Into The Depth Youth Ministry

So many believers in America are still walking in their family's religion instead of stepping into a personal relationship with Jesus, for themselves. And because of this, we are seeing that same religion, but denying the power of God being done, still, in America.

So many times, preachers and bible scholars (according to man, but not always to God,) will get us to believe that we must do something, or perform some work in order to grow in our faith, when all which is necessary is to abide in Jesus Christ, as spoken in John 15:1-5, which truly means to abide in his work (the suffering & death on the cross, the burial, his resurrection and ascension back to h...

the work of God in Christ Jesus is completed. It is the four phases of his work: the cross (cruxificion), his buriel, his resurrection 3 days later and his ascension and re-sitting upon his throne at the right hand of The Father. This is the rest we need to be in. This is the building of the real and true and living body we need to be serving, and for those who are married on this Earth, have anot...

Lastly, the final set of scriptures: Colossians 1:9-12. God tells us to first love him with all our being, then to love others as ourselves. This is loyalty, yet by religion, which is more a manifestation of self as per man's commands, instead of by God's commands and love, we deceptively believe we can hold loyalties to people and things more than God and still be obedient to the faith. I pray th...

We, as Americans, especially and unfortunately, us in the church in america, have learned from our ancestors and/or those whom we associate with on a regular basis, have -- against God's Will and allowance -- how to show respect to only certain people, instead of loving everyone equally. This, also is a major worldly teaching in America for becoming successful according to the world's standards (w...

Having been on one of the most awesome journey's with God the past several years to both inner cities and small towns and very rural areas, been shown this most interesting thing: That somewhere along the way, our nation's religious leaders, ignorantly thought they were hearing from God when they probably were not, in the way they built physical church buildings in the middle of no where. When we...

When God speaks, both to us and through us, the foundations will begin to shake, because of his power and omnipotence and when His voice begins to speak to us, those things which are worldly will begin to become so loose within our hands that we let them go and begin to hold on tighter to Jesus' hands alone. As our eyes should always be fixed on Jesus, our hands should only be in The Lord's. We ca...

Jesus reminds us in these verses that when we believe in Him, we shall have the river of living waters flowing through us. Unfortunately, Satan in his always lying ways, has infiltrated much of the church today with material things (junk actually), religious attitudes which do NOT reflect the mind of Christ, division, a me-attitude instead of the God-attitude & fellow believer-attitude we are comm...

In America, many ministers believe they will be at locations all their calling and can become extremely protective over their territory and instead of remaining as God's shepherds, they can fall prey into thinking they own the sheep and take to following the devil instead. Forgetting, God may actually be wanting to use them some place else, or bring others in to finish his work he began through th...

An additional passage is: Philippians 1:6. Once we truly are saved, born-again, by the confessing with our mouths and professing (believing) with our hearts in The Lord Jesus Christ, he then makes us clean by his word and him, The Father and The Holy Spirit take up residence within us and we now become the temporary temple of God and in order for us to grow in him, he begins to thorough clean us o...

God has designed each and every one of us, first to desire to be in a relationship with him and to carry forth his gifts and talents, unique to each of us, out into the world so that they may see and hear about him and see his power working through our lives, which is actually his life now being lived out through us. But most of the time, particularly in America, we use God's talents and giftings...

When Jesus comes into our life, he comes inside and begins to prune us (casting out ALL that is NOT of God) and begins to transform us into HIS image. When he calls each of us to join him in his continual work on Earth, we are to come out of something of comfort to us: whether it is a religious doctrine, a job which is just a job and not the one God had in mind for us, relationships which are harm...

The religious leaders, who were also the teachers of the law, were some of Jesus' biggest group of objectors to him and in some ways, we are much like them today.