The Vineyard Church Of Central Illinois

The goal isn't simply to know that God loves you. It's to become so rooted in His love that it becomes the lens through which you interpret everything else. Then, when the waiting continues, when the diagnosis hasn't changed, when the relationship still needs healing, when the answer is delayed, you don't conclude that God has abandoned you.

Healing isn't always as simple as treating or praying for a symptom. Sometimes, Jesus is restoring something deeper. We need to understand that people aren't made up of disconnected and unrelated parts. We were created by God to be amazingly integrated beings. As we will discover today, God's design was fractured by sin and that is what makes His plan for salvation, restoration, and wholeness so vital. It also means before we can understand healing, we first have to understand what Jesus actually accomplished on the cross. What did He come to restore?

God wants His people to participate with Him in bringing wholeness to the world. Through studying scripture, telling testimonies, and pulling from his decades of experience, Happy shares his tips and wisdom on the topic of healing.

Have you ever prayed for something, and it didn't happen? Maybe a breakthrough, and you're still waiting? Maybe you obeyed God, did what He asked you to do, and still ended up disappointed? What do you do in the waiting, when life doesn't unfold the way you hoped?

Jon shares a special Father's Day message about healing and faith. Through scripture and stories of faith and miraculous healings, we are encouraged to boldy engage our faith, expectation, and trust with our loving Father and Healer.

We don't want us to think about healing and wholeness as something reserved for a few special people or a few dramatic moments. We have been built to encounter His love, experience His transforming power, and then learn how to extend the miraculous to those around us. This is our mission, as a church! As Christians, we are called to partner with the love and power of Jesus in a broken world. Part of that invitation is to give away what we have received. So this awakening is two-fold – healing for us, and healing through us. In the same way that doctors practice medicine and lawyers practice law, Christians are invited to practice healing. We like to say it this way – What God does in you, He wants to do through you!

Dianne shares personal stories and revelation concerning faith, trust and healing, as well as important principles listed below. These are foundations that Holy Spirit laid, that still remain a part of the Vineyard Church of Central Illinois.- JESUS WILL ALWAYS BE THE HERO. HE IS THE HEALER.- We will always believe the incredible truth that our God is a God of healing. He wants us whole in every way, and He wants us to give that away to others.- We will always welcome and honor the Holy Spirit and His fresh infilling.- We will always make God's Word our top priority for studying, meditating, confessing, and believing.- We will always make faith a priority — trusting God through difficult times, persevering, worshiping and praising, and hanging on no matter what.- We will always believe in the power of prayer.- We will always be hungry, humble, and teachable and stay committed to doing life in community--the church family.

The awakened life is not the life of someone who never fails. It is the life of someone who keeps returning to Jesus. When the Holy Spirit convicts us, we come into the light. There we discover what David discovered: the mercy of God is greater than our worst failure. Jesus did not save us merely so we could avoid judgment someday. He saved us to awaken us to life with Him right now. This life isn't about sin avoidance, it's about SON awareness. The Son of God, Jesus, is where we fix our attention.

Awakened people reorder their lives around God's Presence. We often want God's blessing, power, or help without truly re-centering our lives around His presence. We instinctively build our lives around protecting ourselves, while awakened people learn to build their lives around God's presence.

Saul's life teaches us powerful lessons about the connection between character and calling, God's desire for trust and obedience over control and outward religious activity, and how our response to correction can shape the direction of our lives.

Through every season/role/situation in life, God is faithful to redeem. His plans are part of a greater and more beautiful story. God sees; God saves.

If Jesus broke the power of sin, why do I still find myself stuck in the same cycles and patterns? Senior Pastor Mike Yoder shares how freedom comes by letting Jesus renew our minds to come awaken to the habitation of the Holy Spirit.

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a negative cycle or destructive pattern of turning away from God, coming back, and then falling right back into sin again? This is the human story, and it's what we see in the book of Judges. Senior Pastor Julie Yoder shares how breaking cycles and patterns begins with the Holy Spirit.

God is for each of us. He created us with a destiny, and He wants to awaken that in our lives. Within the family context, God will do it differently in each individual, all for the good of the community The story of Caleb's destiny and its fulfillment provides a great example. Awakened unto life at a young age, he was still on fire at 85 and beyond. Our goal is to live this kind of awakened life for ourselves as we play our part in the greater community.

Why does the God of the Old Testament feel distant, confusing, or disconnected from the life we experience in Jesus? Senior Pastor, Mike Yoder shares how the Old Testament reveals God awakening His people to His love and grace.

We were spiritually dead – we had relationship, identity, and destiny problems. Senior Pastor, Julie Yoder shares that because of His great love and mercy, God awakens people from spiritual death to new life through the resurrection of Jesus!

Often times we perceive that we do not have enough, do not do enough, or that we are not enough. Founding Pastor, Dianne Leman shares how every act of God's redemption is abundant in itself—yet God does not merely do enough. In Christ, He does more than enough.

He will deliver you. He will protect you. He will answer you. He will rescue you and honor you. He will satisfy you and show you His salvation. Psalms 91 is a declaration of God's character and commitment to those who genuinely seek refuge in Him. This is available to us today and everyday.

Daniel shares a special message of freedom with a guest panel including Ethan Robison and Audrey Miller. Together they share stories of how God has been moving in their lives personally, as well as our church family. Through their vulnerability and the power of testimony, their stories encourage everyone to step into the freedom, love, and strength God has for us all.

Mike Fehlauer, from New Life Church in Corpus Christi, TX, shares a message of forgiveness and redemption, reminding us to cleanse ourselves of the sins of the flesh AND the sins of the spirit. Because it can determine how one sees the world around them, the heart is very important. With the help and love of Jesus, we can guard our hearts and choose to walk in love and forgiveness not judgement and bitterness.

Have you ever wondered when water baptism became a thing? Where did it start? What's the history and context? John the Baptist is the first person mentioned in the Bible to be baptizing others, but if we look at scriptures, there are 3 types of water baptism found in the Bible.- Jewish Ceremonial Washing (mikveh – mik-VA)- John's Baptism- Christian BaptismWhen we look at the history, we can see how God has always used water to awaken His people. And over the last year, we've seen that happen in an incredible way as baptisms have multiplied in a way that we could have never seen coming.

There are many ways to pray. Sometimes it's in your own words. Sometimes it's quiet listening. Sometimes it's praying in the Spirit, and sometimes it's letting Scripture give you the words.What matters most is choosing a time and a rhythm that fits your life. It could be in the morning, on the drive to work, over lunch, in the evening, or on a walk. Consistency matters more than length. When we return to God regularly, prayer becomes less about effort and more about relationship.

Awakening begins when God opens our eyes to what we could not see on our own. Dr. Charles Montgomery of Vineyard USA shares an inspiring message of how Gideon overcame in spite of the odds, because he was awakened to the goodness of God.Do you hear the Father's voice calling you? Is your heart filled with adoration? Let us draw deeper. Let us draw closer. He's calling us into the water.

Jesus was the God-man who came to the field called Earth. Jesus came seeking us. Jesus found us, human beings made in His image, and He was overjoyed at this immense treasure of buried sons and daughters, dirtied by sin, but precious in His sight.He knew we were so precious, so valuable, that He would give up all, even His own life, in exchange for us.The price He paid was His own blood to take away the sin of the whole world. He did all the giving up, all the hard work. He made the supreme sacrifice so we could have a restored relationship with Him.We are precious pearls to Jesus, a hidden treasure worth His all to.

Have you ever been in a season of tension where all you really wanted was for God to fix it? School of Kingdom Ministry Director, Daniel Goulet shares how sometimes awakening comes through an encounter with God right where you are.

God is not calling us to strive harder; He's calling us to live more awake. We have the Holy Spirit living within us. We have the Word of God available to us every day. And we have a community of faith to walk this out together. So here's the invitation: this week, open your Bible. Sit with it. Feast on it. Listen. And watch what God does—not just in you, but through you.

We're not just revived, but awake. In this week's message, Mike and Julie encourage us to throw off what dulls our hunger, put on the armor of light, and step fully into what God is already doing among us. 2025 revived us. In 2026, we are awakened. Come, Holy Spirit. Do it in us. And do it through us!

So why signs? Why wonders? Why miracles? Because He loves to confound our natural with his very SUPERnatural. He loves the childlike wonder that provokes awe and a deep sense of His nearest and divine otherness. He wants to fill us with awe like a kid on Christmas morning. He helps us grow up and be like children.

Sin isolates us from God's presence. Senior Pastor, Mike Yoder, shares how God broke the power of sin and restores us through His transforming presence.

What promises are you carrying? What words have you tucked into your heart? Where do you need His presence to bring revival, courage, or clarity again for you, for your family?

Jesus redefined what it means to rule. Now, He invites us to reign with Him, releasing our authority through humility, service, and love.

Why did the blood of Jesus need to be shed? Dianne Leman shares about the importance of the blood of Christ, and how nothing but it can save us in her message, "The Blood of the Lamb | Kingdom Authority".

How do we live like disciples of Jesus? Jon Hutchison shares on the importance of us bearing witness of Christ's Name to others, as the early church did, with boldness in his message, "The Prayer for Boldness | Kingdom Authority".

How can we live in the fruit of the Word? Samuel Worden shares about the importance of submitting to the authority of the Word, and partnering with God to live the radical life He has for each of us in his message, "Kingdom Authority | Authority of the Word and Faith".

Personal intimacy authority flows from time spent with Jesus Himself. The only true qualification is a living, abiding relationship with the source of all authority.

If the enemy can confuse our identity, we won't even try to access our authority. School of Kingdom Ministry Director, Daniel Goulet shares how Authority flows from identity.

When we look back at the Story of Authority, the Story of the Bible, we see that Jesus came to do far more than just save us from sin. He came to restore the foundations of our authority in the Kingdom. The truly good news of the Gospel is that Jesus came to restore our relationship with the Father, our identity in Jesus, and our destiny in the Holy Spirit.

What is Kingdom Authority and how does it work? Founding Pastor, Dianne Leman shares how the name of Jesus, bestowed on those who call Him Lord, is His invitation to victorious living.

How can we dismantle the plans of the enemy to bring division because of our differences? What does it look like to radically pursue being people of revival, fighting division. Senior Pastors, Mike and Julie Yoder share how we can pursue unity in the power of the Spirit by living in our righteous identities.

How do we increase the activity of God in our lives? Transformation Pastor, Jon Hutchison, shares about the spiritual discipline of prayer.

The church, God's people, are meant to be a living preview of heaven, a people who are living and walking with the love, power, and perspective of God's rule and reign. This is a radical alternative to the way the world works. Our lives can reflect what it's like to live in relationship with our loving Father, rooted in our righteous identity, and empowered by the Spirit in our destiny.

The divine disruption of revival is an invitation to trust His mission, surrender control, and live fully alive in His Spirit.Saying “yes” to Jesus is the ultimate divine disruption, it breaks the bondage of sin and redirects the whole course of our lives. When revival comes, when the Spirit moves, He disrupts the power of darkness. People are healed, set free, and delivered into the life God intended for them.

While being generous with our money is a rebellious act against our greedy culture, it is entirely in alignment with the Kingdom of God. When our intentional giving, our generosity, flows from an understanding of God's plan and His empowering grace, it leads to an abundant life.

How do we see suffering? Julie Yoder speaks to how weakness is not a disqualifier, and how the Lord's eternal glory outweighs all suffering in her message, "Clay Pots | Revived By His Wind And Word".

How can we each know and fulfill our roles? Keirstyn Worden speaks to how God reveals truth in the body, and freely gives in love to us in her message, "United in Revival | Revived By His Wind And Word".

Whose path are you willing to fully commit to? Daniel Goulet speaks to how we devote our efforts, and shares on the importance of us surrendering completely to the righteous life that the Lord has for us in his message, "1 Corinthians 10:1-14 | Revived By His Wind And Word ".

Whose fool are you going to be? Julie Yoder shares about how we need to be aware of whose wisdom is shaping us, and choose to be a fool for Christ alone in her message, "1 Corinthians 1 | The Foolishness of the Cross".

How can we choose to focus on the good things going on in the world? Mike Yoder shares on the importance of us focusing on the Lord and his Kingdom as it comes to a world that needs it, and talks to Steven and Ana Price about the amazing ways they are partnering with Jesus in Guadalajara, Mexico in his message, "God is on the Move | Revived By His Wind And Word ".

How can we take in the beauty of the Lord in our everyday lives and learn from it? Mike Chrasta speaks to the wonderful breadth and depth of who the Lord is, and how He has displayed His work in all of creation for us to experience and marvel Him in his message, "The Glory of Creation | Revived By His Wind And Word ".

What do we say when connecting with God? Dianne Leman shares about how Psalms provide a powerful way to pray and connect with God's presence in her message, "Praying the Psalms".

How can we join in for what is next for our church? Julie Yoder shares about how, in this Season of Expectancy, that God is doing more than we can ever ask or imagine, and she outlines ways we can all serve in her message, "Vision Sunday | July 2025".