The Housetop

The first of the seven pillars of wisdom is the paradoxical teaching of Jesus: If you love your life, you're going to lose it. A seed must fall to the ground and die in order to bear fruit. We too must first descend to a lower place through humility and die to self. It's a co-crucifixion with Christ. Many people, sincere in their religion and in their church attendance, are in danger of he...

There's a wisdom from God and a wisdom from this world. Both are putting out a call, inviting you to sit at their table and learn. We must distinguish between God's wisdom and the world's wisdom.  God's wisdom is foolishness to the world, whereas the world's wisdom is foolishness to God. The wisdom of God is the cross of Jesus Christ. God cut covenant with us at the cross of Ch...

God wants us to flow in the gifts of the Spirit; and we are to covet earnestly the best gifts.  We should have a burning desire for this.  But in that zeal, if we lose our love for Jesus, what did we accomplish?   The gifts of the Spirit are about us working with God.  If we get so enamored with how God is using us, then we fall in love with our abilities and not the Giver of the gift.  It is easy...

In 1 Corinthians chapter 12 there are nine gifts of the Spirit listed. They can be put into three groups of three: The Revelatory Gifts, The Power Gifts, and The Gifts of Utterance. In this session we discuss The Gifts of Utterance, comprised of Prophecy, Tongues, and The Interpretation of Tongues. There is much disagreement surrounding the gifts of the Spirit in our generation. Scripture tells us...

The nine gifts of the Spirit can be divided into three separate groups: The Revelatory Gifts, The Power Gifts, and The Gifts of Utterance. The second group, The Power Gifts, is comprised of Faith, Healings, and Miracles. People are hungry to see the genuine power of God. We should see an increase in the power of God in our generation, but instead we are seeing it dimensioned. This is largely due t...

We want to see a great reviving of the gifts of the Spirit in our generation.   The gifts are a manifestation of the Holy Spirit, given to each member within the interconnected Body for the profit of all. These nine gifts can be broken into three separate groups:  The Revelatory Gifts, The Power Gifts, and The Gifts of Utterance.     In this teaching, The Revelatory Gifts are discussed, which are:...

We are to let all things be done for edification. Edification is the building of the house of God. There are two purposes to edification:  1.) It is meant to build up and strengthen each member of the Body.  2.) It is meant to add to the Body of Christ by bringing new people in.  Both call for the gifts of the Spirit to be in full operation.    God gave gifts to men to equip the saints for the wor...

By one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body – the Body of Christ.  To function as the Bible teaches the Body of Christ to function, we need a shift in our thinking. We are to be joined to one another and immersed into relationship.  This requires a burial to self as we are interconnected and intertwined.  We are dependent on one another to fitly frame together until the whole Body manifests C...

We are faced with a flood of lies, even coming across the pulpit.  In order to not be deceived, we must guard against receiving from the wrong people. Making it a habitual practice to vigorously exercise our discernment will develop our senses and help us grow in our ability to differentiate between what is true and false.    Without a relationship with the Word of God, we are set up for deception...

Do you want to keep your deliverance?  Let the Creator make you creative in worship. God wants us to come to the place in our recreation where He, as our Creator, teaches us to be creative. We can release creativity in all of the five spiritual disciplines: prayer, bible study, fellowship, worship, and witnessing. God is looking for true worshipers who worship in spirit and truth.  Becom...

Strongholds give place to demons who want to wage war by attacking the weaknesses in our lives and tormenting our walk with Christ.  We need to demolish these strongholds and bring them to where they are useless for any demonic activity. Deliverance is found at the cross of Jesus Christ. It is the power of God for your deliverance. It is the power of God unto salvation. It is the power of God...

Just because you are a religious person does not mean you cannot be demonized. We are in a great falling away. The devil has opened his mouth and released a flood of lies upon the earth. This deception is even within the church. An oversimplistic way to Christianity is being offered up that’s not biblical. People are attempting to enter through a door other than the cross. Without signs of repenta...

Strongmen are demon spirits that literally torment the people of God. Jesus cast demons out with His word, and likewise, the Word of God will drive demons out of our lives. That’s why it is so important to have a strong relationship with the Word of God. The more we saturate our heart and mind in God's Word, the less room a demon has to occupy our life. The Word of God is how we break though stron...

We have allowed demonization to occupy people all over our churches, and we have done nothing to drive the devil out. The thief has come to steal, kill, and destroy. Sickness, disease, infirmity, and even demon possession is incipient death. Left uncured it will kill you. As a liar, the thief is desiring to bring you into bondage through demonic arguments in your mind undermining what God has said...

When God gives someone truth and they refuse to obey, He gives them over to blindness in their heart and mind. Darkness on the imagination is the first move of the judgment of God. This volatile land is where demonic reasonings and arguments exalt themselves in our mind and come against what we know about God. Hordes of demons attack the mind. The devil does not want us to think the way God thinks...

You are in a war. If you don’t realize that, you are beat already. Many Christians wrongly believe they are immune from the onslaughts of the devil. Because of this, we see so little of the casting out of devils that Jesus did and even told us was part of our ministry. There is an enemy of your soul who hates God and the image of Jesus Christ in your life. He wants to mar this image and make you b...

Christian warfare is very real. God wants to restore the image of God in us; and once we begin to bear the image of Christ, everything in hell attacks.   We are told to put on the full armor of God to have victory. But the victory over the devil is not merely external. The real freedom starts inside and works outward. We need to get the living Word of God inside of us until it saturates our system...

When the First Adam sinned, his breath kept going but his spirit died. This created an expiration date on the house of the soul, his physical body. The First Adam was a man of the earth, and we are all born into this realm. We bear the image of the earthly and want the things of the earth. Apart from Christ, we have spiritual death inside and await the eventual physical death, followed by the eter...

False prophets have infiltrated our churches. There are wolves in sheep's clothing of a lying gospel with a lying grace. Everything is about our prosperity, happiness, breakthrough, and destiny. We are a generation filled with lies. We have lost our collective minds in Christianity because we have lost the way.  We are following God based on what He can do for us, instead of what we can do fo...

- Ask: He who asks believing will receive. Scripture tells us when we make petition to God and believe, we will receive what we are asking for. But we are in an unbelieving generation with multitudes of people claiming to practice Christianity, yet having no faith in God or the Word of God. People in every religion and denomination pray, but no one expects answers. Maybe we aren’t receiving becaus...

Matthew 7:6 “Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.” When the teachings of God are taken to a person who is in the category of a dog or hog, they will turn around with your own words and rend you.  Dogs and hogs can refer to moral depravity to the upmost and those deemed unclean. They a...

Matthew 7: 1-5 is so misunderstood.  If there has ever been a phrase hijacked by the world and the devil himself, it is “Judge not.”  Two words have never been taken so out of context on a regular basis than these words right here.  The world’s #1 rule is “Judge not,” but this is a twisting of Jesus’ words. Jesus didn’t take judgement away.  Rather, He clarified what it meant a...

As one of the biggest covetous and idolatrous societies, America is full of those who are always wanting more. However, the greatest frustration to the grace of God is when we try to have our heaven and our world too. We cannot intermingle the two. We must establish one or the other. There must be a significant paradigm shift in our thinking and allegiances to what we are truly loyal to, what trul...

We are told to store up for ourselves treasures in heaven instead treasures on earth, but the problem is we love and seek after temporal earthly treasures. Have we missed true riches? Are we blinded by the gods of this world and lied to by the deceitfulness of earthly riches? We will continue to pour everything we have into the gods of this world until we get a new heart and a new spirit. When the...

Alms, Prayer, and Fasting are the 3 Secret Devotions of the Christian’s life. These devotions are a matter of Christian fact – not “if” we do them, but “when” we do them. In this episode, we are challenged to do these devotions humbly and privately, not sounding the trumpet in self-glorification. When done this way, we are storing up treasures in heaven and there will be a divine move of God in th...