New Life Words of Enrichment

Bishop Brenda K. Perry ministers from Isaiah 58:12

Plenty of things in life can easily be distractions to our purpose in the Kingdom of God. Pastor Mel expounds on how we must be careful not to allow things to distract us from our Christian walk or the assignment God has given us. Sometimes our dreams can be a distraction to us doing God's will. Sometimes an offense may be the distraction that pulls us away from fellowship with God and His people. We must always be sensitive and discerning to the enemy's scheme to distract us. 

Bishop Brenda K. Perry's message is taken from Isaiah 58:12. This end-of-the-year message is to prepare the members' hearts for a time of consecration before the Lord. As believers, God desires that His people's hearts be pure before Him, open to receive His direction and that we are the remedy of hope and healing our world needs us to be. 

Message preached by Bishop Brenda K. Perry on Sunday, January 16

Sunday, January 9

The first Sunday worship service of 2022

Pastor Gail Sprat was the guest speaker for the virtual Friday Noon Prayer Service. She encouraged New Life to continue in the season of prayer; going deeper to hear and be sensitive to what God is doing during COVID-19, what He desires to do in and through us as individuals and collective, to lean into the change of how we "do church" going forward, and to be intentional in our engagement with the unbeliever/ unchurched.

Nehemiah did not allow the culture of his captivity to take him away from his love for his God and native land. He remembered who he was and the God he served. The Bible tells us “blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.”

Nehemiah prepared himself for the opportunity. When we are prepared God can promote us. In the months of prayer and fasting, Nehemiah allowed himself to be prepared for the opportunity to stand before the king and to fulfill the assignment that God had placed on his heart.

Nathaniel Jordan shares with us how God has created the natural healing medicine and preventative foods that our bodies need to be healthy.

Nathaniel Jordan speaks on the 12 componantes of food addiction.

1 Corinthians 2, But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory...but they did not know who He was because had they known they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. If Satan had known that Jesus was God in the flesh he would not have wanted them to kill Him...Satan didn’t know that Jesus on the cross was the seed of woman crushing the head of the serpent (Satan himself).

Bishop Perry reminds us why communionis still important in todays worship.

Bishop Perry admonishes the congregation that our faithful and committed praise breaks the enemy’s stronghold. You have to talk to yourself when you feel the pressure of life holding you down. You have to tell yourself, “My soul will make her boast in the Lord.”

We can trust and know that even with all of the pressure from the world and the day turning into the darkest hour, this is our finest hour. God is saying hold fast to Him because He has already given us the victory. We live by faith, not by what we see or feel. We have to trust that God will do what He promised He will do. THIS IS OUR FINEST HOUR...

Someone has to teach the new generation how to worship God. Someone has to be willing to help the next generation understand why they are to dedicate themselves to the service of God, even in the simple things. We have to teach and show them how to be committed to a life of holiness and righteousness.

A special farewell service for one of New Life's ministry family - Pastor Elmer & Deaconess Powell. Bishop Perry shares the parallel of the services and faithfulness of this couple and that of Paul's co-workers Aquila and Pricilla.

Bishop Perry minister's to New Life from 2 Corinthians 8 where the Apostle Paul reminds the church at Corinth of their once strong desire to be a financial blessing to the church in Jerusalem. He encourages the Corinthian saints to be like the saints in Macedonia who despite their financial lack insisted on giving to saints in Jerusalem.

Carla Cargle shares with New Life the importance of understanding what Money is. It is a tool God has created as a means to barter or actively participate in commerce. Money should not control us but rather we should trust God, manage our lifestyle, and trust the flow. As we align ourselves with God, He gives us wisdom to walk in financial, peace, financial stability, and financial freedom.

We can stop God’s blessings from our life due to fear and greed; being selfish can hold back the abundant flow of God’s riches. However, we release the overflow of God's riches when our attitude (our heart) is surrendered to Him in obedience.

Psalms and Proverbs often tell us to inquire of the Lord to teach us to know the ways of God...to know His precepts, His wisdom. God is a God of order. When it comes to our financial stability we must understand and work in the order of God.

This is part one of Bishop Perry's message series on financial freedom. God desires for His children to live in freedom of debt. Through His Spirit, the Holy Ghost, we can obtain wisdom to save, invest, give and spend the monetary resources we receive.

Bishop Kelvin Clark ministered for the 2019 Father's Day service from 2 King 7:3 - 9. 2 Corinthians 10:4 - 6...Most people would like to take the road of least resistance. When a person find them self sitting for a long period of time their composure says, “Don’t bother me now because I’m resting.” The sitting becomes their posture, apart of who they are. Sitting for a long period of time brings about a certain condition and character.

When we start doing what God wants us to do the enemy will come against us - we will find ourselves in spiritual warfare. That’s why we must go deep...the water of life is down in the well. We can not be satisfied with the shallow spiritual things or blessings. We must daily want a refreshing of God’s Spirit. We have to want to be hungry for God.

When Joshua told Moses that he heard a sound of war, Moses was able to discern that the sound coming from the people was a sound of idolatry. Moses had been with God receiving instruction forward progress.Intercessors have to stay on post and on guard because when you come up missing corruption will take over. The more you understand your prophetic or intersession gift and scope the more proficient you will be. When Moses God became tired he had to have intercessors on his left and right to help win the war.

Whose report will we believe? Will we believe the words of the prophets concerning Jesus? Despite Jesus doing many miracles in the midst of the people of Israel many refused to believe that He was the Messiah.

When you think things are hopeless, God is looking for your faith. It takes work to believe. Martha knew that Jesus was the resurrection but she didn’t believe that Jesus could raise Lazarus after he had been dead for so many days.Why did Jesus have to come into Jerusalem riding a donkey? Matthew 5:17 Jesus came to fulfill the words of the prophets; Zechariah 9:9 told Israel to rejoice because their King would come riding into the city on a donkey and a colt.

Can God depend on you? It is not a matter of what congregation you belong to, but we are called to belong to Christ. Philippians tells us that it is God working in us. We we were born again the old creature passed away and a new man was born. God could depend on Abraham. Abram had to know who God was, making a decision to trust in God or not. When God called Abram to leave his family and everything that was familiar behind and go to a place that only God knew, Abram had to trust in God.

Apostle Bernice White shared with the New Life family that many times we become so caught up with wrestling with the ideas of how to fulfill our purpose that we fail to actually do what God has designed us to do. We have to reach a place where we walk in faith and believe that God's will can be done as we yield to Him.

The body of Christ must have an understanding, appreciation, and respect for the gifts that God has given to each believer. God does not give us gifts for our own glory, but rather to glorify Him and to edify the Church.

Jesus said He had come down not to do His will but to do the will of the One who sent Him - His Father’s will. God did not save us to just sit on the pew. We have an assignment given to each of us.

A lot of times we are caught up in what is going on around us; we get disturbed by what we see and hear on the news. But we need to understand that we have a God that knows the end of the story before the world came into existence. He is looking to see if the people of God are going to believe His Word.

Bishop Perry exhorted the congregation from Psalm 91 (New Living Translation). She encouraged us to proclaim God's Word over our lives daily as we continue to live by faith.

Pastor Mel encourages New Life to remember the reason why we as believer celebrate the Christmas season. Christmas is a time to remember that Shalom, peace, has come to earth and has made all thing complete and whole through Christ Jesus.

Apostle Bernice White reminded New Life of the importance of living our life daily as a reflection of Jesus Christ. Each day we are living legacy makers.

Eld. Roy Clark -There is a way for everyone on the earth to be identified apart from everyone else...our fingerprint. When we come before God with our heartfelt worship before God it is our spiritual fingerprint in heaven. God knows each person’s worship...our worship has its own identity. Our worship is known in the spiritual world.

Pastor Steve Stephens reminds us that the foundation for worship is being thankful.

Bishop Perry reminded the New Life family that God want's us as believer to take His Word and to show that we approve of what He says by living it out in our lives.

Bishop Abraham Manuel from Cape Town, South Africa ministered on how David showed favor upon the son of his best friend deceased best friend, Jonathan. Jonathan's son, Mephibosheth had been forgetting and forsaken. But when King David showed kindness to Mephibosheth it brought joy to the troubled heart of David.

Two ministers from New Life spoke on Sunday, October 18 to encourage the people of God.

No matter how old we are God has given us an assignment. Caleb, Moses, Abraham and Sarah, even in their old age they did great things for God. What are you going to do with what God has placed in side of you?