Category: Insights

Titus 2:11 (GWTransl)After all, God’s saving kindness has appeared for the benefit of all people.
Titus 3:3-7 (GWTransl)

Indeed, we, too, were once stupid, disobedient, and misled. We were slaves to many kinds of lusts and pleasures. We were mean and jealous. We were hated, and we hated each other.

However, when God our Savior made his kindness and love for humanity appear, he saved us, but not because of anything we had done to gain his approval. Instead, because of his mercy he saved us through the washing in which the Holy Spirit gives us new birth and renewal. God poured a generous amount of the Spirit on us through Jesus Christ our Savior. As a result, God in his kindness has given us his approval and we have become heirs who have the confidence that we have everlasting life.

An Amazing Church, Wedding, And Jesus FamilySunday was amazing. I am so pleased to be a part of the Family of God at Victory. It seems the power and presence of God increases each week. The people that are hungry for the things of God increase each week. People come expecting and they receive because of their expectation. Praise God!

God works through the faith of His people. We know that faith pleases Him.

But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6 NKJV)

In the God’s Word Translation of the English Bible we can see it from a different light.

No one can please God without faith. Whoever goes to God must believe that God exists and that He rewards those who seek Him (Hebrews 11:6 GWT)

God is pleased by the Worship at Victory Word Church. He’s pleased by the testimonies of people telling who God healed them, fixed their family, or gave them a financial break through.

I preached on Praying With Power again Sunday. I love that Jesus said we can ask for “whatever” in Japanese or nan demo. Why can we ask for whatever we need or want? Because we ask according to His Word, and He gets the glory for it.

At the end of church, instead of people being in the building from 930am to 3 or 4pm. Everyone promptly left the Victory facility following the service. Everyone went home and we were “supposed to” meet a wonderful husband, wife, and their two daughters to go to a “fine dining dinner”. What actually was happening was that the Victory family was planning a “surprise wedding” for the couple. It was beautiful. They weren’t able to have an official wedding before God and people so Sunday was there chance. We were all crying with joy to see how God really fulfilled the desires of this lovely couple. They committed to each other, they celebrated communion, we all ate, we all danced, we all celebrated this joyous marriage and the goodness our God!

When you believe and act in faith something good is going to happen to you!

2 Timothy 3:1-5 (GWTransl)? You must understand this: In the last days there will be violent periods of time. People will be selfish and love money. They will brag, be arrogant, and use abusive language. They will curse their parents, show no gratitude, have no respect for what is holy, and lack normal affection for their families. They will refuse to make peace with anyone. They will be slanderous, lack self-control, be brutal, and have no love for what is good. They will be traitors. They will be reckless and conceited. They will love pleasure rather than God. They will appear to have a godly life, but they will not let its power change them. Stay away from such people.

Praise God!  I have a dear Catholic friend, several actually.  One of my friends doesn’t know the Bible very well but you can tell that person wants more.

I prayed for wisdom to better understand the Catholic religion and God led me to this guy who served in the Catholic church for 34 years.  Very good testimony.  Check it out.

https://vimeo.com/129453047

2 Timothy 1:6-7 (GWTransl)You received a gift from God when I placed my hands on you ?to ordain you?. Now I’m reminding you to fan that gift into flames. God didn’t give us a cowardly spirit but a spirit of power, love, and good judgment.

Proverbs 29:11 (GWTransl)A fool expresses all his emotions,

but a wise person controls them.

1 Timothy 3:2-5 (NKJV)A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach; not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; one who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence (for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);

1 Timothy 3:12 (NKJV)

Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.