Shady Oaks Church Podcast

How many of you are hungry for a fresh encounter with God? Cause that's what we desire. That's what I desire for you is that you would go deeper in the things of God. That you'll not be on the fringes or on the edge. But you'll be right in the depth and the middle of what God is doing for you.

The supernatural ministry is not just casting out demons, healing the sick and doing the works of God. It is a proclamation of the gospel the believers' first ministry besides worship, prayer, and the word is to proclaim the gospel so that our churches expand and grow. And so I want you to see that the supernatural ministry Paul says I'm not ashamed of the gospel for it is power of God unto salvation to them who believe.

Study the word, meditate in the word, speak the word, do the word, believe the word, preach the word, teach the word, delight in the word, store the word, obey the word, rejoice in the word, apply the word, and live by every word. Because it is supernatural, it is life giving, how many of you need to get back to the word. I want to pray for you that God would awaken your desire to read His word giving it access to your life because it is spirit and it is life.

We need the power of the Spirit, we should desire it and as I felt in coming here that I want to take you into the realms of the Spirit. We spoke about desire, hunger, and thirst, creating an appetite for God, how many of you have an appetite for things of God. How many of you will take up your cross and follow Him.

How many of you are hungry for a fresh encounter with God? Cause that's what we desire. That's what I desire for you is that you would go deeper in the things of God. That you'll not be on the fringes or on the edge. But you'll be right in the depth and the middle of what God is doing for you.

True enlargement begins not in your circumstances or in your environment, but in your capacity. Before God expands what's around you, He stretches what's within you, David had a heart of for God. That's a capacity that is being enlarged with desire, with hunger, with thirst, and an appetite for something that's bigger than us. I leave here a bigger man or woman than when I came. God has touched me; God has expanded me, and God has changed me. And my world is gonna the feel the change of my impact life.

What Should You Be Doing? / What Is Your Role?  Examine your hearts and Confess Your Sins and seek forgiveness and cast your cares on Him.  Fan your personal devotion to Christ - Be hungry for God, don't be complacent.  Restore your spiritual health Consistently read and meditate on Bible – Sharpen Your Sword – Explain How to Meditate Thirst for Scripture Be fully engaged in CORPORATE WORSHIP and PRAY Evangelize and Spread the Gospel You are ALL evangelists: You Should Be: Tell everyone you know or meet about Jesus and the Good News of the Kingdom of Heaven  Proclaim the gospel!!!  Surrender complete control to Jesus.  

The same Jesus who healed them still walks among us by His Spirit today. His power hasn't diminished. His compassion hasn't changed. His willingness to heal, restore, and make whole is as strong now as it was then. Faith still draws His power, still halts Him in His tracks, and causes Him to turn and say, “Daughter, Son, your faith has made you whole.” So if you're tired, if you've tried everything and nothing has worked - raise your hands, lift your heart, and place your trust in Him. Because when faith touches Jesus, power still flows, and the same love that healed them all those years ago can heal you today.

1. Great Commission – Make Disciples Matthew 28:18-19 (ESV): 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” 2. Live the Kingdom Life – Jesus' Life  Righteousness, Peace, Joy, Love, Power & Purpose  Overcome,  Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons (Matt 10:8) 3. Spread the CULTURE OF HEAVEN to all nations, just like Jesus did.

If we, as His people, refuse to lay hands on the sick world that is outside our four walls, how will they ever receive His healing touch? Today, I believe that as we pray and lay hands on those who are willing, God will do what His Word has promised He will move. As He touches you and imparts His Spirit's power, that blessing is not meant to stop with you. You are called to pass it on lay hands on those around you so that what you have received, others may also receive.  

Jesus said...”All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Him...and we are to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them and teaching them to observe the things Jesus commanded...We are Supposed to Be Making Disciples of Jesus, NOT OURSELVES. We are supposed to spread the CULTURE OF HEAVEN to all nations, just like Jesus did. That CULTURE is full of righteousness, peace, joy, love, power and purpose. OUR JOB is to live that culture, and to spread it everywhere we go...WORK, SCHOOL, GROCERY STORE, WALMART...EVERYWHERE What will happen if we don't fulfill our responsibilities? Our children and their children and their children, our neighbors, our friends, our loved ones will not know the Lord. IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN.

 I want you to know that the same God is here today. He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. When we pray God does' things, we need to continue to believe when we pray, that He's going to do something. And when we pray, if nothing happens visibly, we don't need to be telling ourselves nothing happened. We need to believe that something happened and is going to happen. We've got to believe in God, that He is faithful Acts 1:8 (ESV) But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”  

St. Augustine said, “If anyone fails to honor his parents, is there anyone he will spare?” This is where we learn to live with other people. This is where we learn that there are authority structures in the world. The family is where we learn about respect and obedience and hopefully (if it is a good family) about love and protection.

We have seen that the baptism with the Holy Spirit is a definitive, distinctive, and distributing experience that was an expectation of the Lord, His apostles, and for believers of all ages and all times. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God coming upon a believer, taking possession of their faculties, and imparting to them gifts not naturally their own, but which qualify them for the service to which God has called them.

The Sabbath principle has always pointed in the direction of trust. Do you have faith enough to stop striving and start worshiping? Sabbath rest is about making Jesus Christ the center of who we are. It means ceasing to find approval in others, stopping the foolish quest for our own righteousness, and trusting that true health, strength, vitality, and freedom can be found only when we cease from our labors and rest in His.

Our call will be marked by trials, temptations, and moments when giving up seems easier than pressing forward. But for those who endure to the end, there is a reward— not just survival, but the crown of life, eternal recognition from the King of kings Himself. As He turns and says to us "Well done, good and faithful servant."

We saw today that the Hebrew original doesn't say “Do not take”; it says “Do not carry.” The Hebrew reads, “Do not carry the name of the Lord thy God in vain.” The NIV uses the word “misuse” rather than the word “take”: “You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.” The challenge we are then presented with is to represent God well. We shouldn't use God's name in vain because we are his ambassadors. Taking the Lord's name in vain happens when we misrepresent him to those around us.

In the Kingdom, keys represent specific, timely, and divine revelations with which the Ekklesia has been given authority to bind and loose. This binding and loosing happens primarily through prayer, but not as a passive request, but a spiritual ruling issued from heaven's court. That's why Jesus taught us to pray: “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” This prayer is more than words—it is an alignment of earth with heaven. When we pray like this, we are agreeing with God's verdict and releasing His ruling into earthly situations.

So we are meant to live a life of RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, JOY, LOVE, WALKING IN HIS POWER and WITH GREAT PURPOSE. WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE BE LIKE TO... Have GREAT Peace, Joy & Love in your family, with your Spouse, with your Kids,  In all aspects of your life. Just imagine how much suffering we could destroy if we walked in His Power and with His Purpose.

At the Cross, Jesus embodied the ultimate surrender. Though He had every right to cling to His life, He laid it down in obedience to the Father's will, praying, “Not My will, but Yours be done.” Yet that surrender was not loss but the doorway to the highest life: God raised Him from the dead, exalted Him above every name, and through His sacrifice opened eternal redemption for the world. Just as Jesus said, a seed must fall into the ground and die to bear fruit; so His surrender has borne fruit in countless lives redeemed. And because the Cross is not only our salvation but also our pattern, we too are called to lay down our “lower” lives—our comfort, our control, our ambitions—so that His resurrection life may rise in us.

This is what the cross did for us. Jesus has already defeated the enemy, disarmed every power, and given us authority: “It is finished” (Jn 19:30). “I give you authority over all the power of the enemy” (Luke 10:19) You are not a prisoner but an ambassador of a victorious King. Rise tall, walk in that truth, and become God's instrument to set others free.

A little boy once drew a picture in Sunday school. His teacher asked, “What are you drawing?” He replied, “I'm drawing God.” The teacher gently said, “But no one knows what God looks like.” The boy quickly answered, “They will when I'm finished!” That's exactly the problem the second commandment addresses. Whenever we try to “draw” or imagine God on our own terms, we reduce Him to something less than He is. The true God cannot be captured on paper, in stone, or even in our imagination—He must be known as He reveals Himself in His Word.

So, if Jesus envisioned a governing assembly, we must abandon anything less. It's time to live out our true calling—to become the ekklesia that the gates of hell cannot withstand. We are not here to survive. We are here to prevail. So let's drop anything less than what Jesus called us to be. He gave us keys, not pews. He commissioned ambassadors, not spectators. It's time to rise as the governing body He intended—the ekklesia that the gates of hell cannot withstand.

We must see that nothing less than God be, or become, our chief goal or highest devotion in life. Our modern society's temptation to worship “other gods” follows other paths. When they become the purpose or end of living, these human pursuits are “other gods,” and those who seek them are breaking the First Commandment. We looked at four idolatrous pursuits: Possessions, Pleasure, Prestige, and Power. These are four “other gods” that contend with the LORD God for worship.

We understood the importance of faith in salvation. Faith comes from the union of the Word and Spirit. It is the result of the word being proclaimed in the power of the Spirit. God's grace is the source, and faith is our human response. Learning about Jesus and what He did through His life, death, and resurrection leads us to believe in Him. To believe in His name is to accept Him, which means to put your trust in Him.

There is much more to be said about God's intention for the church and individual believers thanprescriptions of law can contain. However, the underlying principle of this series is that by hearing God's moral law again, we may all be called back to foundational and divine imperatives that can establish us more surely in the way of righteousness and, without which, only destruction looms ahead.

Regeneration is a profound change. Just as our physical birth introduces a new person into the earthly world, our spiritual birth introduces a new person into the heavenly realm. After it, we begin to see, hear, and pursue the things of God; we start living a life of faith and holiness. God is the source of this transformation. God's great love and free gift, His rich grace, abundant mercy, and His mighty power are the foundation of rebirth.

  The enemy spreads his lies that we are unworthy, unforgiving, unforgiven, hateful, anxious, depressed...and if we don't have that worldly abundance that we are failures...  GOD sent His Son so we can live with an abundance of...  Peace,  Joy,  Love,  Walking in His power,  And with a greater purpose.   So, let me introduce myself...”My Name Is...” Wes.  I am saved by the grace of God  I am a child of the King, and a co-heir with Christ  I am loved by God and living in His abundant Peace, Joy, Love, Power & Purpose!

People respond to challenges, how much more when God is saying to us, who will go for me? Who will I send? How many of us will lay aside our agenda, lay aside our wants, our desires, lay aside the things that so easily pull us aside. And like Moses, like Isaiah, like the apostles, like countless others throughout the centuries, who will say Lord here am I whatever the price, whatever the cost, whatever it may be. Here am I send me.

You are God, and I am not. You knew me before I was formed. You know the number of hairs on my head. You sent Your Son for me. Help me stay grateful—even for the next breath. I trust You again. Amen." God's sovereignty isn't just a doctrine. It's a pillow for your weary soul. Rest on it tonight.

What we learned today is that God works through unity, and unity comes when God's people rally around leadership that carries His vision for His Church. As we bond and rally around His vision, we experience God's provision — the word “provision" means “for the vision.” In contrast, Satan operates through division. Since division essentially means 'two visions,' there can be no unity until everyone embraces one vision—God's vision—and works together to bring it about.

We have to do our part, we must dig the well. However, when that time comes when we can't do anything else. When our resources have run out when, there is no way out or no way through. God steps in and meets the need. Note that God often will not do only what He can do until we do all we can do. When we come to the end of ourselves. The God connects, it's been said that God is all you need until He is all you have.

Everyone carries baggage. It's really not a question of if, but how much. What we must allow God to do in our lives is help us shed the baggage that can hinder us from fulfilling our purpose and destiny. We must let go of it as God highlights it in order to move toward wholeness. Removing the baggage from our lives that keeps us from prospering, that keeps us from fulfilling our purpose and destiny in our lives.

SO, IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING OR IN BONDAGE, It is time to Rise Up! from under the table. The glory of the God has arisen upon us, and He gave us power to  trample. Sickness, fear, death, anxiety, anger, jealousy, pride, unforgiveness, lust and addiction AND ALL THINGS THAT BIND US. He will restore your thumb and big toes if you get up from under the table. BECAUSE GREATER IS HE WHO IS IN YOU THAN HE WHO IS IN THE WORLD...WE CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS US  

While we are to put our trust in God and His Word for everything in life, how much more must we turn to Him and His instructions when we are facing times of crisis? Like the Israelites, when we have been “snake-bit,” we are to look to God's revelation of His will as found in His Word; when we do so by faith, we will receive the remedy that is found therein. This grace is found and mediated to us through God's work in Christ. Whoever looks to Him in faith will also live and will also be healed.

For those who are Christian's, resting in the victory Jesus won us at the cross, let us strengthen our commitment to the Lord and truly, from a true heart of worship, make a dedicated decision to stay the course, in humility seeking God to make us holy vessels through which His power can be released in our lives to accomplish His purpose in this world. Jesus paid the price for your sins and by sincerely receiving His forgiveness in your life and asking Christ to begin a new life in you.

  We have a great High Priest who passed through the heavens and dwelt with us, taking on the form of a human and living life here with us. He was tempted in all ways, just as we are, yet without sin. This gives us great freedom to fall boldly at His throne to seek help in times of need because He understands exactly what we're going through. He knows. He's been there Himself. He overcame, and that's the greatest news of eternity. Jesus Christ overcame. He conquered. As we read through these promises to the overcomer, we remember how it is we overcome. We are overcomers through His victory – and His victory in our lives.  

The predominant theme of the Scriptures is the Person and the work of Jesus Christ. He is God. He became a human being, died by crucifixion, and was buried. He rose again from the dead. He is the only, all-sufficient Savior of the world. He will come again to this earth. I pray that today, God's revelation has pierced the enemy's veil, that your eyes have been opened to who Jesus truly is, and that you, too, will call on Him.

Jesus said, “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the worldyou will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.  We can take the assurance that the people we desperately want to be, the God whom we desperately want to please, and the place where we desperately want to live is coming. All we have to do is hold fast to the word of Jesus. Let's stake it all on that unchanging, never-failing Word.

Ezekiel is tasked with speaking to the Jewish people about the land of Israel. He aims to expose the extent of the problem that is about to bring on the nation's demise. The corruption in the land extends beyond the political leaders to the priests, prophets, and even the people themselves. Through his prophet, God hereby offers the exiles another explanation for the severity with which he is about to punish the land of Israel. But also through His prophet, we find that God Himself promised to come and be the one who would seal the breach, who would avert His judgment, and bring salvation and deliverance to His people.

Looking into Abraham's life, we found that faith was the hallmark of his life. We also saw that his faith was established by obedience. While we concentrated on Abraham, Hebrews relates others. What we see is that faith has always been the way to walk in a relationship with God, and true biblical faith is more than mental assent; it is marked by obedience to God as we put our trust in Him and His Word.

What we looked at today is the progression of King Asa's life and how he interacted with the God who appointed him to serve as King over the people of Judah. At the beginning of his reign, King Asa called on his people to trust in God. As a result, we find that Asa and his small army won an overwhelming victory over his enemy. However, later on in his life, Asa's trust was no longer in the Lord but in his own wisdom as he sought to deal with his problems through his political savvy and cleverness. Finally, at the end of his life, Asa deviated completely from his avowed trust in God by seeking help for his foot disease “only from the physicians.” The king's sin lay in seeking their help “only” and not seeking “help from the LORD,” who is the ultimate healer of men's diseases. Sadly, at the end of his life, the King died without any mention of his reconciling with the Lord.

This baptism in the Holy Spirit which Jesus received which led to the power of the Spirit is a promise that was made available to the followers of Christ after His resurrection from the dead. Before that experience, His disciples were to be first, born of the Spirit. Why, because unlike Jesus, we were born separated from God.

King Asa had taken over the reins of Israel and had embarked on a mission to turn the nation aggressively towards God. We witnessed how at one point a large contingent came against King Asa out of Ethiopia and the context suggests that Asa opposed him, but his army was far less in numbers than the enemies. So he called on his people to trust in God. After a resounding victory, while collecting the spoil from the battle, a man by the name of Azariah began to prophesy to the King. He told him, 2 Ch 15:1–2 (ESV) ...Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The LORD is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

True followers of Christ, true citizens of His eternal Kingdom, will live with Him forever. Because they are not convicted but instead forgiven. They are not put to death, and their names are not erased from the Book of Life. 2 Co 5:17 (ESV) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

God was calling Abraham; He was calling people in the pages of the New Testament, and He is still calling people today. Abraham believed in God and demonstrated his faith by leaving the comfort and security of what he had to follow God and move into what God had prepared for him. As He called Simon and Andrew, James and John, He is still laying His mantle on those of us to follow Him today. He is calling people to follow Him to a place that He will lead us to, and we have a choice to make whether we want to follow or not.

Jesus had received the promise of authority over the nations that originally delivered to His ancestor, King David. Jesus had become the true son of David, the King who would perpetuate David's house forever in the new covenant Kingdom. Thus, He is the bright morning Star, He is the forever ruler over all and it's in Him, surrender to Him, submitted to Him, that we have the promise that we can rule and reign in this life as well. Maybe you haven't been ruling and reigning in life, maybe life has been ruling and reigning over you

The importance of a firm, stable, and secure foundation is made evident when Jesus said in the culmination of His Sermon on the Mount, the relevant question left to be answered is this: “What kind of foundation are you building your life on?” Without Christ as our foundation, we are susceptible to all the storms that life brings. With Him, we can face any storm and remain firmly rooted, coming out victorious on the other side. Are you ready to make Christ the foundation for your life today?

Mark 10:46 marks the beginning of the story of Jesus healing Bartimaeus, a blind beggar. It describes the scene where Jesus and his disciples are traveling through Jericho, and Bartimaeus, who is blind and sitting by the roadside, calls out to Jesus, recognizing him as the "Son of David". This verse sets the stage for a powerful encounter of faith, healing, and discipleship.   This verse is significant because it highlights: Bartimaeus's faith and belief in Jesus's ability to heal.  The contrast between Bartimaeus's clear vision of Jesus's identity and the disciples' lack of understanding.  The power of faith to overcome barriers and receive healing  

2 Chronicles 29:36 (ESV) states that "Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because God had provided for the people, for the thing came about suddenly.". This verse signifies the joy felt by both King Hezekiah and the people of Judah after the successful purification and rededication of the temple, a process that occurred quickly and was seen as a divine provision. The swiftness of the restoration highlighted God's gracious work in preparing the people for this event.The rapid completion of the temple's purification and rededication underscored God's power and grace in facilitating the work. The term "suddenly" suggests that the event happened unexpectedly quickly, emphasizing God's immediate and powerful intervention

This seems clear: all authority is established by God and should be given absolute obedience. Those who do not are in rebellion against God God first said to man, “It is not good that man should be alone” (Gen 2:18), and His remedy was the family. Families have also been targeted for destruction by the enemy or our souls, as the attacks on them in our times are unprecedented. How can we allow attacks on such ultimate issues to prevail? This is happening on our watch. Like Esther in the Bible, we have not been called to idly stand by and watch this happen. Esther 4:14 (ESV) For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”