Sermons – The Journey

Pastor Mike Espinoza opens this series with Jesus: The Lover

Do you want a practical guide to unlocking abundance? We all start in ignorance. We are all ignorant in some area, actually, in many areas. Ignorance is not knowing and we move out of ignorance by knowing, by gaining knowledge. Knowledge is a good start but it is only the beginning. With knowledge we must gain understanding, which happens when we begin to comprehend how the information we have works together. Yet, understanding is never the end plan. The end […]

Get ready to be challenged by a message that inspires us to not just study Pentecost and to not just hope for the experience of Pentecost, but rather for us to be the temples of the Holy Spirit that bring experiences to others.

This is from a video series that my friend Jim Sim and I have been doing on Fear: Another Kind of Faith. It is less of a teaching and more of an exploration, through our conversation and friendship, on how there are indicators that show up the deep fear we have within. Extreme conclusions may be one of those indicator lights. Jim and I each share 3 of our Extreme Conclusion Indicator Lights. You can watch the whole thing on […]

I Samuel 17 YOU ARE… YOU CANNOT… YOU WILL… The 3 are tightly connected! I AM… I CAN… I WILL… Listen in and find the sentences you can speak that agree with the sentences God is using to describe you!

“Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? 4He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to falsehood, who does not swear deceitfully. 5He shall receive blessing from the LORD, and vindication from the God of his salvation.…”  (Psalm 24:4 NIV) First, notice the wide gap between your Hands and your Heart.  Not the distance between them but rather the huge gap between what they […]

We are going to be Acts chapter two this morning and starting a series called The Cross Changes Everything.  I want to start with a little illustration:   One day, a teacher was teaching her young class the story of Jesus visiting Mary and Martha. She carefully explained how Mary and Martha had hurried to clean the house and cook a special meal. Then she paused and asked, “What would you do if Jesus was going to visit your house today?” […]

Have you ever done something that hurt someone?  Something you were ashamed of?  Said or did something that was just a big piece of stupid?Of course you have!  And so have I. One benefit of being a Child of God is that when we receive Our Good Father’s love, it includes His forgiveness, which means we can choose to forgive ourselves.  In fact, we have no right to even hold our sins against us.

Loving yourself means feeling and acting confident.  When you have experienced God’s agape love and it is transforming you it is producing a confidence that you have not experienced before.  David speaks like he is not just a Shepherd Boy EVEN THOUGH at this moment that is all he is. He has never been in battle and possibly never wielded a sword.  But self-confidence does not come from what you have done but it comes From WITHIN.   Self-Confidence born from […]

“Our thoughts about God and how God sees us and loves us Determines the level of love we receive from God–not the amount of Love God has for us” (Pastor Les) It does not matter how powerful God is, how much love He wants to pour into your heart, if your Belief Thermostat is set on 62-degrees then it will never get warmer in your life.  You may even go around talking about God and how He heats up a […]

YOU ARE ANOINTED! Imagine a shadow of a preacher falling on someone and them being healed; a Handkerchief bringing healing over someone; a word going forth and the preacher never laying hands on or even seeing a person; Or someone in town, complete crazy, naked, and breaking off chains when he was put in them, being sent as a minister to his old town—to declare what God has done!! You and I are anointed.  Period.  End of discussion. Everything else […]

“Now to Him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us…” (Ephesians 3:20 NIV) It must be the power of Holy Spirit.  It is definitely not our own power.  It is not the power of Humanity that is working in us.  Each one of us believes that there is power working within us, correct?  But to what level do we believe there is power working within […]

The main reason we do not see more miracles and more abundance in and through our lives is because we say we believe, yet we do not. How can we start believing that which we do not yet believe? #1  COMMIT Make a decision that God is good That scripture is truer than your experience To Scripture! #2  IMAGINE the new belief–Visualize it Ask God for imagery Visualize what you imagine In words, art, poetry, visuals of any kind Create […]

Everything that you could not do, up until the point you did it, was impossible. Talking. Walking. Riding a bike. Reading. Almost everything that you will enjoy today, until it was done for the first time, was impossible. Radio. Movies. Telephones. Cars. Electricity. Computer. Yet, all the components were always there. All you needed to walk, talk, read and ride a bike were already embedded within you. It just had to be “discovered”. When you dream about doing something impossible, […]

Impartation:  A revelation of what is already there. Numbers 11: Last time I was here I spoke about when God took the Spirit and put it on 70-elders; which represents a generation; Moses represents 1–He was representing not his one but The ONE.  It wasn’t Moses imparting himself but God imparting Himself thru Moses Genesis:  “The Lord God formed man from the ground…”. God put His hands on Humanity.   God’s hand is UPON ME!   “…and He breathed…”. God was kindling […]

Keys to Kingdom PEACE Prayers Colossians 3:15-__ Things of The Kingdom may be a process We are not to live in this world’s system but progressively move into heaven’s system of being here on earth John 17–Father make them one as WE are One. As we grow and pray the right kinds of prayers to enter into the kingdom then God begins to release new things to us Exhortation I Timothy 2:1-__ Talks of 4-different types of prayers in this […]

Spiritual GIFTS  God’s  Invitation to His  Friends that He Trusts with the  Supernatural If we keep the pursuit of spiritual gifts as an act of friendship and as a partnership with God’s presence then I think we will enjoy the journey much, much more.  The passionate pursuit of Spiritual Gifts is a relationship journey, not a lonely dreary walk.   Read I Corinthians 12:7-11 NIV “Now to each one…the manifestation…of the Spirit…is given…for the common good.” Organize your mind around this […]

What opposes God?  Not the Devil but our thoughts and imagination! Who Demolishes that which opposes God?  We do! How do we Demolish It (that which opposes God?)  By Organizing our Minds according to the Rhythm of Heaven–the strong, regular, repeated pattern of sound that is coming from the throne room of heaven.  You Organize Your Mind.  God does not organize your mind.  God gives you complete control, complete power over your mind and your body.   You Choose Your Thoughts, […]

The concept is super simple:  Your brain needs to be spoken to by something ELSE OTHER than you mind, than your thoughts.  Your mind stores all the experiences you have ever had, puts judgement on them as to what they do or do not mean about life, about others, about God and about you–and then, when something similar happens your MIND does what?  Where do your thoughts go? Your thoughts speak from past experience instead of visionary, forward thinking.  Your […]

“The more we glorify God and speak into The Body of Christ, the less and less we will see or need the person in the pulpit” (Jim Becton)

“Why, my soul, are you downcast?     Why so disturbed within me? “(Psalm 42:5) I love the imagery here in this Psalm.  It is saying, “Why are you making such loud moaning noises and drowning me out with your moans like a roaring ocean?” Your “Soul” is you, your being, your mind and your emotions.  It is not your Spiritual Man and it is not your Flesh. Pinch yourself—that is not your Soul.  Speak in tongues—that is not your Soul.  That which […]

Buffering is defined in the dictionary as “shielding yourself against something or someone”.  I would also like to add the idea of buffering against our emotions. That we shield ourselves against our emotions and passionate intimacy with God. How many of you have ever done something to shield yourself against painful emotions?   Drugs and alcohol are used to buffer, to shield us from our emotions.  Pornography is used to keep us from experiencing loneliness and the painful emotions of […]

Stevie Alaniz and Mike Espinoza open up their hearts and share a deep message of inner healing and what is available with the grace of God.

Stevie Alaniz and Mike Espinoza share the teaching this Sunday and next on the Supernatural Love of God.

What comes to mind when you hear the phrase:  “I don’t want to compromise my Faith?” Most of us think: SIN! All of us hate to think that we would compromise our Faith.  And, mostly when we think of that phrase—“Compromise Your Faith” we think about it at the level of… “I don’t swear because it would compromise my faith” “I don’t drink because it would compromise my faith”  “I don’t ___________ because it would compromise my faith”  Listen in […]

 Did you know that we don’t see what is in front of us but we see what we are looking for?  If you are looking in the mirror and looking for a powerless person, than you will find one!  If you read scripture, look at God and then look in the mirror for a powerful person, you will find one!    In fact, IF you feel powerless and IF you find yourself constantly saying things and doing things that prove […]

Jesus takes the broken pieces of you life and properly places them into a beautiful mosaic that re-tells your beautiful story. And if you have been crushed and the broken pieces have been turned to dust, that is not any more difficult of a job for Jesus to bring beauty to those ashes. When emotions and thoughts are jumbled up and causing chaos, Jesus is the Master Electrician that comes in and restores order. Listen in as Pastor Les encourages […]

I was blown away by Stevie’s insight into The Secret Place last Sunday.  I loved how he stated that in the secret place we enter in and within it there are seeds.  And, when we enter into that place we are to tend to those seeds.  I believe that it is those seeds that will eventually, when watered with patience and faith and action, that will produce the life you really want to live.  What do you do in the […]

Message by Stevie Alaniz

Jesus said that if “we believe, then we will see”, making a case for this idea that IF we will do something ‘invisible’ within us then our eyesight will change. The Presence of God, which isn’t of earthly substance,  hovered over Mary, planted a supernatural seed within her and, over time produced a baby.  The Baby Jesus, Who grew up to be our Lord and Savior.  Something not of this world interacted with the biology of this world and changed […]

Our working definition for Gratitude is: A tangible expression of thanksgiving that flows from our confident belief that God is Good. We begin with this startling idea that not being thankful is living life against the will of God and that your lack of gratitude is a great indicator of a wounded place in your heart.  Boom! All thanksgiving is not created equal!  The 3 levels of thanksgiving are… Being thankful for what you have Being thankful IN what you […]