As January bids us farewell, we embark on a journey that promises to transform our 2024 with the time-tested wisdom of the Bible. Our latest episode is a beacon of hope and inspiration, guided by the luminous tales of faith from Genesis and the enriching dialogue with Apostle Emmanuel from Cornerstone Christian Church of God. Together, we uncover the boundless comfort of Jesus' presence, the sheer might of His power in our daily lives, and the path to thriving as outlined in Psalm 1. This isn't just a conversation; it's a blueprint for becoming a pillar of light in our communities.
Struggling with the loneliness of singleness or searching for guidance in life's confusing chapters? Our personal stories resonate with the divine comfort and direction only the Holy Spirit can provide. In this episode, we recognize that our status as God's children entitles us to an abundant, fruitful life, no matter the season. Our candid discourse reveals the life-altering potential of nurturing an intimate relationship with the Almighty, and how this daily dedication to spiritual growth can support us through each twist and turn of 2024.
For those standing at the threshold of faith, or seeking a spiritual sanctuary, consider this your heartfelt invitation to join us at Cornerstone Christian Church of God in Edmonton. Whether you're wrapping yourself in the fellowship of our local congregation or connecting through the digital threads of our online community, you belong here. This episode extends beyond just an invitation—it's a loving call to arms, urging you to engage with scripture, seek the counsel of the Holy Spirit, and clothe yourself in the spiritual armor necessary to navigate life's journey. Together, let's fulfill the promised blessings and protective assurance of Isaiah 54:17, as one united family in faith.
As January bids us farewell, we embark on a journey that promises to transform our 2024 with the time-tested wisdom of the Bible. Our latest episode is a beacon of hope and inspiration, guided by the luminous tales of faith from Genesis and the enriching dialogue with Apostle Emmanuel from Cornerstone Christian Church of God. Together, we uncover the boundless comfort of Jesus' presence, the sheer might of His power in our daily lives, and the path to thriving as outlined in Psalm 1. This isn't just a conversation; it's a blueprint for becoming a pillar of light in our communities.
Struggling with the loneliness of singleness or searching for guidance in life's confusing chapters? Our personal stories resonate with the divine comfort and direction only the Holy Spirit can provide. In this episode, we recognize that our status as God's children entitles us to an abundant, fruitful life, no matter the season. Our candid discourse reveals the life-altering potential of nurturing an intimate relationship with the Almighty, and how this daily dedication to spiritual growth can support us through each twist and turn of 2024.
For those standing at the threshold of faith, or seeking a spiritual sanctuary, consider this your heartfelt invitation to join us at Cornerstone Christian Church of God in Edmonton. Whether you're wrapping yourself in the fellowship of our local congregation or connecting through the digital threads of our online community, you belong here. This episode extends beyond just an invitation—it's a loving call to arms, urging you to engage with scripture, seek the counsel of the Holy Spirit, and clothe yourself in the spiritual armor necessary to navigate life's journey. Together, let's fulfill the promised blessings and protective assurance of Isaiah 54:17, as one united family in faith.
Hello, hello, saint, hi hi, hi, Welcome, welcome. Welcome to the word become flash podcast. We are back. Wow, it's it's end of January and this is the last Monday of the month. I mean, how excited is this? I mean we're January 29. So I hope you guys, you're following up with your goals. Most people you know you set up goals for the year of 2024. So I hope you are following up with your goals and, most importantly, that you're connecting with God and you're connecting with the word Okay. I mean this month of January, I just finished Genesis. Okay, okay, bible reading month. I've done Genesis. I'm moving forward. I mean Genesis was an amazing, amazing book. I mean, I mean from Abraham to Joseph. I mean, yeah, so I'm so excited to go to the next, next book. So I'm just so excited to be back here.
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As I was meditating and I was praying and believe or not, God just gave me a word, just just one word, and I was like Okay. And then I start digging in about the word and I was like, okay, God, we're doing this. Holy Spirit went back again. So I'm so excited to be back here again. But even we go deeper. I just want us to open up with a word of prayers and I say by the presence of God in this place, whatever that you're listening and you're leaving here, all right, okay, let's pray.
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Father, in the mighty name of Jesus, Lord , I want to say thank you, my Father God. I want to say thank you for your grace, I want to say thank you for your love, my Father God, that Lord that you have bought us so much for, my father God, from January 1st for saying Happy New Year, my Father God, Lord, to the end of January. Mighty God, Lord, that we're gathered here again, my Father God, father, to just describe you, to just to keep find out of who you are, my Father God, and how much you just love us, o God, and how much you just care for us, my Father God. So, Lord, we want to thank you for another opportunity, my Father God, to talk about you and to talk about your word, and to talk about how, how good you are, my Father God, even when the enemy have tried us. My Father God, for this month of January, my Father, that you've been through with us, o Lord. So, father, we just want to invite your presence in this place, o God, as we speak of your word. O Lord, as we talk of your word, as we talk my Father, god, as we talk of you. Jesus, come, o Lord, come and join us. O God, come and sit in this place. O Lord, come and send your angels in this place. O Lord and your glory, my Father, god, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen, amen, saints, I mean God is here with us.
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I'm so excited because today I want to oops, sorry, I just lost my notes right there. Okay, sorry, God. Today I'm so excited because I want to be talking about the benefits of walking with Jesus. I mean, you got to get your benefits. You know, as Moses already said to us, you're a benefit girl, you're a benefit, you're a child of benefits. You got to know how to utilize your benefits. You know, you got to know your benefits.
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So, before we even go further, I'm going to read a Bible scripture here. It's going to be from the book of Psalms 1, from verse 1 till 13,. All right, and then we're going to go more deeper about the benefits. Okay, bless is the one who does not walk in the step with the wicked or stand in the way that shines, take or sit in the company, in the company of a marker, but who is delight in the law of the Lord and who meditated on the law, on the law, day and night. That person is like a tree planted by the stream of water, which yields its fruits in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever they do, they shall prosper. I love this because I was like reading and I was like I'm a child of God.
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So this 2024, whatever God has spoken, whatever God has said in my life, everything that I would do, I will prosper. And I was so excited because the theme in my church, connorson, christian Church of God, shout out for Connorson. This year, our theme it's the lights. Our theme is the lights. Be the light of the Lord. Right, and mostly our apostle, apostle Emmanuel, has announced it that that it's a season of to be announced, it's a season to be a light. So I mean, grab your word, that's your radio benefits. And then at the end of this word, when I just read and I says and everything that you shall do and you shall prosper, I was like God, you're so good, I'm prospering. This 2024, whether the devil like or not, okay, okay, since we are prospering here in the word, become flesh. But as long as you grab the word, grab the word and walk with the word.
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So I want to talk about the first, the first benefits that I wrote here down and I was like Holy spirit, you're so good. Okay, what are the benefits of walking with Jesus? Okay, walking with him gave us the insurance of his presence and power in our lives. Insurance of his presence and power, you know when. Do you know when I'm gonna say in a movie I don't know if you guys watch superhero movies when they have that power, I'm gonna say Spider-Man maybe. I don't know Spider-Man, I don't know a lot about superhero movies, but I'm just saying my only superhero here is Jesus.
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I would not know a lot about superhero, but walking in his insurance and power, and I was like, oh, okay, that's a good benefit to walk in God. Okay, he's gonna give us his presence and he'll give us his power that God is powerful with the things that are, god is powerful and with him all things are possible. Like he makes all things possible for you. That's the power that he gives. He makes the things that you think that they're impossible, but he make it possible. He really does make it possible Whatever trial, whatever trial that you're gonna do in this 2024,.
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Just know that I am a child of God, therefore I have access of his benefits. Right, they end with saying that you shall prosper and you shall prosper. So therefore, we can endure whatever trial, whatever trial that the enemy is gonna throw this 2024. My brother, my sister, just know that you can endure it. You can endure it as long as you're with Jesus, as long Jesus is on. I mean, he's there with you, you know. And because of Christ's resurrection power, we can overcome anything. His resurrection already just spoken. The fact that he died and he resurrected again, for you and me, that's already spoken. That's already a victorious, like you're already a victorious right.
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And another big benefits of walking with God is like Jesus came and said that he is the way and the truth and the life. Okay, and the life, that he is the way, the truth and the life. He said that come, that we may have. So he came that we can have abundantly life. I am the way and the truth and the life. So that's one another benefits of walking with Jesus. It is the fact that you have life. There is such a greatness inside of you and that greatness inside of you is every day, is the Holy Spirit. You know when you're walking with God and he just like, whisper to you, like I don't know how you wake up in the morning, but for me, every morning when I wake up, when I wake up, I'm like, oh, my goodness, jesus has breathed again in me. Jesus has given me another opportunity for me to have life. You know life because that means he still cares, that means that he's identity, he's purpose inside of me. He still want me to leave it right. So and that's one of the greatest benefits of walking in Jesus, to have abundantly life. Okay, and I'm just going to go on.
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Bless is the one who does not walk in the step of the wicked or stand in a way that a sinner take or sit in the company of the market, of the market. I'm so sorry. So Jesus created us to be fruitful and in a fruitfulness that we display his glory and worship. Right, the some ones tell us mostly that those who walk with God will be fruitful. Those who walk with God will be fruitful. You will be fruitful. I mean, if you're asking, what fruit am I going to create for God? I did a series on the Holy Spirit, on the fruit of the Holy Spirit on season one. So I encourage you, like I won't go back to it, just go back and listen to those wonderful fruits, I mean also to their finding.
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Galician five right, you will be fruitful. You will be fruitful, oh God, sorry. Those who walk with God will always produce much fruits in their appoint season. And whatever they do, your appoint season. I don't know what season the Lord has told you that this year, 2024, but I know that this year my season is my season of lights. It's my season to be announced all right, and so everything that I will do the Lord, I will prosper with him as long as I obtain with God, amen, amen. That's getting hot in here. On the other hand, those who does not walk with the Lord, they will not be rooted, but rather they will be like a chief that driven away by the wind, and they shall not stand in judgment.
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Galician four, six, it tells us, because you are his son and God sent the spirit of his son into our heart, the spirit who called Abba, father, abba, father. That's another benefit. You get to call Jesus Father, you get to call him Daddy, you get to call him Papa. I don't know what other name that you use for Jesus. But those are your access of benefits. Okay, father, my Daddy, my Heavenly Father, my everything, you know, you have. You have that access. That's what Galatian it's encouraging us, galatian 4-6 it says that you have. You have that access. You have the confidence, you have the authority of calling Jesus the Father, of calling him Father, of calling him Papa, of calling him my Father, my Daddy, my Abba, father, my Elohim, my El Shaddai, my Adonai. You know, those are the words that the Lord Jesus used to speak for his Father. Even Jesus, too, he used that, he used that benefit, you know, when he was on that cross and he was breathing his last breath and he's like oh, my Father, father, that was his last word. All right, with the, with the sonship, with the sonship, we possess the, the access of having the Holy Spirit. Oh, another benefit it is for you to have the Holy Spirit, where the Holy Spirit will guide you, where the Holy Spirit will speak to you.
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I'm gonna tell you, guys, one of one of the examples I have, one of my friend, you know. She called me recently and then she asked me she said, miriam, how do you deal with being single and you being alone? And I was like. I was like single, who's alone? I am alone. I mean I don't know what you're talking about. She's like, no, I don't have no boyfriend to call. And I said, girl, pick up your bio and go call the Holy Spirit. Say, holy Spirit, I am lonely, cut of me, and he's going to do that for you. So she's like, oh, really. And I was like, yes, girl, really, go call on the Holy Spirit. No, you don't need no boyfriend to call, go call on the Holy Spirit. Let the Holy Spirit know that you are lonely and he will fulfill your loneliness, trust me. Anyways, that's for our single people out there, that.
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But with the Holy Spirit, you're never alone. You're never alone. Never, you're never alone. He's always there, guiding you. Some people you don't take his guidance. So therefore, you know, but the Holy Spirit is always walking beside us. That is one of the greatest benefit.
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Also, with the sonship, we have a promise of heritance. You are not a slave, you are a son. You are, then, an heir, an heir of God, join heir with Jesus Christ. That's found in Galatians 329. The true one at heir of God, galatians 329, if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and an heir according to his promise. You're a true son of Abraham in Christ. You are a descendant of Abraham. Abraham is Christ. You are in Christ, who is the true seed, and therefore you receive the promise that belong to Christ again. You are joined heir with God the Father, and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, amen. Another benefit of being in Christ is the fact that Jesus clothed you. He really clothed you.
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I was reading one of them, an amazing book, this month, the Enlighter Believer, by my spiritual father, and there was a quote in the book I really did love and then I just grabbed to that quote In the book. He says in the book the quote he says God Father wrap himself in the light. The way we wear clothes as human being is how God wear a light as a garment. I mean for me. When I read that quote it just took me back to the Old Testament when Jesus was walking and it was just so crowded. He was walking and was just so crowded, but there was a woman in the crowd who really did have faith. And then he says, if I can just go, she realized her benefit. She's like, if I can just go and grab his clothes, I will be healed. And this woman was going through 12 years issue of just bleeding people passing her by but then she heard Jesus was in the crowd and she said if I can just go and touch his garments, I will receive my healing. She realized that no, no, no, no, no. I am a child of God. Therefore, I have the rights of his benefit to go grab this garment of his and be healed. I mean, when I read that quote, that's where it just took me. It just really took me back, like Jesus was telling me that the more that you connected to me, the more that you connect to me, you want to touch my garment Anytime that you want to have access of me. You can get it. You can get it. You can get it as long as you just have the faith right.
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Galatians 3, 26, and 27. It says so in Christ Jesus. You are all children of God through faith. For all that you have, you were baptized into Christ and you have clothed yourself with Christ. Amen, isn't that so beautiful. You have clothed yourself with Christ. Paul does not say that we are baptized into water, but we are baptized into Christ. We are immersed in Jesus. We are immersed in Jesus.
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Romans 6, 3, 8 says or Romans 6, 3, 3, 8, it says or you do not know that all of you who are baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death. Ok, we were therefore abiding with him through baptism and death in order that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life no-transcript Bared with him through baptism, sorry, who are therefore bare with him through baptism into death, in order that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the fathers. Through the glory of the father, we too may live a new life. That is your benefit for you to know that Jesus has died and he's been raised again so you can have exincal and abundant life. So, this year, 2024, this January I want to close to just remind you that you are a child of the most I God and as a child of the most I God, you have so much right and you have so much authority. You know to take whatever it is yours, to take whatever that God has promised that it is yours this year of 2024. I don't know why, blessing that you're trusting God, but just know, as long as I go to God and I go to him and and I just touched the garment of Jesus I can receive it, I can gain it, I can receive it. So you're a God's child, therefore you have the right to benefit.
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You know, I heard, I heard one of the speaker, a preacher, was preaching under the Bible verse that was saying that no weapon from against me shall prosper. So he was explaining that, how that Bible verse, as a children of God, that we have to understand. When you are, when you're clothed yourself with Christ, when you wear Christ garments, that the enemy had nothing against you, that you have to understand that you have higher authority, more than the enemy no weapon from against me shall prosper. So therefore, each morning that I encourage you, each morning, wear your garments. What is your garment? Your garment is the word of God. Your garment is worship. Your garment is spending time with God, reading book, you know, book that talks about him, books Mostly. If you don't want to read books, the Bible, you know. Spend time with God for you to put on that garment. So, once you step outside of that door and that you know that there is no weapon from against you shall not prosper. In the mighty name of Jesus, amen.
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Now for people who, like you're like, ah man, she's talking so much about this benefits, benefits man, me, me and Christ. When we're not alike, we don't have a relationship. It is okay. But I want to invite you to completely come and have relationship with Christ, and it takes one bold step to just say a simple prayer. But then I always say it start with the simple prayer and not open of the heart, but with the simple prayer. It doesn't stop there. It doesn't stop there. You cannot say it. Okay, I'm going to say this prayer and then I'm just going to relax here on the couch and I'm not awake. No, it is by you, by you creating a relationship with God, and also to by you having a strong community that's going to help you elevate your relationship with Christ, basically be under a spiritual authority.
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So I encourage you, like, if you haven't found a church or if you've been, just it's 2024. I mean, I always tell my friends this is 2024. We should not have no excuse why we don't want to go to church anymore. I mean, come on, guys, it's 2024. I mean, who thought that we will be in 2024, by 2012? Most of you guys thought that the word is ending. Most of you guys were like it's 2012. You're all afraid, though the word is ending, but guess, like we have past 2012 and now we're in 2024. So I was only one of my friend that we should have no excuse why I said that I cannot go to church. Okay, I understand.
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If you've been gone to church and people at church hurt you, I always say I would say ask the Holy Spirit. I say, holy Spirit, I cannot be part of this community anymore. Holy Spirit will guide you, it will give you, say, okay, you know, go to. Maybe your season there as expired, maybe you're not prospering anymore there. And, as the word said, whatever you do, you shall prosper. Maybe you're not prospering anymore, so maybe it is time for you to ask the Holy Spirit to come and pack your bag and say Holy Spirit, lead me to my next destination, right? So if it's if, if or or, it could be a church trauma, how 100% understand, but find somebody that you can work that out, because, as I'm saying that we're 2024 and he's, he's coming soon. Whether we like it, jesus is definitely coming soon.
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So, anyways, I want to invite for those my brothers and sisters who want to be part of the package of benefits of receiving Jesus and walking in these benefits. So I want to invite you to definitely say this prayer with me. Alright, lord Jesus Christ, I believe you are the Son of God and I believe you die for me on the cross of Calvary. I know I am a sinner. Today, I come to you to forgive me of all my sins and to make me a brand new creation. I accept you as my person, lord and Savior. Thank you, lord, for forgiving me and make me a born again in the mighty name of Jesus. Now, if you have taken the boldness step of saying that prayer, welcome, welcome. Come, sit with me and let's join the benefits of God this year of 2024, because, whatever we do, we shall prosper as His children. Amen. And also, too, if you say this prayer, you're like oh, my goodness, I'll say a prayer, but I don't have a home church. What are you like? Home church, okay, I got you, Okay.
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So now, if you're in the city of Edmonton, gracie the Edmonton, I encourage you, I invite you, give you an invitation to welcome to Christian Kona Store, christian Church of God. Full address will be right there Kona Store, christian Church of God, you're welcome. I mean, there is a wonderful community. They're just waiting for you. They're waiting for you. They're waiting for you. Literally, I'm telling you. I mean it's the most welcoming space ever. That's when you walked in and you're like, are these people crazy? Like why are they so happy? Because the joy that they're just waiting for you. We've been waiting for you. So come along to Kona Store Christian Church of God. But now, if you're out of outside of Edmonton, you're like, you know, I mean, please ask the Holy Spirit. And then, if you want to join us online, you can completely join us online. You know, on the YouTube stream. On YouTube, just search Kona Store Christian Church of God, ub, lb, ub, wonderful UB, good, all right.
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And also to meditate on God's word. Meditate on God's word, read God's word. Even if you read one Bible a day, I mean one verse a day, jesus is happy. Read your word, grab your word, and then, if you don't understand your word, call a friend and say, hey, yo, I was reading this book. You know what's your understanding? Talk to talk to somebody about it. You know, don't just sit there and also talk to the Holy Spirit. Say, holy Spirit, help me open up. What are you trying to say here I know, sometimes the Bible can be Arabic. You know you're reading especially number, and then you're like oh my goodness, this is so I can't understand this. You know, and this is a and this is a great opportunity also to do where you have spiritual authority, you have coverage. You, you, you, you.