Author: Leo Colon

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ. Again, thank you for visiting our blog site. I would like to take this time to invite you to our church, In His Presence Family Worship Center. It is a friendly church where the praise and worship is sweet and the word of God is preached with power and without compromise. Join us at four (4) PM at 154 Lexington Ave @ 30th Street. Our midweek bible study services are at Seven (7) PM. We would be honored to have you as our special guest. Make plans now to come and prepare to receive from God. You will not be sorry.

 

 

This is day number of our fast. This year the LORD has instructed me to take the church through a ten (10) fast. So for today’s blog I thought I would repost this blog. It is still appropriate and I believe this word is still relevant and on time.

 

 

 

 

 

Beloved, we are in the beginning of our journey. For ten days we will be denying ourselves food and going into warfare for our futures. We will be praying for our children’s future and for the future of the church at large. We will be especially praying for the future of our church and the leadership of our church. We will eat one bowl of soup and drinking all the water we can handle. That means at least ten glasses a day. You can do this. The reason I know you can do this is because of what the bible says about us as believers.  Let’s look at the text.

 

 

Rom. 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

 

To get a real perspective on this let’s just see what that means.

 

conquer |ˈkä ng kər|

verb [ trans. ]

overcome and take control of (a place or people) by use of military force: the Magyars conquered Hungary in the middle Ages.

• successfully overcome (a problem or weakness): a fear she never managed to conquer.

• climb (a mountain) successfully: the second American to conquer Everest.

• gain the love, admiration, or respect of (a person or group of people): the Beatles were to leave Liverpool and conquer the world.

 

 

In the Thesaurus is says this.

 

Conqueror

noun

They may have uncovered the burial ground of legendary conqueror Genghis Khan: vanquisher, conquistador; victor, winner, champion, conquering hero.

 

 

So let’s put this into perspective. Paul says we are more than conquerors, and a conqueror is an overcomer. Then you are more than overcomer in whatever you set out to do. You do more than take control. You are more than a victor, winner, champion or a conquering hero. You have the ability to do more than get through this; you can do this with flying colors. Just do one day at a time. We conquerors can do what ever we set our minds to. I am looking forward to real changes and real accomplishments as a result of this fast. I cannot prove it but I know this fast is different somehow.

 

Enjoy this time with the LORD. We are in for a wonderful time with the LORD.

 

Remember you are well able to do this because you are more than a conqueror.

 

 

 

 

Live Life on Purpose and not By Mistake,

Yours Because I am His,

Leo Colon

pastor@ihpfwc.org

www.ihpfwc.org

 

 

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ. Again, thank you for visiting our blog site. I would like to take this time to invite you to our church, In His Presence Family Worship Center. It is a friendly church where the praise and worship is sweet and the word of God is preached with power and without compromise. Join us at four (4) PM at 154 Lexington Ave @ 30th Street. Our midweek bible study services are at Seven (7) PM. We would be honored to have you as our special guest. Make plans now to come and prepare to receive from God. You will not be sorry.

Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

This is the foundational scripture for our church. The presence of the LORD is a powerful encounter and many benefits are offered to the believer that would give themselves to it. The passage represents the climax of The Apostle Peter’s homily and defense of the miracle the people have just witness. The amazing point of this message is that anyone can receive the benefits of the source of this miracle. You don’t have to just be a spectator, you can be a miracle too. How you ask?

“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out”. Change your mind about your sins, admit that your sins are grievous to you, and make arrangements not to sin anymore. That’s what repent means. Be converted, meaning changed from what you are to what God has called for you to be. This begins with the repentance. As the Apostle Paul suggests, while you were a slave to sin you could not please God. So repentance of sin makes you different. Your obedience to God makes you a changed person. This process alone is pivotal. Here is how the Apostle Paul puts it:

NLT

Rom. 6:16 Don’t you realize that you become the slave of whatever you choose to obey? You can be a slave to sin, which leads to death, or you can choose to obey God, which leads to righteous living.

The Apostle Peter then says this process blots out your sins. Now you are ready to experience a seminal moment for any believer. Now, enter into his presence because there are benefits from this experience. Firstly, we know they way into God’s presence is worship.

KJV

Psa. 22:3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

The benefits of worship are numerous but here the Apostle gives us one of them. There is a time of refreshing. He actually predicts the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the LORD. Breaking this down is a sermon and a half. I will not do that to you. Those who were at IHP heard it on Sunday. But I must make a few points. The times of refreshing yields some interesting information. The word used for times is the word kairos it suggest that God has a set time, due season, a set or proper time. So our praises trigger the presence of the LORD and one of the benefits are that we are awarded the privilege of witnessing God’s set time for refreshing. The word refreshing is  anapsuxis, and this is interpreted a recovery of breath, or revival. So God wants you to recover your breath. Our life can become stifling, hard to manage. Have you ever felt like all I need is some time to just breathe. Get your bearings. I don’t want anyone to live for me, but if I could just catch my breath, I could fight my own battles. If I could get a moment to recover my breath I can make my own way. God says, he wants you to recover your breath. The other word you can use for refreshing is revival. God says this is the time for revival. He wants to revive you. Do you need a revival? Our lives can be of such that we realize that we used to be alive. We used to take on life, now my life, my passion, my existence seems to be on life support. God says revival belongs to you. Get into his presence. You need a revival.

Beloved, tomorrow we begin our ten day fast. We will be having one bowl of soup and all the water you can drink. make sure you drink at least 10 to 12 glasses of water a day. Do what you can to take the toxins out of your body, such as a colonic (colon therapy) or take a good laxative to flush toxins out of your body. Have your soup after 12 noon. Make your prayer list and pray using your prayer lists. You want to pray for specific things you would like God to do in 2013. I am looking forward to hearing many testimonies.

Remember, please make plans to join us on Sunday. This week I want to talk on the subject,  “where your miracles are found”. You want to be there.

Live Life on Purpose and not By Mistake,
Yours Because I am His,
Leo Colon
pastor@ihpfwc.org
www.ihpfwc.org

Grace and Peace be multiplied unto you, through the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ. Beloved, allow me to thank you for visiting this blog site and allow

ing me speak life to you in this manner. Thank you for your comments and for reposting the blogs as you feel led. I so appreciate the love. Today’s posting was late and I apologize. My day has been extremely hectic, but I do resolve to do better. Pray for me. Today allow me to encourage you. You can get what you need through faith in his name. Let’s look
at the text:

KJV

Acts 3:16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

NLT
Acts 3:16 ¶ “Through faith in the name of Jesus, this man was healed—and you know how crippled he was before. Faith in Jesus’ name has healed him before your very eyes.

Today I want you to know that God is telling us that we, today, this week, this year, we will get what we need through faith in his name. There is power in the name of Jesus and this passage allows us to look at what is available. Also it teaches us of how important it is to give God credit. At this point in the text, Peter is preaching and giving an explanation for this miracle. Some thought that he would proffer some difficult reason why this miracle has happened. Maybe give them some biological/medical reason for this event. The proverbial “what had happened was”.

The Apostle proffers this simple, almost comical explanation for this miraculous event. Belief in his name. Even today, when we look over our own lives and try to come up with some postulation regarding some facet of success in our lives. We invariably have to conclude that God really is the reason for our success. Faith in God is the reason that something that could not have been done all our life, happened with a word. Let’s think about this. What has eluded you all your life. Actual problems that have physical ramifications are resolved by faith.

Pastor Peter words it rather interestingly, he said through faith achieved what no medical practitioner could achieve. Through faith that which was defined as bad luck, the way things are, the way I was born is turned into a testimony. But we need to realize the admonition of the Apostle, through faith. Our miracles come through faith. We cannot be on the other side of faith looking in. We need to go through the process of faith. Faith means we need to expect the unreasonable. Some things we have no reason to believe God for. Some things make sense to just deal with. Faith looks at what makes sense and says I believe God anyway, today, now. Remember the text, not only did the man who was born lame know he was lame, the entire community knew he was lame.

Are you ready to defy logic and believe God? Not only do you know the limitation of your circumstance but also the entire community knows what you cannot do, but also here is the word of the LORD for you today, Through Faith anything can happen. Anything you need, anything you want from God can happen through faith. Believe the unbelievable and expect the un-expectable.

The Year of Refreshing. Today God is offering a refreshing of your faith.

Plan to bring someone with you to church. I look forward to seeing you all tonight at bible study and on Sunday the 13th of January 2013. I am looking for you.

Live Life on Purpose and not By Mistake,
Yours Because I am His,
Leo Colon
pastor@ihpfwc.org
www.ihpfwc.org

Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord. Today, I just wanted to give you a short word that I hope will encourage you. I want to continue to glean some truths from the third chapter of Acts. Beloved, God can and will raise what man has killed. Let’s look at the text.

In the King James Version:

Acts 3:15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

In the New Living Translation:

Acts 3:15 You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. And we are witnesses of this fact!

When the people saw the man who was born lame, healed, it caused quite a stir. The people began to make inquiries and it led to an opportunity for Peter to address them and give a defense for this miracle. One of the interesting things about this defense of the miracle is that it includes a rebuke from the Pastor. Pastor Peter could have just offered a happy feely message, but when hearing from God it is always important to hear the whole truth. Sometimes it means we need to hear the good with the bad. Yes, the lame man was healed, but he was healed by the Messiah that you killed. We do have the propensity to kill what is important to us. Verse 17 tells us that this was done through ignorance. So our ignorance has caused, and can cause us to kill some things in our lives that are actually important.

Here’s the good news, that which man has killed, God has raised from the dead. Beloved, we kill dreams, we kill relationships with good people who have done nothing wrong. Some of us have lost jobs, even careers through our ignorance. God can raise what we have killed. I declare those dreams are no longer dead in Jesus name. I stand with the Apostle Peter and decree “And we are witnesses of this fact”. I have seen God resurrect dead things that I needed and healed situations that needed to be healed and he can do the same for you.

God can also raise what others have killed and you can be the better for it. The lame man, was not accused of the mob mentality that led to the death of Jesus, but it was through faith in his name that he was healed. So even what other people have killed, God can and will raise up.

You have possibility because the mistakes of your past are not final. God has raised up what man has killed and you are healed. Healed in your relationships, in your body, in your finance, in your ability to dream and succeed.

Remember, God is able. Live life on purpose and not by mistake. Plan now to bring someone to church with you. Which ever church you are blessed to be a part of, don’t come by yourself. Meet someone there, or bring them with you. There is a blessing that God promises to those that will obey and believe him.

King James Version:

John 14:12 ¶ Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.

John 14:13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

John 14:14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.

John 14:15 ¶ If ye love me, keep my commandments.

John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

This year 2013, is the year of refreshing. Be refreshed in the knowledge that God has raised up what man has killed. Believe God.

Live Life on Purpose and not By Mistake,
Yours Because I am His,
Leo Colon
pastor@ihpfwc.org
www.ihpfwc.org

Grace and Peace be unto you, from God our Father, and from the LORD Jesus Christ. Happy New Year to you all. I am so glad to be writing again. This is a year that I am expecting to see changes and miracles. Our Bishop (Bishop H. Curtis Douglas) has declared this the year of “Unfair Harvest”. This was the declaration of our Bishop for Dabar Bethlehem Cathedral and for the church under his care. So I personally receive that word and I would encourage you to receive it in Jesus’ name.

Beloved, I would like to develop the word of the LORD that was given to In His Presence Family Worship Center (IHP) for this year. The LORD has encouraged us to go back to the beginning. Many people when hearing the name of our church assume that the scripture that our church is based on is Psa. 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. It is actually based on Acts 3:19. Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;. This is what the LORD had me to come back to. Now I will not re-preach this here but if you allow me, I would like to bring out some points from this text.

There is a tension between verses two (2) and Seven (7) of this third chapter of Acts that we should be encouraged by in the beginning of this year. The passage speaks of a man that was brought daily to the Gate called Beautiful. This was the temple in Jerusalem where he would be brought daily by his friends so that he could get his hustle on. The text tells us that he would be left there daily so that he could beg from those that are going to in the temple to worship God. I want to encourage you beloved to question the love of those so-called friends that will bring to the place so that you can get your hustle on, but not bring you inside to get healed so that you would not have to beg. Many of our friends are comfortable helping us to get just enough, and will help you get to the place where begging is your norm, but what would happen if you started the year out believing that you need friends that would encourage you to be better. Encourage you to get into the presence of him who could heal you. Some friends are not ready for you to succeed. Just a thought.

The tension between verses 2 and 7 is this. Verse two tells us that this man was born with the malady that prevents him from walking. Born not able to stand. Many things were denied him because he could not stand. Think about it. He never as a boy ran a race with the other boys. He never danced with a girl at his high school prom. He could never serve his country in the military. These are all things he watched his friends do, but he could not because he was born without the ability. Verse seven on the other hands tells me God changed all of this with a word. As we go into 2013, I need you to know that God can change anything that prevents you from doing what you want, even if you are born without the capability to do a thing. Some people had you convince that the problem is that you were born not good enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough. I don’t know what the issue is, but even if it is true, God can change your actuality with a word. Notice, he did not just believe he was lame. He was actually lame and he was lame from his mother’s womb. He was born lame, without the ability to walk. This was not a mind set, but God can change you physically with a word. He can and will change your actuality with a word. Your situations are not bigger than God. Jesus is able to do anything but fail.

So in this year of refreshing, I am looking forward to seeing a change in my circumstance. God will do it with a word. Live life on purpose beloved. A change belongs to you and you can have it. Silver and Gold have I none but such as I have, give I thee, In the name of Jesus I declare 2013 a year of change, a year of possibility, a year of wisdom, a year of returning to that first love, a year of prosperity, a year of being what God intended me and you to be.

We will as a body begin our fast at IHP on this Friday the 11th of January, 2013. The LORD has instructed us as a body to fast for 10 days. I want to encourage you join us on this journey.

Live Life on Purpose and not By Mistake,
Yours Because I am His,
Leo Colon
pastor@ihpfwc.org
www.ihpfwc.org