Lighthouse Revival Center

Power of the Cross Ministry Inc.

January 16, 2015

Special Edition

Thursday Night Revival Service

Brother Mike Barwick was chosen to kick start our revival and he did what he started out to do. He started out by telling us with the authority of God that we need to be prepared to be attacked. We should all know that Satan starts to attack when we dedicate our lives to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. If you didn’t know your know now. He also warned us to be on the look out, because Satan does not always come straight and attack in our faces. And when he does attack instead of bowing down and being scared, we need to pursue that devil and overtake him in the name of Jesus Christ. We need to quit sitting in our pity, get up and take back what that devil stole. Brother David reminded us that David didn’t only pursue and overtake what was stolen; he got all the spoils as well. So be prepared and watch, and when that devil comes pursue and overtake him so that he can’t take anymore from us than what he has already taken.
Brother Mike started preaching in the book of Haggai chapter 1 versus 2 through 7, 18, and 23. (2) Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built. (3) Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, (4) Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? (5) Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. (6) Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. (7) Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. (18) Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it. (23) In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabek, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts. Brother Mike also read from the book of Colossians chapter 3 versus 1 through 25. (1) If ye then by risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. (2) Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. (3) For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. (4) When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. (5) Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: (6) For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: (7) In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
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(8) But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. (9) Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; (10) And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: (11) Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. (12) Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; (13) Forebearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. (14) And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. (15) And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. (16) Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. (17) And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, so all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. (18) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. (19) Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. (20) Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord. (21) Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. (22) Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: (23) And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; (24) Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. (25) But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.
Now after reading all that scripture all of us should have received a bunch of nuggets. However, if you didn’t Brother Mike gave us plenty. First, we need to consider our ways. Are we really serving God the way we are supposed to be? Our foundations have already been laid. Our foundations have been laid by God himself, so there is no reason why we should doubt him because our foundations are laid and our temples are formed. So we need to check ourselves. And let the Holy Ghost come and dwell in his temple that God has built within us. Are you ready? Because Jesus died on the cross to prepare us so that our bodies can be the temple of the Holy Ghost.
With all that being said we need to realize that God has put his own personal stamp on us and our temples that he has built. It is the stamp of his blood on us so that we can be the temples of the Holy Ghost. So let’s move forward to the perfections of Christ. We need to stop letting the devil hinder us and keep moving forward with God. There is no reason or excuses why we keep letting the devil win in our lives. We need to stop making excuses and pitying ourselves and let the will of God work in our lives as he sees fit.

For God gave his only begotten son to die for each of us. Be grateful for salvation.

Friday January 16, 2015 at the Lighthouse Revival Center there was a very talented God fearing speaker for the second night of the revival. Her name is Jennifer Brown and she brought forth not her word but Gods word. She read out of 1 Samuel Chapter 16 versus 1through7 and 1 Samuel Chapter 17 verse 47.
(1) And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. (2) And Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. (3) And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee. (4) And Samuel did that which the Lord spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably? (5) And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. (6) And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him. (7) But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. (47) And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands.
There is a saying, “you are your own worst enemy.” Have you ever thought about what that really means? Well Sister Jennifer put it in good perspective for those of us that attended the Friday night services. Think about how you are your own worst enemy, more than likely it is the thoughts that run through your head. You know that is the most effective weapon for the devil, to put thoughts in your head that is not your own. Sister Jennifer made a statement that is so true if you really put some thought into it, we do not have to entertain the devil. The battle is Gods, give it to him and let his will be done, because in the end the battle is already won. And the battle is not ours to begin with; all we have to do is be obedient to God.
God has called us not because of our looks or because we are perfect. He has called the ones that are broken, the drug addicts and the alcoholics; he has called the ones that are in a corner hidden from the view of others. He has called the people that get judged, the ones that don’t belong; he has called the outsiders of the world. We are called on, we are set apart, and we are meant to be peculiar. We need to realize who we are in God. David was in a corner when he was called. What would have happened if David had not come out of his corner when he was called? Would there have been somebody else to defeat Goliath? We need to step out and step up to be the people that God created us to be. We need to put on the armor of God and do what God has called us to do. We have not been called to sit around and wait for God to do it all. He has called us to work for him in the name Jesus Christ and we can’t do that by sitting on the couch eating potato chips. If we keep sitting around we are going to miss out on our blessings that God has for us. If we do not do the work then we cannot reap the rewards. We need to seek God, the kingdom of Heaven, and live daily with Jesus Christ in our hearts. If you want to miss out that is your choice, but you will be missing out by yourself because the congregation of the Lighthouse Revival Center is putting on the armor of God and they are stepping out and stepping up to do Gods will.

Give thanks for your life