The Housetop

We are warned in Scripture that a Last Day’s false teacher will creep in unawares and pervert grace to lasciviousness. This perversion of grace has permeated our society and churches today. Grace has been turned into the justification for all manner of sin and evil one can think of. It is believed by a multitude that salvation is a futuristic thing, where one can live like the world all their life...

Presumptuous grace is believing the normal Christian life is one of defeat. But believing we have to continue in our sins is a lie that does not agree with what the power of God has done for us. There are many sincere, devout people who have been lied to and do not realize there is liberty available in Christ to free us from the bondage of sin. To flippantly continue in sin is a perversion of the...

Matthew 5-7 is the teaching of our King, Jesus Christ, beginning a whole new covenant with mankind. The 9 blessings, often called the beatitudes, taught by Jesus in Matthew 5-7 are the characteristics of the sons and daughters of God. These beatitudes are the DNA of the new birth as we become partakers of the divine nature of God. God, our Father, puts His seed in us and births something very holy...

The 23rd Psalm is a wonderful Psalm about the restoration of our soul available in our good shepherd, Jesus Christ, so we don’t fall into a worldly grief. There are going to be some days that aren't so pleasant in the Christian journey. When you've suffered loss, there’s a void. But there’s also the real power of God to bring your mind back to the fact that the Lord is your shepherd. He restores a...

If a worldly sorrow has set in and is working death in you, repentance from that worldly sorrow could transition your mind to the mind of Christ. Your spirit, your mind, and your emotions could be healed, and you could be made well. In this session, we look at the sequence of events following Prophet Nathan’s confrontation of King David’s sin and prophesy of his son’s death. What follows is a beau...

Throughout our entire Christian walk, it is pertinent we continue to put on the mind of Christ, be renewed in the spirit of our minds, and change our thought patterns. This is repentance. It is the understanding that our minds need to change in order to have faith. If not dealt with properly, the trauma that comes with the grief can disrupt the natural patterns of our brain. Prolonged distress tha...

Isaiah 40:1-8 Grief, whether it’s godly or worldly, has some uncontrollable moments because of a great loss. The bottom line is that somewhere in there we can regain faculty. We can begin to turn this around, to change it, to repent, to change our thinking. Godly sorrow works repentance to salvation. There are many people who suffered loss and never found their way into a godly sorrow.  The w...

Continuing Spiritual Loss, we discuss the belief that one cannot lose their soul. This belief has permeated our society and the religious cultures today. In Matthew 10:5-7 we see God sent Jesus onto the scene specifically to talk to His covenant people who were lost.   “Lost,” means to destroy fully, to perish, to die, and to render useless. There are people very religious who are lost. This...

The key verse for this study is 2 Corinthians 7:8-11 Most people have never properly settled the major traumas of their lives and the biggest traumatic episodes have never been healed. Scripture can heal anything out there. The Word of God has provided healing through the blood of Christ. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - God has given us a great gift that after trauma, we have stress. When...

Marriage is a powerful proclamation. We pledge before God and witnesses, “Unto death do us part.” We promise on our very life to do all that’s in the covenant vows; and it’s not to be taken lightly. We have failed in traditional churches and in relationships because we have had flimsy foundations and flimsy vows. If our marriage doesn’t revolve around Christ Himself, how can we be called Christian...

In marriage, you become one with the person you enter the marriage covenant with. The two become one. It’s miraculous and supernatural. God built you to have one partner in your lifetime; but we must begin with a right understanding of the gravity of blood covenant. “Till death do you part,” is you promising on your own life that you will not leave this person. You are vowing before God and witnes...

We were made for productivity, and God has redeemed us for good work. Part of this good work is when the character of God comes out of us because of the New Birth. Reflecting His glory and shining the light of Jesus is a good work. God has put you in a place, set boundaries, and given you something to do. If you understand that, you will be productive all your life with fun, life-giving productivi...

Can we vow to our spouse that we will keep ourselves free from all vice and addictive behavior? It is such a negligence if we take marriage vows today and leave this out. Made in the image of God, man is a triune being:  spirt, soul, and body. There is an issue when people stop taking care their whole person. It is crucial within marriage that we maintain what God has given us and not neglect...

God wanted man to be fruitful and multiply to fill the earth with His glory. Unless we bring our children into the new birth, we are failing to fill the earth with God’s image. We must see that our duty in the Christian home is not to birth flesh and blood but to birth the spirit of God into our children. If we don’t do that, we fail. We must do everything we can to see our children brought to the...

The subject of male a female is a hot topic right now in the press. A biblical perspective of this topic is fitting for such a time as this. God invented marriage because He wanted one man and one woman to live together in one lifetime with Him right in their midst reflecting His glory through them. God created us male and female, both in His image. The same, yet also different spiritually, physic...

Mankind’s place in God’s creation is for us to have dominion over the works of His hands. Dominion means to tread down, prevail, and rule over.  Male and female both have a God-given dominion nature. If you apply this in life, it serves you well in work. This is what makes us have drive and strength. But we are not to direct this dominion towards one another.  The downfall of many homes...

Man was created in God’s image as the pinnacle of God’s creation. We were made to stand before God, mirror Him, and reflect His image and glory. We were designed to worship and for everything from God to reflect out of us. The devil loathes the image of God and will do anything he can to mar it. Because we stand in the image of God, the devil’s wrath is turned towards us. He will do anything he ca...

Marriage is a created entity of God. If we are going to talk about the creation of marriage, we need to start at creation. We have to build our case for creation so we can see the power of God in the marriage covenant. By faith we believe that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that the things we see were made by things that do not appear. The things we see were spoken into existence by...

God invented marriage.  It was created by God and for God.  Marriage belongs to God; and the Word of God defines it.  It is the only place sexual intimacy is made holy. There is a sexual perversion and breakdown of God-ordained marriage; and Christians are expected to accept it.  As a culture, we have stepped far outside the perimeters God set for intimacy.  What we are no...

If we are not engaging in prayer, there will be a fainting in the heart of man. Many have fainted and are spiritless in this hour. It’s time to return to the Lord and get back in the battle.   Very few people engage in the true spirit of intercession, led by the Holy Spirit of God, reaching the heart of Christ.   People today are totally given to sight and human reason. Our logic is not coming fro...

“We need to pray and not faint.” (Luke 18:1) The word faint means to be utterly spiritless, wearied out, and exhausted.   Speaking mainly to the men right now, we are on-the-go constantly. The most vocal people in the churches today are women. Men are in silence. It is a travesty. It is a demonic attack on the speech of men. It’s time for men to step up. It’s time for men to find their voice. Many...

We have been discussing how to build a spirit of prayer and have such a prayer agreement among us that God hears our prayer and we start to see great things. We need to have such a communion with God that the Spirt of God shows us the heart of God.   If we are willing to hear, He wants to show us the very throne room of God.  If we are willing to enter His presence and stay there, He will show us...

It’s our duty as Christians to restrain the advancement of the antichrist spirit and hinder his every work. The way we do that is through the explosive power of prayer. We need to move prayer back to the forefront of our worship service.   There are a multitude of people who have grown up in church but still don’t know what praying really means. We don’t know how to fight. The army of Christ is di...

The need of the hour is to bring prayer to the centerpiece and focal of our worship. Prayer needs to become our worship, where we are seated before God and waiting on Him, instead of being overly focused on entertainment. We need to learn how to pray. Every promise of God in the New Testament is predicated on us being found in Christ. The promises of God are absolute when we are in Christ. We have...

With current events, there’s a feeling of hopelessness as we question, “What can we do?”   The need in this hour is for us to go straight to the Supreme Judge of all the earth, begin to pray His will, and watch God work from heaven.   Right now, as we occupy until He comes, our occupation should be Warfare Prayer – powerful intercessions that really begin to move the hand of God.   There’s an inte...