Word: Michelle McKinney Hammond - "Passionate Faith"

Are you passionate enough about your God to let everything else go? Are you passionate enough about your prayer life to not leave the presence of God until you hear from Him? Do you have passionate faith? Do you have passionate, crazy, immeasurable, unshakable faith? Michelle will arouse these very questions within you...but you'll get so much more than a few dozen questions from this message.

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Identity In Christ

The Lord has been speaking to me about identity lately. Through journaling I have gotten real with myself and with God and realized that I do not really know who He says I am. I have grown up in the church and know the rhetoric… but a lot of it does not mean much to me on a personal level. I was led to start learning through the Word exactly who God sees when He sees me… past the earthly roles of sister, daughter, friend, girlfriend… that people identify me as.It has been awesome and this is just the beginning but I am on cloud nine yall! Firstly, on the topic of who we are in Christ…I wanna start of with a shout out to the internet because it makes things so much easier! A simple search will lead you to pages and pages of bible verses that tell us who God says we are.The first thing I had to grasp was what Paul really meant when he said in 2 Corinthians 5:17 when he says that anyone who is in Christ is a new creation. The old, my former identity is done with! And ALL things are new. Not the easy-to-change things, not the outward things, not just the habits, ALL things have been made new through Christ.In this newness I discover that I am beautiful and wonderfully made (Psalm 139), I am no longer a slave to sin, but I am free (Romans 6:18), I am royalty (Revelation 1, 1 Peter 2:9) I am far more precious than rubies (Proverbs 31)… I could go on and on!

  My favourite is this revelation that I am the bride of Christ (Revelation 22:17). I get so much joy knowing that one day I will meet my husband, Jesus, face to face and sit at the table as his wife! I was quickly put in my place when I realized that all this isn’t for me! This isn’t so I can go through life being the most awesome version of myself so people can say nice things about me at my funeral. This isn’t so I can sleep with a smile, confidence always on 100.This is for God’s glory! Plain and simple. I am here for HIM. I am me for the world to see Him through me. My life should be a testimony ofGod’s GRACE because who I am is not my doing – there is not enough willpower and strength in me to accomplish what The Lord has set out for me to do, or to become who He has ordained me to be. I am called to LOVE. God is love, and His Spirit is in me, therefore I should be overflowing with love. Love should define me and my actions. Especially my actions towards others!This is where conviction comes in and this is something I will spend a life working on by God’s grace.

I am realizing that God didn’t only create ME (sounds silly to say). He didn’t only make promises to me. I am a small (yet very instrumental) part of the body of believers. I am called to love those who are like me, and unlike me. Colour and culture are not acceptations and that is a hard lesson for me yall. On a very real level I am being convicted about how I treat and talk about people who are not like me. I see people in an earthly light, highlighting their wrongs and even putting traits on them that don’t even belong to them. Christ died for Jews and Gentiles alike and his love does not discriminate. I shouldn’t either. The chorus of this song isn’t in English but it was an eye-opener for me to see all kinds of people coming together to worship God and while watching this video for the first time it really hit me that TRUE LOVE transcends all the injustices of this world.

Translation - Shona to English 

Rudo rwaMwari runo shamisa zvose: Gods Love is always amazing

We are called as disciples, children and friends of God to show his love to all peoples.

Love Paidamoyo Sarah Whitney B. 


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Regret - Testimony

Even though I am delivered from sexual immorality, which is a sin that used to easily trip me up, I found myself occasionally feeling regret about that past and in turn felt unworthy. 
Now I understand that I have to remind myself that when God set me free He not only set me free from that sin but from the feelings of shame and regret. I have been cleansed from all unrighteousness (Colossians 1:15-22). So I should therefore no longer live in shame and regret. The Lord and my saviour has forgiven me and because I am in Christ, I do not live in condemnation (Romans 8:1). My past and the deliverance of that sin is only a testimony of God's glory! It is a beautiful illustration of his GOODNESS. How can I possibly regret that! So ladies, we have to remember to live in the newness of life given to us through Christ (Galations 2:20). Let us not be stuck in the past but remember that what God has brought us through and out is a reflection of his Love.

- Tinashe M.

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