No Limits

Zechariah 2:1-5
1 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

2 So I said, “Where are you going?”
And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”

3 And there was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him,

4 who said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying: ‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.

5 For I,’ says the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”

Mark 16:2-6
2 Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

3 And they said among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”

4 But when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away—for it was very large.

5 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a long white robe sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed.

6 But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid Him.

Ask a man in a wheelchair to climb three flights of stairs and he will say, “I CAN’T DO THAT.”

Ask a blind woman to walk through a stranger’s house and she will say, “I CAN’T DO THAT.”

A person without legs can’t play football.  Can they do other things?  Yes, just not those things.  Why?  They are LIMITED in what they do.

And so because we are all LIMITED In some way, we tend to LIMIT GOD.

What limits you?
What is stopping you?

Maybe you feel your life is a bunch of NO’S.
Will I ever get over this?  NO.

Will I ever feel better?  NO.
Will my job ever get better?  NO.

Will my finances ever get better?  NO.
Will I ever see my dream fulfilled? NO.

In Mark 16, Jesus was their HOPE.  The cross had just seemed to say NO to the life of Christ.

Now they are heading to a tomb to pay respects.
They were not expecting resurrection, they were grieving.

“What about the stone?  How will we move it?”
Kind of like our problems.

So big.  They block us, too big for us.  What are we going to do?  Who will help us?

But when they got there, THE STONE WAS ROLLED AWAY.
Now in Zechariah he sees a man measuring Jerusalem.

We are always trying to measure what God’s Word says thus we live a measured life, a restricted life.

Then another angel shows up and says Jerusalem will be a city without walls.

It shall extend BEYOND its present dimension.
Who am I talking to?

You are too limited.
Too restricted.

God says you are going beyond and breaking all LIMITATIONS.

You’re trying the hem God in to your little life.
But God wants to use you beyond your natural ability.

So while you are trying to LIMIT Him, He says, “I WILL BE A WALL OF FIRE all around and I will be the GLORY in her MIDST!”

All your enemies will be defeated.

So stop trying to LIMIT God.  We need to put our measuring lines away.

We measure how things work out by our standard.
Our measuring lines keep us safe in our boundaries.

Jesus did not do many miracles in His hometown because they measured Him.  They thought they knew Him.

Isaiah 54:2 – this banner is on our sanctuary wall.
“Enlarge the place of your tent,
And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;
Lengthen your cords,
And strengthen your stakes.

Enlarge, EXTEND.

Your comfort zone is the limit you put on God.
“What if it does not happen”?
“Shut up, devil”.

You can’t measure God by yourself.  With God, ALL things are possible.

There are NO WALLS, no blockades, no barricades, no screens, no enclosures, no barriers, NO LIMITS, NO BOUNDARIES.

Sickness can be healed.
Families can mend.

Demons can be cast out.
Your direction can change.

You can be saved.

Here is how we live a life without measure.
Take RESPONSIBILITY.

Fulfill your call, measure by God, NOT MAN.
Do what you are responsible to do.

If not you, then who?

Be MATURE.
Grow up in Christ.  Believe His Word.

Believe beyond what you can see.
LIVE A SELF-SACRIFICING LIFE.

If you died then HE LIVES and you can do ALL THINGS through CHIRST who died of us.

Enlarge our territory, increase our ability to LIVE.   Increase my responsibility, increase my maturity, and increase my self-sacrifice.

Take away my measuring stick and show me your WALL OF FIRE and Your GLORY.

God is saying, “Dream again, believe again, and take the limits off.”

RELEASE HIM to do miracles.  Take the limits off your marriage.

Take the Limits off your ministry.
Take the Limits off your finances.
Take the Limits off your education.
Take the Limits off your relationship.
Take the Limits off your church.
Take the Limits off your Pastor.
Take the Limits off your Country.

TAKE THE LIMITS OFF

Late on Friday, through the thorns, through the beatings, I can hear Jesus say, “NO LIMITS”.

Through the nails – “NO LIMITS”.
From the hill to the grave I hear Jesus, “NO LIMITS.”

The lamb that was slain for your sins says “NO LIMITS, NO BOUNDARIES”.


Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong

LIMITLESS

Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

If Christ is in your life there is NOTHING you cannot do.

You can climb any mountain and weather any storm.

Others may turn back, others may quit but you will keep going.

Limitless living refuses to be bound by fear because a giant is talking.

Limitless living will always find the right stone.

Limitless living will discover this pit is NOT your destiny; a palace is waiting.

His wisdom is limitless, so ask for it.  Where others failed, you will NOT fail.

So be a plumber
Be a doctor
Be a truck driver
Be a nurse
Be a pastor
Be a business owner
Be a laborer

But do it without LIMITS.

You took the limits off, now live without limits.

Live free.

John 8:36
 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

You broke barriers so now don’t go back.

If you could only lift one hundred pounds in the gym, keep building muscle and soon it will be two hundred pounds.  NO LIMITS.

Be like Abraham and look up and see LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES.

No fear!

John 3:34
For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.

There is NOTHING you cannot do if you trust Him and walk with Him.

Take the LIMITS off.  Would to God if all of us would live a life without LIMITS.

You conquered.  You prevailed.  Because He conquered and He prevailed.

Now LIVE LIMITLESS.


Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong

The Supernatural Kingdom

Matthew 11:1-5
1 Now it came to pass, when Jesus finished commanding His twelve disciples, that He departed from there to teach and to preach in their cities.

2 And when John had heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples 3 and said to Him, “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?”

4 Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things which you hear and see:

5 The blind see and the lame walk; the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear; the dead are raised up and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

We serve a supernatural God, yet so many of His followers are stuck in natural.  Can’t see that God wants to use us.

Moses said, “I can’t, I have a speech issue.”
Gideon said, “I’m not qualified”.

“WE CAN’T DO IT”

10 spies’ negative report poisoned the whole nation.
Instead of a breakthrough, it was a break-down.

Why?  Was it the devil?  The giants?  What caused over 1 million people to lose faith and destiny?  4 words, “WE CAN’T DO IT”.

Not just words but what those words contained.
Those words EXCLUDED GOD.  Full of unbelief/fear.

Words filled with possibility, potential, power.

His words can move you from:
Sickness to health
Weakness to strength
Loser to winner
Stressed to blessed
Fearful to fearless.

I don’t care what the skeptics say.  I don’t care what the economy says.  I don’t care what religion says.

WHAT IS GOD SAYING?
WHAT IS GOD DOING?

That’s what I care about.

A word from Him changes everything.  He speaks and things are created.

A Ginomai is here for your health.  IT SHALL BE.

One word and cancer is driven out of your body.
One word and He supplies your need.

One word and drug addiction leaves.

He is supernatural.

One word from Jesus and Peter broke the natural law of Physics.  He stepped into the supernatural.  THEN, shout, “THEN”.

Peter went where they said he could never go and did what they said he could never do.

I Prophesy this church is getting ready to step into a REALM with God where you have never been, go to places you have never gone, see things you have never seen.  It’s A SUPERNATURAL KINGDOM!

"CAN’T" must be removed from our speech.  Use what God gave you.

Give your weakness to Him.
Can’t talk
It’s just a staff
This thorn

And God will make you strong.
Just a little oil.

Now watch our supernatural God.  When you and I were born again we were not just born out of sin, sickness, disease, poverty and lack.  We were born into the Kingdom of God.

We were born into the realm of the supernatural and the miraculous.  We were born into the realm of Signs/Wonders and miracles.

The atmosphere of the Child of God is the realm of the supernatural.  Supernatural peace, joy, power, prosperity, wisdom, glory.

The devil is so afraid of you stepping into that supernatural place in the spirit.

He wants to keep you in the boat.  He knows Jesus gave you power to cast out devils.

He knows you are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
He knows your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost.

He knows the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead, dwells IN YOU.

He knows it’s normal for us to operate in Signs/Wonders.  He just does not want you to know.  He wants you stuck in the boat.

GET OUT OF THAT BOAT.

To move in the supernatural you have to be willing to step into the UNKNOWN.

Abraham stepped out.
Joshua was told, “You have not passed this way before.”

You have to be willing to look foolish.
Elijah put water on a sacrifice while praying for fire.

Peter got out of a boat.

Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong

A TIDE IS COMING

I hear the Lord, He is speaking to me, “A visitation is imminent, can’t you see!”

O church, the TIDE IS COMING to the shores of this Land, so get ready, get ready, it’s about to land.

A TIDE IS COMING THAT will stir up this soil.

A TIDE is coming and nothing He touches will be spoiled.

A tide is coming that will divide. 

There will be no place that you can hide.

A tide is coming that will even touch our government.  Many will then know it is He who carries this Land.

O Canada, O Canada!  A tide is coming; it’s right at your shore, for all the little waves were to prepare you for what I have in store.

This tide is big and it is strong, it will hit this Land.

Everyone will be touched for you cannot hide.

Even those so dry will feel this TIDE from on High. 

O Canada, the TIDE IS COMING TO YOUR SHORE!

A TIDE is coming and on this you can be sure, that no one will be able to stand against its mighty roar.

A TIDE IS coming, of this you can be sure; NO-one has heard this sound before. 

It’s a tide NOT for a city, church, or town. 

This is a TIDE that will sweep a nation DOWN

So on our KNEES we will fall when this wave hits US ALL.

A TIDE IS COMING!

Pastor Francis Armstrong

CASTING IN PRAYER

Opening Text:  1 Pet. 5:5-10, Eph 6:10:13

1 Pet. 5:5-10

5 Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for

“God resists the proud,

But gives grace to the humble.”

6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,

7 casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

9 Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

10 But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Eph. 6:10-13

10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Go over dream I had.

How do we CAST all our CARE on Him?

Prayer.

God was showing me that victory in the natural world requires triumph in the spiritual.

You can’t carry what you are trying to carry.

You and I are called to fight our enemy in prayer.

Your DESTINY, your purpose and SOULS are hanging in the balance.

David was told to PURSUE, OVERTAKE AND RECOVER ALL when the enemy stole his family and his stuff.

I’m looking for some people who are going to go into the enemy’s camp and get back your STUFF!  All of heaven is with us.

It’s time we learn to release and unleash spiritual weapons of mass destruction against our adversary.

This spiritual attack of prayer by CASTING all your CARE on Him.

Resisting him by standing in faith through prayer

It’s about getting your career back, it’s about rekindling your marriage, it’s about a healthy relationship with your children and to get back every promise you have lost.

So like natural fighting, spiritual warfare demands training and strategy.  (ZIKLAG)

Warriors who reclaim stolen things place a high value on certain feelings like anger, loss, and grief.

Like David at Ziklag, angry at the loss of a promise.

Do you grieve over your unhealthy marriage, your failing job or your broken relationship with your children?

If your LOSS does not bother you enough to fight for it THEN you will just shrug your shoulders and say, “The Lord gives and the Lord takes away.”

But that IS A MISTAKE.

A lifestyle of faith is NOT passive!  True biblical faith RESISTS the DEVIL.

It infuses you with courage that empowers you to declare to the enemy of your soul, “I’m mad and I’m not going to take it anymore.”  WHO AM I TALKING TO?

A great champion once said, “Champions aren’t made in gyms.  Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – A DESIRE, A DREAM, A VISION.”

It’s time for you and I to reclaim areas of our lives that have been damaged and lost through SIN and SPIRITUAL NEGLECT!

Listen again to 1 Pet. 5:10

But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

PERFECT – Appropriate condition, establish, prepare, mend

ESTABLISH – to set fast, steadfast in mind

STRENGTHEN – from sickness and lack by making STRONG

SETTLE – by the foundation

YOU!

Whether you know it or not, as a Christian, you are already engaged in spiritual warfare regardless of your level of participation.

If you just sit on the sidelines you’re NOT a spectator, you’re a casualty.

So arm yourself with the Word and fight.

Yours for Revival,

Pastor Francis Armstrong

The Leadership Of David

Isa. 58:12
Those from among you
Shall build the old waste places;
You shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
And you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach,
The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.

1 Sam. 16:12-13
12 So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with bright eyes, and good-looking. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!”

13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel arose and went to Ramah.

Saul was anointed with a flask of oil.
David was anointed with a horn of oil.

One did not cost anything, the other cost a life.

Leadership in the Kingdom is about laying down your life for others.

David’s leadership started with
Obedience – looked after sheep.

Knowing they were NOT his sheep but his fathers, he fought off the lion/bear.

When an enemy shows up, leaders stand up.
David/Goliath.


1 Sam. 17:38-39
38 So Saul clothed David with his armor, and he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a coat of mail.

39 David fastened his sword to his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, “I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them.” So David took them off.

You cannot fight with untested armor.

By the way, David served Saul even though he was anointed to be king.

Timing is in God’s hands.

I will NOT touch the Lord’s anointed.

True leadership does not maintain followers but produces LEADERS.

David took four hundred worthless broke men and trained them to be mighty men.

Everything produces after its kind.  You cannot produce something better than yourself.

So we must produce leaders of the KINGDOM.

Jesus said, leaders in the Kingdom Of God like David, must first learn to SERVE.

Jesus said, “I did not come to be served BUT to be serve.”

Leadership is a gift to be GIVEN!  Why do we need Kingdom leaders?

Why did Israel need David?
Our world needs DIRECTION.

Marl 9:33-35
33 Then He came to Capernaum. And when He was in the house He asked them, “What was it you disputed among yourselves on the road?”

34 But they kept silent, for on the road they had disputed among themselves who would be the greatest.

35 And He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.”

Now listen.

Matt. 20:26-27
26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.

27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave

So if you want to be great (David was):

1.   You don’t own people

2.   You don’t manipulate people

3.   You don’t oppress people

4.   You don’t threaten people

5.   You don’t use people


Leadership in HIS KINGDOM is SERVING YOURSELF TO THE PEOPLE.

Yours for Revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong

How Hungry Are You?

Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

John 6:35
And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

How many know that when you are hungry for something, not just anything will do.

You can try other things but until your taste buds hit on what it is you’re looking for, you won’t be satisfied.  Then when you find it “aaah” your taste buds are satisfied.

I’ve come to the place of “MORE”.  I know there is more.  All prophecies say there is more, so I can’t be satisfied until we taste it.  I’m not satisfied because I know there is more.

But for us to develop a genuine hunger for God, we have to make room for a new normal.

Old things MUST pass away.

2 Kings 4:1-2
1 A certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord. And the creditor is coming to take my two sons to be his slaves.”

2  So Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?” And she said, “Your maidservant has nothing in the house but a jar of oil.”

We have a prophet and a lady in crisis.
Here is her crisis:

She is in EMOTIONAL pain – her husband died.
There is FINANCIAL pain – he left her broke and in debt and the creditors are calling.

She is in PHYSICAL pain – she is hungry.
Her digestive juices are burning the lining of her stomach.
She has MOM pain – the creditors may take her children.

She is in SPIRITUAL pain – so you see the question -
“My husband feared God, and I feared God so why am I in this mess?”

She needs a BREAKTHROUGH.  No pain seems FAIR and her pain is too much to bear.

Whenever in the Bible you hear or read the term “CRY OUT”, someone is in a desperate situation.

She cried out to God because her situation was bigger than what a human can fix.

So here is what I’m trying to say.  You will never discover that God is all you need until God is ALL YOU HAVE!

When you are at that place you don’t pray little casual prayers, YOU CRY OUT!

I mean cry out.  When a baby is HUNGRY, it does not care who is in the next room.

OK so if Jesus says, “Blessed is the one who hungers for righteousness.  YOU WILL BE FILLED.”

Why don’t we see more power and presence?  The answer is simple.  WE ARE TOO FULL.  We are too full of ourselves, our money, our friends, our jobs.

So the prerequisite of spiritual passion is spiritual hunger.  YOU have got to be hungry.

Why did God move in Guatemala?  When God is all you have, God is all you need.

So how hungry are you?  TRY fasting to see what hunger feels like.

Write down HUNGER = PASSION.

Passion drives you to the next level.  Without passion you will stay where you are because you will have no reason to go anywhere else.  This woman CRIED OUT.

She needed things to be different.  When God allows crisis it’s to make you hungry for change.

A dark room used to mean, “turn a negative into a positive.”

So the prophet gives her a strange answer, “Go borrow empty clay pots, LOTS of them.”

“Elisha I need money, honey, not pots.
I’m EMPTY except one LITTLE jar of oil.”

Elisha says, “Your empty so go get more empty.”
HUH?

I don’t just want your emptiness; I want your neighbour’s also.

So we have MULTIPLIED EMPTINESS!  Church, hear me now! “The amount of your hunger (emptiness) will determine the amount of your filling.”

And if God can get HUNGRY people together it increases the possibility of your FILLING.  This was a new approach to a normal problem.

Many have debt, pain, crisis.  Church, the Lord wants to increase your emptiness.

What?
Question: “Do I believe the man of God or not?”

How many times have we cried out to God but did not like the answer because it requires a step into the unknown.

Without faith it is impossible to please God.

So if I’m hungry, if I say I have passion, DO I BELIEVE GOD?

So the woman did what was asked.

2 Kings 4:5
So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured it out.

Your alarm clock told you to get up today and go to church.

Whether you liked it or not, you’re here.  God’s alarm clock often seems to go off at the WRONG TIME.  But faith IS NEVER A FEELING.  FAITH is a matter of “Am I going to ACT?”

This lady / family was hungry.  When you’re hungry, sophistication does not matter anymore.

Using your fork right does not matter.  You just want food.

This woman was hungry enough for an answer from God and she SHUT the door and started to pour.

Church, when you’re hurting it’s normal to focus on yourself.  But the Bible tells us, when we are hurting and in need, it’s time to minister to others.

Then God has more to fill.

You hungry?  God says go to your neighbour and take on their emptiness through prayer.

When you are hungry enough to help others, God will fill you.

She poured what little she had into one pot and it got full, then another.

Church, God will keep filling as long as the emptiness keeps coming.  The amount of emptiness determines the amount of filling.

You see Church, the solution already existed before she cried out to God; the answer to her problem was in the house but her spiritual eyes could NOT see it.

She thought her hunger made her cry out.  But in reality, she wasn’t empty enough yet to receive what she needed.

She cried to get out of debt but God gave her exceedingly abundantly more.

So HOW HUNGRY ARE YOU?  Are you hungry enough to help others?  Are you hungry enough to do what God tells you to do?

Or keep trying without God.  Be content!  Be FULL of other things.

Snacks are a substitute for real food.

Are you sure you’re not full of snacks?
God will never bless your snack.

God is looking for growling stomachs.  People hungry for God will not accept a pacifier.

Yours for revival,
Pastor Francis Armstrong