First Apostolic Church

Spotlight Service: This service provides a place for men feeling out the ministry to function in the pulpit. Jacob wrestled with an angel and held on out of desperation for a blessing. If we can be desperate about a blessing then we must be desperate about souls.

Spotlight Service: This service provides a place for men feeling out the ministry to function in the pulpit. The Bible is filled with individuals who have left God's promise only to return to it. The reality is there is no life comparable to God's promise.

Traditionally during the feast of Passover there are four cups of wine that are taken. Each of those cups relate to the history of the children of Israel. Each even hold powerful significance for our lives today.

Prayer is constantly under attack. Our adversary does not want us to pray. Therefore, timeless thieves of prayer are staged to attack at will. Among some of the thieves of prayer may be these: convenience, busyness, apathy, and hypocrisy.

In the lives of Abraham and Lot we notice a couple of things. Abraham had an altar and a tent in his life while Lot seems to only have a tent. A quick contrast and comparison of altars and tents reveal that altars beat tents any day. Don't allow your tents to become bigger than your altars.

A common phrase in the Bible is about the blood being poured out at the bottom of the altar. Since the brazen altars were high in comparison to the stature of a Jewish man, you started at the bottom and ascended to the top. If much blood was found at the bottom, it was due to much sacrifice on the top. Thankfully where we all begin, the bottom, has been saturated by blood because of His ultimate s...

The so-called competition on Mt. Carmel was simple. Each group was going to pray to their gods or God and the God that answered by fire would be God. Elijah's first preparation in receiving an answer of fire was to repair the altar. The altar was broken down due to neglect. Fire comes and God draws near when people pray.

Samuel prays where the children of Israel has been twice defeated and God thunders a great thunder in answer to his pray and discomfits their enemy. They got victory where they had defeat due to prayer. However, Samuel was leaning on more than a rich heritage of prayer. His success is revealed by the postscript of 1 Samuel seven... he went to Ramah, his home, and built an altar. The victory at Miz...

Ahaz found an altar that was pleasing to him and thus pushed aside the altar in the temple that was pleasing to God. When you find an altar that pleases you, it probably doesn't please the Lord. Israel's relationship to God was usually dependent upon their attitudes and relationships to the altar of God. Don't alter the altar because people typically pray at that altar they worship at.

Saul was known not to have inquired about the ark of God. He even built (Hebrew: began to build) an altar his first altar one time. It is as though he started it but never finished it. Yet he is Saul -asked for. He seems to be the product of a request or the evidence of a prayer. Ironically, he refrains from completing his altar. A few mistakes are attributed to Saul's demise as a king but there c...

Though Noah is known by generations as the ark builder, he was also an altar builder. The first recorded altar of history was the altar Noah built. More importantly, building an altar seems to be Noah's first act after being confined to the ark for a little over a year. Noah made prayer a priority.

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About two hundred and forty years after the creation of Adam, the birth of a need rebirthed prayer. The first family evidently communed with God in the garden eastward in Eden. Circumstance had somewhat silenced that God-directed voice. When Seth bore his son, Enos, then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. God's call is as strong as ever... the call to himself.

Human ingenuity is wonderful but some things in life require the 7th hand -the God hand. We may make headway by our human reasoning and tactics but some things will never be complete without God's intervention.

Our society taps into energy drinks by the groves to secure a quick fix of alertness that will soon fade and many times cause them to crash. However, God's people have a holy energy that is everlasting and does not have the negative side effects.

There are certain things in this Christian life that on the surface may truly appear foolish. The Old Testament High Priest wearing a garment with bells on the hem may have looked foolish then. However, the ringing of those bells kept him alive. Likewise, our worship and other similar things keep us spiritually alive.

How we give and receive forgiveness is vitally important. You can give forgiveness without forgiveness being asked for. Although forgiveness has been given you will not receive it until you admit your wrong and that you are in a position of needing it.

When someone mentions "forgiveness," there are mixed emotions according to which side of the coin you are on -the offended or the offender. Regardless, it is necessary to process our feelings and both parties benefit from this powerful act.

This is an overview of the subject of fasting. There are some practical tips toward the end if a person is considering a fast.

The Apostle Paul mentioned there was one thing he apprehended but continued with a two-fold description. He spoke about forgetting the past and reaching for the future. He spoke of these things as one because your reaching, the chase, can be hindered by the past.

A principle is found in Romans 15 about giving. Basically, the Gentiles had received spiritual things from the Jews and felt it their duty to minister unto them in natural things. Therefore, with pleasure the Gentiles gave to the Jews because they had received so much from them.

Consideration is given to what Stephen actually seen or what was meant when he saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God.

Each of us are at different stages in our walk with God. However, our goal should be a first chair relationship, which is a life of commitment.

It is important to think before you make decisions because life is built upon choices. In addition, it is vital to lend an ear to the guidance of the spiritual leaders in your life. Words, actions, relationships, etc. should all boil down to one notable word... think.

This is a biblical view through scripture of the practice of foot washing and the spiritual benefits gained by this symbolical washing. One cannot participate without literally assuming the attitude and role of the servant. Forgiveness and cleanliness run deep through a basin of water.