On this week’s podcast special guest, Pastor Onterio Green, preaches an amazing word during the sermon, Detours to Destiny.

Pastor Onterio reminds us in this message that we have been called and anointed for such a time as this. Like Joseph, God has a plan and calling on your life. He uses examples from  Genesis 37: 1-11 NKJV to show different detours you may find yourself in.

Purpose -  One of the hardest things to comprehend once you find it. When we find purpose, we walk and talk differently. There will be people who don’t understand why you are different and they might try to bring you down.

Pit - When you say yes to God, the spiritual warfare over your life becomes greater. Spiritual forces try to bring you down and even if you do everything right, you end up in a pit. Sometimes God will isolate you from people, so that you have to rely on him and not on others. He’ll take you from isolation to revelation to elevation.

Potiphar’s House - Serving someone else’s dream will give you the ability to  birth yours. Either you see yourself as a slave to someone else’s vision or a servant to someone else vision.

Prison - We are tested under pressure. The key to unlock the prison door is all about integrity. When we have integrity,  especially behind closed door, God allows breakthrough.

On this week’s podcast, we continue our new series by looking at the differences in the Body of Christ. Pastor Jeremy reminds us that God chose you to be a part of the Body because of your capacity, not because you are the same as everyone else.

Jesus simply teaches us that the Body of Christ is just not one part. For the body to function healthily, every part must do its job. For we are all baptized by one Spirit into the body. We are not baptized to God as a different race, culture or social status but rather we are unified in Spirit. The Body is united in its differences. Disunity in the body results in death.

We look at scripture and see 8 reasons we are called to function as 1 unit.

1 Corinthians 1:12-37

1. An attack on one part of the body is an attack on all parts of the body.

2. The differences in me do not exclude me, they make me indispensable. They make you valuable.

3. For the body to function healthily, every part must do their job, they must function.

4. A whole body full of one part is not the body (It’s a character on Monsters Inc.)

5. The body always covers itself by covering its parts and while covering, seeks to restore.

6. It’s God who puts the parts in their place and gives them their function. (So don’t ask tone the eye)

7. The heart working on being the eye, not only forfeits the power it has, but always falls short and effects the whole body.

8. Unity is not for organization only, it is for function in life.

On this week’s podcast we dive deeper into our new series, I Love My Church, and learn about what it means to have the Breaker Anointing. We also look at the difference between a consumer and covenant church and why it’s important to take ownership rather than just being an attender.

To be a breaker you have to go first. You are a pioneer. To be a breaker you will have times of failure, mess-ups and a lot of the time it won’t make sense. There will be times you feel alone, but God will break you into a situation to break others out so that they can break through whatever it is holding them back. God has made what used to be difficult to live in, a place of praise. 

13 “The breaker goes up before them (Break In); they break out (Break Out), pass through (Break Through) the gate and go out by it. So their king goes on before them, and the Lord at their head. 

Micah 2:13 NASB

Doing life together as a church isn’t always the easiest thing. It is not like being a consumer at your favorite coffee shop, where you love it until they switch things up. Consumer church and relationships won’t do. To be the body and the bride there has to be covenant in our relationships. Covenant relationships seeks to give, not to get. Like a commitment to marriage, you stick through the good times and bad. A covenant is a choice, not a contractual relationship, it is something you fulfill.

As we continue this series, “I Love My Church,” we dive deeper into what the First Church looked like and how we are called to be a family through thick and thin. This week, pastor Jeremy also teaches us what it’s like to be a Guardian in God’s Kingdom.

What is church? It’s a family with a Father, and it’s alive. In a family you’re going to have to get messy at times and roll up your sleeves and protect one another. At the center of what God loves, he rules the Church. Jesus is the head of the Church, and we are the body. When we start becoming the Church, we fall in love with it and with that, with that we might need to realign from time to time when times get hard. 

In this family, God’s going to ask you to remove certain things from your life but will always replace it with something better. He may ask you to put off bitterness and put on forgiveness. Leave pride behind and gain humility. We will be called to leave behind selfishness, disrespect and impatience and put on self-denial, honor for authority and patience.

 To be a Guardian is to be a 1) Defender 2) Protector 3) Keeper of God’s Fire

“The fire must be kept burning on the altar continuously: it must not go out.”

Leviticus 6:13

 As Guardians, we are going to tend, defend, protect and keep the flame going as God brings new power and life though what we bring to the altar. We are called to be worshippers and warriors and we bring the fire with us through sacrifice.