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Recognizing Who We Are In Christ  | Pastor Phillip H Jackson To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center

Immersion | Melanie Meyer We must immerse ourselves in who we are in Christ Jesus. This is our offensive weapon against the enemy in any situation of our lives. We must lean into a deeper intimacy with the Word of God and walk with the Holy Spirit. There is a higher place to live and a higher way of life: you don’t have to have any more rollercoaster rides. The way to get to the higher place to live is by immersing yourself in the Word of God: study the Word of God; meditate on the meanings of the Greek words “sozo” (salvation) and “zoe” (the life of God) as they are used in Romans 5:10; pray in the Holy Spirit; and walk in the revelation of who you are in Christ. To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center

Expectation & Cognitive Dissonance | Matt Meyer | Grace Christian Center There are two kinds of expectations: Godly and human. One leads to life; the other often leads to disappointment. To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ The word expectation in Hebrew means a cord. It was first mentioned when Rahab let the spies out the window. She had an expectation that she would be saved. It is often translated ‘hope’ or the thing longed for. There are two kinds of expectations: Godly and human. One leads to life; the other often leads to disappointment. We all have built a framework of expectations. This is vital to physical and social survival. People cannot live up to human expectations – God is the only One Who cannot lie, so anyone else can. People can let us down; God never will. Misplaced expectations in this area often lead to sorrow. Cognitive Dissonance is holding two or more opposing views. People think things are one way and they observe them to be another way, creating a fight on the inside. This can be self-inflicted. Example: smoking is bad for the health, but a person might choose to continue. The call on this body of believers at Grace Christian Center is to ‘rise up and take our rightful place in the Body of Christ’. Every message we hear is aimed at that call of God. We cannot stay the same and rise up at the same time. This can create cognitive dissonance. Our spirits want cognitive consonance through renewing our minds by the Word of God. Freedom always costs something, The greater the freedom, the higher the cost. Jesus earned our freedom by paying the ultimate cost. Any hint of religion is a dilution of truth. If you dig down deep into truth, it might be a lonely path for a while, as religion will fight against this. The Bible is uncompromisingly true. We dig out revelation. No one can do it for us. One reason we need time in the Word is so that we recognize what the Holy Spirit is showing us. If we don’t know it is in there, we won’t connect it. At some point we will be forced to do something about religious cognitive dissonance by externally modifying our behavior, or trivializing the inconsistency, or running away, or actually changing our belief. Religious traditions that are not required for salvation will need to be dealt with. We cannot continue to think we are dependent on communion, water baptism, or any tradition. We have to let go of that dependence to experience true freedom in Christ. Truth sets us free but it also destroys the argument of everything that isn’t truth. The good Christian life is the caboose. We don’t steer from the caboose. Truth is the engine. Misplaced expectation creates cognitive dissonance. If we do not express an expectation, and it is not met, we will have disappointment. No one owes you anything. Jesus already paid for everything, so no one has anything to owe. Ask God to show you areas to change, spend time praying for others.

The God Kind of Faith | Pastor Cheryl S Jackson | Grace Christian Center What does the Bible teach about faith? Can we have faith for healing? For prosperity? What does God's abundant life mean to believers? To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ The God kind of faith is to believe and speak. In Genesis we have eleven examples of the God kind of faith where God speaks and things come into existence. Believe with your heart and speak your belief. It doesn’t matter what you need, you must pass through the door of faith to get there. Our faith should be in the power of God, not the wisdom of man. There are many ways healing is administered: Receive the Word of God-read, study, meditate, believe, act Demand in the name of Jesus that sickness and disease leave Receive healing in the name of Jesus Prayer of agreement Anointing with oil by the elders of the church Healing cloths Laying on of hands Gifts of healings Healing anointing The Bible is God’s plan for humanity. We have to study the Word to understand and learn God’s way. If you don’t build your foundation on the Word it will show up eventually. III John 1:2 (God wants us to prosper and be in good health.) I Corinthians 2:1-5 (We need a demonstration of the power of God in the Body of Christ.) Proverbs 4:20-22 (The Word is life and health.) Romans 10:8-10 (The most important thing we receive is our redemption.) Job 22:28 (Decree a thing and it shall be established.) Proverbs 18:21 (Death and life are in the power of the tongue.) Mark 11:22-24 (Have the faith of God. Believe that what you say will come to pass.) Hebrews 11:3 (We frame our world with our words.)

Wild, Abandoned Passion for God | Matt Meyer When you fear God. You don’t fear other people. What if:  we humbled ourselves like David did by dancing? we pursued God with a reckless abandon? we pressed the envelope? we were willing to lose our lives in pursuit of Him? we had the guts to go for it? To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ 2 Samuel 6:12-22 The Old Testament saints worshiped God with might. We are to worship God in the Spirit. Lester Sumrall once asked Smith Wigglesworth, 'How do you get up in the morning?' Wigglesworth replied, "I jump out of bed! I dance before the Lord for at least 10 to 12 minutes -- high-speed dancing. I jump up and down and run around my room telling God how great He is, how wonderful He is, how glad I am to be associated with Him and to be His child." What David and Smith both did was throw themselves fully, passionately into Worship of God. They didn’t care what they looked like. The whole point is Passion. Passion has a look. In the OT it was David dancing. In the NT it’s worshiping God in Spirit and Truth. Which at times involves dancing or shouting or running or falling as you yield to the power. This is not something that can be worked up in the flesh. It can be imitated by fleshly actions, but God sees through it and people will too. Every time. It can, however, be stirred up. Sometimes Passion is silent. We have to learn to quiet our minds. Kenneth E. Hagin (How You Can Be Led By the Spirit of God): “As we learn to quiet our minds, the Holy Spirit will communicate with our spirit through the Word of God and unveil truths to us. For many people, it's much easier to get quiet physically than it is to get quiet mentally. We lie down at night and our body is quiet, but our mind is racing. The more we quiet our minds and think on the Word of God, the more the Holy Spirit will speak to our human spirit. This is how He becomes the dominant force in our lives. Then we will almost never make mistakes when we give heed to our spirits.” Sometimes Passion is waiting. "Some of the old-time Pentecostals knew something about that deeper move of the Spirit. During those times when the Presence of God came into our services, no one moved; an awesome Presence filled the room. I wish I could describe that awesome Presence to you. Some things are just too reverent to talk about and it's hard to find words to describe them. But I've seen the awesome Presence of God come in and fill the temple. I long to see the Body of Christ experience that Presence on a continual basis!” Worshiping Him, without reserve, without restraint, full out, full bore, unashamed. It starts in the secret place where it’s just you and God. And what happens with hidden things? When your hidden thing is wild, abandoned passion for God, it will show up. All the time.

The Difference Between Living in The Spirit and Walking in the Spirit | Collier Hall Legally, all God’s benefits and blessings are ours. Vitally, there is something the believer must to do to experience them. To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ Paul instructs the believer to live in the Spirit and walk in the Spirit. Legally, all God’s benefits and blessings are ours. Vitally, there is something the believer must to do to experience them. Galatians 5:16 refers to walking in the Spirit. In W.E. Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary, the definition of Walk (Greek Word - Peripateo) signifies the whole realm of the activities of the individual’s life. There are two works of sanctification. The first sanctification happens at the new creation when the believer is spiritually set apart, sanctified, by God. The second sanctification is referred to in I Thessalonians 4:3, as a process in which the believer is to set themselves apart by their manner of life. To walk in the Spirit, we must be transformed. In Romans 12:2, ‘be transformed’ means an obligation to undergo a complete change which, under the power of God, will find expression in character and conduct. This is a present and continuous growth process both inward and outward. The Apostle Paul instructs the believer to transform or conform his or her soul (mind, will, and emotions) to Christ’s image. God has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness (II Peter 1:3) and every spiritual blessing is ours (Ephesians 1:3). These have been deposited into our spirits. When we conform our hearts to what God has already placed into our spirits and allow the Word of God to transform our belief system (renew our minds) to God’s Word, that is when the Word becomes revelation to us. It becomes more real than the natural. This is walking in the Spirit. By meditating on the Word and praying in the Holy Spirit, we allow the transformation to take place.

Liberty | SA Robbins & Matt Meyer | Grace Christian Center To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ Grace is the most important subject to study in the Bible. The Epistles found in Romans through Philemon are specifically for the believer. Grace is God revealing Jesus Christ in the believer. The church in Galatia brought grace down to their level and they began doing things by works. Grace was initially extended to the children of Israel. God only asked them to trust in Him and listen to His voice, and He would make them a peculiar treasure and put them above all people. However, the children of Israel asked God to tell them ‘what to do’. God then gave them the Law. The Law was given to define sin for the children of Israel, which required them to do works on their own. The Law was given to show the people that they needed God. Grace wholly relies on God for everything. Knowing what God has done in us through the grace of God has provided all the things we need. The believer’s faith is in what Jesus has already done. The believer is operating from a place of liberty. The Greek definition of liberty is the ability to do or omit things not pertaining to salvation. God has instructed the believer to walk in the Spirit which produces the fruit of the Spirit. When the believer prays for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, and acknowledges and declares the freedom already given us, the believer is able to walk in freedom/liberty. This revelation in the knowledge of Him includes what Jesus has done for us, what God did through Jesus, and what God accomplished in Jesus on our behalf. Our faith is in the grace of God and what it has done for us. Sin does not separate the believer from God. Sin puts a layer of condemnation between the believer and God. Condemnation is the shame and guilt of sin, that Jesus already paid for. The Holy Spirit gives us the power to walk in the Spirit.

What it Means to Be a Servant | TJ Philbrick | Grace Christian Center To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ What motivates you? Is it your kids, money, or your job? What should guide you should not be these natural things. We should be motivated by our love for God above all things. We should honor the sacrifice made by Jesus our Savior, the single greatest act of love ever witnessed by man. He died for us. That was not selfish at all. Why did He do it? To set us free & give us eternal right-standing with the Father. He did it for you, an act of service beyond any act of service that you will ever be able to comprehend or repeat.  By this Truth we persevere in our service to others. When believers that are honest, full of the Holy Ghost, and wisdom take care of the business of the church, then the Pastors are free to attend to the things that they are called to do and to devote their time to seeking God in prayer and ministering the Word. Elisha in service to Elijah met his needs daily for 8 years. Just before Elijah departed, Elijah said, “What can I do for you?” Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijah’s spirit upon him. Elisha had to see Elijah depart to receive it. Elisha had to stick to it. Elisha served for years without any guarantees. Elisha saw Elijah depart and received the double portion of the Anointing. Elisha’s motivation was not natural. Elisha was not following the man. Elisha’s desire for the things of God motivated him and gave him the strength and ability to minister to Elijah for 8 years. Ruth ministered to Naomi and said “Your God will be my God." Because of this she became part of the line that brought forth David and Jesus. Barnabas stood up for Paul even though Paul had killed followers of Christ. Barnabas served Paul. The Holy Ghost said, “Separate unto me Barnabas and Paul for the work of the ministry wherein I have called them.” Paul was the head minister and Barnabas was to help Paul. John Mark abandoned them which led to a split between Paul and Barnabas. Barnabas should have honored the decision of Paul. Believers should not take on an offense and leave their position of service. Timothy served Paul.  Paul honored Timothy by calling him “my son.” What motivates you in your service? When your hunger is for the things of God, then you will not allow a natural insult to cause you to leave your position in the local church assembly. We are to bring our spiritual supply every Sunday. Are we here to impart something to others? We are to value each other and their requests as members of the Body of Christ, and as members of our local church assembly. Service is wanting the best for each other. What we are talking about is helps. Your service to the Body of Christ. Your helping your Pastors. Honor God in your Pastors. The Apostle Paul referred to people that got shipwrecked. They got into error. We should care about each other and the bond should be strong. We should value our relationships with each other.

Spiritual Hunger | Matt Meyer | Grace Christian Center Hunger is the fuel that will drive you to study and move deeper into the knowledge and understanding of God where you can achieve great things, but it will not happen by accident. To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ Make an honest assessment of how hungry you are to study and know the Word of God. Hunger is the fuel that will drive you to study and move deeper into the knowledge and understanding of God where you can achieve great things, but it will not happen by accident. You are what you eat, naturally and spiritually. Fill-up on the things of God not on the things of the world. When you put in the time to fill-up on the Word it will transform your life. Wildfire is better than no fire. When we are pressing in, we may make a mistake (i.e. clapping or shouting at the wrong time) but God is not going to hold that against us. He will correct us and move on because He looks on the intentions of the heart. When you are hungry for the things of God, you won’t need to be concerned that you will get out ahead of His plans for you, because you are seeking to know His will and walking closely with Him to learn of His plans for your life. Be patient in walking out God’s plans for your life. His plans will be better than anything we could come up with. When you are very hungry, in the natural, other things in life become less important. Spiritual hunger operates the same way. When you have true hunger to understand and know the things of God, natural things in life become less important.

The Path To Permanent Victory | Michael Garove You can achieve permanent victory in every arena of your life through the Word of God when you understand who you are in Jesus. To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ To walk in the reality of who you are, you must apply the truth of God’s Word from the inside. Recognizing your true identity in Christ as a new creature will require you to change the core foundation of your belief system.   The process of permanently changing misconceptions in your belief system takes time and requires you to meditate the Word of God and to allow the Holy Spirit to teach you what pertains to you in Jesus. The Holy Spirit is the only revealer of truth, the only person that can help you fix your belief system. Achieving permanent victory through the Word of God requires: Digging into the Word of God. Submitting to the Holy Spirit. Meditating the Word of God. Speaking the Word of God. Acting on the Word of God. Praying in tongues. In Jesus you are a new creature and the righteousness of God. You have the nature of God. You have total reconciliation with God. You are saved by God’s grace through faith. God's gift of salvation is eternal - you can't lose it. James 4:7 says to submit ourselves to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from us. In order to walk in this truth, you have to know who you are in Christ Jesus. You must develop an understanding of your authority in Christ. Knowing who you are in Christ will change how you operate in every area of your life. Rely on the Holy Spirit and on the knowledge of God’s Word to change situations in your life. Fear or confusion may come to try to steal your joy or to cause you to doubt your salvation. Don't let it. God wants us to rise up and take our rightful place in the Body of Christ and be the fullness of Him that fills all in all. Christianity is not a religion—it is who we are as a body of believers in Jesus. God did not create a religion. God called out a body of believers and reconciled the world to Himself in Jesus.

Worship | Matt Meyer Worship comes from the inside out. To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ Real worship is from the heart. The way to know God's heart is to have intimacy with Him. It takes time to develop an intimate relationship with Him. We are not made for isolation. Worship is soaking in the presence of God the Father. Don’t let natural circumstances determine your level of worship. Philippians 3:3 Paul talking to the Gentiles, we are the circumcision which worship God in the Spirit. Genesis 18:2 Three men - The Lord and two angels - appeared to Abraham and he bowed down to worship them. I Corinthians 14:25 Paul talking to the saints at Corinth making reference to when a person comes into a congregation and he is not a member of the Body of Christ, to see everyone prophesying, he falls down worshiping God. Ephesians 3:14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. John 4:24 John telling all men that God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. Philippians 3:3 We have no confidence in the flesh. I Corinthians 2:10-12 We have received the Spirit which is of God that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. I Corinthians 2:16 We have the mind of Christ. Philippians 1:27 Paul talking to the Gentiles telling them to let their conversation [manner of life] be as the gospel of Christ.  Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

The Word Must Prevail Part 2 | Pastor Phillip H Jackson The Word must prevail in our minds for it to become a reality to us, not just simply mental agreement. To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ We now have that ability. It's been given to us through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Word must prevail in our minds for it to become a reality to us, not just simply mental agreement. We have a tendency to mentally agree that the Word is true. But we have to learn how to get the Word into our spirits, past the natural mind, to take it to believing instead of mentally agreeing. You won't obey or accomplish what you mentally agree with. But you will do both if you actually believe. Mental agreement has no power to make things happen, to call things into being. Faith in the Word, actually believing God, allows God's power to operate in our lives. The Word will lead and guide you into the light. God never leads into darkness. He always leads into greater light. Real belief in EVERYTHING in the Word takes time, takes commitment, and takes for granted that the Word is final. For instance, Luke 6:38 says give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give unto your bosom. For with the same measure that you measure it shall be measured to you again. This is a fact that you have to believe or disbelieve. Did God say it? If He said it, it's true and God will back it. It's based on what God said not some circumstance that contradicts the Word of God. If you agree with the contradictory circumstances, it's the same thing as calling God a liar. Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth. That is not up for discussion. You can't say "I don't have any power." That's a lie. God said you did. You may not know how to use it, but you have it. You need to change your words to change your functionality. No natural minded person has ever heard anything from God. You are a Spirit. Be encouraged. Don't look at what's happening in the world and become discouraged. The world has nothing to do with the Body of Christ. We are above it. We are not in it. The world is corrupt because the god of the world is corrupt. But this world is not our home. We have been translated out of that kingdom. We don't have to live by wits. We can live by faith. Don't trust the world. It's based upon a lie. Satan was a liar from the beginning. You have the truth. You have the Holy Ghost inside you and upon you. You have the truth that the people of the world need.

The Word Must Prevail Part 1  | Pastor Phillip H Jackson For faith to arrive in our hearts, God’s Word must prevail over everything the mind can dream up. To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ For faith to arrive in our hearts, God’s Word must prevail over everything the mind can dream up. The mind can dream up a lot of things that are not conducive to the Word. We must make sure that we allow the Word of God to have the upper hand in our thinking process. Because of the fall of Adam there is an ingredient that gets in the way of admitting how big God is. That ingredient is pride. To stay fresh on who and what God is, we need to periodically meditate on who and what the Word says He is. God called those things that be not as though they were. He has given us a hint on how to live. Romans 4:17 - 19 (As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before Him whom he believed, even God, who quickens the dead, and calls those things that are not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall your seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about 100 years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb.  Here's what was facing Abraham: EVERYTHING in the natural said it can't happen. But GOD said it would. So, here's the choice: Abraham had to believe against his own body, his own mind - he had 100 years experience believing his mind. Everything he could see said that God's Word couldn't be true. He could believe God or he could disbelieve God. All he had was the word God spoke to him. We have an advantage. We have the Bible. Even so, the Word spoken to Him prevailed over every natural thing. Don't ever discount Abraham. He believed God over EVERY circumstance. And it counted as righteousness.

What are You Doing with the Word? | Pastor Cheryl S Jackson The power of God is made available to us for health, healing, safety, soundness of mind, and prosperity. Everything we need has already been provided in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. When we speak God’s Word in faith, He backs it up. To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ When you are born of the Spirit, the power of God abides in your spirit. God’s Word is our GPS – God’s Plan/Path Safe. The power of God is made available to us for health, healing, safety, soundness of mind, and prosperity. Everything we need has already been provided in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. When we speak God’s Word in faith, He backs it up. Faith SAYS: Genesis 1 (Eleven times God said, and it was so.) Numbers 13 & 14 (Ten spies spoke the negative; two spoke the positive.) Joshua 1:8 (God said to Joshua.) Joshua 6 (Fall of Jericho by shout.) 1 Samuel 17 (David said.) Proverbs 6:2 (The words of our mouths.) Proverbs 8:7 (Our mouths shall speak truth.) Proverbs 10:11 (Words of life.) Proverbs 18:21 (Death and life are in our words.) Daniel 3 (Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego spoke their faith.) Matthew 12:37 (Our words justify or condemn.) Matthew 15:11 (What comes out of the mouth defiles a man.) Mark 5:28 (The woman said, “If I can touch His clothes, I shall be whole.”) Mark 5:34 (Jesus said, “Your faith has made you whole.”) Mark 11:22-24 (Believe and speak.) Romans 12:3 (God dealt to every man the measure of faith. It is our responsibility to develop our faith.)

Visions: What Are They and What Do They Mean? | Pastor Phillip H Jackson To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ Our physical bodies are controlled by our minds. There is nothing we do outside of our minds. The major reason our minds must be continually renewed is to keep us on the right side of issues. When an incident occurs, we tend to default to our natural routine. With a renewed mind, it is easy to get on the right side of any issue. The mind has two major functions: imagination and memory. An unrenewed mind will always default to memory and must be trained and renewed to function in imagination. God is behind our imaginations… anything we can imagine, we can do. Asking “is this necessary?” in response to the move of the Holy Ghost is the result of an unrenewed mind; it is the default, natural response to spiritual things. The natural side of us will override our spirits if we don’t put a stop to it. God can only function on the earth through the Body of Christ as they yield to the Holy Spirit and follow His leading and guiding. The Body of Christ can only affectively do this if their minds have been renewed to His Word and His plan and purpose on earth. A vision is an influx of God’s wisdom, plan, and purpose. When the vision is presented to us, we have the option to disregard it or run with it. Without a vision from God, man's purposes and actions perish both naturally and spiritually. Without a vision, we have nothing to anchor our focus on and cannot make progress. But with a vision from God, we thrive in the spirit. What we hear will affect what we believe. And what we believe will affect our spiritual growth and life.

Using the Name of Jesus Part II | Pastor Phillip H Jackson To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ Since we are three parts (spirit, soul, and body), we need to get our soul to line up with our spirit. Our soul is made of our emotions and mind. We have to get our mind in conjunction with our spirits, with what we believe. We train our soul. Our soul demands evidence, because it can believe easier with evidence. When we allow evidence to produce our believing, we are no longer in faith. We have to train our soul not to demand evidence. We should accept God's word at face value without any evidence. To do this, we have to learn who God is. How powerful He is. We have to build faith, or a belief system, into our life. We have to decide who are we going to believe? There's always something pulling at us to get us to believe it. Nature isn't a substitute for God. There is no substitute for God.  Once we believe God, at the moment of our redemption, we are sealed by the Holy Spirit. Our spirits are sealed by God.  A lot of what we need to do is renew our minds and cause our souls to agree with the Word of God.  The power of the name of Jesus gives us the ability to cast out devils. The eternal purpose of God the Father is to bless men, this is done through the name of Jesus. Today, the power of God is released through the Body of Christ using the name of Jesus. This is the same power and ability Jesus used when He was on the earth, to heal and to bless. This same power has been given to the Body of Christ. With great boldness, we should use that name to bless people, to heal people, to deliver people, and to produce miracles in that name. This is our responsibility as believers.  We should have respect for the name of Jesus. Familiarity can breed contempt, so we shouldn't be flippant with His name or so familiar with it that we don't recognize what the name of Jesus really means. We need to know how that name was achieved by the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other name like His name. The name of Jesus was held special by God and given to Jesus on purpose, so He could give it to us so that we can use His name. That name is supposed to bring recognition in the world of darkness.  The name of Jesus is the only light that there is. It's not our ability that is shining. It's God's ability in us that's the light. We are the chosen vessels to deliver His name to lost and hurt people. When we minister to others, it isn't valid unless it is done in Jesus' name. We don't have the ability to bless anyone without the name of Jesus. We don't have God's approval to do anything without the name of Jesus. But with His name we have God's approval to do all of these things in His Word. The name of Jesus has already been supplied with His ability. There's no lack of ability in His name. There's no lack of power in His name.

Using the Name of Jesus Part I  | Pastor Phillip H Jackson To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ Jesus Christ is the password for the supernatural in the earth. We are saved by that name and baptized into that name. Today, the name of Jesus is being openly attacked. It is a preview of what is to come. What is described in Matthew 24:9 will take place during the future tribulation period. To the lost, the name of Jesus is the only way to be saved. To the redeemed, the name of Jesus is the power. We do everything in His name. We gather in His name. Our prayers are through His name. We are healed in His name. 1 Corinthians 6:11 is already a statement of fact. Some preach these truths as future things, when they are already present facts. The only way our spirits are sanctified is the new birth.  In the Old Testament, in the book of Samuel, when the man reached out to touch the ark of the covenant to stabilize it and he died – that man was spiritually dead because this was before Jesus died on the cross. His hands were unclean. But when we receive Jesus, God sanctifies us. We can't clean our own heart or sanctify it. God sanctifies our heart and then He seals it, so we can't undo it. We can't put anything in it or take anything out of it. We are sealed until the day of redemption. It's on purpose. We need to understand scripture. It's important not to build on the wrong foundation, or have one part wrong or be one degree off. Down the line, it results in being many degrees off and believing things that aren't truth. The name of Jesus touches every phase of the Church life. In the early church, the name of Jesus affected those people more than today. Why? Because of the boldness of people today to attack it. But the name of Jesus is the only name that will loose the power of God in our lives. How does God work miracles? Through the Body of Christ, when the church recognizes the authority in the name of Jesus. We have to do everything in His name.  In Acts, Peter and John were told not to use the name of Jesus. Today, people don't like the name of Jesus. The early church appreciated the name of Jesus more than we do today. But without the name of Jesus, we don't have anything. Without it, we spin our wheels and get defeated and stolen from. The name of Jesus is the only name that will release the power of God into the earth.

Tremendous Power Part 2 | Pastor Cheryl S Jackson God’s plan was that He sent His Son to redeem us back into our original estate. What was our original estate? We find that in the Garden of Eden. To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ You can’t oppose God’s plan and have the results God wants us to have. God’s plan is that every believer be filled with the Holy Spirit and every believer pray in tongues. That’s how the power is made available. God’s plan was that He sent His Son to redeem us back into our original estate. What was our original estate? We find that in the Garden of Eden. They were perfect. Ephesians 1:19 AMP Paul wants the saints to begin to know the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power. When you witness the power of God and the Spirit of God moving upon someone, just reach out and say, “It’s mine. I take it. It’s mine as well.” Why do you have the right to do that? It’s faith that moves Him. It’s hunger that moves Him. God’s plan is that we work together. He has moved. He is waiting for our move. It’s like a game of chess. Unlimited means not restricted in terms of number, quantity or extent. God’s power is not limited. It’s immeasurable. It is surpassing. Don’t settle for anything. If you are not on fire, you are not filled.

Tremendous Power Part 1 | Pastor Cheryl S Jackson Why does He want our speech and our preaching to be in demonstration of the Spirit and of power? That our faith should be in the power of God. We should know how to activate that power. To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ God’s Word is a recipe for our lives. That recipe is the fullness of the Holy Spirit who is to abide in us. When the fullness of the Holy Spirit abides in us then we will walk God’s plan out. The Spirit will lead and guide. Today’s teaching is about the Power of God. The Holy Spirit said each one reach one. Why does He want our speech and our preaching to be in demonstration of the Spirit and of power? That our faith should be in the power of God. We should know how to activate that power. The degree that you value something is the degree that you give attention to it. You can’t oppose God’s plan and have the results God wants us to have. God’s plan is that every believer be filled with the Holy Spirit and every believer pray in tongues. That’s how the power is made available. God’s plan was that He sent His Son to redeem us back into our original estate. What was our original estate? We find that in the Garden of Eden. They were perfect. Ephesians 1:19 AMP Paul wants the saints to begin to know the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power. When you witness the power of God and the Spirit of God moving upon someone, just reach out and say, “It’s mine. I take it. It’s mine as well.” Why do you have the right to do that? It’s faith that moves Him. It’s hunger that moves Him. God’s plan is that we work together. He has moved. He is waiting for our move. It’s like a game of chess. Unlimited means not restricted in terms of number, quantity or extent. God’s power is not limited. It’s immeasurable. It is surpassing. Don’t settle for anything. If you are not on fire, you are not filled.

A Study of Prayer: Intercession Part 2 | Pastor Cheryl S Jackson We don’t know it all. But God knows it all. And He has given us His Spirit to abide within us and to help us. He just needs us to cooperate with Him and yield to Him. To support our ministry and help us continue to reach people all over the world click here: https://gracechristiancenter.churchcenter.com/giving Our call and our passion is to cause God's people to rise up and take their rightful place in the Body of Christ. Stay Connected: Website: https://www.newwordpress.themiraclechurch.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gcccharlotte Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grace_christian_center/ We don’t always know exactly what to pray for or about. But the Holy Spirit  takes hold together with us and makes intercession for the saints - not according to our will, according to the will of God. Groan - to breathe with a deep mournful sound, uttered as in pain or sorrow. An infirmity would include the inability to produce proper prayer. But when we yield to Him, He prays with us. Don’t try to make it happen. Don’t try to force God’s hand or you can wind up hearing the wrong voice. But yield to Him. Praying in other tongues is the manner in which God has made power available through prayer. Even though our groans are inarticulate, the Holy Ghost in a supernatural surgical procedure takes hold, makes intercession for us and with us for others. There are agonizing longings that cannot be put into words, these are groanings that must escape through your lips so that the Holy Spirit can effectively present the need. He is wanting us always to be interceding for the lost and for the body of Christ. We should stand in the gap each and every day for people. To have a deeper move of the Spirit of God we must have compassion to intercede for others. We must persevere in prayer to be effective. A true intercessor is not bound by time or space. A person truly hungry for the things of God is not bound by time either. How long do we keep praying? Always until we have a note of victory: we will start laughing, singing, or praising. The answer may not be the answer that you want. God has asked us to know His word and our authority. But we pray as the Spirit leads. Secret things belong to Him. He can reveal them to us, but only as He leads.