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Act 12:5 Peter Freed from Prison Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church.

When you pray, stuff happens.
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This has got to be my favorite saying this year. Praise God that happens because we pray and believe! If you are praying and nothing is happening, it’s likely because you are not believing. Believing is faith. Faith is believing. Faith is the only thing that pleases God.

Act 11:18 When they heard these things they became silent; and they glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.”

The Lord Jesus came to the Jews first, but then He desires all people to come to Him.

1Ti 2:3-5 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,

We have heard this repeatedly over the last nearly 18 months.

Good news!  Victory Word Church will be firing up a Tokyo Central service.  We are very excited about this and will announce where we’ll be shortly.  (We’ll be in one of the pictured buildings… a few choices there).

We’re a church with a passion for God and a passion for people.  It’s easy to love people when you LOVE GOD!

We’re getting ready to raise the banner of Jesus in central Tokyo

Drop us a line, if you are interested in being a part of the kick off team here.

4 Therefore those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word. 5 Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them. 6 And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did. 7 For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed; and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. 8 And there was great joy in that city.  Acts 8:4-8 NKJV

Preaching the Word and preaching Jesus.  Jesus is the Word, The Word is Jesus.  The Word is the message in the Bible in your hands.  Jesus is the message, Jesus is the Word, Jesus is GOD.

As you read Chapter 6 of Acts today you are going to notice some recurring themes. It talks about the Word, faith, and power. You can see that them continue even as you get to Acts 19.
What makes Spirit-filled believers different from unbelievers and religious folk is the power of the Holy Spirit.
How do you get the power of the Holy Spirit in your life? It is through faith. Faith is believing even though you can’t see something. With faith you can know, even though you can’t see the circumstances that the answer to your prayer has come. Faith is seeing what God sees. When you see what God sees, you can do what He does. In John 17, Jesus told us that we would do greater works than He did. It’s interesting how in selecting leaders in the church, the leaders were looking for people with
• A good reputation
• Filled with the Holy Spirit
• Filled with Wisdom of The Spirit

Acts 6:3,4
Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; 4 but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.

We cannot be distracted and we must be focused on the ministry of the Word (whom is Jesus) and be praying if we want to see the things of God happen. Are you ready for the things of God?

And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.
–Acts 6:8 NKJV

Continuing Power in the Church And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Porch.
–Acts 5:12

Praise God! Today, we got a chance to welcome two more people into the Kingdom of God and eternal life! Welcome Mr. Hayashi and Ms. Yoshie! We’re so glad to have you in the family!

Here’s today’s anointed worship. Thank you everyone in the Victory Word Band for making it amazing!