World Harvest Church North

04/16/2026

Going into Battle

1 Samuel 17 : 4 – 9, And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. Now the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him. Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you are the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.” -NKJV

Imagine going into battle against a giant of a man. Not only is he greater in size and power than you, but he has all of the credentials of a warrior. David wasn’t on the battlefield that day because he was enlisted in Israel’s military, he was there to give lunch to his brothers.

Just look at the stark difference between David and Goliath. Once you look at what was at stake and who David was going up against to fight, it’s easy to allow fear to take over your heart. That’s the strange thing about David, he should’ve been filled with fear in his heart, but he wasn’t. In fact, David was bold as a lion against the mighty champion of war. If David won the conflict, the Philistines would serve the Jews, but if Goliath won, the Jews would serve the Philistines, who their enemies.

What we see about David being confident in battle is called spiritual courage. This type of courage is how we are to face all of our battles, both big ones and small ones. Daniel, the prophet, declares that those who know their God shall be strong and do great exploits or miracles. David knew who God was during this particular battle because God had delivered him from other battles as well. David had a string of testimonies that let him know that God was for him in any battle.

Since David had no doubt in his heart, he faced Goliath with great confidence. This is where you and I come into the scenario. Whenever we receive a negative report or a threat has been made on our life, as humans, we are going to experience fear. It’s a given.

Nevertheless, as people of faith, we should have a string of our own testimonies of how God has been with us and fought our battles for us. God will always cause us to triumph as long as we please Him.

Until we get to the place with the Lord where we know that He is with us and for us, we will vacillate between faith and fear. However, once we get a sure word from the Lord, courage should override any and all doubt, fear, or unbelief. Once we receive confirmation that the Lord is with us, we will have peace that surpasses understanding and it will keep us until the victory is secured. Spiritual courage gives us boldness, not in ourselves, but in our Lord who will deliver us from our enemies. God knows what you’re facing, give the battle to Him and rest in Jesus.

04/13/2026

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04/11/2026

God Restored Job

Job 42 : 10 – 11, And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed, the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, came to him and ate food with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold. -NKJV

I’ve read these verses many times and have even preached from them as well. What I have never seen before is that Satan was the one who attacked Job in chapter one. However, it is God who restored Job after the trial has ended. As you read the beginning chapters of Job and learn about how horrible Satan so viciously attacked Job and his children, you gain better insight to the destructive ways of Satan.

Let’s make something clear about my point of view or belief in God’s character. It is Satan, the thief, who comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy. It is God who brings healing and restoration to our lives after the trial has ended. It was also Satan that provoked God to permit Satan to gain access to Job’s life, family, and belongings. God knew what Job would do in his greatest trial because He knew Job’s character.

This devotion is for those who are going through a “JOB” kind of trial. A trial where you have suffered great loss and it has traumatized you and left you weak spiritually. A trial that has been going on for months like Job’s. I have been enduring an exceedingly difficult trial for more than four months. Therefore, I can speak with authority on the subject.

Be certain and keep your heart’s attention on the Lord. He is your only Help who will bring you out of your adversity and restore you. The more that you believe that Satan and not God brought the trial upon your life, the stronger your faith will be in the furnace of afflictions. God is the Great Restorer for the hurting.

It is best that we keep ourselves from sinning and/or charging God foolishly as if He’s the one who attacked us. It is key that you keep the line of communication open with the Lord throughout your trial. It will empower you to stand under the weight of affliction. The stronger your faith is in God, the greater your spiritual strength will be throughout the trials of life.

Remain humble and obedient throughout the length of your situation and this will give you a clear conscious. Why do I make that statement? You don’t need Satan hitting you with condemnation on top everything else he has done to you. Besides, you will have more courage and boldness in God as the trial ends. All trials have a shelf life.

Additionally, the Lord is going to restore you once He determines it’s time. This is the best part of going through trials that come against our faith in God. We know that God will restore us in the end. Let this word build hope and faith in your heart. The BEST is yet to COME!

04/06/2026

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04/03/2026

The Greater One Lives in You

Hebrews 5 : 6 – 8, As He also says in another place: “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek”; who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. -NKJV

Matthew 26 : 36 – 38, Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.” And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.” -NKJV

As the eternal Christ, the Lord never had to suffer to obey God, until He became flesh and blood. The writer of Hebrews tells us that Jesus learned that He would face suffering whenever He obeyed the Father as His Son. We don’t wrestle against flesh and blood, but we do war against spiritual forces of darkness in heavenly places. Jesus has left us His example of how we are to obey when it hurts us to do so.

As the day drew near for Jesus to be crucified, He entered the Garden of Gethsemane to pray. Gethsemane means “oil press.” We know that the garden was a place of spiritual heaviness and pressure because Matthew teaches us that Jesus was in deep sorrow in His Spirit. Gethsemane was where the oil was squeezed out of the olives. It is also the place that Jesus fell under intense pressure. To counteract the pressure, Jesus prayed, but He also obeyed the Father.

As Christians obey the Lord, we are going to face persecution, suffering, and pressure. These things are to be expected, but we need to dig deeper into God’s Word to see how we are able to overcome. Just as Jesus obeyed unto His death, we too must obey the Father until He calls us home. We are empowered by the Greater One who lives in us to have dominion over this world and Satan.

We have spiritual forces that apply pressure to us as we obey the Lord in an attempt to dissuade us. Even so, if we will do as Jesus and obey to the end, our obedient faith will counteract the pressure that comes against us in our “gardens of decisions.”

Think about what I’m saying in this way. A commercial aircraft is equipped to fly at great heights. Nevertheless, the human body isn’t able to stand against the pressure. To protect passengers, airplanes are pressurized to offset the outward pressure from crushing it.

If we are obedient, even when it hurts, we have the Greater One in us and He equalizes the pressure from the forces of darkness. Instead of giving up when you are attacked and the pressures of life overwhelm you, stand strong in the power of Christ. This is the only way we can stand in the evil day. Let the joy of God’s Spirit and your obedience be your strength. Stand strong today, God’s got you!

04/02/2026

The Beauty of the Lord

Psalm 27 : 4, One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. -NKJV

When I think on the beauty of the Lord, I tend to look at how beautiful God has made creation to be for us as His children. Since no man has ever seen God, we must look to the Word of God and believe all that it declares about the beauty of the Lord. I can’t imagine how beautiful and spectacular the Garden of Eden must have been.

The Word declares in Luke 6 that it is out of the abundance of the heart that we speak. To better understand the heart of the invisible God, we must look at all that He has created and made for humankind to enjoy. The closest we can come to grasping the face of God is to look in the mirror. It doesn’t stop there. We must also look into the mirror of God’s Word that will remind us of who we were created to be. We are called to walk in the beauty of God’s holiness.

As marvelous as God created angels, creation, and mankind to be, sin defiled so much of His creation. Ezekiel declares that before Lucifer fell in sin, he was the seal of perfection. Afterwards, he wrote that Lucifer was full of wisdom and beauty. However, he allowed pride and rebellion to fill his heart and sin defiled his entire being. God knew that Lucifer would fall but He created him with great beauty and splendor anyhow.

It was God who created the human heart. It is the heart of man that God chose to communicate with us as His offspring. Even so, man fell into sin and defiled his beauty just like Lucifer. There’s one thing that God did to reveal His true holiness and it was when He allowed Jesus to come to earth and give His life for the lost.

During the torture and crucifixion of the Lamb of God, we see the worst of mankind. The evil that was hidden in the hearts of the Jews and the Romans was put on display that fateful day that Jesus died. After false witnesses were paid to lie, Jesus was taken to be condemned and beaten without mercy. Finally, in a defiant act of public humiliation, they stripped Jesus of His clothing and hung Him on a criminal’s cross.

You may be wondering, where is the beauty of the Lord, in the way that He was mistreated. It was on the cross in the final minutes of Jesus’ life that He mustered enough strength and air to ask the Father to forgive them. Yes, in the midst of all of the evil and injustice that was poured out upon Jesus, He repaid them with God’s LOVE and forgiveness! He repaid their evil deeds with glorious kindness.

The blood of Jesus has redeemed us from the evils of sin and made us beautiful through His Holy Spirit. During Holy Week, let’s give our Risen Savior and Lord, Jesus, all of the praise and glory He so richly deserves.

03/30/2026

The Burden of Parenting

Job 1 : 4 – 5, “And his sons would go and feast in their houses, each on his appointed day, and would send and invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them. So it was, when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them, and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” Thus, Job did regularly.” -NKJV

Once you have a child in your life, no matter what happens, you will always carry them in your heart. Your love for them never ends even though they may not be with you physically. God made those of us, who are parents, love our children so that we would care for them and be willing to endure the times of their foolishness.
Job was a righteous man because the Lord tells us as much. However, his sons and daughters were anything but righteous. In the Old Testament, being saved simply meant that the saints of old lived by obedient faith, period. When young men and women chose to not walk by faith, they were considered unrighteous in God’s sight.

It appears in scripture that Job’s children loved to “party.” Partying was something that they did on a regular basis. We know this because Job would pray and offer sacrifices on their behalf. The equivalent of offering sacrifices under the New Testament would be offering prayer to the Lord on their lost soul’s behalf.

The Lord prompted me to share this particular word for parents that find it difficult to have a peaceful moment because of their rebellious child(ren).

Job lived in a state of concern or worry about the spiritual well-being of his children. Scripture says so. There’s a vast difference and a thin line between praying and trusting in God for the salvation of our children and worrying. Over the years of pastoring, I have had members who would always ask me to pray for their children that were lost or seemed lost. It seemed as if they couldn’t find a moment of peace because they had allowed worry to replace faith.

Job offered sacrifices regularly to God on behalf of the spiritual well-being of his rebellious children. Worry will never save your child, only faith will please the Lord. Therefore, if you find yourself constantly asking God, your pastor, and your friends to pray for your “lost” child(ren), I have good news for you.

Place them in God’s hands and leave them there. You live your life in peace and let them work out their own salvation with fear and trembling. Continuous prayers can’t make a child turn their life over to the Lord. Even God can’t “will” the lost into receiving Him as Lord. Peter declares that God is not willing that any should perish.

So, if you are constantly praying for your lost offspring, stop! Give them to God. Only pray when God gives you a burden for them. It may seem like a hard word, but I’ve backed it up with scripture. Now, enjoy your life as much as your children seem to enjoy theirs.

03/28/2026

To: Church Members/Attendees of World Harvest Church North
Date: March 28, 2026
Subject: Special Meeting of Members/Attendees of World Harvest Church North

Notice is hereby given that a Special Meeting of the Members/Attendees of World Harvest Church North will be held:

Date: March 29, 2026

Time: 1:30

Location: World Harvest Church North

03/26/2026

It Is Enough

1 Kings 19 : 1 – 4, “When Ahab got home, he told Jezebel everything Elijah had done, including the way he had killed all the prophets of Baal. So, Jezebel sent this message to Elijah: “May the gods strike me and even kill me if by this time tomorrow I have not killed you just as you killed them.” Elijah was afraid and fled for his life. He went to Beersheba, a town in Judah, and he left his servant there. Then he went on alone into the wilderness, traveling all day. He sat down under a solitary broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors who have already died.”” -NLT

Deuteronomy 32 : 35, Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; their foot shall slip in due time; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things to come hasten upon them.’ -NKJV

Have you ever had something negative happen to you and the enemy began to speak to you? We’re all humans, especially ministers.

Today, I was told that someone had accused me of embezzling money from God’s Church. I know it’s not true and the person who has spread this rumor also knows it’s not true.

Nevertheless, it hurts! It also hurts when other people you’ve poured your life into chimes in and agrees with the erroneous statement. I allowed these falsehoods to get into my spirit and Darlene could see how it was adversely affecting me. We see through this scenario how Satan can use an incident like a false accusation to cause us to allow it to ruin our entire day. It is for this reason that the Lord prompted me to write this word of encouragement.

Only God can take something extremely negative and turn it around and use a tough situation to teach truth that will encourage others. In the 1 Kings 19, Elijah had received news of a threat against his life. What was so bad about the news other than it was a threat is it caught Elijah off guard and he accepted the lie as the truth. Once we receive a lie as the truth, we will be drinking from the poison of that lie and become weak in our faith.

Elijah became so weak that he cried out to God to take his life. Imagine, Elijah has come off of the greatest victory of his life. He had kill 850 false prophets and prophets of Baal. In a moment of time, Elijah went from being a victor to taking on the mindset of a victim and asked God to end his life.

Here’s the point of this word. It’s one thing to be hurt when someone smears your character. However, when we move from hurt to wallowing in self-pity, we have given ourselves over to the devil by believing his lies. As Elijah believed the lie from Jezebel, he wanted to die. Do you see what Satan was doing to Elijah and he was giving Satan the opportunity to bring it to pass but God stepped in and corrected Elijah?

God took vengeance over Elijah’s enemy, Jezebel. Elijah didn’t die, but Jezebel did. Be careful attacking God’s anointed. We may be under grace and do not war against flesh and blood, but God states in Romans that He will get vengeance under the New Testament as well as the Old Testament.

Be careful ministers that you do not follow Elijah’s example when a faithful member of the church turns on you. It’s okay to hurt, but God will not allow us to have a pity party and that is where I was headed until the Lord dropped this word into my spirit.

I so love the Lord and I’m grateful to Him for pulling me out of the mire of the lies of Satan. The Lord illuminated my heart with His truth to put Satan and the lies that he spreads in their proper place, under my feet. God has called us to enjoy our new life in Christ. It is our responsibility to guard our hearts. Now, go do something that will bring you joy.

03/25/2026

(REAIR) "The Righteous Shall be Remembered" -As the return of Jesus draws near, know that great persecution will come against the Church. It will be in times of distress and sorrow that we will need know that God loves us and He will not forget or forsake us. The Lord isn't focused on giving us comfortable lives in the world, but He is very intent on saving our souls from wickedness and eternal destruction. Therefore, we must focus our attention on the life to come and be willing to suffer for Christ's sake in this life. For those who choose to suffer to obey the Lord, He has promised to reward us. Consider the cost of following Christ. Also, consider the cost if you should decide to walk away from your faith in Jesus should you have to suffer greatly for Him.

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