SERMON BLOGS

When I Look Into Your Holiness

When I Look Into Your Holiness

Recorded Live from Nations Church in Orlando, FL | March 19th, 2023 In the heavenly realm, there exists a profound holiness that transcends mere auditory pleasure—a holiness that reaches deep into the core of one's being, stirring emotions and evoking a sense of...

It’s All About Jesus

It’s All About Jesus

As you begin to grow and become blessed, things can become really dangerous. You must remember that your life is all for and all about Jesus. 'When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” But Simon...

Surrender to God

Surrender to God

Your life is not your own. Your daily surrender to God is paramount for living a godly life, one that is full of His presence and bold proclaims the gospel to those around you. “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them,...

The Importance of Obeying God

The Importance of Obeying God

The importance of obeying God is foundational to a life guided by faith. Real obedience to the Lord is exclusive, exhaustive, immediate, and indiscriminate. That is the type of obedience that Heaven responds to and honors. Partial, delayed, or selective obedience is...

The Humility of Jesus

The Humility of Jesus

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: “God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.” - James 4:6 Grace can increase in your life. It is possible to have grace upon grace. Grace is not just how you got saved but how you live out the spiritual life. Grace...

Freedom in Christ: Living Fully Free

Freedom in Christ: Living Fully Free

'So I said: “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of hosts.” Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had...

Be Like Christ

Be Like Christ

'Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in...

The Resurrection of Jesus Is Real

The Resurrection of Jesus Is Real

'Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and...

Turning Pain into Praise: How God Uses Adversity for Your Promotion

Turning Pain into Praise: How God Uses Adversity for Your Promotion

'The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of...

God Gives Gifts

God Gives Gifts

'However, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ. ' - Ephesians 4:7  God gives gifts to all of His children. Christ gave spiritual gifts to us all but has also made a way for the five-fold ministry to exist by giving the body of...

Limited By Your Affections

Limited By Your Affections

'You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. ' II Corinthians 6:12 How can you sincerely say that you love Jesus with all your heart but yet you hide eternity from everyone that you meet? How can your statement of loving Jesus be true?...

A Call To Prayer

A Call To Prayer

'And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. ' Acts 2:42-43 As one of the pillars of the church, prayer...

Emmanuel God With Us

Emmanuel God With Us

Pastor Daniel Kolenda The word Emmanuel is possibly one of the most significant words in the entire Bible. If you don’t understand the revelation contained within that name, then the Bible is a random collection of stories that seem to really have no point. The...

The Faith You Ought To Have

The Faith You Ought To Have

Pastor Daniel Kolenda 'Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not...

The Heavenly Elijah

The Heavenly Elijah

Eric Gilmour 'You shall walk after the Lord your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. ' - Deuteronomy 13:4 The name Elijah means Yahweh is God. His whole life declares that there is no other God but...

Naaman’s Journey

Naaman’s Journey

Pastor Russ Benson 'Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper. And the Syrians had gone out on...

Jesus Sees You

Jesus Sees You

Pastor Eddie James 'Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up. But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said...

Come To The Lord’s Table

Come To The Lord’s Table

Pastor Russ Benson 'Now in giving these instructions I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse. For first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. For there...

The Heavenly Solomon

The Heavenly Solomon

Pastor Eric Gilmour 'Go forth, O daughters of Zion, And see King Solomon with the crown With which his mother crowned him On the day of his wedding, The day of the gladness of his heart.' - Song of Solomon 3:11 Before you look at the Heavenly Solomon, you must first...

The Spirit of Adoption

The Spirit of Adoption

Matt McCluskey 'For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our...

Live By Faith

Live By Faith

Pastor Daniel Kolenda 'By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to...

What To Do In The Most Difficult Time of Your Life

What To Do In The Most Difficult Time of Your Life

Pastor Daniel Kolenda 'But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: ' - Hebrews 10:32 Life is suffering, and the more you live, the more you suffer. There is no escape from suffering in life. Those who...

How Faith Works

How Faith Works

Pastor Daniel Kolenda 'Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.' - Hebrews 11:1-2 The definition of faith is entirely counterintuitive to the natural mind. Unbelievers have claimed...

Living By Faith

Living By Faith

Pastor Daniel Kolenda 'quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not...

Get On Track

Get On Track

Pastor Russell Benson 'Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ' - Hebrews 11:1  Hope is defined as “a posture of enthusiastic expectation of what is to come.” God wants the church to be filled with an abundance of hope. Faith...

He Will Bring You Out

He Will Bring You Out

Pastor Daniel Kolenda 'Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the Lord , and serve Him only; and He will...

God Has A Solution

God Has A Solution

Pastor Daniel Kolenda 'So they told Mordecai Esther’s words. And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews. For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and...

The Process of Prophecy Received Until Revealed

The Process of Prophecy Received Until Revealed

Mattheus van der Steen 'Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, ' - Hebrews 12:1 Before God...

Give God the Glory

Give God the Glory

Scott Volk 'Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” And Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid....

Jesus Above All

Jesus Above All

Eric Gilmour 'He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. ' - John 3:31 NKJV You will never find a situation in which something other than Jesus is the answer. He is always...

The Cost of Following Jesus

The Cost of Following Jesus

Pastor Daniel Kolenda 'Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.” Then...

The Prophetic Marriage of Prayer and Evangelism

The Prophetic Marriage of Prayer and Evangelism

Stephen Beauchamp Read Luke 10:2 You cannot separate prayer and evangelism. They go hand in hand. Evangelistic ministries and assignments can be birthed in the place of prayer. The evangelist’s best friend should be the intercessor. Furthermore, the prayer movement...

Live In Faith

Live In Faith

Chris Mikkelson June 26th, 2022 Read Matthew 14:22-23 Even in the midst of a great storm, persecution, or trial in your life, Jesus can give you the faith to come out on the other side. During the storm that takes place in Matthew 14, the disciples, although trained...

Holy Spirit Heritage

Holy Spirit Heritage

Pastor Daniel Kolenda Read Acts 3 If you are content to receive an experience in a service, and then go out and live your lives the way you did before, then you have missed the entire point of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. You can shout amen, fall to the floor,...

Jesus The Cycle Breaker

Jesus The Cycle Breaker

Pastor Eddie James May 8th, 2022 Read Judges 3:31 Have you ever asked Jesus to forgive you for the same thing more than once? You said that you would never do this particular thing but then, you did it again. No matter how hard you tried, your attempts at breaking the...

Remove the High Places

Remove the High Places

Dr. John Shiver May 1st, 2022 Read 1 Kings 3:5 If God gave you the opportunity to ask for anything and told you He would grant it, what would you ask for? Most people might ask for money, a house, or a car, but Solomon asked for wisdom to judge and lead the people...

Jesus Is On The Threshing Floor

Jesus Is On The Threshing Floor

Pastor Daniel Kolenda April 24th, 2022 Read Matthew 3:1-12 The threshing floor was primarily a place of separation. After four stages, the wheat collected from the harvest would be separated and reduced to a pile of chaff and a handful of grain. The chaff was swept...

Jesus The Chain Breaker

Jesus The Chain Breaker

Jesus the Chain Breaker Pastor Daniel Kolenda April 17, 2022 – Easter Sunday Read Luke 4:16-21 This week’s blog is based on Luke 4:16-21. In this passage, Jesus is visiting a synagogue, and He reads a scroll from the Book of Isaiah. This is what was written on that...

The Lord Is With Us

The Lord Is With Us

Pastor Russ Benson April 10th, 2022 Read Isaiah 41:10 We all struggle with fear on some level. When faced with dangerous situations, there is a natural fear response. In those moments, the flight or fight response activates, causing us to respond to events that we...

More Than A Conqueror

More Than A Conqueror

Dr. Michael Brown April 3rd, 2022 Read Psalm 126:1-6 It’s when you’re under attack and facing adversity that you get to see what God has put within you and who He has made you out to be. In Jesus, you are more than a conqueror and an overcomer. Everything that the...