Answering questions from listeners and breaking down the hard truths about Christianity in an easy to grasp way.
The Principle of no failure will transform your life. I'm not exaggerating. In this podcast you will learn how to hear God's will for your life. What are the practical steps you should take to follow it through to its end and what happens if you make a decission outside the will of God. The fact is as a man or woman of God you can't fail but you will have to listen to find out why thats true.
This may be one of the most encouraging and life changing messages you might ever hear on the power of giving and recieving. This podcast is full of practical giving princibels according to the scripture. I share some powerful and true life stories of how the Lord provided for us when we were broke living on government cheese and headed for banckruptcy. It was through this very difficult financial time that we learned the power of tithing and generousity. Every word in the bible is true, unchanging and without error, so if you want to learn how to be rich God's way listen up! May the Holy Spirit teach you and give you revelation on the subject of faith and finances.
In this episode I will share with you the possible opposition you may face as you step out in faith to answer God's call on your life. You may want to know "who "will oppose you? Why do people oppose you? Practical ways to deal with opposition and how to be free from bitterness and unforgiveness.
Wrestling With The Call chapter 4 "The March Of Faith". Last time we talked about the hurdel of fear but today we will learn about faith. How faith is the destroyer of fear and fuels our soul with strength to walk out the calling of God in our lives. listen to learn how to recieve and apply the truth of God's word into our every day lives inpractical ways. Remember if one word of the bible is true then every word written in it has to be true. So enjoy listening to "The March Of Faith" and be encouraged that Jesus can and will do everything He said He would do in you, with you and through you. May you be released from fear as you listen. God bless you and have a wonderful day!
Chapter three of Wrestling With The Call deals with fear. What causes fear? How does fear effect our lives and how does it keep us from living in the fullness of God's purposes. First I will answer these questions then we will take a look at what God says about fear. What is the remedy of fear? Can we be set free from it? Through the word of God we will see the answer to these questions is a resounding yes. Remeber Jesus came to set us free from the power of sin, the boundage of sin and the peanelty of Sin. He has come to set us free and for us to be free indeed!Enjoy listening to the hurdel of fear and I pray as you listen you will be built up in your faith and be set free once and for all from fear. God bless you, Pastor Mike
In chapter 2 of Wrestling With The Call ( The Internal Nagging Of The Heart) we will explore the questions of how do I know I'm called to fulltime vocational ministry? What are the signs and indicators? Am I called to the ministry or to A ministry? In this chapter we will give you clear and practical answers to these questions and more. After listening to this episode you will have the information you need to realize if your called fulltime or not. This episode will also help clearify your place of service in the body of Christ even if your not called fulltime. Couple listening the episodes of wrestling with The Call with my podcast entiteled "The Princible Of No Failure" and I am sure you will be filled with practical advice, wisdom and faith to follow your call to its completion.
"Wrestling With The Call" is my first book and it will help you answer the questions, am I called to a life of fulltime vocational ministy? If Iam how do I know? What are some of the challanges I will face? How do I live a life of faith? How will I be funded? Wrestling With The Call will help answer these questions and give you practical advice to help you Identify the call and live it out to its completion. This book will also help every Christian find their place of service in the body of Christ. Enjoy as I read "Wrestling With The Call" chapter one.
Have you ever wondered if the person you're praying for is just to addicted, broken or rebelious for Jesus to save, redeem, deliver and heal? In this 2nd interview with Patric he recounts the horrors of his life. His rejection, abandonment and abuse. How it shaped him into an angry, rebellious, addicted criminal and how the prayers of his grandparents, mom and eventually his wife moved the heart and Spirit of God to bring him to repentance, save, deliver and heal him. If you need a fresh spirit of hope to keep you praying for the ones you love please listen to this podcast. You will receive a new hope that Jesus will save the ones you love.
The text for todays podcast is Romans 8:8-17. We learn from this text that we are no longer obligated to be bound up in sin and we can be set free from the generational sins of our ancestors. We will learn that in our own strength this is impossible but by the Blood of Jesus and the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit combined with our will to be free, we can be free. Then we will look at our identity as the children of God. I pray that you will encouraged, inspired and filled with faith to be free by the power of Jesus Christ.
Today you will hear my interview with Cortez,once a drug runner, gang member, and secular rapper but today he is a redeemed man of God with a Christian music label. Hear of his heart breaks, suicied attempts, run-ins with the cops and God's amazing grace as He brings him a Godly wife and delivers him from a distrustful lifestyle. Today he is being used by God to preach the message of Christ through the media of music and helping other young artists come to the forefront of Christian rap and Hip Hop.
Pastor mike will be teaching and preaching from Acts 8:26-39. He will show us how listening to and obeying the voice of God can change your life or someone else's life forever. He will answer the questions ,"how do I know its God speaking"? "What happens if I think its God speaking and its not".? "How do I grow in hearing and obeying God"? He will will share observations, insights, scriptures and stories to teach you and challenge you to quickly obey God in your everyday life.
Pastor Mike challenges us from the passage of scripture Acts 8:26-39. Teaching us practical life principles on how to hear and obey the Lord. As we look at the interaction between Phillip and the Ethiopian eunuch we learn that one act of obedience to one word spoken to us from God can change our life or someone else's life forever! He answers the question of "how can we learn to walk in obedience"? "How do we know if its God really speaking to us"? "What happens if we think its God and its really not"? Lastly he will share real life experiences that show how this biblical principle changed his and others lives forever.
Today listen to my interview with Thomas, he's a cop and a Christian. The police have been getting a lot of bad press lately and it seems we never get to hear the positive side of law enforcement. I asked Thomas some hard questions like, how do you feel when you have to shoot a person? How do you reconcile your faith in Christ and killing someone? Do you have to arrest everyone who commits a crime or give everyone a ticket you stop on the road. Has your time as a police officer jaded you? How can you have a joyful spirit and deal with the dark side of life all the time. He gave unbelievable answers and he truly does his job in the Spirit of Christ. So listen and enjoy the heart of God in a man of law enforcement>
Today we release our first interview. Patrick is a veteran,Former Swat team member and now a minister. He has an incredible story of how Jesus captured His attention, became the Lord of his life and how He order all the circumstances to lead Patrick into the ministry. I also asked him how do you reconcile your belief in Jesus when you have to shoot a man and how did you live out your relationship with God in a military that will arrest you for saying His name? His story is inspiring and proves that Jesus has a plan and destiny for our lives.
I will share two intense stories. I believe if you listen you will learn how to love, walk with and minister the gospel of Christ in a way that will communicate the heart of Jesus for the homosexual community.
An in-depth look into John 16:8-11. Who's job is it to convict people of their sin? Yours or God's? It is the Holy Spirit that will convince people that they are far from God and in need a savior and reveal to them that Jesus is truly the savior of all mankind. Listen and be challenged, inspired and encouraged by the truth of God's word!
Michael and Terrill Esposito have been married for 28 years. They have four daughters; two natural and two spiritually adopted. Michael was saved out of a lifestyle of drugs, gambling, womanizing and just living a full on immoral life. He was just a young arrogant punk when Jesus saved him on the night of February 21st, 1980. That was the night Jesus delivered him from all of his addictions, made him his child, and called him to be a minister. Terrill was saved when she was 12 years old. While living in Holland her friend gave her the book “Prison to Praise.” She read it, said the prayer at the end of the book, was saved, and began her new life in Christ. They love to spend time with their daughters and their husbands playing board games, watching movies, eating out (they are all foodies), traveling the world, working out (Michael does anyway), and spending time entertaining friends. Terrill is an animal lover and the owner of 20 Alpacas, 30 chickens, two pigs and two goats. She sheers the Alpacas for their fleece, which she sells to support other missionaries. Michael has recently gotten involved in the movie industry as an actor and background player. Mike says, “ Living for Jesus is so wonderful that everyday feels like a Saturday”!
Over the next four podcasts we will be studying John 16;8-11 and discovering what the role of Holy Spirit is and what our role is in evangelizing mankind. I will be telling stories, giving principles to live by and breaking down the scripture verse by verse. I believe that as you listen you will be challenged, encouraged and inspired.
John 16:8-11 teaches us what the role of the Holy Spirit is in the process of evangelism. He convicts of sin and reveals Jesus as the Christ, we don't. In the next two sessions we will examin this scripture verse by verse. So get out your bibles and lets study the word of God together.
The Remedy the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. The answer to a powerless and ineffective Christian life is for you to be empowered by the Holy Spirit. Listen and be inspired, encouraged and filled with the Holy Spirit. He will enable you to live a dynamic Christian life and help you redeem the world around you.
The answer to a powerless and ineffective Christian life is for you to be empowered by the Holy Spirit. Listen and be inspired, encouraged and filled with desire to be filled with Holy Spirit. He will enable you to live a dynamic Christian life and help you redeem the world around you.
Remedy, a four part series on the empowerment of the Holy Spirit and how He enables us to live a dynamic Christian life to help redeem the world we live in.
Remedy, a four part series on the empowerment of the Holy Spirit and how He enables us to live a dynamic Christian life to help redeem the world we live in.
Today listen and learn how to take the biblical steps to fulfill God's will and purposes for your life with no fear of failure but with faith and the confidence to succeed.
Today we will explore the spiritual accomplishments of the humanity of Christ and answer the question , How was it possible for Jesus to be all God and all man, yet live totally in His humanity and not in the power, or privilege of His Deity!
Can a person become a Christian after death? Stupid question? Maybe not. Let's look at the heart of this question.