Greetings, 

Happy New Year! This is a great time to Praise the Lord and begin the New Year by starting out right.  I thank God for allowing Vernell and me to experience His goodness last year.  Last year was a year, we saw great things come to pass in the ministry and our home.  We are so grateful for the portion he has given us right now.  I know the best is yet to come, but we thank God for what we have right now and that is you supporting us, our families healed, our children and grand children blessed, and more and more in the year 2012. 

In the past years we outlined points on where we believed God would help us to improve. We are going to continue to build on those points by adding the last item, which is “more and more”

• Walking in the Love Relationship  (SOULS SAVED)
• Godly fellowship of and with the Body (HEALTHY RELATIONS)
• Say, See, Do the Kingdom Principles (NEW FACILITY)
• Living life in the fear of the Lord  (DOMINION / OBEDIENCE)
• Change  (Change is not Change until you Change)
• Say It  (The word of Faith)
• More and More (It is God’s Good Pleasure to Bless You)

As 2011 came to a close, we sought God in prayer and fasting for direction in 2012.  We believe we received of him to say to us these things concerning the New Year. 

God desires to bless us more and more!  Ps 115:14 The LORD shall increase you more and more, you, and your children.

Even though we did not SEE everything we were looking forward to in the year 2011, it would seem that it is not coming, but Child of God the best is yet to come.

God desires to bless us more and more and I believe it will come as we get back to the basics in God by increasing our understanding of HIS Word.  We are going back to the basics of believing, praying, fasting, and reading the word of God as never before in 2012.  God will bless us more and more because of our faithful commitment to the basics.

The word of God says in Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, what things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

• We have believed what we prayed
• We have to believe what we say

Often time’s people say things they don’t really believe whether it is in jest or light heartedness, but the words we say have life and they are coming to pass as we say them.  So use the instrument, the tongue, to say and write a destiny that is of God.

Prayer still works, and has always worked because it was given to us by Jesus to enable and empower us to make it on planet earth.   Luke 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint. We have the most potent weapon on earth in prayer, man in communication with God and God communicating with us letting us know what to do and how to do it.  Lets amp up our prayer life and rekindle the fires of intercession for our families, cities, states and the nation to remember the will of God for our lives.

With prayer goes fasting.  Mark 9:29 And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.  Fasting does not make God do things; it gives the believer the opportunity to bring their flesh into subjection to the word God and his will by denying it the privilege to lead. We used to fast all the time.  Now it seems as if we have forgotten the words of Jesus “ this kind can come forth by nothing but prayer and fasting”. Let us go back to the basics. Let's, believe, pray, fast, and study the word of God as we did when we first believed.  When this happens God will bless us with more and more, and it will not be just to have more so we can have more, but it will be so that we can "be a blessing" by helping someone else be delivered from disaster.

Child of God, 2012 will be a continuance of the blessing of God poured out on us.  God is not through blessing you.  Therefore, know that the devil is a liar and a deceiver too, God is not through blessing you!

We love you and thank God for you.

In expectation

Pastor LANCE ALEXANDER

God Bless you and we will see you at church!