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The word stronghold has a negative air around it, but it doesn’t have to be heard as a negative word all the time. We need to build good strongholds, specifically of the Holy Spirit. We think that if we try harder to do better, but we don’t work on the strongholds in our hearts, it will become striving instead of an action from grace. Prayer is so important in drawing close to Jesus, learning His...

What kind of warfare are we to engage in? What are “Strongholds”? How do we destroy the wrong strongholds? Pastor Jacob brings the answers to these questions from the Word of God. Strongholds are misunderstood, so destroying something you don’t understand might be pretty hard when you don’t know what the Word says about them. There are strongholds that we NEED. We need a fortress of Holy Spirit–of...

We all at one time or another have experienced pain, hurt, and hardship because of the effects of sin in our world. Learning to turn to Jesus during these difficult times is crucial. A lot of people’s suffering comes from either their own broken heart or the brokenness of another person who hasn’t properly healed. God has called us as a community of faith to understand the anointing of God to heal...

When we live in fear we become short sighted, narrow minded, and hard hearted. When we live in love we see past the worst, think beyond our problems, and provide a tender hearted presence to the hurt and hardened. Fear reduces our capacity for freedom. Love empowers us to steward great freedom well. The post A Spiritual Fight | Part 5 | Zach Backues appeared first on Victory Life Church . Support...

As we follow the Lord in our lives, we must look back to those who have gone before us in faith. We discover by God’s Word that we are in a race and it’s so important we finish our race well and pass the baton to the next generation as it has been passed on to us. Let’s take a look at those things that slow us down or hold us back and learn how to run our race well. The post I’m in a Race? | Stan...

Disordered desires are desires that might be healthy, but exercised in a place with no boundaries. That’s why our strongest desires are not always our deepest desires. Our culture today says that freedom means you can do “whatever makes you happy” as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else, but that isn’t freedom at all. Pastor Jacob uses pornography as an example. Sexual desire was designed by God, b...

There is not one person on this planet that is immune to believing lies. The lie isn’t always bad information that you hear. Sometimes we believe lies that we must do a certain thing or behave a certain way to make change happen. Some people think that arguing on social media is how they will create change, yet they use the same tactics and behavior as the people who oppose what they believe. Not...

For a believer, Jesus has removed the sting of death and the strength of the law over us by bearing our sins on the cross. If we can get a deeper revelation of this truth it will grow our love for the Lord and reveal His incredible love for us. The post The Sting of Death | Duane Sheriff appeared first on Victory Life Church . Support the show https://victorylifechurch.com/teachings/

There is a kind of “tired” that taking a nap or time off work won’t fix. There are different words for this kind of tired like weary, faint-hearted, and burnout. There are signs of this kind of tired like cynicism, little things that shouldn’t bother you rub you the wrong way, all people drain you, and you see things mostly negatively. Unless we get revitalized, we give room for the enemy. There m...

The primary spiritual battleground is the mind. Our thought life is either of the devil or of Jesus, there is no in-between. The tactics of the enemy are: To get you to question your identity, confuse your thoughts, and then when he has your thoughts, he can now control your behavior. The devil has no good in him, has no truths, and he cannot create anything– He can only manipulate lies to sound l...

Yes, we are in a spiritual fight. There is one camp that says everything bad you do is the devil and the other camp is completely ignorant of what the devil does. Yes, the devil is a real creature and we are in a fight FOR people, not with people. Pastor Jacob talks about the devil’s strategies AND Jesus’s victory. We can’t afford to live as though the devil doesn’t exist, but we also don’t need t...

Grave clothes are sticky and smelly. They cling to the body as if they were a part of the body. When you think of them metaphorically, addiction and old habits can try to cling to us when we are born again and resurrected from a life of sin and death. Pastor Duane talks about how to walk out the new life we have been given by Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection. Maybe Easter was a day you deci...

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The prodigal son asked for his inheritance early, he wasted it all on sin, and still… he knew he could go back to his father. What he didn’t know is that his father wouldn’t just tolerate him coming back but he would celebrate his son’s return home. It’s time to bring people home to Jesus. Let’s not be like the prodigal son’s brother. Let us know our Father’s heart so well that we go searching wit...

Holiness comes with a lot of baggage. It is a word that a lot of people have heard in an abusive and aggressive way. Pastor Jacob talks about being a Holy Priest. This does not mean you act perfectly all the time. If we were capable of always behaving perfectly, Jesus would not have had to go to the cross for us. Rather, holiness is the evidence of the transformative presence and work of Jesus in...

Our prayers and praise are heard in God’s throne room. We as priests stand in the gap for those who are partnering with sin and death, interceding for their souls. It’s time to speak with the authority of Jesus and the power of Holy Spirit. It’s time to see people miraculously healed of physical issues and soul issues. Pastor Jacob spoke beautiful truth with Love and we pray that this message will...

Have you ever been at a talent show and the sound messes up and everyone looks at the sound operator? How often do we even notice the sound person until something goes wrong? Being a priest means we look for opportunities that the Lord places in front of us to encourage people, to let them know they are seen and appreciated. Pastor Jacob reminds us to keep an eye out for the people who get overloo...

Being a Royal Priest is not contingent upon your behavior, but it’s still important in being an EFFECTIVE Royal Priest. It’s not about having perfect behavior, either. Pastor Zach talks about closing the gap between what we believe and how we behave and the way to do that is truly listening to what the Father says. All too often we try to be a priest without spending time with the Father and that’...

Sacrifices are giving something up that you love for something you love more. Jesus is God made flesh and He sacrificed Himself for us. He sacrificed His throne to be with us. Pastor Austin talks about sacrifice and worship and what it looks like to do daily as Royal Priests. The post Royal Priests | Worship and Sacrifice | Austin Hix appeared first on Victory Life Church . Support the show https:...

Being a Royal Priest is a lot more than dwelling in God’s presence, but it is never less than that. The commission is to go out and be a priest, a place where Heaven and Earth meet. When the waiter gets your order wrong, you are still a priest, not just a customer. When someone is not grateful for a good deed you did for them, you are still their priest, not simply a “good samaritan”. Pastor Jacob...

This message is the first of an incredibly powerful series on Royal Priesthood. If you’re new to being a part of The Church, you might think this is a leadership class for people who want to be priests in a church, but did you know that this is a part of who you are when you make Jesus King of your life? You are a Royal Priest in the Kingdom of God and His Kingdom is above all nations. In […] The...

It’s not about just being in the same building each week. No matter how godly a routine is, we run the risk of living on autopilot and forgetting to acknowledge and embrace God in His presence. When we live on autopilot, we get tunnel vision and forget the hurting and maybe even ignore that we are are hurting, too. We have to remember that we are priests and priests are attentive to the presence o...

Pastor Jacob is passionate about us all being aware of God’s presence, as you can tell if you have been listening to him for very long. Did you know that we are God’s dwelling place? He doesn’t leave and show back up like a fair-weather friend. He is always with us, always desiring to be near to us, and always loving us. Yes, God resists the proud… He doesn’t abandon them. God wants us to represen...

The Kingdom of God is Heaven on Earth: God’s will being done in the earth. We have to come to a place where we understand that we have God’s Kingdom on the inside of us and we forget that we are supposed to be the ones that change the culture. We keep wanting our workplaces to change but we seem to not understand that we are the culture changers. WE bring the Kingdom to our workplaces, schools, an...

When you were in a restaurant before you had kids, did you ever hear the toddler screaming and have the thought, “when I have kids, that will not happen.”? Then you had kids and you became the parent who is leaving the restaurant because your toddler is screaming. There are so many myths that we believe about marriage– problems that we want to avoid and problems we didn’t even know existed. Pastor...