EnCOURAGEment to Keep Going!

Last Saturday at Blazing Fire Church I spoke about the courage and boldness that you have when you know that the Lion of the Tribe of Judah walks behind and with you everywhere you go! See yourself as this lamb with all of the power of Jesus himself at your back!

The only place you are going to find peace, joy, security, contentment and stability is in the presence of the Lord. It is imperative that we do whatever we have to do to find that time for going deeper into the Lord's heart--truly experiencing the hugeness of the Lord's good and tender heart towards us.

When you need enCOURAGEment, you must agree with what the Lord says is truth. Feed on it! I gave you many scriptures last Saturday to build you up and encourage you to keep going. One of them was Psalm 23:6 that says, "Your kindness and faithful love pursue me every day of my life!" Another was Proverbs 4:18, "The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter until the full light of day."

Here is a list of other scriptures I used:

Psalm 34:5
Psalm 16:5-6
Psalm 4:8
Psalm 5:12
Psalm 18:35-36
Psalm 21:1-6 (Read this in the first person since you are royalty!)
Psalm 16:11
Psalm 32:10
Jeremiah 17:7-8
Psalm 36:8
Ephesians 1:3-11 (I read this in the Mirror Translation. You can read it at http://mirror.scripturetext.com/ephesians/1.htm)

The last Scritpure is Jude 24-25, a great one to end on. Take this in and agree with it. Say "Yes Lord!" to all He has done for you. You truly are blessed and highly favored beyond measure!

"To Him who is able to keep you from falling and bring you safe to His glorious presence innocent (blameless! faultless!) and joyful! To the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ be glory, majesty, authority and power, before all ages, now and forever. Amen!"

And this is the very same One who stands behind, with and in you! Take GREAT COURAGE from Him and keep going! He is working everything out for your very best!

We love and and appreciate you all!
Brent & Suzanne

Love Wins!

"Did you learn to love?"

When Bob Jones was taken to heaven many years ago, this was the question Jesus asked him. It was not even, "Did you tell people about me?" or "Did you worship me?" though both of these are great things to do. But, "Did you learn to love?"

Jesus gave his followers a command on the night of his arrest--an exclamation point to his ministry on the earth. He said, "Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another." (John 13:34)

Listen to how Paul highlights this (from the Mirror Translation):

"Love (the revealed value that God sees in every person) gives truth its voice. In this atmosphere (of love) spontaneous growth is inevitable The whole person is addressed in Christ who is the head of the body (pictured as a conductor of music, epichoregeo). From Him flows the original composition and detail of our design like words intertwined in poetry, they connect layer upon layer to complete the harmony, following the rhythm of His thoughts like footprints. Meanwhile the body thrives and pulsates with the energy of love. Each individual part (portion) finds its full measure there." Ephesians 4:15-16

The simple truth is that love changes people and love wins! When we finally accept and receive the super-abundant love and acceptance of our Papa in heaven, we are forever changed! And when we freely give away to others what we have freely recieved, they are changed too!

I have watched over the years as love has caused inevitable spontaneous growth in you! And I want to thank you for being part of this culture of love, grace and honor at Blazing Fire that has radically changed the hearts of so many! Week after week, I watch as people come (often broken and hurting) to Blazing Fire Church for the first time and are changed by the love and acceptance that they encounter. Thank you also for choosing to take the love that you receive and give it away everywhere you go!

Papa says, "Thank you!" too!!

You Are A Masterpiece - by Russ Fochler

On his 1994 album “Poiema”, Michael Card wrote: "The Bible tells us that we are God's masterpieces (poiema in Greek); not only creatures, but His creations, His poems (Eph 2:10). We are living epistles (2 Cor 3:3). And so, our lives are meant to be listened to, because it is God who is speaking into and out of and through the symphony of the years, and the masterpiece of a lifetime."

What if we saw Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith - as an artist as well as our savior? How would we view our journey through life? How would that change how we relate with Him? How would we view time and timing? I'm looking forward to exploring this with many of you in this Saturday's message.

Changing the Culture:

As sons and daughters of the King of Kings, we have the joy and mission to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to cultures and people. One way we can be "salt and light" is to study the issues and candidates with the counsel of the Holy Spirit. And then cast our vote. And then continue to pray for grace, wisdom, justice, and life-giving values for our governmental leaders; no matter who is elected.

Redeeming the Time - October 31st

God created each day of the year - including October 31st when many in our country celebrate Halloween. I encourage you to celebrate and worship Jesus on this day. And shine His light in your neighborhood.

Another opportunity to redeem this time is offered by Gina Prince:

"Holy Ghost Story Night" at Rick & Gina's home at 220 Love Ln, Danville, CA at 5:30 PM. Please bring an appetizer, salad or dessert to share (and a candle if you'd like). Contact: 925-580-8758 An offering will be given for special guest Recie Saunders. Come to share your "God stories" and to celebrate the "God stories" of others....

Russ Fochler

You Are God's Choice

These past few weeks have been supernaturally charged as we have seen God heal, conservatively, over 100 people of all kinds of injuries and illnesses, including cancerous tumors disappearing (with a doctor's examination) and decades-long traumatic injuries instantly removed! Why does he do these things? It's very simple: He is a good papa who loves his kids!

To bring home my point, I want to share with you a few paraphrased renditions of Ephesians 1:3-6 as creatively written by our Kingdom Training School of Supernatural students. We have 43 amazing students this year, by the way. I wish I could share what all of them wrote, but here are just a few...Enjoy!

"I pour out my congratulations with my whole heart, mind & soul and give my greatest & deepest expression of thanksgiving and utmost excitement to the best, most loving and generous Daddy ever!!! His generosity supersedes the extravagance of the most extravagant, providing all of the invaluable riches & treasures of the heavens, because of Who & What Jesus is and did for me/us. Daddy God has always wanted this. It's been brewing in His heart to the point of implosion, to bring us into the family so that we can live in His house and have full access to the fridge whenever we want. He couldn't wait for us to make ourselves at home. Our room has been prepared with our favorite wall colors. He initiated this out of His own desire and purpose - to show outrageous preferential treatment as His kids that we don't deserve or could ever earn." (Damali Vaughn, 2nd year student)

"God is astounding! How incredible He is! He moves me into beautiful blessing through his Son, Jesus. He had his eye on me before he created time in order that I might know the bounty of his love, the very essence of who he is, all for myself! He couldn't wait to make me part of his family with Jesus bringing me in! BAM!! How amazing is that! And now I get to receive more awesome gifts from his hand than I can ever carry in one load!" (David Vahlstrom, 1st year student)

And just one more...

"Wow! Wow! Wow! To my Father in Heaven! You have so blessed me in the anointing Jesus, full and jam-packed with blessing in our heavenly realm. Father, in his love, actually pulled me out of the frying pan--holding me now close to him. Showing me I am forever consecrated and set apart for him. W O W !!! I am blameless. I am free from reproach. Always before him in love. For he adopted me in his plan of love." (Dana Ortiz, 2nd year student)

As You Go...

Jesus came to perfectly show us the Father's heart. He said, "If you have seen me, you've seen my Dad!" Everything he did reflected the goodness, kindness and power of our Father in Heaven. And what did Jesus do? He loved people! He healed people! He gave them hope! He set them free!

AND

He said to us,

"I want you to do the same!"

He said it this way: "And as you go, proclaim that the kingdom of Heaven is close at hand. Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those suffering from virulent skin diseases, drive out demons. You received without charge, give without charge." (Matthew 10:6-8)

How is this possible?

Quite simple: CHRIST IN YOU!

If you are needing greater revelation of the glory that you carry and the authority that you have to represent Father God as an ambassador of His Kingdom just as Jesus did,

I encourage you to attend as much of the Angels & Miracles conference as you can this Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

As Suzanne and I were having dinner with Gary Oates tonight, he was sharing one miracle story after another and describing how each Angels & Miracles conference they have held has been more powerful than the last.

You will be empowered and encouraged to do just what Jesus asked!

You will be immersed in an atmosphere of expectancy to see and experience the unseen realm of the Kingdom!

You will have fun with a Father who's in a really good mood
and who is proud to call you His own!

Come with a great expectancy in your heart that God is going to do
abundantly above and beyond all that you can ask or imagine!!

MASSIVE BLESSINGS!!

Pastor Brent

You're From the Same Stock As Jesus!!

"It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should in bringing many sons and daughters to glory, make perfect through suffering the leader of their salvation. For the consecrator (Jesus) and the consecrated (us) are all of the same stock! That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters!" (Hebrews 2:10-11)

Jesus knew who he was! He was God's beloved and massively favored Son, the perfect ambassador of His father's Kingdom, and the inheritor of absolutely everything that belonged to his Dad!

Do YOU know who YOU are? Jesus knows who you are! So does the Father! And so does Holy Spirit who lives in you to convince you of the truth!

Jesus' status as God's beloved son is exactly the same status that you have as God's son or daughter! Exactly the same! That phrase, all of the same stock can also be translated "we form a single whole" with Jesus! There is no separating us out from him. He shares his identity with us and we are perfectly one with him!

The Mirror Translation puts it like this:

"Because both He who performed the rescuing act and those rescued and restored to innocence, originate from the same source, He proudly introduces them to be identified as His immediate family."

Come on! How much better can this get? Jesus has his arm around you, beaming, so very proud, and says about you, "This is my AWESOME bro! This is my AMAZING sis! We've got the same genes and Dad loves us ALL the SAME!!"

Jesus, who was given all authority in heaven and on earth by our Father, says to us, "You are a purebred from heaven just like me! You're made of what I'm made of! And what's mine is yours. Let's all use the authority that Dad has given us. Go and ROCK the world with his love, grace and power! I showed you how and now I'll go with you to the ends of the earth because I'm your true brother and I've got your back! We're family!!

By the way, your family with us, too!

Love,
Brent & Suzanne

A Doting Father!

When my oldest son, Derek, was a few months old, he would make the cutest cooing sounds as he was waking up in the morning. My wife, Suzanne, and I would hear him and get out of bed and quietly tip-toe over to gaze through the crack in the door and watch with utter delight as our son would look around and make the most adorable gurgling noises. I can’t tell you how precious he was! After a time, we would push the door open, enter the room and begin sweetly singing over him a good morning song. Immediately, he would begin searching the room for us with his eyes until he spotted us, squealing with delight!

Your Father in heaven gazes on you all the time! Not so that he can somehow spy on you, but because he can’t take his eyes off of you! Yes, God is smitten with you! I can picture him calling the angels over to himself, pointing towards you and saying,

“Hey! Come take a look at my awesome son! He’s remarkable!”

“Would you just look at my daughter? Wow! She’s beautiful, isn’t she?!”

And then he begins to sing his love song over us…

“The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing." Zephaniah 3:17

And as his song fills the air with choice words of adoration and approval for us, we begin to search for the origin of that sweet voice. Then we squeal with delight,

“Oh, Papa! There you are! You LOVE me!”