If you’re looking for an amazing Church in Houston Texas, or just visiting on a trip through this city in the Lone Star state, you’ve got to visit Houston Faith Church. We visited two services and found this church had a powerful worship, an insightful and encouraging message. People are involved.
It is also very impressive how HFC are hungry for the things of God and not afraid to share Jesus with the people around them.
A church family is inspired by it’s leadership. Pastors Chas and Joni Stevenson are raising up people who know how to hear God’s voice and be a light in this world. Looking forward to visiting again. Praise God!
If you’ve ever received a gift, you know how fun it is to get something. Receiving is exciting, but in Gods Kingdom there’s something even better. It’s giving. When you discover the joy of giving, you’ve come to better understand Gods ways. God is the giver of givers.
However, we must be careful about who and what we give to. We must be spirit-led. Some people may come around you to get something. Other places may try to take our resources and use them against Gods Kingdom. A Spirit-led believer and giver is prosperous and joyful.
Try giving and be led by your spirit connected to the Holy Spirit.
And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’
Leading someone to Jesus is one of the most important things we are called to do. It’s so fun to be a part of bringing someone to eternal life! We don’t always have a chance to lead them to the Lord, but every day you should have a chance to talk about Jesus with the people around you.
What you told someone yesterday is what may bring them to Jesus today.
Don’t see yourself as just another human on this earth. Remember you are a royal priesthood, a chosen child of God. If you don’t plan the seed of faith for salvation today, who will reap it tomorrow?
But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
This is how we do it. By recognizing that worship is physical but yet a spiritual thing. Secondly by walking in truth. That means purity in our relationship with God.
Is Gods wrath and judgment on people?. Not while you live in the body whose eyes are reading this.
Once you depart your body, like a foot us pulled out of a boot, your decision to know or reject Jesus is eternal life or death and destruction. Whatever you do, choose life!
Jesus’ disciples asked Him, “Lord, teach us to pray.”
In response, Jesus taught them nothing of mysticism, religious pretense, or meditation. Nothing of bizarre physical contortions or memorized incantations attended by clouds of incense.
But He did teach them something about violence. Jesus was very clear about it: Prayer is a matter of war—prayer is about invasion, assault, and force.
On earth-side, things may seem impenetrable, yet from the heaven-side, activated by prayer, there is a spiritual violence that can invade and overthrow the impossible.
As I minister around the world, I see a resurgence within the body of Christ for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. In God’s people from all denominations, whether pastors and other leaders or the people within the congregations, there is a cry for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This is a definite move of God, as the altars are full of people desiring to be baptized in the Holy Spirit. Men, women, youth and children are activating their faith and are receiving this precious power from above. Grown men and intellectuals who have struggled for years with receiving the baptism of the Holy Spirit are receiving instantly and weeping for joy as they begin to speak in tongues.
Speaking in tongues is the beginning step to being baptized in the Holy Spirit, and is for every born-again believer. Luke 5: 37-38 says, “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the new wine will burst the wineskins, and it will be spilled, and the wineskins will be destroyed. But new win must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” When you become born-again, your spirit becomes eternally alive and heaven bound with Jesus. Concerning the gift of tongues, it is given to all believers who believe and activate their faith to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit Peter said to them in Acts 2:38-39, “”Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call.” Speaking in tongues is for all believers, from the time of the early church on the Day of Pentecost to today with ourselves and to our children and to our grandchildren and to their children—until the day of the Lord’s return.
Speaking in tongues is the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, “And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to speak” (Acts 2:4). And your supernatural language from God is the evidence that you have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And is the beginning of your journey into the supernatural realm with the Holy Spirit.
Now, when being baptized in the Holy Spirit, you must activate your faith, as with any other promise of God. The Holy Spirit will not force you to open up your mouth and speak. You must cooperate with Him, open up your mouth, move your tongue and give voice to the words springing up from within your spirit. And that’s how you activate your faith to be baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues.
We are to speak in tongues when we pray. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 14:18, “I thank my God that I speak in tongues more than you all.” How often do you speak in tongues? You should speak in tongues daily, and often throughout your day. Praying in tongues opens up this miraculous realm for you.
Endued with Power. “And look, I am sending the promise of My Father upon you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high” (Luke 24:49). This power gives you the ability to take the kingdom of God, and His promises by force and activate power to those all around. You see your enemy, Satan, does not want you to manifest God’s promises in your life. He battles hard against you to keep you from walking in victory. But as you learn to activate the gift of tongues when you pray, you cause this enemy to loosen his grip, and your miracle manifests.
Speak Mysteries. First Corinthians 14:2 describes these mysteries for us. “For he who speaks in an unknown tongue does not speak to men, but to God. For no one understands him, although in the spirit, he speaks mysteries.” This word “mysteries” (Strong’s G3466 – mystÄ”rion) means hidden thing, secret or mystery.When you speak in tongues you speak into existence the hidden or secret things God has planned for you. I have seen this principle work time and time again in my life and ministry.
Encourage Yourself. Paul admonishes us in first Corinthians 14:4 that “He who speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.” Speaking in tongues launches you outside of the realm of depression and into the realm of joy.
Magnify God. Cornelius and his household began to speak with tongues, and magnify God. Acts 10:46a says, “For they heard them speaking in other tongues and magnifying God.” I tell you the truth: If we would begin to speak with tongues, it would prevent us from magnifying the wrong things, such as the works of Satan, including sickness and disease, and we would all be a whole lot better for it. Begin to speak with tongues and magnify God.
This is an amazing revival of the Spirit of God, and as God’s people begin to speak in tongues, not only do they themselves change, but entire families, congregations, communities, businesses and ministries transform as well. Don’t miss out on what the Holy Spirit has for you. Be baptized in the Holy Spirit, speak with heavenly tongues and release its benefits to those around you.
