Word of His Grace Church

Guest speaker Benjamin Calpo at Word of His Grace Church on September 24, 2023.

Binding the Strongman

Activating Revelation

Who He Is

Are You The Coming One?

The Spirit Who Is From God

The Message Preached

The Fellowship Of His Son

A Kingdom of Priests Part 2

A Kingdom of Priests

A New And Living Way Part 2

A New And Living Way

A Fundamental Shift

Fulfilling Your Dream

James Green - April 23, 2023

Set Your Sights

Because He Lives

Praise To The King!

The Anointing, the Power, and the Presence

The Full Gospel

Under a New Authority

Lord, I Believe

Prophesy, Son of Man

In this message Pastor Matt discusses how you can access God's restorative power from these three verses "And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for ..." “So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten..." And "The Lord is my Shepherd...He restores my soul.."

God has spoken every spiritual blessing over us in the heavenly places in Christ. Our father has, from his perspective, spoken it upon us. He's released it over us. He has given it to us now. When we were born again, we became citizens of the kingdom of heaven. We have a kingdom birth right that is bestowed on us the minute we surrender our lives to the Lordship of Christ. He pulls us out of the world system and he plants us in his system.

Now comes the challenge of renewing our mind, our thinking and our behaviors, from earthly worldly thought. From the Adamic, cursed system, to the Christ blessed system. That's where a lot of our hang up is, in renewing our mind, to be in that flow of what God is pouring out on us already.

Jesus said in John 16:33, "These things I have spoken to you that you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer. I have overcome the world." Jesus is praying for his disciples and for the church. His prayer is not just over the disciples but for the world. He is praying for those who will believe in his name. It was never the will of God for the power of the Spirit to stop working and moving in the church, as we are engaged in marching orders to bring the kingdom to the world.

The law of the Spirit of Life has made us free from the law of sin and death. There is a law of God's Spirit that is working inside of us. Like leaven works in a loaf of bread or meal, it's working inside of you and I and it's growing, and it's expanding, and it's overtaking who you are. It's the law of faith that works inside of us. When we got saved, and we got born again, our spirit was made alive. It came out of death, and our spirit was made alive with that very life of God. And then his spirit came into our spirit, and we became one with him. And we become His temple. And now as born again believers we have God inside of us.

Rise, my son. Rise, my daughter. Rise into your rightful place, receive the crown of royalty and the robe of righteousness. And let me put my ring back on your finger, and we'll have a party, because I love you. I really, really love you. I am for you, I am not against you, I am for you. I am not against you, I am for you, for you, for you. The gospel message that the world really needs to hear right now is that God is for them. Oh, God's got living water and he just says come and receive and you will find refreshing.

Citizens of Heaven #1

Christmas 2022

The Scripture says that if you are raised with Christ you are to seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. It says to set your mind on things above, not on things on earth. So there's a compelling reason from the Scripture, for us to seek those things that are of the spiritual or heavenly realm and to pursue them. We must set our minds, because to be successful we have to be intentional. 

Success never comes by accident. If you have an apparent success that came by accident, it usually fades away somehow, by accident as well, because it takes intentionality. If you don’t want to be successful you don't have to do anything, but if you want to be successful, there are things that you have to be intentional about building into your life, and you have to be intentional with consistency. And that's why Jesus didn't just say, go out and preach the gospel. He said, go out and make disciples, because there's something about that lifestyle of discipline, of building line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little there a little into our spirit man.

As disciples of Christ, we need to understand some things about the fight we are in if we're going to win, because Christ paid the price for us to be winners. He paid the price for us to triumph victoriously over the enemy. Our enemy is very real and he is fighting against certain godly principles that God wants to build inside of us, so that we will not have the edge, or the strategy, or the tools of victory that we need as believers to be a successful and victorious Christians. 

Whenever we go into a fight, whenever we go into a survival situation, whenever we go into a war, or whenever we go into a sporting event or a sporting game, there's one very important thing that we have to get: the objective is to win, but we need to know what winning look like according to scripture.

When Jesus said love the Lord your God, he was quoting Deuteronomy. He said love the Lord with all your heart, all your mind, and all your soul. All that you are. Everything you are. Love with all your strength is actually in the original, and so it's like with all your heart strength, all your mind strength, all your soul strength.

Did God require of us to love Him with everything that we are and everything that we have because in some way it feeds his ego, or in some way empowers him, or it in some way fuels his megalomaniacal scheme to take over the world? No. we know better. Another way of asking that question might be, "Why did God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden to begin with?"

We are learning Kingdom things. As we apply them to our daily lives, we will see the favor and the dominion of God begin to manifest in greater ways. God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. That means God has already spoken the yes and the amen of his promises over each and every one of our lives. His blessing has already been released over us. Now, we want to really get a hold of that so it will be something that we live and we experience here today, in every part of our lives.

It's time to start taking a turn. We know that we're the sons of God, we know that the whole earth is waiting for the revealing of the sons of God, we know that our God is good, we know that he loves us, and we know that we carry an inheritance. Many of these things are taught throughout the kingdom globally, and have been taught for generations. But sometimes we look around and we see inside God's church a different story with some who, for some reason, haven't learned how to take those principles and those ideas and manifest them into their life and the world.

We've been talking about walking in the Spirit. It is really associated with what it means to be a son of God or a kingdom heir. It's all tied together. One of the primary differences between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant is that we become the temples of God, and we have God living inside of us. No longer is God in a box behind the curtain.

God In You

We know Romans eight teaches a lot about inheritance. And it teaches a lot about walking in the Spirit and how the carnal mind is at war with the spiritual mind, and the two are in conflict with each other. But it specifically calls us to walk in the Spirit. 

But what does that mean? Does it mean we float on water with Peter? Does it mean we detach from this world completely? Does it mean that we are always seeing manifestations and things?

Well, those could be part of it. But that's not what walking in the Spirit is. Walking in the Spirit is more mechanical than we want to believe it is. Sometimes this is where our carnal minds do war against the spirit because we want the wispy stuff to verify that this is actually a spiritual thing. But sometimes the most spiritual thing a person can do is work with their hands, to build a stable life and to obey what the scripture says.

You have the Spirit of Christ, and that spirit has the mind of Christ. That spirit has all of the knowledge of God, because that Spirit is God. And when that Spirit comes into your spirit, your spirit is awakened and comes alive. And your spirit now has come from death into life, the river that flows from Jesus. And now your spirit is alive.

All our lives should demonstrate the fruit of a new force that's working from the inside out, that is springing up unto life and working through our entire being.

According to Romans 8:16 God’s Spirit bears witness with our spirit. When we receive Christ, our spirit is awakened to the Spirit of God. And the Spirit of God can now bear witness in our spirit, that we are the sons of God. This is an important principle for us to get ahold of. Most of His work in our life is really received or caught by revelation in our spirit. And there's a working of the Spirit of God and of the Word of God in conjunction that brings full revelation of what God is wanting to do, in and through our lives, or what he has already done, in and through our lives. Because a lot of what we have to be renewed to or transformed through is accepting and surrendering to what God has already done, if we could really recognize what Jesus meant when he said on the cross, “It is finished”. 

The important thing about being an heir of the kingdom of heaven is preparation, and being taught and discipled and learning how to wield the fullness of the inheritance that God has given to us. Everything given to us is already ours, it's already there for access. But as a people we have things to learn how to access all that's there, and how to how to bring it into existence or into materialization in our lives, but to bring it into an effectual working or into the blessing of God that it was meant to have in and through our lives. As we learn and understand these principles in the kingdom, then God entrusts us with more because he wants to give us the blessing that comes with no sorrow.

In this part of The Revelation of the Sons of God, we focus not just on inheritance, but on being heirs. The focus of this is that we get the transformational value of who we are in Christ.

We need revelation knowledge. We need God to awaken our spirits, and we need to stay stirred and not allow our spirits to fall asleep or to fall into strongholds or traditions that can veer us off from the cutting edge of bringing his kingdom forward into the earth. The earth is waiting for the revealing of the sons of God. And for that to happen we first have to have revelation. We have to have revelation from God concerning who we are and what we are and why we are.

We've been going through Romans chapter eight, because that actually has one of the clearest picture in it concerning the revealing of the sons of God, and how the Earth is waiting for it. Last time we started reading in Ephesians chapter one, because we wanted to show some parallels with Paul's prayer for the Ephesian church, what Paul is explaining in Romans eight about us being sons, and being led by the Spirit and how this whole thing works together. 

We pulled one word out last time that it's important to revisit, because in both of those chapters the word predestined is used. It can be confused with what's called a predestination doctrine, or a predestination theology, which is really kind of an exclusive doctrine and exclusive way of looking at the gospel. And when that gets partnered with what we call the misunderstanding of the sovereignty of God, then some things can really start to get messed up in our faith, and we could actually be robbed of some of the promises that God wants to see work through us.

Historically, the church has gone through seasons. And during those seasons, God awakes the church. He has throughout history continued to open revelation as the church reaches into the promises that God has for us as we are on our journey to becoming Christ like as his body. God isn't trying to take away everything that he's established so far, so that he can do something completely different. That's not what new means. What new means is God is building, line upon line, precept upon precept. He is building his kingdom on earth, and He is establishing people that will bring the gospel message throughout the earth, with demonstration and power of the Holy Spirit, confirming his word with signs and wonders following.

What's happened over time is that the god of this age has blinded the understanding of our hearts and of our eyes. And we still approach the kingdom of heaven from an earthly worldly perspective, and try to figure out how to make heaven fit in our earthly understanding. Because of that, we end up getting a little bit confused, we get a little bit off course in our perception and understanding of some things. And then sometimes we just kind of veer off on these trails. They may not really be bad, but they're not the fullness of what God has called us to walk in or to travel down.

We think of all the things that we've done, all the stuff we're ashamed of, guilty about, condemned about. And even sometimes the church says that's not welcome here. And you feel like you're not welcome here. But Father, God says, Come, come, I'm not gonna rub you in it. I'm not going to shame you for it. I'm going to forgive you, and I'm going to heal you. And I'm going to cleanse you. And I'm going to empower you.

We've made Christianity about a marketable brand. We've made it about a church building or a place where you if you want to build your ministry, you’ve got to build your brand. You’ve got to build your name. No, Jesus said, on this rock, I will build My Church. On the revelation that Christ has come into the world and light has shined into the darkness.

Let's go out and preach the gospel of the kingdom. Not the gospel of the denomination, not the gospel of the church, not the gospel of a psychology, but the good news of the kingdom. That you can reach God and touch Him. You can find wholeness, you can find healing, you can find deliverance.

Heaven On Earth #2

We are called to bring the domain of Jesus' kingdom into the earth. The Kingdom is the King’s domain. Jesus is King.

Forgiveness