What is 2012?

Dec. 31, 2011 by Bishop Bart Pierce   Rock City Church    Baltimore, MD

Transition is the death of the past, so you can embrace something new.  You get to bury something. We transition from something to something.

We are facing the threshold of something.

• What is 2012?
• 2012 is probably one of the most important times we as Christians have had in the last 25-30 years. The Hebrew calendar for 2012 has so much  to do with where we are going. 2012 has a great significance.

• 2012 means the fullness or the completion of something.

When you transition from something, you go into something. 

It's like a pregnancy. You go through the pregnancy but the desire is  that you might deliver the child...in 2012. You have to go through  the process. Looking back, it looks better when you look forward.  

Now our security must be firmly fastened in 2012 in God. You need to be fastened this year, fastened firmly. And the main scripture that we shared, came from the book of Hebrews chapter 12:26-28. "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but I will also shake the heaven." How many of you know the Lord, already shook the earth, He shook the earth, and He says I will shake the earth. He already shook heaven. When He threw Lucifer out, when He threw Satan out of heaven, with all the fallen angels, it shook heaven as its authority, and as a place of government, heaven was shook.

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Salvation has Come!

Dec. 19. 2011, By Pastor Jacque Babb

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.  4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared,  5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,  6 whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,  7 that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Titus 3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I want you to affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God should be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men.

Titus 3:9 But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless.  10 Reject a divisive man after the first and second admonition,  11 knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned.

This is why He came ... Titus 5b ... that according to His mercy He saved us. 7 that having been justified we by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

This is our Good News and the Good News for all mankind. We celebrate His birth because it signals the beginning of the war on sin in the earth. This is the season that marks the beginning of God's plan for our salvation. 

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When God Shows up

Dec. 12. 2011, By Pastor Jacque Babb

Luke 2:8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.  9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid.  10 Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

The shepherds were not the spiritual leaders of the land.  They were regular  people going about their daily business when God showed up.  God sent a message to them as they were going about their normal life.  It scared them at first but they stopped and listened.  When they stopped to listen, they found that the message was Good News and that it would affect more than just their lives.  It was for all people.

Their response allowed them to receive because they were in the posture to believe.  They immediately moved on the word they were given.  They believed and got up and began to move toward the promise. Their desire was to see the substance of what they had heard and hoped for.  As a result of their faithfulness, they found what they were looking for... the Christ Child.

Luke 2:15 So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, "Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us."  16 And they came with haste and found ...

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Searching and Finding

Dec. 5th, 2011, Author: S.B.

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Thinking back to that sermon in July, I cannot remember how it all began, but sometime
that Tuesday night the thought came in and began to take hold. As we were released from our seats I walked through the crowd of teenagers and youth pastors, searching. The thought had plagued my mind for days: You need to ask for help. I was on a mission to find someone I didn’t know? make that two people I didn’t know? who could fix that problem.
Before I found myself listening to that sermon, my parents had driven me to meet up with my youth group so we could embark on our week-long mission trip to Rock City Church. That church had been the place of a spiritual awakening for me the year before; but this summer I was at a loss to understand myself. My feelings were conflicted, my emotions tattered, and my sense of belonging fading. I was living each day in a state of confusion, feeling hollow and empty more often than not.
Starting in my freshman year of high school I began to lose every one of my close friends, some as a result of arguments, others I pushed away following a thread of belief that I did not deserve to have friends. I do not remember exactly when, but I reached a point when I decided I did not like myself anymore. From there my self-worth plummeted and I was lost. At that point I had never experienced a strong faith; I just piggy-backed off my parents’. Around the age of sixteen I realized something was wrong with my life.

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Covenant Blessings' Testimonies

Nov. 28, 2011, By KeyChurch Members

- As we have been surround by several family members who have continually gotten sick, their children are sick and going from one sickness to another, God as geared us wit amazing health and a happy vibrant little boy. we are so blessed with God's protection, and are grateful for this covering.- M.B

- Aaron and I moving into my parents house on Friday to save money for our future house. we would never do this without them. we are starting a new blessed chapter. -CP

- I prayed for the whole muslim family. they were open. God touched them. More to come from Arabic Muslim Background. Thank you Lord for loving ALL. -M.SH

- God opened a door to pray and prophecy over a spiritualist and she received Jesus as her only savior. Praise to God. - M.SH

- God is moving in my life and making things happen one by one, to help me, protect me, and leave the past in the dust. He’s also using situations in my life to reach out to the others.

- Peace in my house.

- My daughter has a prophetic dreams immediately after being prophesied over. she had accurate interpretation. - J.K.

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Oh, Give Thanks unto the Lord for He is GOOD!

Nov. 23, 2011, By Pastor Jacque Babb

Lev. 22:29 And when you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the LORD, offer it of your own free will.

Psa. 26:7     That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving,  And tell of all Your wondrous works.

Psa. 69:30     I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify Him with thanksgiving.

Jer. 30:19    

    Then out of them shall proceed thanksgiving
    And the voice of those who make merry;
    I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish;
    I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

2Cor. 9:10 Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,  11 while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.

Thanksgiving directly correlates to the flow of blessing.  This is true for several reasons.  It focuses our hearts and minds on where our help comes from while a grateful heart releases His hand to continue to move on our behalf.

Col. 4:2 Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;

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