Prophecies•
on July 14th, 2011•
Re: A vision of a person sitting in a chair with a cloth, representing heaviness, slowly creeping up on to the person’s shoulders and head until it covers their eyes.
I see life situations, disappointments, somebody speaking to you and something you expected just not happening. And little by little it begins to crawl over you. Now it’s not a suddenness and because it’s not a suddenness, the danger is that because it’s not, you’re not even aware of it. But it’s a gradual process. Until little by little your spirit man gives ground. It begins to take you over in certain areas where you were hoping for something, but it didn’t happen until you say, “Oh well.” Your soul just begins to feel weary of the fight, just weary of day by day having to deal with the same thing, the same people, and the same situation time and time again. Normally you would just press in and shake it off, but it has become so tiring to you that all you can say is “Father, you know.”
Now as long as you can see you’re alright. But you know what that heaviness does, that depression that sorrow does? It begins to creep over your life where there are disappointments, discouragement, frustrations. But the danger is that it will come to a point where it covers your eyes.
And the Lord is saying you’re dancing, but you’re not seeing what I want you to see. And as long as you can’t see what God wants you to see, you’re really under a covering. We think we’re doing alright and someone asks you, “What’s God showing you?” “Well, I don’t see anything, but I’m ok.” You`re not ok because it`s reached a point where you cannot have a vision because the purpose of the heaviness is to take away your vision, take away your sight, take away what God is showing you. When you reach that stage, you are so far that no matter what comes out of your mouth, it can`t help you because your sight has been affected by situations. It`s overwhelmed you to the point where you can`t see victory. You can`t believe you can see because before you can receive it, you must see it. And if you don’t see it, you can’t receive it. Your spiritual man must be able to see it, so your physical man can agree with it, and then your body will get there.
If you cannot see what God wants you to see then you cannot rejoice without seeing any change in your circumstances. Before anything changes in the physical, it must change in the spirit. Worship lifts you to the realm where you can see. When you don’t see, you have no joy. The joy comes from seeing not receiving. And once I see what God wants me to see, then joy comes out of my soul and when the physical thing comes, it’s alright because I’ve already received it in my spirit. – Apostle Anthony Nelson, taken from the Apostolic Training Center’s War Room, Thurs. Jun. 23, 2011
Rhema Word•
on July 14th, 2011•
an style=”font-size: medium; font-family: Garamond;”>“Whoever receives one of these little children in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me, receives not Me but Him who sent Me.” (Mar. 9:37)
This is a fact is that many of us have a hard time accepting in our version of reality. I know it’s a hard statement to say at the beginning of my sharing with you, but I have learned it’s better to get the facts out of way and then deal with the truth.
We live in a generation that strongly believes that acceptance is the mark of success. We train our children to be decent and well-adjusted adults so that they can be accepted in society. Our schools train us to acquire skills that are accepted in our society and if we obey all the rules we can be accepted by others and live productive lives. The problem with that scenario is that some people will never accept you no matter who you are, what you do, and what your qualifications in life happen to be.
Maybe some of you are learning that truth today: that if you follow the Lord, your life will lead you into contact with people that just will not accept you for who you are.
Jesus sent His disciples out two by two into the towns and gave them instructions to go only where they were accepted. He never said go call the human rights council, burn down their homes or start a campaign that will force them by law to accept you. Listen, here is a truth I have found:
The law will never be able to force someone to receive you in their hearts only tolerate you.
I don’t know where you are in the equation of life, but I really feel strongly in my spirit that someone here has left a church recently or stopped talking to a friend because you believe, based on your facts that they don’t receive you. I know it hurts, especially when you hold that person in high esteem. But the truth is every one who will live for God in the world will face rejection on the way to being received.
- Winston Churchill, the great war prime minister of England, was rejected as prime minister when he sought for another term, even after leading England to the greatest victory against the Germans.
- Abraham Lincoln was rejected by his own nation several times before he became “Honest Abe,” and arguably the greatest president America has ever had.
- Christ was rejected by the religious leaders of His day but many who didn’t seem to quite fit the mould, did.
Right now, you could be nursing a bruised ego because you know God sent you to them. You know that it’s the right job for you or you have shared your best message and they still did not receive you . Please remember these truths.
- God has accepted you in the Beloved and you’re value to Him.
- The facts of life should not take you down, but push you towards His word which is the truth.
- God has people on this planet that are waiting to receive the God in you and accept you as you are regardless of the color of your skin, your religious flavour, or your gender.
- The more someone accepts you, the further you can go together.
- Ruth said to Naomi “ Entreat me not to leave you, or to turn back from following after you; For wherever you go, I will go; And wherever you lodge, I will lodge; Your people shall be my people, And your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, And there will I be buried. The LORD do so to me, and more also, If anything but death parts you and me.” (Ruth 1:16, 17). Now that is an example of receiving someone!
So the next time you feel that someone does not get what you are saying, remember the first level of acceptance is of yourself. Jesus said that He came unto His own, but they did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name (John 1:12).
Right now I pray that you may receive the spirit of a son and daughter of the Most High. I pray that the facts in your life may be erased and truth of your reception in the Father’s plan would be foremost in your life. I pray that the heavenly Father may release to you who read these words, the power to overcome rejection, pain and hurt, and that you would overcome the spirit of this world and walk as a true child of God’s kingdom in Jesus’ Name. AMEN. – Apostle Anthony Nelson
Rhema Word•
on May 25th, 2011•
1Now the LORD had said to Abram:
“Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. 2 I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (Gen. 12:1-3)
This term culture of faith came to my spirit while I was preparing to teach a series on overcoming fear and walking in faith. The Lord placed this phrase deep in my spiritual intestines, and I just could not get rid of it. I am pretty certain others are using that term too, so I don’t claim any originality in its usage. But hopefully I can bring a fresh perspective on it.
As I study the Scriptures, seeking to find the meaning of this culture I now live in, I was led to the Old Testament and how God prepared His people for the conquest of Canaan. The Israelites, who were called out, needed to change their diets as one of the prerequisites for entering into the Land of Canaan (Ex. 19:5-6; Deut. 6:6).
God has given dietary regulations to the Church as He gave Israel. These are not natural regulations, dealing with a natural diet. God is concerned about what we eat spiritually. God has instructed us not to touch the unclean thing (2 Corinthians 6:17). This means we must be very concerned about what is coming into our minds through the doorway of our senses. What kind of things are we watching? What are we consuming? If it is anything other than the pure milk of His Word, it will not produce anything that is pleasing to the Lord. Everything we hear spiritually will produce something, but only the Word of God has the power to change us into the image of God. It is on the Word of God that we should meditate daily.
I know like you I was born on this planet with no tolerance for the Word of God. I could not read the written Word for too long (5 minutes at best) and preaching was always boring for me. My flesh just could not bear too much of those messages unless it had stories and jokes that made me laugh. I fell asleep as a young man whenever the preacher spent more time reading Scripture than telling some nice story.
Like some people who are lactose intolerant, I believe a whole generation of us have no tolerance for biblical teaching that is not sweetened with honey. But it is this generation that you and I have been called to minister to and to reach with God’s Word. The sad truth is, though, that we are not much better than they are.
We talk about Generation X that carries no labels, no defining characteristics and no sense of destiny. They are a people, centered on their needs and nothing else. They live for themselves and are quite ready to throw out everything that does not suit their lifestyles.
If we are going to be effective in this world, then we must begin to look differently at the aspect of culture. My definition of culture is the way we see things; the way we say things; the way we do things; and the way we respond to things. Now if you keep that in mind, you will understand that we all live within a defined area of how we culturally connect.
When we change our culture and embrace another culture, we become connected to the life of that culture.
If you want God’s best for your life and destiny, then your culture must change.
Like Abraham, it was not good enough for him to change his job. He had to change everything about his life (Gen. 12:1-3). This man of God had to change his whole cultural paradigm in order for God to speak to him about the promise of making him the father of a great nation.
North American Christianity is weak in generational blessing and kingdom promises because we identify more with the culture than with the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is what God has called us to be a part of not another religious institution, doing good works on the planet.
Jesus said the kingdom of God had come and only those who are willing to leave everything they know, while believing and trusting, can truly see His power and grace operating in their lives.
So the question for you today, my friends, is how much of this world do you have in your speaking, thinking and living that is hindering you from really living up to your potential?
1. We need to speak the Word of God.
2. We need to think like what we speak.
3. We need to seek out those who think like what God said.
4. We need to walk by faith not by fear.
5. We need to live like we are a part of God’s plan and we will succeed.
Change your speaking, thinking, seeking, and walking and your culture will change.
My prayer for you is that according to Galatians 3, the blessing of Abraham will rest on you and the promise of His grace and power will be yours. Remember if you want something different, you need to change your culture. – Apostle Anthony Nelson
Prophecies•
on May 6th, 2011•
I believe a whole generation of us are about to experience this fear factor in a way that we’ve never experienced before, that everything else is going to leave us and we are going to find ourselves in a place and God says, ok, you’ve trusted in the systems of man, you trusted in science. Now this whole earth is going to go through a shaking, tsunamis, and earthquakes like we’ve never seen.
And the people who truly fear their God are going to create an atmosphere for blessings to sustain them. And others are going to come around them because God’s theology will rise.
I encourage you, younger generation, hear the Word of the Lord to you. God will make your world come to a point where you have to recognize, ‘God, I cannot do this without you.’ - Apostle Anthony Nelson, taken from the Apostolic Training Center Sun. May 1, 2011
Rhema Word•
on April 26th, 2011•
It’s that moment when I choose to get up after being knocked down by life
It’s that moment when I choose to forgive when everything in me cries for revenge
It’s that moment I turn my back on fear, doubt and unbelief; when I let go and trust God to catch me when I fall
It’s that last ounce of strength that causes me to worship when all I want to do is curl up and cry because I can’t take it anymore
It’s that moment when my last support has left me and I feel alone and desperate, but still I stand knowing this too will pass
It’s the grace to be kind to someone who you know will never be able to repay you
It’s the strength to feel pain and still remember who you are and not bow to the demands of your own body
If you can do these things everyday for the rest of your life, then you, my friend, will never be numbered among the failures of this life
Remember it’s not what you get, but WHO GIVES IT TO YOU- Apostle Anthony Nelson, Apr. 21, 2011
Rhema Word•
on February 28th, 2011•
Arise, O LORD; Save me, O my God! For You have struck all my enemies on the cheekbone; You have broken the teeth of the ungodly. (Psalms 3:7)
I grew up in the Caribbean where it was very common to see groups of men congregate at bars and street corners. Those who did not go to church would congregate at the local watering hole and play dominoes. The music would be excessively loud and the laughter, boisterous and even laborious like men drinking away their disappointment and dashed dreams.
They discussed the state of the government and the condition of the church with endless repetition. They vented their frustrations on the tables and drank until they had either passed out or some, kind family member took them home.
In case you might think this state of the mind is a “Caribbean, male thing”, then you would be wrong. This happens all over the world in which we live. In North America, our hockey rinks and football stadiums are full of people who desperately spend their God-given strength on teams that most times never really rise up to their expectations.
Millions play the lottery and gamble at casinos. Countless others go to church or work for humanitarian causes, working tirelessly for the need of others while deep down there is a void in their own lives and relationships that never seems to be met.
You see friends life is full of people who live in the place of inner frustration – a place where they can’t see a way forward, no way back and the present is closing in around them. Many sadly clothe themselves in religious expression and practice religion with a deep hope that somehow God will rescue them. They wait for God’s grace when they have it already. They seek God’s deliverance when Christ has already come and done His work for us and now the Holy Spirit is here to empower those who are willing to do the unthinkable.
The story in 2 Kings 7 is one that I love to read on those depressing February days for these men formed their own church. I would call it the Church of the Forgotten and the Rejected. They were not accepted by their own because they were lepers. In the city, it was so bad that women were eating their own children and the price of donkey’s droppings was sky-rocketing (Let’s think about that the next time you and I complain about the price of bread).
These men had very limited choices – return to the city, which as earlier stated was in a rough time, stay where they were which was certain death or face the enemy in their camps. How many times have you been in a situation where it seems that your choices are very limited and they all look bad? But what these four lepers did not know is that a word had preceded them by the servant of God and they were about to do something that would set many free.
Right now things might look bad for you. It may be a lost job, medical expense, or a broken relationship with someone you love. Maybe you have just reached the limit on your credit card or the gas for your car is on empty and you don’t know where to go to get help.
There is no one to reach out to and you feel in your spirit the draining of your strength. You don’t want that hopeless feeling you know so well to come on you. A wise man said when you look around you and all is depressing and in you and all is oppressive, then look up and be blessed.
Dear friends, you don’t have to stay there in depression and frustration. God has provided an answer to every impossible situation that you have. You must remember this truth:
1. Your heavenly Father is in control
2. He will finish everything He started in you
3. He never has a bad day
4. He misses nothing
5. He is never late
6. He has no foster or stepchildren
7. There has never been a pit deeper than His arms can reach for you
8. He is never lacking in any good thing
And guess what? He is waiting for you to make one act of faith and He will meet you at the point of your need. So right now like those four lepers it might look bad, but why stay where you are and die?
Do something that requires faith and shocks your enemy. I dare you to open your mouth and just praise the Lord, write a cheque or give someone you know is in need a gift. Just do something right now that puts your enemy under your feet.
Why stay where you are? I am not going to stay right here and do nothing. I am going over to the enemy’s camp and see what the Lord is going to do. See You over there! - Apostle Anthony Nelson
Rhema Word•
on January 20th, 2011•
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly (John 10:10)
Canadians do not like extremes. If you live here, you will quickly know what I am talking about. If you don’t live here, you might think that I am exaggerating. So let me ask you, how many countries in the world do you think may experience four different seasonal effects in one day? Which other country in the world will allow a minority government to stay in power so long without successfully challenging its power?
In Canada, everyone can live together with little or no trouble. We pride ourselves on being tolerant of everyone except those who are extreme. The high mark has been lowered to a viagra where everyone can exist, but no one can thrive to be what they were meant to be. There are laws in place so that you cannot live to the extreme.
The problem with that, friends, is that the Body of Christ has bought into this worldview – hook, line and sinker – to the effect that anyone daring to live in God’s extreme place is looked on as someone who is slightly off. But if we really want to live for God and walk in His Spirit, we are going to have to live to the extreme.
One of the definitions of the word extreme is: extending far beyond the norm, or achieving the highest point. It’s a place of being and doing. The extreme person is not comfortable with what everyone else is doing. They reach towards another level, and they seem to always go there.
Have you ever met someone like that in your life? They don’t want passing marks, and they don’t want a shallow relationship. They always want to go a little further. They pray longer than others. They give time and energy when others have stopped.
When others give up they buckle down and get intense. They never complain about the cold or the heat, the lack of comfort or the attitude of others. They are just too intensely occupied by the thing at hand to be side-tracked by other lighter things.
They don’t ask God for what they can handle. They ask God to give them faith to handle whatever comes. They rejoice in the battle. They dance in the fire, and they just keep going like a Duracell battery. If you mention witnessing, they are the first on the street and the last to come in. They take discouragement like it’s a mark of victory. They never give up until they attain their goal or die trying.
If you ask me who they are, I think John the Baptist was one of them. His school was the desert and locust and honey were his food. The clothes he wore was not designer fit and he really had no desire to be nice. His purpose was clear and he gave his whole being to living extremely for God.
Then they said to him, “Who are you, that we may give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?” He said: “I am’ The voice of one crying in the wilderness: “Make straight the way of the LORD,”’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”(John 1:22, 23)
What about you? Are you uncomfortable around people who believe the Bible extremely? Are you waiting for the next revival at your church or are you so extreme that you walk with your own revival in your soul? Is God stirring your soul and causing the fire in you to burn?
I believe this year, there is going to be an increasing manifestation of God’s extreme ones on the earth. The earth is feeling them as they worship and open themselves to be changed into His likeness and bring His extreme healing, grace and power to the earth.
Dear friends, remember that God has called you to Himself and He does nothing half way or mediocre. If He has created it, then it’s for extreme blessing. If He made you and I, then we are created to live for His extreme praise so that those around our lives will see how great our Fathers is. So…
1. Submit yourself to God’s altar and die to your definition of you.
2. Stop eating the same food that mediocre people eat.
3. Start doing things that, to your past, would be extreme.
4. Start trusting God for things you normally just planned for.
5. Come to the edge of your understanding, then let go and see what God can do for you.
This is my year of extreme blessing and grace. I am determined to live more extreme for Him and reach more for Him, give more to His cause, love more, serve more and bear more fruit by His grace than ever before. What about you? The extreme one, Apostle Anthony Nelson
Prophecies•
on January 11th, 2011•
Two thousand and eleven, I believe, is the year of overcoming the loss of some close friends, some dreams, some visions, some things that didn’t happen last year. It’s also going to be the time when the presence of God is going to be so much stronger than ever before.
This year there are some people that you will intercede for, but you won’t rescue them. That’s God’s business.
We’re going to see more exposed ministers because they have no relationships. We’re going to see more losses financially because everybody is trying to build and sustain themselves on their own without godly, ordained relationships. We’re going to see churches close and churches open up. We’re going to see financial disasters, but we’re also going to see supernatural power on the earth like never before. We’re going to see some come to a level of relationship with God and man that will literally change our world.
It’s a year of manifestation. It’s a year of power. It’s a year of strength. It’s a year of provision, but it’s also a year of testing of relationships. It’s a year when God is going to prune us in order to build us. It’s a year of having more faith than we’ve ever had before. It’s a year of trusting God like you never have before. It’s a year when things are going to fall apart, but God is going to build up something that you never knew was there. – Apostle Anthony Nelson. Taken from the Apostolic Training Center, Jan. 1, 2011
Rhema Word•
on January 6th, 2011•
Let Us Arise from This Place
And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided Me a king among his sons. (1 Samuel 16:1)
As we step into 2011 with anticipation and a keen sense of the changing landscape of our time and season, I believe we must take a serious inventory of what we carry with us into this year.
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways! (Haggai 1:7)
There will be many prophetic words and visions of the year ahead as men have done from time. In memorial, we peer into the future and seek to second guess what God has already said. The future for us individually and corporately has never been what God has asked us to focus on. His presence and power has been the help and protection for His people in every generation and that kept Moses when facing Pharaoh.
I was preparing for our New Year’s celebration at the ministry center and the Lord dropped this word into my spirit ..” the mourning is over and it’s time for you to arise”. My first response when I heard that was to say, “I have no one who has died for me this year, so why should I be in mourning?”
But knowing this was from the Lord, I stopped to listen as He graciously opened my heart and took me to the life of Samuel and his relationship with King Saul in 1 Samuel 16. In this portion of Scripture, we see the elderly priest and prophet sitting at home, mourning because of the lost hope and relationship that he had with King Saul.
Samuel had anointed the young king over Israel and the people were overjoyed with this new leader who would take them from victory to victory. He was the best of them all and he was chosen to be king and started with great humility and even Samuel found in him the son he wanted.
But the relationship did not last long as Saul was tested in the area of his heart’s obedience to the Lord and he failed the test. In his desperate attempt to look good in the eyes of the people, he grabbed hold of the robe of the man of God and in a moment His kingly anointing was stripped from him. But greater than even his position was the level of relationship he had had with Samuel.
Most of us, if we are honest, have lost some close relationships in 2010 and deep down we realize that it hurts to know that we can no longer call each other or talk as we did. We meet the same person, but things are different now. There is a distance in our sharing and we no longer feel open as we once did. Something has died and it cannot be brought back.
This is what I believe the Lord has shown me that is happening to many of us in the Body of Christ. We think that everything can be fixed with a prayer and a word. But the truth is when God says, ‘Move on,’ we must let people and events go. That’s a hard lesson to learn in a world of shallow relationships and declining morals when we make all manner of excuses for those who openly disobey God’s word and reject truth.
God said to Samuel, I have rejected Saul as king and I am in the process of selecting a new king. The problem with that is that when God moved on, Samuel took some time to mourn over this man Saul. We have the same attitude many times in our lives. If you look back in 2010, you will see times when God said move on, but you could not because your soul was tied to the good things of the past, refusing to move on to what God is doing now.
Let me let you in on an open secret about the past.
- The past can sometimes be the enemy of the future if we will not let it go.
- No matter how good it was, it cannot help you now.
- The future can be adversely affected by your past.
- No one gets anywhere by staring into the rear view mirror.
- The past many times was not as good as you think it was.
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert. (Isaiah 43:19)
So as we move in faith into 2011, I speak encouragement to those of you who, like me, had some good times and some not so good times last year, to arise from your place and hear the Lord speaking to you about what He has in store for you in the year ahead. Like Samuel, who had an appointment in Jesse’s house to anoint the next king, you have some God-appointed times ahead of you that will require you to arise with a fresh anointing and move towards your David.
May arise from your pain, from your loss and even from your triumphs and say like the Apostle Paul….
But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss because of Christ. But, no, rather I also count all things to be loss because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them to be trash, that I might gain Christ and be found in Him; not having my own righteousness of Law, but through the faith of Christ, having the righteousness of God on faith to know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, having been conformed to His death if somehow I may attain to a resurrection out of the dead. Not that I already received or already have been perfected, but I press on, if I also may lay hold, inasmuch as I also was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind, and stretching forward to those things before,
(Philippians 3:7-13)
Let us arise and go forth for God is with us!
- Apostle Anthony Nelson
Rhema Word•
on December 21st, 2010•
It’s that time of year again when the parking lots are full of busy shoppers, seeking to buy gifts for friends and family, when churches are putting on Christmas plays and carolling groups practice their songs for Christmas Day. Kids excitedly look forward to see what Santa Claus brought them for Christmas.
Maybe you have passed this phase in your life and these things don’t mean anything to you and all this season does for you is bring more stress. It could be that you are one of the millions who are dreading the holiday season because it brings only loneliness, sadness and painful reminders of lost loved ones who, last year, were here with you and are now gone.
I know friends that gifts means different things for different people. It really depends on where you sit when you receive that gift. To the workaholic, time off from work stops him from doing what is important to him. To the stay-at-home Mom, it’s just more work tidying the house and preparing more meals. To the store keeper, it’s the busiest time of the year and more work.
We all look at what comes to us in different ways and respond differently when the situation come to us. Like the story of the three friends who lived on a farm. Two were ducks and one was a frog. In time, the farm was sold and about to be torn down to make way for a new subdivision. The three friends decided to go south and find a new home. Well ,the ducks were okay because they could fly but the frog, well , he had a problem. So the friends decided to give him the gift of a free flight by putting a piece of stick in his mouth and each of his friends would hold an end and carry him as he held on with his mouth. It all went well until as they were crossing a particular piece of land a couple of people spotted this strange phenomenon and pointed out that they never knew frogs could fly. The frog opened his mouth to explain why and you know the rest.
Gifts really are to be received in faith and thankfulness that someone thought of you before the time so that you could enjoy at the right time what you got. I can’t help but think of how God in His infinite grace promised us a gift and then delivered it to mankind – the greatest gift we could every have.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is everlasting life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
The message of this season is still the same as on the first Christmas morning when the baby, wrapped in swaddling clothes was greeted by the shepherds and then by those wise men. He still is the Gift of God to the whole world and as many as received this gift can have everlasting life right here and right now. This gift does not come with batteries to be wound up or software that needs to be updated every couple of months. No He is the real thing.
He is more than you think or understand. There is more to Him than you or I will ever be able to relate to. He is greater than the greatest. Stronger than the strongest and will outlast everything else that man has substituted for Him. When all our toys are gone and our dreams have been shattered, He still stands in the middle of our world as the gift of God to you and I.
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 (Eph. 2:8, 9)
Christ really is the reason for this season not a consumer holiday or a time for family to get together. It’s God’s way of saying this is my gift to you. Receive Him as I sent Him and live. Reject Him and you have no other way to live in this life.
It’s our prayer at Faith Five, for you that you may unwrap this wonderful gift from a loving Father and receive the fullness as Paul calls it of your Father’s love to you through His Son Jesus Christ. If you can receive Christ as the Father gave Him to us then you and I will receive each other this season as the gift of God to you.
Remember to give your friends and loved ones God’s gift to you, so they can receive Him too. Our team wishes for you an incredible God-directed 2011!
- Apostle Anthony Nelson