"Getting Wrapped Up" -The world has ways of trapping people in their webs that can produce unnecessary pressure. It's proven that depression and anxiety escalates in the hearts of people during the holiday season. What causes the pressure to exist? It's the way that the world portrays the holidays. As Christians, we have to guard our hearts and resist the pressure to live up to a certain standard set by the world. Through this message, you will learn what it means to live free of the pressures of the flesh nature and the world. God wants us to enjoy life, but we have learn how to achieve that liberty from His Word.
Can You Hear Him Now?
December 15, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"Can You Hear Him Now?" -It's possible to hear the voice of the Lord and still not hear Him. You know it's His voice but you choose to ignore His instructions. Most times, when something is important to God, we may not consider it important to us. Choosing to live in this manner has cost Christians dearly in their lives and the lives of their families. Why is it that we will wait to obey God until we allow our disobedience to cause us trouble or devastation? It is after we have suffer loss and had to endure great pain that we will begin to hear God more clearly and obey Him more readily. Think about it!
The Fight of Faith
December 8, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"The Fight of Faith" -It's strange to our way of thinking as humans, to try to understand the fight of faith. Although Christians do fight with our faith, we do not engage in physical battles. Since we live in a physical world, we can have strong tendencies as humans to want to defend ourselves physically. Therefore, when people are saved and attempt to live by faith, most times, we may attempt to fight in our flesh instead of trusting the Father to defend us. However, when we defend ourselves instead of trusting and obeying the Lord, we sin against the Lord and resort to operating in our flesh nature as Christians. So, how can we fight the good fight of faith without actually fighting?
The End of an Era
December 4, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"The End of an Era" -When the Lord performs a new work in the earth, not everyone who follows Him will accept it. The Jews were taught the Law and required to keep it for many generations. However, when Jesus came as their Messiah, He didn't offer them the Law, but truth and grace. Since the Jews didn't submit to the new way of obeying God by faith, God rejected them and opened the door of grace to the gentiles. There is a new era that God is releasing in the earth and among the Church. Even so, how many called by His name will reject this new thing from God because they are comfortable remaining the same?
Choose the Right Path
December 1, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"Choose the Right Path" -There are two paths that humans can choose to follow in this life. One path will lead those who choose it to find eternal life, the other path will lead those who follow it to death. If you choose the right path, God has promised to give you an abundant life in Christ. To acquire the abundant life, we will have to discipline ourselves to obey the Lord as He leads us on His path. It won't take long of following the Lord and His blessings will begin to manifest in our lives. If we will continue to seek the Lord, His blessings will overtake us and others will see God's goodness and power on our lives.
Living Without Condemnation
November 24, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"Living Without Condemnation" -How would you like to live without guilt, shame, regret, and fear of the unknown? When Jesus paid the debt for the sin of mankind, He also delivered us from condemnation. Most Christians understand what it meant for Jesus to set us free from our sin and to give us eternal life, but not many fully understand what it means to live without condemnation. By the way, condemnation is so much more than a feeling you get when someone doesn't approve of you. You need this word from the Lord! Just sayin'!
The Delivering Power of God
November 17, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"The Delivering Power of God" -Can you think of anything that is more powerful than the God of the Bible? God created the heavens, the earth, and filled them with everything that He desired. God plundered Egypt and set His holy people free from slavery. God drove out the nations that were mightier and more powerful than Israel as they possessed their land of promise. God worked through Jesus to strip Satan, demons, principalities, and powers of their rule over the souls of man. God has made sinners to become new creatures in Christ. He has given His children in Christ authority over the powers of Satan and demons. Yet, there's one thing that God can't overcome.
How to Respond to Hard Seasons
November 13, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"How to Respond to Hard Seasons" -This word may help every Christian alive today. It is during the hard seasons of life that Christians will be required to live by their faith in God. However, when we are made to endure lengthy seasons of hard trials, this can also cause us to grow weary in our faith. Satan wars against believers with the hope of wearing us down. It is in those times of weakness that if we will turn to the Lord with our whole heart, God will empower us to live in victory over the Devil. But there's more to the story!
The God of Israel
November 10, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"The God of Israel" -After the fall of Adam, man began to forget their God and no longer considered Him as their Lord. In Genesis 6, God saw the heart of the people of the earth had grow evil and every thought was evil only. Even though God was also the Lord of all, people didn't know Him as Lord. The inhabitants of the earth had given themselves over to paganism and idolatry. Therefore, God introduced His plan to restore all nations to Himself when He called Abram out of his father's land to follow Him. Through God's relationship with His people, the other nations of the world came to know God as the God of Israel. There's more to this story!
Access Granted
November 6, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"Access Granted" -When God delivered His people from the land of bondage, it was His intention to give them spiritual rest. However, the Jews refused to honor God or His Word. So, He refused to give them His rest. When believers come to Jesus, we have to do more than simply believe. Otherwise, we won't be allowed to enter the kingdom of God or inherit His promises. Christians must realize that it's not enough to stand at the door and knock. At some point, we have to be willing to enter in through it. Access has been granted but how many will take God at His Word and enter?
The Power of One
November 3, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"The Power of One" -The Word declares that with God all things are possible. All Christians need to obey God is to utilize our faith and God will do the work so that His purpose is done through us. However, Christians can struggle with so many issues in our lives that erode at our confidence that can cause us to be afraid to step out in faith. It's been stated that "You and God make a majority." Has God placed things in your heart that makes you shutter to even think about doing them? God won't allow us to allow fear to stop us from obeying Him. This is why God has given to every person the measure of faith and requires us to use our faith to obey Him.
Access Denied
October 30, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"Access Denied" -Jesus warns us in Luke 11 : 35, "Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness." It's very possible to believe something to be true when it is a lie. All that needs to happen to believe a lie as the truth is to be convinced that it is the truth. Notice that Jesus teaches that the light that is in some believers is not light at all but they will believe it to be light, but they will still be in darkness. To know the truth of God, we have do more than simply believe it. God requires us to obey the truth even when we don't understand what He instructing us to do. Therefore, when we obey God, even though we don't understand Him or His instructions, we are placing our faith in God and not in ourselves. Once truth is revealed to us, God's light will shine in our hearts and we will have spiritual understanding and know the truth.
Where is the Church?
October 27, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"Where is the Church?" -Just as spiritual things have come into existence through the faith and obedience of God fearing believers, they can also cease existing. America is a nation. What America has been since its inception came about because God-fearing people loved and appreciated what God had allowed them to have. In recent decades, we have watched the America that once was, is no more. What needs to be asked and answered is, "Where is the Church?" And where has it been in recent decades?
Who has the Power to Defeat God?
October 23, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"Who has the Power to Defeat God?" -Why does God allow evil people to become rulers over nations and people? Why does God allow horrific storms to destroy lives and property? Has there ever been an evil leader or destructive storm that has been able to withstand God or defeat Him? If God is so great and powerful, why don't humans and Christians fear Him as we should?
The Church is the Voice of Hope
October 20, 2024 • Pastor Asa Dockery
"The Church is the Voice of Hope" -Imagine how wicked and violent the world would be if God's Word and the Church weren't in existence. Now, imagine how wicked and violent the world would become if the Church did not stand for the truth and fight for justice. Christians are called to be Salt and Light in a spiritually dark and corrupt world. However, if we refuse to allow the Lord's truth and love to shine through us, we will create a spiritual vacuum in the earth that would be filled with lawlessness and corruption. The Church is the voice of hope for the world. Every Christian that desires to be Salt and Light needs to hear this word from God.
