This Can Be YOUR City!!!

This is an exhortation I wrote for the church that I attend in the city I live in.
However this can apply to YOUR church and YOUR City!
We are ONE BODY in Christ Jesus!:

Please confess this, with all your heart, from the deep place of FAITH,on behalf of our Body and The Body of Christ in CNY. It is time we begin to raise up one voice for The Body Of Christ in Syracuse and CNY. We can truly be a city set upon a hill, a city so filled with His Spirit, so full of His Light, that bars begin to close and drug dealers begin to move out! Can it be so? YES, YES,YES!! Only Believe! It will only happen by a great move of Gods Spirit on His Body. It will only happen by The Baptism of The Holy Spirit spreading throughout The Body, causing an increase of salvations and power like we have never seen before!! Do you truly believe? Stop waiting!! Start pressing,stirring and acting! Praise God! Praise Jesus!

We ask you Father in Jesus name to make the above vision real. Show us our part in making this happen. Show us our part in bringing in a harvest like this region has never seen. Stir those you have called to stand in the gap for this area to declare the impossible is possible and believe for miracles,signs and wonders to be released in the name of your Holy Son Jesus! We stand ready and willing to be flaming swords in YOUR HAND!


“We will not doubt the promises of God through unbelief and doubt! We will be strengthened in FAITH as we give glory and thanksgiving to God, because we know what He has promised HE is also willing AND able to perform!!!!!”

Scars

I recently thinking about a song that says "Jesus take away the pain, but leave the scars, so...." I will stop there because these lyrics are so wrong and so damaging. God did not pay such a high price to leave you scarred and beaten! Those scars did not come from Him! They may have been caused by abuse, neglect, sin,... foolishness and the devil, but Jesus did not cause them

Jesus in Psalm 23 promises to restore your soul, make you new, cause you to become what you were meant to be, before the pain, before the neglect, before the abuse, before the drugs, before the booze, before your own foolish choices. Those scars that many wear as a badge of honor are not helping, they are causing a rift in your heart and mind. If you are a christian they are keeping you from really believing for Gods best and total restoration and healing, because you think those scars are helping. You are holding on to, something He died for and promised to heal for you.  Those scars are effecting how you relate to people. Those scars are causing you to walk in shadows and not the full light of the LIBERTY OF CHRIST! Those scars are causing you to have a self image that is tainted and not how God sees you. If you are not born again, or don't consider your self to have a personal relationship with Christ, those scars are probably being covered by drugs,beer, over sexuality. Want to know why it is so hard for people to quit drinking and doing drugs? They don't like what they see or feel about themselves without a numbing agent. Sure some still just like to party, but you know who you are, if those scars are causing you to have bad relationship after bad relationship. You know if when you sober up, you hide from yourself. You know, if you are a scarred person who wishes they weren't. I recently realized how devastating those scars have been to my life and how they caused so much behavior that I am now ashamed of..but freed from. I urge you fellow Christians, Don't carry those scars anymore, cast them away, and tell the devil He can keep them. Believe your LORD that He will restore child like innocence to your soul. HE WILL. And to those still searching...There is real freedom, real power and real healing..that no drug,drink,violence or sexual encounter can provide..and it is so cool to see Him work. Jesus died for YOU...........