that goes on for greatness. There is a
price that must be paid to achieve the greatness of God
in any area of life and ministry.
“God has provided everything we need. The war for
greatness is not between us and God, It is between us
and us.”Page 3
Buckle your seat belts!!!
Let me confirm what I have just said.
John 1:12-13 NASB
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the
right to become children of God, even to those who
believe in His name,
13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the
flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Verse 13 Amplified
who were born, not of blood natural conception, nor of
the will of the flesh physical impulse, nor of the will of
man that of a natural father, but of God that is, a divine
and supernatural birth—they are born of God—
spiritually transformed, renewed, sanctified.
Preach Preach
Proverbs 16:1-3 NASB
1 The plans of the heart belong to man, But the answer
of the tongue is from the L ORD .
2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight, But
the L ORD weighs the motives.
3 Commit your works to the L ORD And your plans will
be established.
What is Solomon telling us?Page 4
Verse 1-Keep what is in your heart to yourself. Only
speak the words that God has approved.
Verse 2-You may think you have all the answers but
God measures your decisions by your motives.
Verse3-Classic Amplified
Roll your works upon the Lord commit and trust them
wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become
agreeable to His will, and so shall your plans be
established and succeed.
The Apostle Paul mirrored the wisdom of Solomon
when He wrote to the Corinthian church.
2 Corinthians 3:5 AMP
Not that we are sufficiently qualified in ourselves to
claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency
and qualifications come from God.
It will never be about our qualifications, our talents or
abilities. It will always be about the provision that God
gives us to accomplish the purpose He has given us.
Preach-“It is Christ in us the hope of Glory”Page 5
Galatians 5:16-17 NASB
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry
out the desire of the flesh.
17 For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the
Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one
another, so that you may not do the things that you
please.
Verse 16 has some words that need attention from their
Greek beginnings. “walk is translated, to make one’s
way, to make due use of opportunities. Spirit, the way
which will emphasize His personality and character.
Carry out or fulfill, means to bring to a close, to end.
Lust or desire, means to desire, crave, or long for what
is forbidden. Flesh, means our human nature apart from
divine influence.
Preach-There is a war going on. A war for our
attention. A war for our character. A war for our
opportunities. A war that is often fought in the heavenly
realm. There is a war fighting our ability to love, to
forgive, to pray kingdom prayers.
There is a war for greatness and it touches every area
of our lives.Page 6
“It’s not a war with God, not even with Satan. It is a
war with us.”
Galatians 5:17 Amplified
For the sinful nature has its desire which is opposed to
the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit opposes the sinful
nature; for these two, the sinful nature and the Spirit are
in direct opposition to each other continually in
conflict, so that you as believers do not always do
whatever good things you want to do.
By the Spirit and the word we have been advised.
Romans 13:14 NASB
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision
for the flesh in regard to its lusts.
Amplified
But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and
make no provision for nor even think about gratifying
the flesh in regard to its improper desires.
Preach-Put on, clothe, means to sink into.
Become one with Him!!!!!

Destiny Empowered

Destiny Empowered 10 2 16

October 2, 2016
Amazing Life Church
“Destiny Empowered”
Greet People
Betty and I are so thankful for the grace and presence of
God in our lives and in this church. Amazing Life has
been on the cutting edge in this area since its inception.
Not because of me or any individual. It is because of
God and the anointing of His revealed word.
There is nothing deeper than the story of Jesus. His life,
death, resurrection, and ascension are what the Bible is
all about. It is the beginning, the end, and everything in
between. If not for His story the Bible would simply be
an interesting historical record with little relevance for
today. From the beginning His destiny was to redeem
God’s people. He would live, die, resurrect, and ascend
fulfilling hundreds of OT prophesies. He sits at the right
hand of the Father because He fulfilled His destiny.
Let me explain destiny and the confusion some have
with it. {Some think life has no meaning or purpose}
“Heaven or Hell” What an empty hole in someone’s
life. No purpose or process, just waiting to die.Page 2
Many others will die not having the opportunity to
know Jesus because of people who believe they have no
Godly destiny on earth. Please pray God’s love to
intervene in their hopelessness of life.
Life is a gift. I refuse to believe that I was born, or you
were born, just to die with nothing in between. I was
born to live, to dream, to walk in a living purpose
towards a living destiny. Anything else is not
acceptable. Anything else is an insult to the greatness of
God.
I want to share some thoughts today titled, “Destiny
Empowered”
Before we can ever accomplish the things God has
established for us, we must understand what He has
done for us. We must understand the power He has
invested in us.
Jesus put the power of Kingdom Authority in very
simple terms when He said this. These remarkably
powerful statements from Christ are found throughout
the Gospels.Page 3
John 16:33 AMPC
I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have
perfect peace and confidence. In the world you have
tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be
of good cheer take courage; be confident, certain,
undaunted! For I have overcome the world. I have
deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it
for you.
Preach-Nothing can hinder your destiny
The Apostle Paul consistently reminded his churches
and his followers of the life that Christ came to give us.
One awesome example is found in his letter to the
church at Rome.
Romans 8:31-39 NASB
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for
us, who is against us?
32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered
Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him
freely give us all things? “Freely Give?”
33 Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is
the one who justifies.Page 4
34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He
who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right
hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 Just as it is written, “F OR Y OUR SAKE WE ARE BEING
PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG ; W E WERE CONSIDERED
AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED .” Psalms 44:22
37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer
through Him who loved us. “Not Just Conquer”
38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things
to come, nor powers,
39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing,
will be able to separate us from the love of God, which
is in Christ Jesus our Lord. “Are You convinced?”
Preach-What an awesome word
With this kind of backing what could possible stop me,
you, or anyone from completing the process and
walking out their destiny?
Probably the most common reason is the lack of hunger
for the things of God.
Jesus said.Page 5
Matthew 6:33 Amplified
But first and most importantly seek aim at, strive after
His kingdom and His righteousness His way of doing
and being right—the attitude and character of God, and
all these things will be given to you also.
Preach
I often look to the OT for revelation of the church and
the things God planned by the coming of Christ. Ezekiel
34 is one such chapter of the amazing restoration of
God’s people. You need to read the entire chapter when
you can.
Ezekiel 34:23-27 NASB
23 “Then I will set over them one shepherd, My servant
David, and he will feed them; he will feed them himself
and be their shepherd. “see written notes”
24 And I, the L ORD , will be their God, and My servant
David will be prince among them; I the L ORD have
spoken.
25 “I will make a covenant of peace with them and
eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may
live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.
(Covenant of peace is referring to peace with God.
Restored to a relationship of love and grace)Page 6
26 I will make them and the places around My hill a
blessing. “God intends His people to be a blessing to
their world” And I will cause showers to come down in
their season; they will be showers of blessing.
27 Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the
earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on
their land. Then they will know that I am the L ORD ,
when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have
delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved
them.
“delivered from our sins and our past; and the fear of
death”
Preach—– “When you become a blessing to others,
and walk in the blessings of God, people will know the
Lord.”
What confidence we can have when we know and
understand the plan of God for our redemption and for
our Kingdom empowerment. His grace and love is
everlasting. There is nothing that can keep you from His
amazing love.
“4 quick verses to end this today.”Page 7
Also an OT chapter that is prophetic of the Messiah.
Isaiah 54:7-10 NASB
7 “For a brief moment I forsook you, But with great
compassion I will gather you.
8 “In an outburst of anger I hid My face from you for a
moment, But with everlasting lovingkindness I will
have compassion on you,” Says the L ORD your
Redeemer.
9 “For this is like the days of Noah to Me, When I
swore that the waters of Noah Would not flood the earth
again; So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
Nor will I rebuke you.
10 “For the mountains may be removed and the hills
may shake, But My lovingkindness will not be removed
from you, And My covenant of peace will not be
shaken,” Says the L ORD who has compassion on you.
WOW-Preach Preach