The Just Shall Live By Faith

Heb. 10:38
Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”

We live in a society that lives for the moment.
Lives for the Now.

A great love for the temporal things of the world.
Even one of Paul’s hand picked protégé’s was like this.

2 Tim. 4:10  “Demas, having loved this present age has deserted me”.

See!  He loved this “PRESENT” age, for the now.  But for the Christian, we walk by faith not what we see NOW!

Listen to what Paul wrote to Timothy.  He spoke of those who “denied the faith” or “suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.”

“Wandered away from the faith”.  Those who “fall away from faith.”

Four times we are instructed to live by faith.  It’s the way to the Higher Law of blessing and if we don’t apply it we will go right back to living in the LOWER LAW!

The “JUST”.  You and I are the just if you have come out of darkness and into the LIGHT!

So we should LIVE different than the world.  Yet Christians don’t know how to LIVE.

We are to do everything by faith.  From birth through childhood, teens until adult we are trained to learn how to LIVE in society.

If you’re sick you go to a doctor.  Do you think it’s important that he be trained?  Or a lawyer?  A house contractor?

So why do Christians think we don’t need to be trained?
We get saved and want to lead a major ministry the next day.

We need to be trained how to LIVE by faith so we don’t wander from it like Damas.

Faith’s power to change your circumstances is not going to operate in your life until you decide you are going to live by faith.

And to do that you need to be a student of His Word.  Then you begin to see that FAITH is a NOW thing.  FAITH is NOW, present tense.

Heb. 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Yours for revival,

Pastor Francis Armstrong

What I'm Reading:

Let it Go - T.D. Jakes

What I'm Listening To:
Heal Our Land - Planetshakers

Go & Do Likewise

Luke 10:30-37

Who is your neighbour?  ANYONE HURTING.

27 million are caught in the human trafficking world with no hope.

More slaves now than ever in HISTORY ON OUR WATCH.

You and I can give them hope.  We can do something.

380 thousand orphans in Guatemala with NO HOPE.  We can give them hope.

I am determined to build this church in the centre of darkness to bring a great light.

It is for FREEDOM that Christ has set us free.

Every one of us knows someone that is wounded.

Will we be too busy with our religious activities or will we be a vessel that pours IN oil and wine?

Notice, the Samaritan paid for the wounded person’s immediate and ongoing care.

Will we put our money out, to help the hurting?

I hear the Spirit of the Lord saying, “3rd Day, GO & DO LIKEWISE.”

In Philippians 3:10 Paul wrote, “That I may know Him and the POWER of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death.  If by ANY MEANS I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.”

Most unbelievers are going through life and they never think that they are ONE BREATH away from eternity.  If we don’t tell them, who will?

Paul has an urgency in him when you read this verse, “THAT I MAY KNOW HIM AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION.”

Can we go find some darkness?  And let it know YOU WILL NOT prevail, not on my watch!

Hell says NO but heaven says YES!

Where do you think the term, “Good Samaritan” came from?  THIS VERSE.

Bandage wounds, pouring in oil and wine, transporting someone, paying for them, all require TIME.

And TIME is running out.  How will the Lord characterize our current Christian generation?

Will it be we were TOO BUSY?

Will it be “I’ll do it tomorrow”?

Today is the acceptable day of salvation.

The earth is telling us Jesus is coming.

Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong

Ascend

For 7 years Midian ruled Israel, attacked them, destroyed their crops.

They finally cried out to God. And God said, “Come up here, get higher.”

God always sends His Word and if we apply it to our lives, trouble must flee.

He sends forth His Word and heals us. No one else can save you.

Your wisdom can’t save you.
Your own works can’t save you.
Your money can’t save you. Every decision must be based on God’ Word.

God wants us to rise (ascend) and that’s why we face challenges. Take the Word and correct our lives so we can ascend.

God sent Israel a word for them to obey so the situation could change.

If you are oppressed and pushed down, God has a higher place for you to go.

I don’t what 7 more years of bondage, do you?
ENOUGH I SAY!

Listen, sometimes we are frustrated with the storm outside but God Is frustrated with the storm inside of us. What is in your heart?

The only way to ascend is with His Word. Why does God want us to ascend? Because He wants environments and situations to change.

We ascend so we can come back down and help people.
The higher we go the more people we can help.

Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong

The Blank Page, It's Time To Fill It In

Isaiah 42:8-10

Change leads somewhere. It can be difficult at times, but it does take us somewhere.

Change leads to something NEW! Any new thing is intimidating at first.

When something is NEW it can bring the freshness back into our lives.

We get excited, invigorated, energized, passionate. Something ignites in our hearts. We are FIRED UP! Especially when the new thing is from God.

Our new experiences bring life back when only a short time earlier we were desperately searching for it, trying to satisfy our spiritual hunger.

When Joshua became the leader after Moses died, suddenly everything was NEW!

The bondage of the wilderness was about to end. NEW LAND. A fresh mandate. A blank page. Now they needed a new attitude and skills.

No longer just talking, they were now doing. THIS was their NEW DAY. Canaan was within sight.

They were about to conquer the land that had seemed so impossible to conquer.

Suddenly these former slaves were now landowners.
Caleb shouted ,“GIVE ME MY MOUNTAIN!”

Caleb waited 45 years for this day. He was 85.
Joshua was about 100.

Now the time had come, new energy surged through their bodies. Their WAIT WAS OVER.

Their desperation was rewarded, their faithfulness paid off. VICTORY was assured.

So what is your mountain? What new and fresh territory has God led you to conquer? IT IS TIME.
Your long wilderness trek is over. Oh praise the Lord!

Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong

2012 – Year of Governmental Order

Opening Text: Exo. 3:1-5

New Year’s Eve service I said this would be the year we stop just standing at the mountain of God.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, standing and watching God do stuff is great but we can’t do that forever, we have a job to do.

This was not the first time Moses was stuck at a mountain.

In Deut. 1 God spoke to him and said, “You have dwelt long enough at this mountain.”

Then He tells him to “TURN and SEE the land I have for you.”

What made Moses was his willingness to TURN ASIDE.

Now remember, Moses is the one whom God revealed his name,

Moses is the one who stands before Pharaoh and says, “LET MY PEOPLE GO”, he leads the people out of bondage.

Moses is the one whom God gives the 10 Commandments to.

I mean Moses is a giant of the faith.

I wonder …. What if Moses had been talking on his cell phone or texting?

Would he have walked right by the burning bush without even noticing it?

What made him Moses was his WILLINGNESS to TURN ASIDE.

Moses was a long way from home, way out in the boonies at Mt. Horeb, the mountain of God.

By the way, it’s this mountain that he would later receive the 10 Commandments.

So here is Moses, family, ordinary guy. A GUY not leading people but SHEEP.

Was he lonely? Hungry? BORED? We know he was a long way from home.

He was an Israelite raised an Egyptian.

But his life was about to change forever.

All because he chose to TURN and SEE.

Church, we will never SEE what God wants us to SEE until we are willing to TURN!

It’s in turning that you see what God has for you, so you can, like Moses, say, “Here I am”.

When God tested Abraham, he said, “HERE I AM”.

When the Angel of God showed up to Jacob, he said, “HERE I AM.”

When the Lord called Samuel, he said, “HERE I AM!”

Jeremiah said, “HERE I AM.”

In Acts 9 when God called Ananias, he said, “HERE I AM.”

Isaiah said, “HERE I AM.”

All through scripture, when men of God responded to God’s call, Governmental authority came upon them for the ministry God called them to.

God wants a key of authority on you and I but we have got to stop stargazing and standing at the mountain, we must TURN TO SEE!

A boldness came on Moses. A new level of anointing came on him and he delivered a nation.

God has people set up for you to bring you out of the bondage of sin but you must be willing to TURN.

A new level of authority will come on those who TURN.

Psalm 8:3-6

3 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,

The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,

4 What is man that You are mindful of him,

And the son of man that You visit him?

5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels,

And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;

You have put all things under his feet,

You see church, the Governmental authority of Jesus will rise up to command the prophetic promises for healing, financial overflow, Signs and Wonders to be released.

To be ordinary we don’t have to do anything.

We are called to do extra ordinary things for God, all it takes is ordinary people to TURN and SEE!

Will you? Will you now?

Yours for Revival,

Pastor Francis Armstrong

2012 - The Year of Governmental Order

Isaiah 22:22

The key of the house of David

I will lay on his shoulder; 


So he shall open, and no one shall shut; 


And he shall shut, and no one shall open. 


It’s talking about Eliakim - vs. 20

His name means “God establishes, God raises up.”

2012, you’re about to be established by God and He Himself will raise you up.

And the KEY of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder. Key here means the official right to be a part of David’s dynasty and authority.

David’s house was house of praise; new keys in praise are coming in 2012, with new levels of authority on them.

This authority is to open. OPEN What?

The Hebrew tells us.

It will open in 2012 the windows of heaven.

In 2012, new storehouses.

It means to open a grave – dead things coming back to life.

It means it will cause RIVERS TO RUN.

It refers to drawing out a sword.

It means to open the ground.

Job 32:19

Indeed my belly is like wine that has no vent;


It is ready to burst like new wineskins.

It means unopened wine, wine still under pressure.

The pressure (transition of 2011) will and is causing the CORK to pop for the New Wine of 2012. Praise the Lord.

What you open through His Governmental authority in 2012, no one shall shut.

But you will also have authority to SHUT, to close, and to stop!

The word shut is SAGAS and it means to close up a hole in one’s flesh.

I hear the bleeding will stop in 2012. You have authority to help the wounded. You are anointed to heal the broken-hearted.

So what you shut in 2012 under Governmental authority, NO ONE CAN OPEN!

And no one can open. Praise the Lord.

Yours for Revival,

Pastor Francis Armstrong

The Bones Are Shouting

2 Kings 13:20-21

20 Then Elisha died, and they buried him. And the raiding bands from Moab invaded the land in the spring of the year.

21 So it was, as they were burying a man, that suddenly they spied a band of raiders; and they put the man in the tomb of Elisha; and when the man was let down and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.

Elisha may be dead, but God is alive. Church, don’t fear the enemy. Don’t fear these Godless, raiding parties. YOUR GOD IS ABLE TO DELIVER YOU.

Some say, “the day of miracles is over” but we don’t believe in a day of miracles, we only believe in the God of the MIRACLE.

Luke 1:37

For with God nothing will be impossible.”

Centuries ago Charles the Great ruled much of Europe. By a very strange event this ruthless ruler conveyed a spiritual message to the world.

Not during his lifetime, but after his death, by the bone of his index finger.

When he died, he was entombed in style. His body was set on an ivory throne, full of gold and precious stones, on his head was a crown of jewels and by propping up his arm, they had him holding a scepter, the symbol of power.

On his finger was a signet ring and he wore a purple robe and a scroll was on his lap that spoke of all his DEEDS – many were evil but mixed with scripture so as to give a sense of God’s approval.

That’s how he was entombed. Centuries later the seal was broken to reveal some surprises.

The flesh was gone like any man, now just a skeleton sat on the throne.

His flesh turned to dust and settled at the feet of the throne, along with his robe.

The prop that held up his arm has also disintegrated and his skeleton hand had dropped to the floor taking with it the scroll that once sat on his lap.

When those who unsealed his tomb noticed that his skeleton hand, now resting on the open scroll on the floor seemed to be pointing with his index finger to something, they bent over to see and this is what it was pointing to:

Luke 9:25

For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost?

The bones of a dead man spoke a greater truth than that man had ever spoken in his lifetime.

O’ church, the bones are shouting!

On that day, only that which was done for Jesus will endure.

The bones are shouting for a decision today. The bones of a loved one from many years ago or a mother who spent hours praying for her children are crying out.

Put your trust in Jesus today friend, while you still have time.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

Yours for revival,

Pastor Francis Armstrong