HOLY WEEK EDITION​

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Jesus Christ truly revealed His passion for us on the cross in the suffering He willingly went through on our behalf. But the story did not end there! The Bible says that in 3 days He rose from the grave giving us freedom over death. He now sits glorious next to the Father in heaven reigning as Lord!!! This is the reason why we celebrate the Resurrection-Easter season. It is our life worship to remember and commemorate the moment our freedom from the kingdom of darkness was solidified and guaranteed through Christ, in addition to, regaining access to our Father in right standing to partake in the everlasting covenant.  As part of our worship today and the remaining of the week, part of our Christian Heritage is an understanding of the last seven sayings, 7 places where Christ Shed His Blood, and the 1st seven conversations after His Resurrection of our Lord and Savior. Ask Holy Spirit to reveal a hidden truth that will serve as a key to your freedom. Pick any one of the sayings that really speaks to you and meditate on His words.

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Last 7 Sayings of Jesus: 

1. The 1st of the 7 last sayings: "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing". (Luke23:34).

2. The 2nd of the 7 last sayings: "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 22:43)

3. The 3rd of the 7 last sayings: “Woman, behold your son. Son, behold your mother,” (John 19:26–27)

4. The 4th of the 7 last sayings: “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46 & Mark 15:34)

5. The 5th of the7 last sayings: “I thirst.” John 19:28.

6. The 6th of the 7 last sayings: “It is finished.” (John 19:30)

7. The 7th last saying: “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.” (Luke 23:46)

 

7 Places Jesus Shed His Blood

1. The 1st place Jesus’ Blood was shed: In Gethsemane, Jesus won back our willpower. (Matthew 26:39; Luke 22:43-46)

2. The 2nd place Jesus’ Shed His Blood: The Stripes On Jesus’ back won back our health. (Isaiah 53:5)

3. The 3rd place Jesus’ Blood was shed: Jesus’ Crown of Thorns won back our prosperity in the way we think. (Genesis 3:17-19; 2 Corinthians 8:9; 9:8)

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4. The 4th place Jesus’ Blood was shed: Jesus’ pierced Hands won back dominion over the things we touch. (Genesis 1:26-28)

5. The 5th place Jesus’ Blood was shed: Jesus pierced Feet won back dominion over the places we walk. (Deuteronomy 11:24; mark 16:15, 17-18)

6. The 6th place Jesus’ Blood was shed: Jesus’ pierced Heart won back our joy. (John 19:31-34; Luke 4:18; Nehemiah 8:10; Proverbs 6:30-31)

7. The 7th place Jesus’ Blood was shed: Jesus’ Bruises won our deliverance from inner hurts and iniquities. (Isaiah 53:5)

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The First 7 Conversations of Jesus after His Resurrection
 

1. The 1st of the 7 conversations after resurrection: “Greeting. Don’t be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.” (Matt 28:8-10) “Woman why are you crying? Who is it you are looking looking for? . . . Mary . . .Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” (John 20:15-18)

2. The 2nd of the 7 conversations after resurrection: “What are you discussing together as you walk along? . . . “What things? . . . How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ suffer these things and then enter his glory? (Luke 24:13-26; cf Mark 16:12-13)

3. The 3rd of the 7 conversations after resurrection: “Peace be with you.” . . . “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch and see me; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.” . . . “Do you have anything here to eat?” . . . “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.” . . . “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. Your are witnesses of these things. I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” (Luke 24:35-43) “Peace be with you! . . . Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” . . . “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgive them, they are not forgiven.” (John 20:19-29)

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4. The 4th of the 7 conversations after resurrection: “Peace be with you!” . . . “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out you hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” . . . “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed.” (John 20:26-29)

5. The 5th of the 7 conversations after resurrection: “Children (Friends), haven’t you any fish?”. . . “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” . . . “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.” . . . “Come and have breakfast.” (John 21:5-12)

6. The 6th of the 7 conversations after resurrection: Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?” . . . “Feed my lambs.” “Simon son of John, do you truly love me?” . . . “Take care of my sheep.” . . . “Simon son of John, do you love me?” . . . “Feed my sheep. I tell you the truth, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” . . . “Follow me!” . . . “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.” (John 21:15-23)

7. The 7th conversation after resurrection before ascension: “All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18 20) Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people and they will get well.”(Mark 16:15 18; cf. Luke 24:50-51)

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His Name is Jesus, and HE IS OUR LORD (Week 7).

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Philippians  2:5-11 (NKJV): "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it [b]robbery to be equal with God, 7 but [c]made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

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Fast Food Thought: The name given to Christ Jesus on the day of his coronation was Lord. Coronation? Yes, after He defeated death, was raised from the dead, and presented Himself to the Father, He was given the name Lord. The name of the Lord does not only represent who we know Him as, but it also represents the office that He operates out of (Philippians 2:9-11). Everything with that name is connected to the glory of the Father. 

 

To experience the power and glory of God we cannot do it outside of Jesus. We cannot live out or preach the gospel or work miracles in isolation to Jesus. We cannot even talk about the Holy Spirit without Jesus, because the Holy Spirit came to reveal Jesus and not Himself (John 16:13). The mystery behind salvation, baptism, spiritual growth and development, miracles--everything is Jesus. It doesn't rob from our Lord when we replace the name of our Lord Jesus with words like breakthrough, healing, or any other attribute, it robs from us! We have to know who He is. Not just his attributes. Who is Jesus? Do you speak about a God you do not know? Do we stand before the sick telling them to get heal, with a God we do not know? Are we only familiar with his expressions. When Jesus becomes a minor topic or He is isolated from the Christian experience, we fall repeatedly and we are not sustained in the power of transformation, deliverance or salvation. We must know Jesus first, before all the things that come from Him.

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This is the foundation that the church will be established. Peter is not the foundation of the church. It is the understanding of Matthew 16:16. If we ignore this foundation going forward, our effectiveness is compromised. The Christian experience is null and void without it. The secret to the architecture of the church is the conviction of who Jesus is. The victory of the church and your experience is not just prayer, fasting, and studying it is Matthew 16:16. ​As you prepare for Resurrection-Easter Sunday, I ask you, "Do You Know Him? What is your verdict of Jesus? Matthew 16:13-19

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Ignorance Creates Spiritual Error (Week 6)

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Matthew 4:1-11 (NKJV): Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2 And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. 3 Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” 4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ” 5 Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ” 7 Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’ ” 8 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.” 10 Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’ ” 11 Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.

 

Fast Food: "We ARE NOT as powerful as our knowledge of spiritual things, WE ARE as powerful as our knowledge of scripture." Satan requires allegiance and dominion over you. He seeks to achieve this through using his greatest weapon against you--Deception. For deception to have its greatest work, the deceiver must be aware of the truth. Satan can't live in Truth, but he is aware of it. Which is why he always questions us with, "what has God said" because it provides arsenal and weaponry for him to use against you, especially, if  you don't know anything or there is any ounce of doubt. Satan is not going after things that we consider to be important (i.e., wealth, health, family, etc.,) he is going after the thing that has been RE-GIVEN to us--and that is our authority through our Lord Jesus that gives us dominion over the earth. Your God-given dominion is what he seeks and he will do anything, use anything or anyone to deceive you in handing it over. The Bible says that Esau sold his birthright for a pot of porridge. It was porridge for Esau, but your porridge may be your dignity, health, ministry, relationships, health etc. Therefore, you and I have to learn how to fight him.

 

We have two enemies to fight, our flesh (appetites and desires conceived in lust and self) and Satan and the kingdom of darkness. Satan does not play when he steals, kills, and destroys what is important to you (health, family, peace, etc.) so you can't play with him anymore. Your knowledge of scripture is what fights the enemy, while your fasting fights your flesh. If you and I don't know the things that God has freely given to us, then it makes it easier for Satan to use his weapon of deception to deceive us over and over again. My prayer for you is that you do not become distracted by what Satan is doing to keep you locked in the pattern of generational hurts, trauma, depression, abuse, ignorance, but that you break free and walk mightily with God and proclaim what is written along with its full authority.  

 

 

Life's Difficulty Builds Strength, Character, & Wisdom

(Week 5)

 

Lamentations 3:27-30 (NLT) And it is good for people to submit at an early age to the yoke of his discipline: 28 Let them sit alone in silence beneath the Lord’s demands. 29 Let them lie face down in the dust, for there may be hope at last. 30 Let them turn the other cheek to those who strike them and accept the insults of their enemies.​

 

Today Focus on verse 27.  What it means “The yoke” is a metaphor for hardship, discipline, or responsibility. The verse suggests that learning to endure difficulty early in life builds strength, character, and wisdom. It’s not saying suffering is fun or desirable. It’s saying that struggles can shape you in ways that prepare you for the future. When you face challenges while you’re young—whether emotional, spiritual, or practical—you develop: resilience, patience, humility, and trust in God. The idea is that these qualities become a foundation for the rest of your life. In other words, It’s better to learn life’s tough lessons early, because they’ll make you stronger and wiser later on. Lamentations 3: 27-39 focuses on discipline and restoration. In sum, hardships are not meaningless; they are designed to shape, humble, and draw you back to God. Verses 28-30 describes how we should carry the yoke. For instance, accepting the season you are in rather than fighting it (verse 28); walking in deep humility or lowering ourselves before God, because hope grows in humble soil (verse 29); and accepting discipline without resentment instead, of reacting aggressively or passively in or what we perceive to be abusive situations (verse 30). Overall, the take home message is: hardship can be good when it shapes you early; Sit with it instead of running from it; Humble yourself, because hope grows there;  and Accept the lessons without bitterness. Because hope doesn’t come from escaping suffering — it comes from meeting God inside it.

 

 

A Restructuring That's Both Sacred & Strategic (Week 4)

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Isaiah 54: 2-3 (ERV): Make your tent bigger. Open your doors wide. Don't think small! Make your tent large and strong, because you will grow in all directions. Your children will take over many nations and live in the cities that were destroyed.

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Deliverance requires expansion and restructuring. Expansion stretches your reach, your influence, your capacity. Restructuring sharpens your boundaries, your systems, your sense of what’s essential. In seasons of calling, identity, and expansion, restructuring becomes two things at once: ​

• Sacred restructuring (the inner, spiritual, identity-level shift)

• Strategic restructuring (the external, practical, structural shift)

 

Sacred restructuring is the part you don't control, but it is the part of you that often feels like, "I can't operate the way that I used to;" "Somehting in me is changing;" "I'm being stretched into a larger version of myself;" "My spirit is asking for more alignment;" and "Old patterns don't fit anymore." However, sacred restructuring is when God's purpose and identity start rearranging your internal architecture. Not for the sake of efficiency, but for the sake of becoming. It touches your voice, your authority, your discernment, your emotional capacity, your spiritual bandwidth, your sense of who you are and what you’re called to carry. This is the part that feels holy, weighty, and deeply personal. ​While on the flip side, strategic restructuring is the part that you do control. Strategic restructuring is building the container that can hold the new version of your life. It can feel like leadership, stewardship, and intentionality. It looks like redefining roles, building systems creating boundaries, delegating more, organizing, protecting your time, establishing a rhythm, structuring your days differently. A sacred restructuring changes who you are, and strategic restructuring changes how you live. When both happen simultaneously it means your life is expanding in a way that requires a new internal identity and a new external structure.                             

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Our Claim Has Been Processed (Week 3)

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​Scripture: Colossians 1:13-20 (NASB) He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. 19 For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, 20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.

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Today, let's talk briefly Satan and his army ability to hinder our processes of transformation. Before deliverance through transformation can begin, one must examine step one which is being delivered from or rather casting out the spiritual influences that either: possess non-believers; demonize or control believers; dominate or rule over territories and systems (finances, education, family, health, etc.). Because we have not thoroughly done a good job in recognizing who we are, Satan and his army  will always continue to hinder our processes of transformation. Why? Because his overall agenda is to obtain dominance and trans-generational allegiance. His assignment is to fight and frustrate the purposes of God by any and all means (i.e., sickness, delay, car accident, mental illness, procrastination, fear, etc.); mainly to stop us from coming to the knowledge of God or our Lord Jesus Christ or frustrate Believers, efficiency in growth and maturity (John 17:3). There is an old saying that goes, "what you don't know, won't hurt." However, "what you don't know" is called ignorance and being ignorant to the principles of God and His Kingdom, really does hurt us. Therefore, considered Colossians 1:13-20, and arm yourself likewise with this piece of light. Pray, that the fruit or revelation of this Light empowers you to transform and accept Our Lord's claim about your victory settlement.​​

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Deliverance Through Transformation (Week 2)

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Deliverance requires expansion and restructuring (when life is asking you to grow and to get more precise about what you're doing or building). Expansion stretches your reach, your influence, your capacity. Restructuring sharpens your boundaries, your systems, your sense of what’s essential.  Remember, People with small callings get small transitions. People with expansive, layered, spiritually-rooted callings get these multidimensional upgrades.

 

Let's talk briefly about Deliverance through Transformation. Deliverance through transformation is really step two of one's journey. For the sake of this conversation, we are just showing you the seed packets before planting because a lot of work has to be done prior to step two. Before deliverance through transformation can begin, one must examine step one which is being delivered from or rather casting out the spiritual influences that either: possess non-believers; demonize or control believers; dominate or rule over territories and systems (finances, education, family, health, etc.). Because we have not thoroughly done a good job in recognizing who we are Satan and his army continues to hinder our processes of transformation. For example deliverance through transformation requires a reorientation of our spiritual understanding where after the demonic influences have been cast out we then open ourselves to the nature and character of God, along with His' principles of the Kingdom. This is important  because transformation closes the door of ignorance and empowers believers to rise above the influence of Satan and his army. So today, I want you to reconsider, before expanding and restructuring, what negative thoughts you often entertain on a regular basis. Is it procrastination, is it doubt, fear, guilt, shame, hatred, anger, bad health, abuse, rejection. Well, let me tell you, it doesn't matter what the negative thoughts are if we have not taken the time to cast out the negative demonic influences who have permission to continue staying or returning there. Read Matthew 12:43-45; Matthew 10:1; Luke 10:19 (ESV). If there are any hesitations with you embracing the last 2 scriptures, then in your prayer time, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the spirit that lingers or dominates in that area of your life. After casting it out, remind yourself of the authority you have through Christ (Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 1:3-14)

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Understand the Doorway for Negative Influence:

 

Matthew 12:43-45 (ESV): “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”  

 

Now consider this (Your Authority):

 

Matthew 10:1 (ESV) And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.

 

Luke 10:19 (ESV) Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.

 

Ephesian 3: 3-14 (ESV): Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us[b] for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known[c] to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ[d] 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Christ, things in heaven and things on earth in him. 11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee[e] of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it,[f] to the praise of his glory.

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Welcome to a Multidimensional Upgrade (Week 1)

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Romans 13:11-14 (ERV): I say this because you know that we live in an important time. Yes, it is now time for you to wake up from your sleep. Our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is almost finished. The day is almost here. So we should stop doing whatever belongs to darkness. We should prepare ourselves to fight evil with the weapons that belong to the light. 13 We should live in a right way, like people who belong to the day. We should not have wild parties or be drunk. We should not be involved in sexual sin or any kind of immoral behavior. We should not cause arguments and trouble or be jealous. 14 But be like the Lord Jesus Christ, so that when people see what you do, they will see Christ. Don’t think about how to satisfy the desires of your sinful self.

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The Armor of Light consist of at least 3 major components: The Word of God, The Blood of Christ, and the Name of the Lord. But before putting on the Armor of Light it is important that we begin to experience deliverance through transformation. Deliverance in this context is not fighting to obtain victory, but it is manifesting and operating the victory that is already given. Deliverance requires expansion and restructuring (when life is asking you to grow and to get more precise about what your doing or building). Expansion stretches your reach, your influence, your capacity. Restructuring sharpens your boundaries, your systems, your sense of what’s essential.  When they show up at the same time, it usually means you’re stepping into a season where the old architecture can’t hold the scale of what’s coming next. It’s not collapse — it’s renovation. And renovation is messy, but it’s also deeply intentional. When we expand, everything connected to us tends to stretch with us (i.e., ministry, identity, roles, responsibilities), they all start recalibrating around the version of you that’s emerging. When everything  around your requires your attention or is moving at once, that usually means you’re in one of those rare threshold seasons — the kind where life doesn’t ask you to choose a single area to grow in, but instead invites your whole ecosystem to evolve. People with small callings get small transitions. People with expansive, layered, spiritually-rooted callings get these multidimensional upgrades.

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