MATTHEW 6:31-32

Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? Or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear? ....

For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all. ....

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1 PETER 5:6-7....

Humble yourselves therefore under the might hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:....

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.....

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PROVERBS 3:5-6....

Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.....

In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.....

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Worrying means that I can try to solve the problem myself.  That I take it into my hands and walk around the issue so many times and not find a solution.  

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Does that really give me peace to have worried about the situation and to still come up empty handed with no solution?

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If I don’t “worry” about a situation, does that mean that I am not concerned with it, or that I don’t understand what is happening, or does it negate the seriousness of a situation?

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No, it means I have perspective on what is going on and that I can’t change it within my own strength, might or flesh.

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2 Corinthians 10:4-5....

For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raise up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. ....

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JOHN 8:44....

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.....

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The bible clearly says that we are not at war with humans themselves but against the mighty powers that are at work behind the scenes that cause and manipulate and deceive us into acting out what is against God’s principals, thus causing the natural manifestation of what is going on the spirit realm.

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The outward actions of human nature, is directly related to the spirit realm and what is going on “behind the scenes”.

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Does my worrying and war in the “flesh” change was is going on in the spirit?

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The answer to that is “no”.

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The flesh can not war against spirit, but spirit can war against spirit. 

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Ephesians 6 tells us what our battle gear is in the spirit and what it looks like, and if we put it on we are ready for battle in the spirit.

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Does my worrying tell God “look I care about this so much I am going to keep on worrying, I want you to see how important this is to me by how much I am worried about it”

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Can I really move the hand of God with worry?

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The answer to that is “no”. 

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My worry does not impress God.

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 Does God say that I can’t have emotions or feel something when I have trials in my life?

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No, it simply means that I realize that no matter how much I worry, my worry does not change the situation or that my emotions are not what move the hand of God.

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Prayer and petition by faith move the hand of God.

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PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7....

Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God.....

And God’s peace (shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace) which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in  Christ Jesus.....

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Faith is the channel in which we approach God and receive from God. 

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We need to learn how to use the faith we already have.  If we don’t have any faith, then we need to go out and get some, the scriptures clearly say faith comes when we hear God’s word.

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ROMANS 10:17....

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.....

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Now we see we must hear God’s word to have get faith.

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Now, that we have started to build faith, we need to learn what it is.

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If you think of faith as a channel then “by faith” will make sense to you, because there are many ways to receive something, like “by mail”, “by boat”, “buy delivery truck”, etc…God’s channel of delivery to his children is “by faith”.  And faith is our path to Him for prayer, petition, and thanksgiving.

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You see even the scriptures (EPHESIANS 2:8-9 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, 9 not by works, so that no one can boast) say by faith you have been saved through grace.  Faith is the channel is which you are saved.  You put your faith in Jesus and “by faith” you receive what Jesus did then confess with your mouth.

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Words are powerful stuff, the devil wants us to think that we are powerless to do anything about our situation.  Well, we kinda are, until the word of God comes on the scene. 

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Scripture tells us the God’s word is a sword (Ephesians 6:17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God).

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What ever comes out of our mouth is what we will be drawn to and ultimately believe and receive.

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So if I sit here and worry and speak that out of my mouth, I will be drawn to that thing I am speaking.  Because “by faith” I am receiving what is coming out of my mouth.

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MATTHEW 12:34....

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.....

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ROMANS 10:9....

For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raises him from the dead, you will be saved.....

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The above scriptures indicate whatever a person believes will come out of their mouth. That is why the bible says that “if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord” you will be saved.

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As you can see the bible clearly corresponds what we believe in our hearts we speak out of our mouth. And “by faith” we receive from God.

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If I speak negative, I will receive negative, but if I speak the words of the living God I will receive life in my body and my spirit and I will speak it over others as well.

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If I speak God’s help and mercy, love, and grace into a situation, I will receive it “by faith”.

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My worrying does not impress God because it is not the channel he uses to accept a prayer or give deliverance.

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The Bible does not say “by your worrying you are saved, or healed or delivered”, it says “by faith”.

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EVERYTHING we receive from God is “by faith”.

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God’s channel is faith. 

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My worrying does not impress Him, FAITH is what moves the mighty hand of the living God.

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“Seeing is believing” – sound familiar – it should – in western culture you are taught this from the beginning.  Your experience taught you that believing in something not seen is not worth the disappointment if you didn’t get it in the end, so you wait to get it before you believe.  This mentally sets us up for a challenge in Christianity.  Because remember “by faith” we received from God and in Hebrews 11:1 faith is the substance of things hoped for and not yet seen.  So what you have been taught through experience contradicts what the bible says faith really is.

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You see Satan is really sneaky and evil and is a plain deceiver and liar. JOHN 8:44....

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The major avenue a human learns something is by experience.  If we are taught something out of experience it becomes part of who we are, it becomes a habit, belief or stronghold in our life. 

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Now Satan works by planting a thought in your head and then causes a disappointing experience in conjunction with what you hoped for and didn’t get so then when you hope for something and don’t get it, then suddenly the “faith” you had to receive that thing didn’t happen so now you believe “seeing is believing” and Satan has clogged up or stolen the channel in which God uses to get to you and you to him.

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Hebrews 11:1 ....

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not yet seen....

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So we learn from the above scripture that faith is a “substance” and “the evidence of things not yet seen”

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Notice it says “not yet” seen, it does not say “never seen”. 

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The Bibles tells us in Hebrews 11:1 what faith is, in Romans 10:17 tells us that how to get faith:

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ROMANS 10:17....

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.....

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Now we can see that “by faith” is the channel that we use to get to God and he uses it to get to us. 

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Start using your channel of faith for prayer and petition and believe in your heart you have received it. PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7....

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ISAIAH 55:10-11 says that his word will not return to him void, it will accomplish the thing He sent it to do, but if we don’t first receive it through the channel of faith, how then will it even get to us to begin it’s work?

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If you don’t receive instant deliverance, it does not mean that you have not received a measure of healing.  The scripture says the measure of faith that you use, it will be measured back to you. LUKE 6:38

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When you build up and practice using your faith, your healing process will increase because you are using your faith in a higher measure so in using your faith in a higher measure the higher measure will be measured back to you in return.

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The more measure of faith you use in your situation, the more measure of deliverance you will receive.

.. ..In conclusion, God is not moved by my worrying, He wants me to use my channel of faith using prayer and petition, (PHILIPPIANS 4:6-7) to get to Him and put on my battle gear in EPHESIANS 6 and then practice what it says in 2 CORINTHINANS 10:4-5.

Have you ever seen the movie "The Matrix"?  I find it ironic it has a story line quite similar to the battle for souls.  How do you ask?  Well in the beginning Keanu Reeves is looking for something, he has a feeling in his inner most being that something is not "right" with the world and all is not as it seems.  He keeps searching and then he is contacted, given a pill and "wakes up" to what is really going on around him.  The world in which he is "living" is not real, actually it is not a reality at all, but a clever cover up to hide what is really going on.  The people around him are living their daily lives not even aware what is going on beyond what their senses can not yet tell them.  If he were to tell them what is really going on, they would laugh and carry on with out a blink of an eye, thinking he was crazy or out of his mind.  He himself does not want to believe it's real.  But then comes to his senses and realizes what is truly at stake…..souls and the human race..

We find our selves in quite the same similar situation when it comes to God. The human race finds itself searching for "something else" as Keanu did in The Matrix.  When someone comes to us and talks about Salvation and hell we look at them and think they are crazy.  Why? Because we are living only with our natural senses.  We don't believe a spiritual world exists because just like The Matrix our senses don't tell us it's real.  The creatures try to kill Keanu in the Matrix and lead him astray, because they are trying to stop him from doing what he was designed to do, save the existing souls of the human race.

We are living in much the same way.  Only instead of creatures generated by a machine, we have creatures controlled by the devil (lucifer, satan, prince of darkness, what ever you want to call him).  The creatures try to kill us spiritually because they are a part of the spiritual world, they know what is at stake, the human soul.  There is a hell and if you don't accepted Christ (be born again spiritually) and walk out your salvation, you will receive eternal damnation.

As in the Matrix, if our natural senses can be occupied or tricked then we never really seek the spiritual awakening as Keanu did in The Matrix.  And even when we first receive our spiritual awakening from God once we are saved, we can hardly believe what has been going on, and we can't believe we didn't notice it before.  And like Keanu we stand in a stunned awe of what has just happened.  

As humans we were designed to love and worship God, and to spread his Gospel to the world.  However, satan knows if he can keep us only living with our 5 senses then he can trick us into not really full filling what we were designed to do.  We stop at what our natural senses tell us, instead of looking out our spiritual senses and continuing to do God's work. 

Behind the scenes of our natural world there is a spiritual world very much a live and at work.  Only until we accept Christ, receive Salvation and walk out our Salvation do we wake up and realize what is truly at stake….souls and the human race for eternity.   

Dear Family and Friends:

I feel in my heart I must say this to you.  In 2003 after the birth of my son and a battle with a former friend I went to church seeking an answer and found salvation.  Over the past 4 years my life has been radically transformed, from my thinking to my actions.  At times it has been painful but God is trying to rip out the roots of the bitter seeds that have been planted for so many years, rip out the lies that satan has planted.  I have been blessed to be in a remnant church.  Meaning God's Gospel is preached not man's feel good gospel.  Other religions will try to tell you that what is happening in our church is not truly of God.  Well my answer to that is, how do they know?  They have no solid biblical knowledge to make that claim.  God has written his word, and he will NEVER, EVER contradict it with the spoken word of man or with a feeling of man. 

It has been prophesied that in the last days, satan will enter the church and many will be deceived.  ALWAYS, look to whether or not your preachers' spoken word can be backed up by true biblical scripture.  Paul stated that another gospel would be preached.  There is also going to be a shift were the Lord will be removing preachers from the pulpit because they have fallen into lawlessness.  They were once men of God but fell into secret sin of some sort.  God is tired of the preachers of this age courting the bride.  He wants our praises, but preachers are too consumed with wanting the praise for themselves on how good they preach the gospel not how true they have preached the Gospel.  The Ark of the Covenant was taken away from King David in the bible because he fell away from God, king David did it his way not God's way.  However, when he repented and came back and did it God's way, his relationship with God was restored.  Don't be consumed with this world.  I have realized the end of this world is near and the second coming of Christ is fast approaching.  Don't be deceived and feel that because you are "right" in man's eyes that you are saved and have salvation, you need to be concerned with God's definition of salvation to be truly saved.  There is going to be a false coming back to God mentality but nothing will happen because it's not based on God's Gospel.  When something is truly done out of God's Gospel results happen.  There will be false signs and you see it already.  Always guard you mind and ask you self, can this be backed up by the word of God?  Do not use "other bibles" to back up the word of God.  There is only one true Gospel that was written, do not use these "additions" to the bible, or use modified bibles that the word has been taken out of.  These are not true bibles.  A true bibles holds both the Old and New Testaments, NOTHING REMOVED OR ADDED.

It has been prophesied that there will be a great disaster coming.  This will usher in the anti-christ that will preach a false sense of hope and peace, because he will cater to our senses and make it seem real because we have the mentality of, if I can see, touch and taste it, it is real.  Folks if you believe we evolved from monkeys, that takes more faith then believing that God requires your salvation through Jesus to be truly saved, and to live your life differently then the world.  If you have asked Jesus into your life but have not pursued his ways and are living the same way you always have, you must check your spiritual pulse and ask yourself do you really truly have salvation.  Truly believing in Jesus manifests changes in the natural as well as the spiritual.   You will know that you believe in a true Gospel when you are prosecuted by the ones you loved and the world.  Because it offends them that you are going against the worldly beliefs of "I am a good person", "I believe in a god".  Just because you believe in  "a god" means NOTHING.  The devil believes in God and he shutters, it is the salvation part is were the false teachings come in.  You can't follow John Smith, Mohammad, Buddah, so on and so forth and think you are going to heaven.  People are to afraid to be cast out by the ones they love if they tell them the truth.  Your soul will go to a place of eternal hell if you don't get right with God.  If this freaks you out, makes you mad, then good.  I love you and I want you to be saved and so does God.  You must check your spiritual pulses and if you are freaked out about this then you probably don't have true salvation.  Before my grandmother died she kept asking me if I found a church and I would roll my eyes and think "yeah sure".  She knew the Truth, she got saved and baptized shortly before her passing.  She realized what was happening.  Don't let false teachings tell you that you are right with God to make yourself feel good in this life because it is eternity we should be concerned with.  God is an eternal being, as his creations we are eternal as well.  We need to change our mindset.  And get focused in on Jesus.  I left my house this morning freaked out about the last days.  And I am cleaning my spiritual house.  We will never be perfect until heaven.  But we must try and do the best that we can through God and his mercy and grace in this life once we are saved.  Works do not get us into heaven, but once we are saved our new beliefs are manifested in the natural by our actions, thus the bibles says James 2:26 "As the body without spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead", if you are not living what your mouth says you believe then you really don't believe it.  So ask yourself, do your actions indicate that you have salvation, or are you just hoping that Jesus gave you "fire insurance"?

We pray that their spiritual eyes will be opened to truly understand the Gospel.
2 Corinthians 4:3-4

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. [4] The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

We ask that all deception be broken off
2 Corinthians 10:4-5

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. [5] We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raise up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

We ask that the stronghold of pride be torn down
2 Corinthians 10:5 (Living)

We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

We pray that all Satan's strategies and schemes will fail.
2 Corinthians 10:5

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

We pray that the Holy Spirit will hover around the unsaved person with it's power & love.

Genesis 1:2-3

Galatians 4:19 (TEV)

1 Kings 18:41-45

We pray for workers-harvesters-to be sent to unbelievers.

Matthew 9:36-38

Sample Prayer:

Father I come to you in Jesus name on behalf of __________________. I know it's your will they be saved. I ask you to lift the veil from their eyes that they might see Christ clearly. I ask you to break all deception caused by false beliefs Satan and circumstances have created.

Help _____________ to recognize their sinful condition and help ____________To see their need for Christ. Demolish the stronghold of pride in_______________.

I ask you to thwart every scheme of Satan and every thought he plants in ___________________ mind to deceive them. Send the Holy Spirit to hover all around them, releasing love and power. Send the right people to ______________________ who will share your love and thoughts toward them.

I thank you for doing this I will continue to pray until I see the breakthrough. I ask based on the finished work of Christ, ________________'s Savior.

Here is a basic breakdown of the church activities that are currently available at our church.

Church Basics:
Calvary Christian Center
2728 E. Harley StreetInverness, FL 34453
(352) 637-5100 – Main Phone Line
(352) 341-3440 – Parsonage
(352) 637-9290 – Fax
Office hours 9:30 am – 5 pm

Services:

Sundays Services 8:30 am and 11:00 am
Bible Study Classes and Pre – Service Prayer 10:00 am
Childcare is available for these services.
On Sunday morning the following are available:
Nursery is for infants through 3 years of age
Wee Church ages 3 -6
Children's Church ages 6 – 12

Wednesday
Wednesday Night Service 6:30 p.m.
S.L.A.M. "The Ring" for ages 3 – 11 starts at 6:30 p.m.
Childcare available

Friday
Omega Youth Ministries or OYM
This is for youth from 12 through adult

Friday Nights at 7:00 p.m.

Alpha
New believer's discipleship program. Held for 10 weeks on Wednesday nights at 6:00 p.m. Call the church for start dates and openings.

Common Ground
Held at youth homes through out Citrus County for youth you want to have a small group environment to discuss issues and connect with peers their own age.