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The power of the church is fully realized when the people within the church unite for the sole purpose of glorifying God. Victory World Church has been called to build strong families, to transform the community, to reconcile cultures, and to impact the world. We cannot successfully achieve these things, if we do not take inventory of where we are as individuals.

How can you ensure that you are partnering with the church? By following God’s calling over your life and understanding the power that is available to you when you join together with like minded individuals in understanding your purpose.

When we are willing to sacrifice our own desires, we are setting ourselves up to be used of God. It all starts with love. When we truly love others, we have a heart for service and an urgency to win souls for Christ. We desire to give of our time, resources, and possessions to help those in need.  We no longer think independently, but focus our efforts on our mission as believers purposed to reach the world with the gospel.

Listen to Pastor Dennis’ teaching on the power of the Church here.

At any time if you’ve desired to get more involved in church, that’s an urge to pull away from selfishness and a longing to jump forward in your process of becoming a fully committed disciple of Jesus. God has a calling on your life; how can you operate in it if you’re just sitting in church?

God’s plan for His Church is about us, but not how we think. While most of us go to church for how it can serve us, God is focused on how it can grow us. He wants to mature you and equip you to do the work of His Ministry, and the Church is the training ground for that to happen.

When you understand God’s plan for the Church – why we go, how it works – you begin to better understand where you fit in it. There’s an incredible fulfillment that takes over your life when you lock in to a church that is alive and filled with Jesus. How and where do you start? Make yourself available to help or serve in any ministry, take classes that grow and change you, and get committed. You’ll begin to mature in very visible ways as you find yourself moving into the calling of God on your life. When you do this, you get strong and wise enough to defeat anything the enemy throws at you.

Get more on the plan of the Church here.

Cutting Church off is popular these days. People grow tired of this or that and feel the need to break away, thinking they can develop their relationship with Christ independent of His Church. But I’m not so sure we really understand what it means when we disconnect ourselves from it. The very foundation of the Church is Christ, the Son of the Living God (Matthew 16:16).

You could be in your lone corner of the world, on fire for God, but before long your fire will go out. You have no real power by yourself; you have power with people, and it’s the Church – not the individual – that has the power to change society.

Hebrews 10:25 reminds us, “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.”

If you’re on a serious path to becoming a fully committed disciple of Jesus, what’s your relationship with His Church? Do you understand it? Knowing the price paid for it causes you to see it through brand new eyes. Click here for more in-depth on this message.

If you’ve accepted Christ as Lord, then His promises apply directly to you, and He says He’ll provide for our needs like no other can or will – even in a dead situation. So what’s preventing you from living like He’s your Radical Provider?

From an economy perspective, what’s bad now will be even worse in the days to come. There are no earthly solutions. God has the spotlight on us, and He expects our mode of operation to be the exact opposite of fear, worry and survival. When you’re in Christ, you don’t have to “survive.” You live for the will of God, whether you survive or not.

We can depend on Jesus to be our Radical Provider, but can He depend on us to have radical trust, radical priorities and to live with radical stewardship? Listen here for more on how to live and respond to the way Jesus taught concerning provision from God.

If you want a better relationship with Jesus, jump into His Radical Love. Seek it out and study it. His is the ultimate bond of love, superior to any other you’ve known. It’s mind-boggling to even realize that this unending, perfect love of Jesus is aimed directly at us. But just as He so freely sustains us with it, He wants us to model it in our lives and share it with others.

How do we love like Jesus when we’re hurting? How do we do it when we’re ashamed, stuck or afraid and everything around us is opposite of Him? He knows what we feel today, but just as there is power in His name, there is also power in His love. We are overcomers because of His shed blood and sacrifice for us on the cross; we have victory because of His radical love! Believe that and then decide to be focused and pursue it.

This week’s message covers four dimensions of the radical love of Jesus. When you get a basic understanding of these four and apply them, you’ll experience full life and power in Christ. Click here to watch.

Do you really believe that the evidence of your healing is in your faith? When we need to be healed, we expect God to do something about it, but He’s looking for us to do our part too, and that is, He expects us to use our faith for that healing.

While Jesus is the Radical Healer, how radical are we in our faith to be healed? How do you move from saying you believe God to actually being fully convinced about His power to absolutely heal you?

One way to build up a radical faith for healing is to understand some of the reasons we fall prey to sickness and disease —  ways like un-confessed sin, worry, stress, anxiety, fear, poor stewardship of our bodies…. If we can take authority in these areas of our lives, we can begin to remove hindrances that keep us bound.

Journey into the life of Jesus Christ as the Radical Healer, and get a deeper understanding of the benefits that apply directly to you. Listen to the full message here.

When you become a Christian, you have to change the way you think. You can no longer operate the same as you did before you knew Christ. You are called to something higher. You are destined for more. You are supposed to be radical.

Jesus was a radical thinker. He saw the turbulence of righteous persecution as something to be revered. He called us to forsake all relationships to be His disciple, including those that we hold so dear – our mothers, fathers, children, brothers and sisters. He explicitly warns against covetous living aimed at gaining and storing possessions for our own selfish ambitions. Jesus is pure uncompromising, and holy and undoubtedly demands the same from us. The darkness of this world cannot be justified. The mediocre pursuit after Christ is no longer tolerable. At this point, it should be all or nothing because if we are going to live for Christ then we can no longer conform to society. We need an extreme transformation.

How do we become radical in our thoughts? We have to be willing to put Christ and His call for our lives before and above anything that this world has to offer.

This is the first of The Radical series, and I invite you to join in as we discover how to be radical in our pursuit of Christ. Listen here to get more.

In the middle of everyday busy schedules, career tracks, family responsibilities and more, God calls His disciplined followers to a life of higher purpose. What does that mean for you? What do you have that could change the world? I believe many of us think too small about the gifts, talents and resources God has given us. See yourself differently today. God gifted you with something that could make a difference somehow in the lives of others, and He wants you to get busy using it for His glory.

That’s how disciples live – they understand that they were created with a God-given purpose and they intentionally pursue discovering and fulfilling it. A disciple lives a missional life.

How do we become that person? When you’re able to answer several key questions in life, you can settle in better on what God wants you to do. And once you get there, He doesn’t expect you to be lukewarm about it.

This is the last part of the 10 Qualities of a Disciple series. I encourage you to meditate on all of them, especially this final one about your purpose in life. If you truly want to become more like Jesus, then you will live a missional life filled with hunger, faithfulness and passion. Listen here to get more.

This week we’re talking about family, and what it takes to make yours a healthy one. Even if your family is not what you want it to be, it can still be healthy, which is what God expects from a disciple. If we say we’re striving to be more like Jesus, we are to be reflections of Him in every area of our lives.

Whether we think we’ve got it down or not, most of us need a clear picture of what a healthy family actually looks like. There are 3 top features I‘ve outlined that give us a good idea of how we can move in that direction, as well as several ways we often operate that aren’t so good. Make a distinction and decide to get your family healthy today. Listen here for a deeper understanding.

Today there are a lot of Christians living to be successful. But those on a true path to becoming more like Jesus are living to be significant. When you put yourself aside to really engage in the life of someone else who is lacking, struggling or hurting in any way, you’re not only giving to that person, but you’re giving to God. That’s significant. How are you doing with that?

Most of us need to de-program ourselves from the all-about-me influence of the world.  A disciple of Christ goes against that consistently and lives to make a difference in other people’s lives. What does it take to genuinely get us to a “What’s mine is yours, and I’m going to share it” mentality?  Value Transformation. What does that look like? Listen to this weekend’s message about being socially purposeful and responsible.

Anyone can feel for others in need, but it’s not enough. God requires action.

“Fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.” (Philippians 2:2-4 NKJ)