Dear friend in Christ,
Shalom and Happy 2011!! I pray that you had a very merry and blessed Christmas and I’m believing with you for a prosperous, joyous and peaceful new year. Last year is over so be done with it, good or bad. The past has passed, and it’s a new year closer to our Lord’s return!
We’re living in an hour when the world, and the things IN the world are dark and there seems to be no peace. In fact, we are truly living in the final moments of what the Bible calls the Last Days. The people in the world, who are without Covenant with God, are earnestly and diligently seeking peace. They look for it everywhere; in relationships, in drinking, in drugs, in shopping and over-spending, all in an attempt to fill the void and bring them peace. Most people spend their entire lives working and striving to obtain the very best that this world has to offer. But no matter how much they have, they’re never satisfied and they continually want more or something better.
One of the greatest attacks by the enemy in the battles we face in our mind is in the area of worry. Both the real and the imagined worries attack our minds on a daily basis as the pressures and the stress of these end times press in on us from all sides in an attempt to discourage us and take our eyes off of the Word and the promises of God. And if you’re like most Christians today, you spend hour after hour and day after day worrying about your finances, and how you will pay your bills, how you will be able to make your house payment or your rent; how you will be able to buy food and clothing and the other necessities of life. But God wants you free and delivered from those worries and those cares. He wants you to walk in victory where there is absolutely no room for worry or doubt because you know that God will supernaturally provide for all your needs. In fact, in the Book of Matthew chapter 6, Jesus commands us to lay aside all worry. Matthew 6:31, “…..take no thought saying what shall I eat, or what shall I drink, or how will I be clothed?......Verse 33, “But seek FIRST the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” The Amplified Bible puts it this ways: “But seek, aim at and strive after first of all HIS Kingdom and His righteousness; His way of doing and being right, and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.” And that’s quite a promise!
Jesus told us in John 10:10, “The thief does not come except to steal, kill and to destroy, but I have come that they might have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” I believe that one way the enemy tries to steal our joy and our peace is by trying to get our minds off of Jesus and then onto the problems and the pressures in the world. Satan knows that if we keep our eyes on Jesus that we’ll realize that He has already defeated the enemy, so he continues to do everything he can to keep our eyes on the problems and the cares of our life, and not on the answer. I’m telling you today that no matter what you might be facing, if you’ll look to Jesus, HE IS the answer and HE IS your peace. The Hebrew word for peace is Shalom, which literally means: nothing missing and nothing broken. And that’s God’s desire for each one of us, that we have His peace in our lives. Do you remember the words of our Savior when He said, “Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you, not as the world….let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27)
“Arise shine, for thy light is come, and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For behold, the DARKNESS shall cover the earth, and GROSS darkness the people, but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His Glory shall be seen upon thee.” (Isaiah 60:1-2)
When Jesus was born, the Father looked 33 years down the road at how Jesus would die and rise again to bring us freedom and salvation, so He said, “I’ll just declare peace on earth NOW! And when the shepherds were living out in the fields “keeping watch” over their flock of sheep, an angel of the Lord brought them the Good News and Tidings of GREAT JOY! Luke 2:14, “Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth, PEACE, goodwill toward man.” Peace from God to you and to me! If you have made Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior, His Glory should be seen on you because you are part of His Kingdom and no matter where we go in this world, we bring His Kingdom and the provisions of His Kingdom with us.
God has always planned for you and I to enjoy perfect peace, and He sent Jesus, Who is our peace! He didn’t just bring the message about peace. He is the Prince of peace, and He is the only real source of peace in our lives. When Satan entered the Garden of Eden he brought with him sin, sickness, death. poverty, hatred, rebellion, and fear. When Adam and Eve fell, Satan gained the power over mankind and we were separated from God and in dire need of a Savior. And Praise God, the Father sent Jesus into the earth. Our Savior HAS come! He was born to set us free. John 8:36, “If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.” And then the scripture in 1 John 3:8, “…for this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.”
Jesus Christ is our Savior! He has delivered you from anything the enemy tries to throw in your direction, and it does not matter how hard or how difficult things get in your own life, or what you might be faced with, if Jesus is your Savior, then He is a friend Who sticks closer than a brother. Jesus told us, “I will never leave you nor forsake you; I Am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” And He is the greatest example we have of a life that was dedicated to the work of the Kingdom of God.
As a soldier in God’s great end-time army, you absolutely must know that there are no victories without battles. The Word tells us, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers us out of all of them." You won’t sail through life without facing times of pressure, but we have a promise from God that He will never leave us in that condition. We are to look to Jesus Who is our example of someone who was dedicated to the work of the Kingdom, and I believe that we can’t even begin to comprehend the extent of Satan’s brutal attack on Him. Jesus was tempted at all points, even as we are, yet without sin because He was alert, consistent, obedient, even unto death, and disciplined! And the breakthroughs in our life come through the characteristics of Jesus Christ Himself working in our lives through dedication in prayer and in faithfulness to stand on His Word in faith, and then ACT on those promises.
The world’s system is crumbling under the deceptive control of demonic spirits. The very government of this world system is corrupt and is being led by a thief; Satan himself controls the kingdoms of the world. He is the prince of the power of the air, and he is the ruler over the evil powers and principalities of the darkness of the world. He rules over the world system, and he designed it to crumble. Now, he does rule over the world’s system, but he is NOT in control of the world because the world does not belong to him. God has not given him the power or the authority to exercise dominion over it.
As prince of this world, Satan does not have dominion or control over the believer! We have, in fact, been delivered out from under Satan’s power and dominion of darkness and we have been born again INTO the Kingdom of God. Before Jesus ascended into Heaven, He turned all of that authority and dominion in this earth over to us…. “All authority has been given unto Me….now YOU GO in My Name….”. We are part of God’s Kingdom, and that Kingdom is not of this world. The entire system on the earth has been established on a foundation that God did not build. Satan cannot create anything, and he cannot think of anything new, so he took God’s plan and he perverted it. He did this so he could manipulate people and cause them to have no relationship with the Father, or even have a revelation of His Kingdom. He works through people who are blinded from the Truth, and uses them to build his own kingdom. And as the prince of the air, Satan is behind a system that controls the economics and the finances of this world. He controls all of the man-made religions, and the political processes on the earth. But we have the Kingdom of God inside of us, and we are to rule over everything that Satan has established.
The Kingdom of God HAS come, and that Kingdom is inside of you. We are to bring the principles of God’s Kingdom to the world. If you don’t know the Lord as your personal Savior, or you would like to have a deeper relationship with the Father, you can send me a personal note, or you can email me at pastor@streamsoflifechurch.com, and I will personally write you back and pray with you.
Love,
Paula
P.S. I want to thank my Internet listening congregation located in the United States, France, Italy, Canada, China, Latvia, the Republic of Korea, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Poland, and Romania, the United Kingdom, Africa, Australia, Kenya, Zambia, India, Uganda, and the Philippians. As you sow your financial seed this month, know that you are a part of reaching the Nations for Christ as partners with this ministry, and sow it from that place of victory as an overcomer and one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God and has taken care of all of your needs. We have over 511 connections in the United States; 396 are in TEXAS, and the remainder is in other Nations throughout the world.
Pass along our website to your friends and loved ones. We have a brand new feature that will be up and running, prayerfully, by the end of January…..a 24 hour a day Internet radio that will broadcast teachings and Christian music that are prevalent to the hour we live in; that will uplift and encourage you.
Join us live at www.streamsoflifechurch.com at 10:30 a.m. (CST) on Sunday mornings. Click on the “Listen Live Audio” button on our website. You can also contact us via our “blog” at www.streamsoflifechurch.blogspot.com.
• I would like to receive the complete series on “The Kingdom”for a love offering of $25.00.
• I would like to receive the singe CD on “How To Survive In Tough Times” for a love offering of $7.00.
If you can’t afford to make a love offering at this time, please contact our ministry. It’s important that we get the Word of God into your hands, and the Lord will provide for our needs according to His riches in glory! Please allow 15 business days for delivery.
News Flash! We’re moving to a new location at the La Quinta Inn & Suites in Allen, TX. The address is 1220 N. Central Expwy. We will still be able to stream the audio on Sunday mornings according to the management staff there. Praise the Lord! Tell someone to listen in or invite someone to join us for fellowship and service.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
November/December 2010 Newsletter
Dear friend in Christ,
I would like to begin this letter by thanking you for your prayers and for your kind notes this past month. Pastor Rick is recovering nicely and we are giving all of the praise and glory for his full restoration to our Heavenly Father.
It seems that the season of fall, which is truly one of my favorite times of year, came and went before I had the chance to really enjoy the beautiful landscape and the crisp frosty mornings. There were so many things that needed my attention in the ministry, and then my husband had emergency heart surgery just two weeks ago. Fall is the season of reflection and it’s a time to gain a new perspective and take the time to evaluate what we accomplished the past year, establish the goals that we want to reach, and remind ourselves of all the things that God has provided for us. Thanksgiving is a reminder that God has always been faithful. For me, this has always been a time of quiet reflection on the past and a time to focus on the solid and simple things of life that we take for granted. Like our health and the very fact that Jesus HAS redeemed us and delivered us from the entire curse; that “By His stripes we ARE healed”! It’s time for you and me to usher in the sincere spirit of gratitude and praise to our Heavenly Father and what He provided through the gift of His Son.
We’re doing a study of the Last Days events in our church, and one of the things that we have to understand is that we have been sent here from another government to do diplomatic business on behalf of our King. We are here to establish the Kingdom of God on the earth as Ambassadors for God.
In the Book of Matthew chapter 6 and verse 33, it says: “But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all HIS Kingdom and His righteousness, and His way of doing and being right, and THEN all these things taken together will be given to you besides.”(Amplified Bible) One of the strongest attacks of the enemy comes in the area of worry. Both real and imagined worries attack our minds daily as the pressures and stress of these end times press in from every side to try to discourage and defeat us. But Jesus commands us to put worry aside, and He encourages us that we SEE that our heavenly Father has faithfully provided for every need that we have. He assures us that the Father knows what we need even before we ask, so there’s no reason to be concerned. And He goes on to explain to us that there is a higher purpose in seeking those things that are above then just filling our own needs. It will release the blessings of God into our life, and bring us the answers that we need to every situation and problem we face. That’s God’s supernatural intervention on our behalf, and when we do it this way, then our needs will be His Righteousness, and that’s when all these things that you need in life shall be added unto you.”
The Kingdom of God is another reality. It is the very rule and reign of God; it is the government and the system of God, and Jesus told us to pray to the Father, “Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Jesus taught about the Kingdom of God throughout the gospels, and He told us that the Kingdom of God is within us. Luke 17:20-21, “And when He was demanded of the Pharisees, when the Kingdom of God should come, He answered them and said: “the Kingdom of God comes NOT with observation; neither shall they say, look here or look there, for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.”
The Kingdom of God is not some distant place in heaven where we are going “someday”. Jesus said in Luke 10:8-9, “….whatever city you enter…heal the sick that are there and say unto them, “The Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.” In other words, we are bringing the Kingdom with us. But, we’re not here to take sides; we are here to take over.
In the Book of Daniel chapter 2, we see where King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, and that dream really disturbed him. Now, he couldn’t remember his dream and he called for all of the magicians and soothsayers, the wizards, and so forth, to come in and tell him what his dream was, and what it meant. But they couldn’t do that…..Verse 12-13, “For this cause the King was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all of the wise men of Babylon……” In other words, it didn’t look good for the men of Babylon, including Daniel and his three friends. But Daniel approached the throne and said, “I can get the answer from God…for I know that My God knows what to do, and He knows the dream that the King had.” Well, Nebuchadnezzar gave Daniel some time to seek God, and the Lord revealed to Daniel in a night vision what the dream was and what it meant. In essence, there was a statue in his dream that had a head of gold, arms and chest of silver, the belly and thighs were brass, the legs were of iron, and the feet were part clay and part iron. It represented the different Kingdoms and the different ruler ships in the world. And in that same dream he saw a stone that was cut out without hands, and that stone came and destroyed the statue and broke it to pieces, which became like dust, or chaff in the wind. The stone became a great mountain that came up and filled the entire earth. And the interpretation of that dream is that those different kingdoms and ruler ships of the world become the Kingdom of God. And all of this was prophesized in the Book of Revelation and also in the Book of Isaiah…that God’s Kingdom shall spread throughout the earth. Jesus came to bring the government of God back into the earth to rule over everything. And Daniel’s prophetic vision makes it clear that the Kingdom of God has come to take over the Kingdoms of the world. As citizens of the Kingdom of God, we are to move forward IN Christ as the stone who increased into a mountain and covered the whole earth. As born again believers, we are ambassadors for God in the earth. We are the church, and the Kingdom of God is IN us. We are to go out into the world and bring the Kingdom of God to those in need of healing and deliverance and salvation. That’s our assignment, and that’s the reason we are to become separate from the world and walk holy before Him.
The gospel of the Kingdom is the gospel that unhooks you and separates you from the world’s system. I pray God's blessing upon your lives and all that you put your hands to. If you don’t know the Lord as your personal Savior, or you would like to have a deeper relationship with the Father, you can send me a personal note, or you can email me at pastor@streamsoflifechurch.com, and I will personally write you back and pray with you.
Love,
Paula
P.S. I want to thank my Internet listening congregation located in the United States, France, Italy, Canada, China, Latvia, the Republic of Korea, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Poland, and Romania, the United Kingdom, Africa, Poland, and Australia, Kenya, Zambia, India, Uganda, and Canada.
As you sow your financial seed this month, know that you are a part of reaching the Nations for Christ as partners with this ministry, and sow it from that place of victory as an overcomer and one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God and has taken care of all of your needs. We have over 511 connections in the United States each week as we stream our services live, and 321 in Nations throughout the world.
Pass along our website to your friends and loved ones. The NEW website IS UP and RUNNING! Soon we will have Video streaming.
Join us live at http://www.streamsoflifechurch.com/ at 10:30 a.m. (CST) on Sunday mornings. Click on the “Listen Live Audio” button on our website. You can also contact us via our “blog” at www.streamsoflifechurch.blogspot.com.
• I would like to receive the complete series on “Knowing Your Covenant” for a love offering of $25.00.
• I would like to receive the singe CD on “How To Survive In Tough Times” for a love offering of $7.00.
If you can’t afford to make a love offering at this time, please contact our ministry. It’s important that we get the Word of God into your hands, and the Lord will provide for our needs according to His riches in glory! Please allow 15 business days for delivery.
I would like to begin this letter by thanking you for your prayers and for your kind notes this past month. Pastor Rick is recovering nicely and we are giving all of the praise and glory for his full restoration to our Heavenly Father.
It seems that the season of fall, which is truly one of my favorite times of year, came and went before I had the chance to really enjoy the beautiful landscape and the crisp frosty mornings. There were so many things that needed my attention in the ministry, and then my husband had emergency heart surgery just two weeks ago. Fall is the season of reflection and it’s a time to gain a new perspective and take the time to evaluate what we accomplished the past year, establish the goals that we want to reach, and remind ourselves of all the things that God has provided for us. Thanksgiving is a reminder that God has always been faithful. For me, this has always been a time of quiet reflection on the past and a time to focus on the solid and simple things of life that we take for granted. Like our health and the very fact that Jesus HAS redeemed us and delivered us from the entire curse; that “By His stripes we ARE healed”! It’s time for you and me to usher in the sincere spirit of gratitude and praise to our Heavenly Father and what He provided through the gift of His Son.
We’re doing a study of the Last Days events in our church, and one of the things that we have to understand is that we have been sent here from another government to do diplomatic business on behalf of our King. We are here to establish the Kingdom of God on the earth as Ambassadors for God.
In the Book of Matthew chapter 6 and verse 33, it says: “But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all HIS Kingdom and His righteousness, and His way of doing and being right, and THEN all these things taken together will be given to you besides.”(Amplified Bible) One of the strongest attacks of the enemy comes in the area of worry. Both real and imagined worries attack our minds daily as the pressures and stress of these end times press in from every side to try to discourage and defeat us. But Jesus commands us to put worry aside, and He encourages us that we SEE that our heavenly Father has faithfully provided for every need that we have. He assures us that the Father knows what we need even before we ask, so there’s no reason to be concerned. And He goes on to explain to us that there is a higher purpose in seeking those things that are above then just filling our own needs. It will release the blessings of God into our life, and bring us the answers that we need to every situation and problem we face. That’s God’s supernatural intervention on our behalf, and when we do it this way, then our needs will be His Righteousness, and that’s when all these things that you need in life shall be added unto you.”
The Kingdom of God is another reality. It is the very rule and reign of God; it is the government and the system of God, and Jesus told us to pray to the Father, “Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Jesus taught about the Kingdom of God throughout the gospels, and He told us that the Kingdom of God is within us. Luke 17:20-21, “And when He was demanded of the Pharisees, when the Kingdom of God should come, He answered them and said: “the Kingdom of God comes NOT with observation; neither shall they say, look here or look there, for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.”
The Kingdom of God is not some distant place in heaven where we are going “someday”. Jesus said in Luke 10:8-9, “….whatever city you enter…heal the sick that are there and say unto them, “The Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.” In other words, we are bringing the Kingdom with us. But, we’re not here to take sides; we are here to take over.
In the Book of Daniel chapter 2, we see where King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, and that dream really disturbed him. Now, he couldn’t remember his dream and he called for all of the magicians and soothsayers, the wizards, and so forth, to come in and tell him what his dream was, and what it meant. But they couldn’t do that…..Verse 12-13, “For this cause the King was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all of the wise men of Babylon……” In other words, it didn’t look good for the men of Babylon, including Daniel and his three friends. But Daniel approached the throne and said, “I can get the answer from God…for I know that My God knows what to do, and He knows the dream that the King had.” Well, Nebuchadnezzar gave Daniel some time to seek God, and the Lord revealed to Daniel in a night vision what the dream was and what it meant. In essence, there was a statue in his dream that had a head of gold, arms and chest of silver, the belly and thighs were brass, the legs were of iron, and the feet were part clay and part iron. It represented the different Kingdoms and the different ruler ships in the world. And in that same dream he saw a stone that was cut out without hands, and that stone came and destroyed the statue and broke it to pieces, which became like dust, or chaff in the wind. The stone became a great mountain that came up and filled the entire earth. And the interpretation of that dream is that those different kingdoms and ruler ships of the world become the Kingdom of God. And all of this was prophesized in the Book of Revelation and also in the Book of Isaiah…that God’s Kingdom shall spread throughout the earth. Jesus came to bring the government of God back into the earth to rule over everything. And Daniel’s prophetic vision makes it clear that the Kingdom of God has come to take over the Kingdoms of the world. As citizens of the Kingdom of God, we are to move forward IN Christ as the stone who increased into a mountain and covered the whole earth. As born again believers, we are ambassadors for God in the earth. We are the church, and the Kingdom of God is IN us. We are to go out into the world and bring the Kingdom of God to those in need of healing and deliverance and salvation. That’s our assignment, and that’s the reason we are to become separate from the world and walk holy before Him.
The gospel of the Kingdom is the gospel that unhooks you and separates you from the world’s system. I pray God's blessing upon your lives and all that you put your hands to. If you don’t know the Lord as your personal Savior, or you would like to have a deeper relationship with the Father, you can send me a personal note, or you can email me at pastor@streamsoflifechurch.com, and I will personally write you back and pray with you.
Love,
Paula
P.S. I want to thank my Internet listening congregation located in the United States, France, Italy, Canada, China, Latvia, the Republic of Korea, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Poland, and Romania, the United Kingdom, Africa, Poland, and Australia, Kenya, Zambia, India, Uganda, and Canada.
As you sow your financial seed this month, know that you are a part of reaching the Nations for Christ as partners with this ministry, and sow it from that place of victory as an overcomer and one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God and has taken care of all of your needs. We have over 511 connections in the United States each week as we stream our services live, and 321 in Nations throughout the world.
Pass along our website to your friends and loved ones. The NEW website IS UP and RUNNING! Soon we will have Video streaming.
Join us live at http://www.streamsoflifechurch.com/ at 10:30 a.m. (CST) on Sunday mornings. Click on the “Listen Live Audio” button on our website. You can also contact us via our “blog” at www.streamsoflifechurch.blogspot.com.
• I would like to receive the complete series on “Knowing Your Covenant” for a love offering of $25.00.
• I would like to receive the singe CD on “How To Survive In Tough Times” for a love offering of $7.00.
If you can’t afford to make a love offering at this time, please contact our ministry. It’s important that we get the Word of God into your hands, and the Lord will provide for our needs according to His riches in glory! Please allow 15 business days for delivery.
Friday, October 8, 2010
September 2010
Dear friend in Christ,
We are living in the last days and in this End Time Harvest God is going to have a people of war. People who are holy and totally committed to Him, and empowered with His strength deep in their inner man. We have entered into a very dynamic, volatile, crucial period of time where apostasy is festering deep in the hearts of many Christians, causing them to become lukewarm and uncommitted. But on the other hand, God has loosed a great revival of His Spirit into the hearts of those who are willing to be totally His.
The Father doesn’t want us to be conformed to this world; He doesn’t want us to act or talk or even think like the world, but to be changed and transformed to His Will. Romans 12:1 & 2, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service, and BE NOT conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” We cannot afford to think and live like this world. We have to get our mind renewed with the Word of God. To think, talk, and believe in line with His Word, and then act on it.
The whole world is programmed to believe negatively, and if you are not diligently spending time in the Word of God, you will make the same mistakes the world makes. The world without God is in spiritual death. They are programmed to death and not life, because the world is following after sin, all the way to death, which is a separation from God, and all the way to Hell. And certain things will only change in our life by the renewing of our mind. To those who are unsaved we say, “Be born again”, but to those who have received the New Birth we say, “renew your mind”.
We are a three part being; we are a spirit, we have a soul where our mind, our will, and our emotions are located, and we live in a physical body. When you received the new birth, the only part of you that was affected by the born again experience is your spirit man. But your soul remains the same; you have the same way of thinking, and your physical body will continue to do what it’s told to do. It’s not enough to have a successful life on this earth just to receive your Salvation through the New Birth. That just gets you into heaven and gets your name in the Lamb’s Book. But to be a successful Christian in this world you’re going to have to renew your mind. You cannot have progress or success as a Christian if you don’t renew your mind. And the problem with most people is they think that by receiving Jesus as their Lord and Savior, all of their problems are solved. They have the mistaken idea that because of the new birth everything else will fall into place. That’s not how it happens, because we all know Christians who are still living defeated lives. They are not successful in the promises of the Word, and they are not making any progress as a Christian.
Romans 8:5, “So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.” The flesh is a way of thinking that goes against God’s Word. And notice, Paul tells us that those who are after the flesh, MIND those things. They set their MIND on the things of the world and the dictates of this world’s system. They’re demonstrating by their lifestyle that they are IN THE FLESH and their very actions and the words they speak are set on the things of the flesh. So the question is, why do Christians end up serving the flesh? Why do Christians end up abusing other people, or end up on drugs, or cheating, or lying and getting involved in perversion? It’s because they don’t know what they’re doing is wrong. They haven’t renewed their minds to the Word of God. And if you don’t renew your mind to the Word of God, you are going to do whatever it is you have set your mind to do. You’ll have sex outside of marriage and get involved in perversion. You’ll lie and cheat and have addictive behavior because your mind hasn’t been set on God’s Word.
And friends, you have to set your mind ON PURPOSE. The same way you set your alarm clock on purpose. If you want to know why you’re doing certain things, it’s because that’s what you set your mind to do. If you end up doing certain things that are contrary to God’s will for your life, it’s because you set your mind to do those things. You don’t just have a bag of pot in your hand and say, “Golly, how did this get here? Who put it in my hand?” Your mind is set to do those things.
So obviously, for you to change the actions in your life, you have to back up and say, “What am I thinking?” And just like the prodigal son, you have to “awaken to your true condition.” You have to come to your right mind and the right way of thinking. Without renewing your mind to His Word, you will not live a spiritual life that lines up with God’s Word. The Father wants us to have a lifestyle that lines up with His Word and puts the Love of God on the line in every situation that you are faced with. And renewing your mind is not a one-time event. It is a lifetime process.
Christianity is not just spiritual. Spiritual intelligence is required for progress and success in the things of God. You must become an intellectual, not according to the knowledge of the world, but being an intellectual as far as the Word of God is concerned. Your intellect must be impacted by the Word of God, and you must be in the process all the time of renewing your mind to this Word, and then ACTING on what you have learned, or success will not be possible. And God has outlined for you and for me everything we need to know to walk in His blessing. He’s outlined for us how to walk in Love, how to walk in peace and joy, how to stay free from offense, and how to receive whatever we desire when we pray as it lines up in His Word.
If you want things to change in your life, you absolutely must renew your thinking to come into agreement and alignment with God’s Word.
I pray God's blessing upon your lives and all that you put your hands to. If you don’t know the Lord as your personal Savior, or you would like to have a deeper relationship with the Father, you can send me a personal note, or you can email me at pastor@streamsoflifechurch.com, and I will personally write you back and pray with you.
Love,
Paula
P.S. I want to thank my Internet listening congregation located in the United States, France, Italy, Canada, China, Latvia, the Republic of Korea, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Poland, and Romania, the United Kingdom, Africa, Poland, and Australia, Kenya, Zambia, India, Uganda, and Canada.
As you sow your financial seed this month, know that you are a part of reaching the Nations for Christ as partners with this ministry, and sow it from that place of victory as an overcomer and one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God and has taken care of all of your needs. We have over 511 connections in the United States each week as we stream our services live, and 321 in Nations throughout the world.
Pass along our website to your friends and loved ones. The NEW website IS UP and RUNNING! Soon we will have Video streaming.
Join us live at www.streamsoflifechurch.com at 10:30 a.m. (CST) on Sunday mornings. Click on the “Listen Live” button on our website. You can also contact us via our “blog” at www.streamsoflifechurch.blogspot.com.
• I would like to receive the complete series on “Knowing Your Covenant” for a love offering of $25.00.
• I would like to receive the singe CD on “How To Survive In Tough Times” for a love offering of $7.00.
If you can’t afford to make a love offering at this time, please contact our ministry. It’s important that we get the Word of God into your hands, and the Lord will provide for our needs according to His riches in glory! Please allow 15 business days for delivery.
We are living in the last days and in this End Time Harvest God is going to have a people of war. People who are holy and totally committed to Him, and empowered with His strength deep in their inner man. We have entered into a very dynamic, volatile, crucial period of time where apostasy is festering deep in the hearts of many Christians, causing them to become lukewarm and uncommitted. But on the other hand, God has loosed a great revival of His Spirit into the hearts of those who are willing to be totally His.
The Father doesn’t want us to be conformed to this world; He doesn’t want us to act or talk or even think like the world, but to be changed and transformed to His Will. Romans 12:1 & 2, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service, and BE NOT conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.” We cannot afford to think and live like this world. We have to get our mind renewed with the Word of God. To think, talk, and believe in line with His Word, and then act on it.
The whole world is programmed to believe negatively, and if you are not diligently spending time in the Word of God, you will make the same mistakes the world makes. The world without God is in spiritual death. They are programmed to death and not life, because the world is following after sin, all the way to death, which is a separation from God, and all the way to Hell. And certain things will only change in our life by the renewing of our mind. To those who are unsaved we say, “Be born again”, but to those who have received the New Birth we say, “renew your mind”.
We are a three part being; we are a spirit, we have a soul where our mind, our will, and our emotions are located, and we live in a physical body. When you received the new birth, the only part of you that was affected by the born again experience is your spirit man. But your soul remains the same; you have the same way of thinking, and your physical body will continue to do what it’s told to do. It’s not enough to have a successful life on this earth just to receive your Salvation through the New Birth. That just gets you into heaven and gets your name in the Lamb’s Book. But to be a successful Christian in this world you’re going to have to renew your mind. You cannot have progress or success as a Christian if you don’t renew your mind. And the problem with most people is they think that by receiving Jesus as their Lord and Savior, all of their problems are solved. They have the mistaken idea that because of the new birth everything else will fall into place. That’s not how it happens, because we all know Christians who are still living defeated lives. They are not successful in the promises of the Word, and they are not making any progress as a Christian.
Romans 8:5, “So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.” The flesh is a way of thinking that goes against God’s Word. And notice, Paul tells us that those who are after the flesh, MIND those things. They set their MIND on the things of the world and the dictates of this world’s system. They’re demonstrating by their lifestyle that they are IN THE FLESH and their very actions and the words they speak are set on the things of the flesh. So the question is, why do Christians end up serving the flesh? Why do Christians end up abusing other people, or end up on drugs, or cheating, or lying and getting involved in perversion? It’s because they don’t know what they’re doing is wrong. They haven’t renewed their minds to the Word of God. And if you don’t renew your mind to the Word of God, you are going to do whatever it is you have set your mind to do. You’ll have sex outside of marriage and get involved in perversion. You’ll lie and cheat and have addictive behavior because your mind hasn’t been set on God’s Word.
And friends, you have to set your mind ON PURPOSE. The same way you set your alarm clock on purpose. If you want to know why you’re doing certain things, it’s because that’s what you set your mind to do. If you end up doing certain things that are contrary to God’s will for your life, it’s because you set your mind to do those things. You don’t just have a bag of pot in your hand and say, “Golly, how did this get here? Who put it in my hand?” Your mind is set to do those things.
So obviously, for you to change the actions in your life, you have to back up and say, “What am I thinking?” And just like the prodigal son, you have to “awaken to your true condition.” You have to come to your right mind and the right way of thinking. Without renewing your mind to His Word, you will not live a spiritual life that lines up with God’s Word. The Father wants us to have a lifestyle that lines up with His Word and puts the Love of God on the line in every situation that you are faced with. And renewing your mind is not a one-time event. It is a lifetime process.
Christianity is not just spiritual. Spiritual intelligence is required for progress and success in the things of God. You must become an intellectual, not according to the knowledge of the world, but being an intellectual as far as the Word of God is concerned. Your intellect must be impacted by the Word of God, and you must be in the process all the time of renewing your mind to this Word, and then ACTING on what you have learned, or success will not be possible. And God has outlined for you and for me everything we need to know to walk in His blessing. He’s outlined for us how to walk in Love, how to walk in peace and joy, how to stay free from offense, and how to receive whatever we desire when we pray as it lines up in His Word.
If you want things to change in your life, you absolutely must renew your thinking to come into agreement and alignment with God’s Word.
I pray God's blessing upon your lives and all that you put your hands to. If you don’t know the Lord as your personal Savior, or you would like to have a deeper relationship with the Father, you can send me a personal note, or you can email me at pastor@streamsoflifechurch.com, and I will personally write you back and pray with you.
Love,
Paula
P.S. I want to thank my Internet listening congregation located in the United States, France, Italy, Canada, China, Latvia, the Republic of Korea, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Poland, and Romania, the United Kingdom, Africa, Poland, and Australia, Kenya, Zambia, India, Uganda, and Canada.
As you sow your financial seed this month, know that you are a part of reaching the Nations for Christ as partners with this ministry, and sow it from that place of victory as an overcomer and one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God and has taken care of all of your needs. We have over 511 connections in the United States each week as we stream our services live, and 321 in Nations throughout the world.
Pass along our website to your friends and loved ones. The NEW website IS UP and RUNNING! Soon we will have Video streaming.
Join us live at www.streamsoflifechurch.com at 10:30 a.m. (CST) on Sunday mornings. Click on the “Listen Live” button on our website. You can also contact us via our “blog” at www.streamsoflifechurch.blogspot.com.
• I would like to receive the complete series on “Knowing Your Covenant” for a love offering of $25.00.
• I would like to receive the singe CD on “How To Survive In Tough Times” for a love offering of $7.00.
If you can’t afford to make a love offering at this time, please contact our ministry. It’s important that we get the Word of God into your hands, and the Lord will provide for our needs according to His riches in glory! Please allow 15 business days for delivery.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
August, 2010
Dear friend in Christ,
As I sat before the Father, seeking what He wanted to bring to you from His Word, I had so many scriptures that kept coming before me. He wants you free! He wants you to walk in that overcoming victory that belongs to you because of the covenant you have with Him.
Ephesians 2:8-12 says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.”
If you have made Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior, you are no longer a Gentile. The word Gentile means: people who don’t know God and people who are without a covenant and without hope in this world.
Now, we WERE Gentiles, but if you have made Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior, you are no longer a Gentile. We are the church! But we come from a Western mindset. I’m not talking about being a cowboy; I’m talking about our culture. We don’t think like Covenant people. We don’t have the mindset of the Eastern culture; or the Jewish people because of the fact that we have been raised in a Gentile environment for the most part.
The Covenant sacrifice of the Blood of Jesus took the Gentile believers who were far off from God and joined them together with the Jewish race in the New Covenant. When we made Jesus our Lord, we were GRAFTED in, to enjoy the covenants of promise through the New Covenant, and were included as HEIRS of all of God’s promises.
So why then isn’t the body of Christ, as a whole, seeing more of the manifestation of the Holy Spirit? Why aren’t we seeing more miracles? The Father showed me that the reason most Christians don’t experience this awesome manifestation is due to a lack of understanding concerning our rights and privileges. A lack of understanding the Bible, and all that belongs to us because of what Jesus did for us at Calvary.
The Book of Hebrews promises us that we have a better Covenant with better promises because of what Jesus did for us at Calvary. In order to understand how much better these promises are we must know and understand what the Old Covenant promises were. In Deuteronomy 28 we find very specific promises that God made to Abram and his seed; promises of health and well-being, blessing, prosperity, and victory.
These were very awesome promises, and it was hard for Abram to believe God actually wanted to do these things for him, however, in the Book of Genesis chapter 15, we read how God mad a blood agreement with him in order to convince Abram once and for all that He meant what He said.
Abram understood what a covenant was and how to prepare to enter into a covenant. He knew that a blood covenant signified an absolute and unbreakable guarantee of someone’s word. Nothing short of a blood agreement could have convinced him of God’s desire to bless him. By cutting this covenant with Abram, God established a love relationship with him that could never be broken without the penalty of death.
When two families made covenant together they gave to one another everything they had, and all they represented. They were no longer two, but one. Families bound themselves together in blood agreements in order to fill in the gaps that were created by each other’s weaknesses and needs. Together they were both strong.
In Genesis chapter 17 we learn that the circumcision of the flesh was to be a sign of the covenant between God and Abraham. Those who failed to obey and remained uncircumcised were guilty of breaking the covenant and were considered outcasts. When God laid out the terms of the covenant blessings, He laid out the terms of the Covenant that Abraham was to keep. The major requirement and condition God spoke to Abraham and his seed for them to inherit the covenant blessings was obedience.
The circumcision of the flesh in the Old Covenant is a foreshadowing of the circumcision which takes place in the heart and spirit of the seed of Abraham under the New Covenant. And by making covenant with Abram, God proved that He wanted to exchange His strength, His weapons, and His authority with Abram, and He proved that He wanted to bless him for a thousand generations.
Romans 4:21 tells us that Abram truly got the message. He became “fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was well able to perform”, and his life was never the same again. Even his named changed to Abraham, which means, “father of many nations.”
And while God was binding Himself to Abraham on earth, He was also making that same covenant with Jesus in heaven. Galatians 3, “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith NOT, and to seeds as of many; but as of ONE, and to THY SEED, which is Christ.” Abraham was the earthly representative and Jesus was the heavenly representative. That covenant was not only between God and Abraham, but between God and Jesus. And by making covenant with Jesus, His only begotten Son, God was making covenant with someone He KNEW would never break any of it and thereby, He was able to remove the need for a curse.
So, how does this apply to you and me? Galatians 3:29 is the binding tie: “IF you be Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” We are the unborn generations who looked on as God cut that covenant with Abram as the father of our covenant of faith. And Romans 8:17 calls us “joint heirs” with Christ. Through the New Covenant, God has promised to care for you and me the same way He loves and cares for Jesus. And our Covenant is better than the old. Even though you and I have been guilty of breaking the terms of our Covenant, we have been freed from the penalty.
Jesus Christ is our sacrificial lamb, and He established our covenant with God. His own blood was shed and we have a new and living way to approach God. The very blood of Jesus has made the way for you and me to have a covenant relationship with the Father. And our Covenant with God is a Covenant of peace. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.”
I pray God's blessing upon your lives and all that you put your hands to. If you don’t know the Lord as your personal Savior, or you would like to have a deeper relationship with the Father, you can send me a personal note, or you can email me at pastor@streamsoflifechurch.com, and I will personally write you back and pray with you.
Love,
Paula
P.S. I want to thank my Internet listening congregation located in the United States, France, Italy, Canada, China, Latvia, the Republic of Korea, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Poland, Romania, the United Kingdom, Africa, Poland, Australia, Kenya, Zambia, India, and Uganda.
As you sow your financial seed this month, know that you are a part of reaching the Nations for Christ as partners with this ministry, and sow it from that place of victory as an overcomer and one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God and has taken care of all of your needs. We have over 511 connections in the United States each week as we stream our services live, and 321 in Nations throughout the world.
Pass along our website to your friends and loved ones. The NEW website IS UP and RUNNING! Soon we will have video streaming.
Join us live at http://www.streamsoflifechurch.com/ at 10:30 a.m. (CST) on Sunday mornings. Be sure to click on the “Listen Live” button on our website. You can also contact us via our “Blog” at http://www.streamsoflifechurch.blogspot.com/.
I would like to receive the complete series on “Knowing Your Covenant”
for a love offering of $25.
I would like to receive a single CD on “How To Survive In Tough Times” for a love offering of $7.00.
If you can’t afford to make a love offering at this time, please contact our ministry. It’s important that we get the Word of God into your hands, and the Lord will provide for our needs according to His riches in glory! Please allow 15 business days for delivery.
The Word tells us: “If two of you shall agree as touching anything on earth, it will be agreed in heaven.” Please have your prayer team join me in the prayer of faith for:
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Name: _____________________________________________
Address: _____________________________________________
City, ST & Zip Code: _____________________________________________
As I sat before the Father, seeking what He wanted to bring to you from His Word, I had so many scriptures that kept coming before me. He wants you free! He wants you to walk in that overcoming victory that belongs to you because of the covenant you have with Him.
Ephesians 2:8-12 says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands— that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.”
If you have made Jesus Christ your personal Lord and Savior, you are no longer a Gentile. The word Gentile means: people who don’t know God and people who are without a covenant and without hope in this world.
Now, we WERE Gentiles, but if you have made Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior, you are no longer a Gentile. We are the church! But we come from a Western mindset. I’m not talking about being a cowboy; I’m talking about our culture. We don’t think like Covenant people. We don’t have the mindset of the Eastern culture; or the Jewish people because of the fact that we have been raised in a Gentile environment for the most part.
The Covenant sacrifice of the Blood of Jesus took the Gentile believers who were far off from God and joined them together with the Jewish race in the New Covenant. When we made Jesus our Lord, we were GRAFTED in, to enjoy the covenants of promise through the New Covenant, and were included as HEIRS of all of God’s promises.
So why then isn’t the body of Christ, as a whole, seeing more of the manifestation of the Holy Spirit? Why aren’t we seeing more miracles? The Father showed me that the reason most Christians don’t experience this awesome manifestation is due to a lack of understanding concerning our rights and privileges. A lack of understanding the Bible, and all that belongs to us because of what Jesus did for us at Calvary.
The Book of Hebrews promises us that we have a better Covenant with better promises because of what Jesus did for us at Calvary. In order to understand how much better these promises are we must know and understand what the Old Covenant promises were. In Deuteronomy 28 we find very specific promises that God made to Abram and his seed; promises of health and well-being, blessing, prosperity, and victory.
These were very awesome promises, and it was hard for Abram to believe God actually wanted to do these things for him, however, in the Book of Genesis chapter 15, we read how God mad a blood agreement with him in order to convince Abram once and for all that He meant what He said.
Abram understood what a covenant was and how to prepare to enter into a covenant. He knew that a blood covenant signified an absolute and unbreakable guarantee of someone’s word. Nothing short of a blood agreement could have convinced him of God’s desire to bless him. By cutting this covenant with Abram, God established a love relationship with him that could never be broken without the penalty of death.
When two families made covenant together they gave to one another everything they had, and all they represented. They were no longer two, but one. Families bound themselves together in blood agreements in order to fill in the gaps that were created by each other’s weaknesses and needs. Together they were both strong.
In Genesis chapter 17 we learn that the circumcision of the flesh was to be a sign of the covenant between God and Abraham. Those who failed to obey and remained uncircumcised were guilty of breaking the covenant and were considered outcasts. When God laid out the terms of the covenant blessings, He laid out the terms of the Covenant that Abraham was to keep. The major requirement and condition God spoke to Abraham and his seed for them to inherit the covenant blessings was obedience.
The circumcision of the flesh in the Old Covenant is a foreshadowing of the circumcision which takes place in the heart and spirit of the seed of Abraham under the New Covenant. And by making covenant with Abram, God proved that He wanted to exchange His strength, His weapons, and His authority with Abram, and He proved that He wanted to bless him for a thousand generations.
Romans 4:21 tells us that Abram truly got the message. He became “fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was well able to perform”, and his life was never the same again. Even his named changed to Abraham, which means, “father of many nations.”
And while God was binding Himself to Abraham on earth, He was also making that same covenant with Jesus in heaven. Galatians 3, “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith NOT, and to seeds as of many; but as of ONE, and to THY SEED, which is Christ.” Abraham was the earthly representative and Jesus was the heavenly representative. That covenant was not only between God and Abraham, but between God and Jesus. And by making covenant with Jesus, His only begotten Son, God was making covenant with someone He KNEW would never break any of it and thereby, He was able to remove the need for a curse.
So, how does this apply to you and me? Galatians 3:29 is the binding tie: “IF you be Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” We are the unborn generations who looked on as God cut that covenant with Abram as the father of our covenant of faith. And Romans 8:17 calls us “joint heirs” with Christ. Through the New Covenant, God has promised to care for you and me the same way He loves and cares for Jesus. And our Covenant is better than the old. Even though you and I have been guilty of breaking the terms of our Covenant, we have been freed from the penalty.
Jesus Christ is our sacrificial lamb, and He established our covenant with God. His own blood was shed and we have a new and living way to approach God. The very blood of Jesus has made the way for you and me to have a covenant relationship with the Father. And our Covenant with God is a Covenant of peace. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son.”
I pray God's blessing upon your lives and all that you put your hands to. If you don’t know the Lord as your personal Savior, or you would like to have a deeper relationship with the Father, you can send me a personal note, or you can email me at pastor@streamsoflifechurch.com, and I will personally write you back and pray with you.
Love,
Paula
P.S. I want to thank my Internet listening congregation located in the United States, France, Italy, Canada, China, Latvia, the Republic of Korea, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Poland, Romania, the United Kingdom, Africa, Poland, Australia, Kenya, Zambia, India, and Uganda.
As you sow your financial seed this month, know that you are a part of reaching the Nations for Christ as partners with this ministry, and sow it from that place of victory as an overcomer and one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God and has taken care of all of your needs. We have over 511 connections in the United States each week as we stream our services live, and 321 in Nations throughout the world.
Pass along our website to your friends and loved ones. The NEW website IS UP and RUNNING! Soon we will have video streaming.
Join us live at http://www.streamsoflifechurch.com/ at 10:30 a.m. (CST) on Sunday mornings. Be sure to click on the “Listen Live” button on our website. You can also contact us via our “Blog” at http://www.streamsoflifechurch.blogspot.com/.
I would like to receive the complete series on “Knowing Your Covenant”
for a love offering of $25.
I would like to receive a single CD on “How To Survive In Tough Times” for a love offering of $7.00.
If you can’t afford to make a love offering at this time, please contact our ministry. It’s important that we get the Word of God into your hands, and the Lord will provide for our needs according to His riches in glory! Please allow 15 business days for delivery.
The Word tells us: “If two of you shall agree as touching anything on earth, it will be agreed in heaven.” Please have your prayer team join me in the prayer of faith for:
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Name: _____________________________________________
Address: _____________________________________________
City, ST & Zip Code: _____________________________________________
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Summer Newsletter
Dear friend in Christ,
On July 4, 2010 we celebrated the birth of our nation. Independence Day! Many of us celebrate this holiday with picnics and family gatherings, and then close this day with a display of fireworks. But do we remember WHY we celebrate this National Holiday?
As I sat before the Father, He put me in remembrance of the fact that this nation was founded as a republic. When this nation was birthed, our founding fathers walked out of Constitution Hall and asked Benjamin Franklin “What do we have, a democracy or a republic?” And he answered them and said, “You have a republic…if YOU CAN KEEP IT.”
When I was a young girl in school, and even in High School, we started our day with the Pledge in honor of our flag and our nation, and we always had a moment of PRAYER. But we don’t say the “Pledge of Allegiance” anymore, anywhere, and we don’t have prayer in school. Just a “moment” of silence.
As I sat at my computer I began to recite the words to that pledge: “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.”
And as I sat there, deep in thought, the Lord began to show me how those men drew up the Constitution of the United States, which are the Laws of this nation and they are based on the principles found in His Word. It is the Hallmark of our Independence.
America is a republic! At least, that’s what it was set up to be. And yet most people mistakenly think that it was meant to be a democracy! But it’s not. It’s slowly becoming one because as Christians we’ve allowed that to happen. We’ve been complacent concerning the things of God.
The difference between a republic and a democracy is that a republic is ruled by LAW and not by people. A democracy is rule by a majority of the people. And in a democracy, all it takes is to have the wrong majority of people rule and you’ve got lots of trouble.
Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule the people mourn.” When the righteous rule—even the sinners rejoice, but Proverbs 14:34 tells us, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to many people.”
America was created to be a nation that is governed by Law, and those who are elected and appointed to positions of authority are expected to follow that law. And that law is the “Constitution of the United States.” The danger is this: when the people of a republic cease to be a people of principle, they stop following the Law, and as a result, the republic can be lost. America faces that very danger today!
America was once a nation of people who built their lives on God Almighty and His principles, but as we have ceased to be a people of principle, and as the church itself has ceased to be established on God’s uncompromised Word, we have in effect, tied God’s hands so that He can not bring to pass in our own lives, and in this nation, all that He has promised.
Fifty-two of the fifty-five signers of the Declaration of Independence were orthodox, deeply committed Christians. The three others believed IN the Bible as the Divine Word of Truth, and in God Almighty, and in His personal intervention. America was not founded on religion, but based on the doctrine of the Bible and Jesus Christ. In The Book of Isaiah 33:22 we find the foundational principle for our country, “For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King, He will save us. The Constitution of the United States is a tremendous document, a Holy Spirit anointed document in its original form.
Patrick Henry wrote: “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by RELIGIONISTS, but by Christians; NOT ON RELIGION, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here.”
Consider these words from George Washington in his farewell speech, September 19, 1796: “It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience BOTH forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
It is absolutely appalling to have Satan parade his works before us in this nation through men and women who have obviously followed the corrupt ways of this world and openly made the decision to sin against God and this nation, and their own families.
Today we are asking God to bless America, but how can He bless a nation that has departed so far from Him?
1 Timothy 2:1-3 says, “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
In Proverbs 21:1 we find that “The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.”
God assures us in 2 Chronicles 7:14 “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
If we as believers want all of God’s blessings in our homes and in our nation, then we must begin by declaring God’s principles and then live by them! We need to do the one thing that God has commanded from His people, and that is to intercede and pray. We are to pray for those in authority, and we are to pray in line with God’s Will.
I pray God's blessing upon your lives and all that you put your hands to.
If you don’t know the Lord as your personal Savior, or you would like to have a deeper relationship with the Father, you can send me a personal note, or you can email me at pastor@streamsoflifechurch.com, and I will personally write you back and pray with you.
Love,
Paula
P.S. I want to thank my Internet listening congregation located in the United States, France, Italy, Canada, China, Latvia, the Republic of Korea, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Poland, Romania, the United Kingdom, Africa, Poland, Australia, Kenya, Zambia, India, and Uganda.
As you sow your financial seed this month, know that you are a part of reaching the Nations for Christ as partners with this ministry, and sow it from that place of victory as an overcomer and one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God and has taken care of all of your needs. We have over 511 connections in the United States each week as we stream our services live, and 321 in Nations throughout the world. Pass along our website to your friends and loved ones. The new website is now up and running, please be patient as we work out any remaining kinks you may encounter.
Join us live at www.streamsoflifechurch.com at 10:30 a.m. (CST) on Sunday mornings. Be sure to click on the “Listen Live” button on our website. You can also contact us via our “blog” at www.streamsoflifechurch.blogspot.com.
I would like to receive a “free” CD on “The Eagle”
I would like to receive the complete series on “Established in Faith”
for a love offering of $25.
If you can’t afford $25, please contact our ministry. It’s important that we get the Word of God into your hands, and the Lord will provide for our needs according to His riches in glory! Please allow 15 business days for delivery.
The Word tells us: “If two of you shall agree as touching anything on earth, it will be agreed in heaven.” Please have your prayer team join me in the prayer of faith for:
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Name: _____________________________________________
Address: _____________________________________________
City, ST & Zip Code: _____________________________________________
On July 4, 2010 we celebrated the birth of our nation. Independence Day! Many of us celebrate this holiday with picnics and family gatherings, and then close this day with a display of fireworks. But do we remember WHY we celebrate this National Holiday?
As I sat before the Father, He put me in remembrance of the fact that this nation was founded as a republic. When this nation was birthed, our founding fathers walked out of Constitution Hall and asked Benjamin Franklin “What do we have, a democracy or a republic?” And he answered them and said, “You have a republic…if YOU CAN KEEP IT.”
When I was a young girl in school, and even in High School, we started our day with the Pledge in honor of our flag and our nation, and we always had a moment of PRAYER. But we don’t say the “Pledge of Allegiance” anymore, anywhere, and we don’t have prayer in school. Just a “moment” of silence.
As I sat at my computer I began to recite the words to that pledge: “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.”
And as I sat there, deep in thought, the Lord began to show me how those men drew up the Constitution of the United States, which are the Laws of this nation and they are based on the principles found in His Word. It is the Hallmark of our Independence.
America is a republic! At least, that’s what it was set up to be. And yet most people mistakenly think that it was meant to be a democracy! But it’s not. It’s slowly becoming one because as Christians we’ve allowed that to happen. We’ve been complacent concerning the things of God.
The difference between a republic and a democracy is that a republic is ruled by LAW and not by people. A democracy is rule by a majority of the people. And in a democracy, all it takes is to have the wrong majority of people rule and you’ve got lots of trouble.
Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule the people mourn.” When the righteous rule—even the sinners rejoice, but Proverbs 14:34 tells us, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to many people.”
America was created to be a nation that is governed by Law, and those who are elected and appointed to positions of authority are expected to follow that law. And that law is the “Constitution of the United States.” The danger is this: when the people of a republic cease to be a people of principle, they stop following the Law, and as a result, the republic can be lost. America faces that very danger today!
America was once a nation of people who built their lives on God Almighty and His principles, but as we have ceased to be a people of principle, and as the church itself has ceased to be established on God’s uncompromised Word, we have in effect, tied God’s hands so that He can not bring to pass in our own lives, and in this nation, all that He has promised.
Fifty-two of the fifty-five signers of the Declaration of Independence were orthodox, deeply committed Christians. The three others believed IN the Bible as the Divine Word of Truth, and in God Almighty, and in His personal intervention. America was not founded on religion, but based on the doctrine of the Bible and Jesus Christ. In The Book of Isaiah 33:22 we find the foundational principle for our country, “For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King, He will save us. The Constitution of the United States is a tremendous document, a Holy Spirit anointed document in its original form.
Patrick Henry wrote: “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by RELIGIONISTS, but by Christians; NOT ON RELIGION, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here.”
Consider these words from George Washington in his farewell speech, September 19, 1796: “It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience BOTH forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
It is absolutely appalling to have Satan parade his works before us in this nation through men and women who have obviously followed the corrupt ways of this world and openly made the decision to sin against God and this nation, and their own families.
Today we are asking God to bless America, but how can He bless a nation that has departed so far from Him?
1 Timothy 2:1-3 says, “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
In Proverbs 21:1 we find that “The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.”
God assures us in 2 Chronicles 7:14 “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
If we as believers want all of God’s blessings in our homes and in our nation, then we must begin by declaring God’s principles and then live by them! We need to do the one thing that God has commanded from His people, and that is to intercede and pray. We are to pray for those in authority, and we are to pray in line with God’s Will.
I pray God's blessing upon your lives and all that you put your hands to.
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Love,
Paula
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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