In Ephesians 6 Paul references the armor of Roman Soldiers. Each piece of armor has great significance in taking our stand in spiritual warfare.

You are created in the image of an unconquerable King. His fight exists in your life but you must find it!

We can have distinction without having division if we are all willing to give each other room to learn and grow. Unity is very important as we walk together on this journey of exploring what God says about the things of the Spirit. 

Expressions vary from person to person. We can have distinction without having to have division. If someone came up to one person giving them a million dollars that person might laugh, jump and shout while another might sit down and cry. One expression isn’t right while the other is wrong. We all have different expressions in our lives according to our differing personalities and our different experiences.

We were all created for more than this world has to offer. We must stop measuring ourselves by the "common Christianity" of our day. God’s not calling to be warmer than others. God desires to awaken us to the eternal purposes of our gifted lives to release God’s Kingdom in the earth!

We all have experiential conclusions, doctrinal conclusions and theological conclusions. The big question, however, is do we have Biblical conclusions? Over these few weeks we will talk about the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the filling of the Holy Spirit.

We can learn so much from moms. 

1.    FAITH:  "You better pray that comes out of the carpet." 

2.    TIME TRAVEL.  "Straighten up, knock you into next week!" 

3.    FORESIGHT. "Clean underwear in case in accident."

4.    BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION. "Stop acting like your father!" 

5.    HYPOCRISY. "If told once… million times. Don't exaggerate!" 

There is a key that unlocks a sustainable pace of freedom empowering us to conquer bad habits and life controlling problems. So many times we find ourselves coming to church, feeling encouraged and ready to go out standing strong only to fall back in the same frustrating patterns. There is a reason for this. We believe what we believe but we love what we love more than we believe what we believe. If we are only dealing with what we believe without ever truly allowing God to deal with what is in our hearts our minds will default to our passions.

Prov 4:23 Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. NIV

GUARD YOUR HEART!!! There seems to be such an alarming focus most preachers take with this verse. What gets in you will come out of you so BEWARE!!!

Our steps are ordained by God to release God’s blessing in the earth! Job speaks of this idea of carrying the anointing of God so powerfully that we leave the mark of God’s presence, God’s blessing and God’s love as we walk through this world.

We are citizens of heaven with a purposed assignment of influence in a fallen world that Jesus wants to completely redeem by his love. Our goal in this season of “Secret Service” is to inspire and empower you to become everything God has created you to be. Make a daily difference every day this week!

A basketball in my hands is probably worth about $20 but a basketball in Russell Westbrook’s hands is worth $40 million a year.  A tennis racket in my hands is probably only good for a self-inflicted wound but in Serena William's hands and it produced $27 million last year. Who owns or controls a product or object greatly affects what value it has and how it is used.