Restoration Faith Centre

I am come that they might have life, and that they might

have it more abundantly. John 10:10 KVJ

 

 

Sunday 15th April 2007, Volume 5, Issue 12

 

Well, what an exciting week we have had. Sunday was without a doubt the most Super-natural encounter RFC has    experienced since we started in 1994. Pastor Dion’s awesome word and the anointing on his life was challenging and life changing. REVIVAL is underway in RFC and we will achieve and fulfil the Vision given by God to Pastor Kevin.  Also what a time we all had on Monday night and Wednesday night, you don't want to miss these powerful teaching meetings, again God's presence is available to encourage and empower us to walk in the Super-natural presence of God daily.

 

WE ARE INVITED TO ATTEND:        

"EMPOWERMENT TRAINING INTENSIVE" - 1st, 2nd and 3rd May 2007

City Faith Centre, Newmarket, AUCKLAND. MEETING TIMES  9.30am and 4.00pm daily. Registration cost $50.00, Seminar cost $300.00

Enquiries empower@cityfaithcentre.co.nz

 

THE POWER OF PRAISE:

It is so important in this hour that we all dwell in unity and love as then God commands a blessing on our meetings. Wherever God's presence dwells, His power functions in its absolute fullness. His GLORY enables and causes His    people to triumph daily in life. [Psalm 22:3]  [Psalm 107:1-7]  [Psalm 67:5-7]. The word TRIUMPH in the Hebrew means "an ecstatic shout of Victory over a defeated Foe". We Praise God not because we want something from Him, but    simply because He is worthy of our Praise. The Bible instructs us to Worship and Praise God in SPIRIT AND TRUTH. All Praise focuses on the nature and character of God. We see in the Word that God's character is revealed in Love, Holiness, Majestic, Faithfulness, Justice, Mercy and total integrity. God always inhabits the Praises of His people. He always dwells where His people praise and Worship Him. Knowing God in our Spirit is vital for effective praise. God is not an experience of the intellect but an encounter with the Heart [spirit] of God. A life of praise and Worship allows us to experience INTIMATE encounters with God. "I am the Almighty God, walk before me, and be thou                  Perfect." [Gen17:1]. It’s God's all sufficiency that is the source of our strength. Never forgetting that His presence is the manifestation of absolute LIGHT and LOVE. He is the absolute self-sufficient God. All mankind was created by God in order that we all may know Him. "And this is eternal life, that they might know the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."  [John 17: 3]. The Apostle Paul added in Ephesians 1:17 "That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him". Every day we can expect an increase of the knowledge of God. Our supply of His resources are inexhaustible, "He is the same yesterday, today and for ever."  God is unchangeable, He had no beginning and He has no end. Jesus is a direct        reflection of Father God. Jesus is the Word.

 

In Hebrews 1:2-3 "Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. "Who being the brightness of His Glory, and the express image of his person, and    upholding all things by the word of His power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high”. In Psalm 34:8-9 "O taste and see that the Lord is good and blessed is the man that trusteth in Him. "O fear the lord, ye his saints; for there is no want to them that fear him."

 

We witness every day the enemy – Satan – and his chief desire that God's blood brought Children will minimize the GREATNESS OF GOD. He wants us to think that he is more powerful than God's LOVE. We all know that is a lie from Hell. God's very essence is

is LOVE. The Holy Spirit is at this time revealing to us God's Love and all HIS Grandeur, His sovereignty, His immutability (unchangeable), His Glory, His majesty, and His irrepressible power is revealed and found in the character of His Love.

 

In closing GOD"S LOVE is God's Power and it (1) can unite (2) can heal (3) create a climate of love, joy and peace. "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love............We love Him because He first loved us.  [1. John 4:18-19]. How rich is the power of God's love. When we are filled with His love it replaces and castes out all possibility of fear. God's love is HOLY. God's love is Pure. God's love is incomprehensible, vast and bottomless - it has no end to it. It has no darkness in it. [1'John 1:5]. God is love. [1. John 4:8]. "Thou art worthy, O Lord to receive Glory and honour and power; for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created." [ Rev.4:11 ]. God has chosen you and me to be His friends. Self-sufficient as God is He wants our love, and will never be satisfied till He gets it. Free as God is He has let His heart be bound to us forever.

 

"Here in is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His son to be the propitiation for our sins, Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to LOVE ONE ANOTHER."  [1.John 4;10-11 ]   Father God is always present, He is timeless, He is most unique, He is Holy and Spotless, He is Glorious, He is GOD of the universe. He is our Redeemer, King and Lord.   Amen.

 

Have another great week. Monday and Wednesday night meetings as usual at 7.30pm at 5. Lerwick Tce, Lyall Bay.        Saturday City Out-reach departs from 5. Lerwick Tce, Lyall Bay at midday.