Northsmoke Church

05/30/2026

31 DAYS OF JOY & THE HOLY GHOST - WATCH LIVE NOW! - https://youtu.be/V2mSt-Z4f10

What if joy in adversity isn’t optional—but commanded?

In this message, we uncover the powerful truth that “count it all joy” is not just encouragement—it’s a divine strategy. When trials come, most people default to sorrow, fear, and discouragement. But Scripture commands the opposite: rejoice.

Why? Because joy is the response that releases God’s power.

In this message, you’ll discover:

Why counting it all joy is a command, not a suggestion
How joy positions you to overcome trials and adversity
The connection between weakness and God’s power
Why rejoicing allows the power of Christ to rest on you
How joy becomes a spiritual weapon in difficult seasons

From Paul rejoicing in weakness, to David strengthening himself in the Lord, to Paul and Silas praising at midnight—Scripture shows a consistent pattern: when joy is released in adversity, victory follows.

This isn’t about having a positive attitude—it’s spiritual warfare. Joy is a faith-filled response that invites God’s strength into your situation.

When you feel like you can’t—joy is how you access His power.

Master this, and you can overcome anything.

05/29/2026

31 DAYS OF JOY & THE HOLY GHOST - WATCH LIVE NOW! - https://youtu.be/RNwTL-frcBA

What if joy in adversity isn’t optional—but a command?
In this message, we uncover a powerful truth: “Count it all joy” is not a suggestion—it’s a charge.
📖 “Count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations…” (James 1:2)

🔥 In this teaching, you’ll discover:
* What it really means to “count it all joy”
* Why joy in adversity is a decision, not a feeling
* How your perspective determines your outcome
* Why many don’t overcome—because they respond the wrong way

✨ Key truths
👉 “Count” is a decision
* Not emotional
* Not based on feelings
* A deliberate judgment
👉 You are choosing to classify adversity as:
* not sorrow
* not fear
* not frustration👉 but JOY

⚡ Why you can do it
👉 Joy in adversity is connected to what you know
* “Knowing this…” (James 1:3)
* Faith is being tested—but something is being produced
📖 “This shall turn to my salvation…” (Philippians 1:19)
👉 You rejoice because:
* you know the outcome
* you trust the process
* you believe God is working

💡 A different response
* Most respond to adversity with sorrow
* Scripture commands the opposite:
📖 “Rejoice” (1 Peter 4:13)📖 “Leap for joy” (Luke 6:23)
👉 This is not natural—but it is biblical

🎯 Bottom line
You don’t wait to feel joy—👉 You count it joy
And when you respond God’s way,👉 adversity becomes a pathway to strength, maturity, and victory.

If this message helped you:👍 Like the video📩 Share it with someone who needs encouragement🔔 Subscribe for more powerful biblical teaching

05/28/2026

31 DAYS OF JOY & THE HOLY GHOST - WATCH LIVE NOW! - https://youtu.be/c5tiEB7-2j8

What if adversity didn’t have the power to steal your joy?
In this message, we uncover a powerful biblical truth: you can have joy in adversity—and even great joy in great adversity.
📖 “I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation” (2 Corinthians 7:4)

🔥 In this teaching, you’ll discover:
* Why you don’t have to be sad just because things are bad
* How to take adversity joyfully instead of letting it take your joy
* Why some of the greatest joy shows up in the greatest pressure
* How to respond to trials in a way that produces strength and victory

✨ Key truths
👉 Joy can exist in pressure
* “In a great trial… abundance of joy” (2 Corinthians 8:2)
* “Rejoice in my sufferings” (Colossians 1:24)
👉 You can take adversity joyfully
* “Took joyfully the spoiling of your goods” (Hebrews 10:34)
* “Departed… rejoicing” (Acts 5:41)
👉 Joy is a response—not a feeling
* You don’t wait to feel joy
* You choose it, even in difficulty

⚡ Strength in joy
👉 The greatest strength is not just enduring—it’s enduring with joy
📖 “Strengthened… with joyfulness” (Colossians 1:11)👉 This is not natural strength—it’s God-given strength

💡 A different way to live
* The world responds to adversity with fear, frustration, and sorrow
* Scripture teaches something radically different:
👉 Rejoice in it
📖 “We glory in tribulations also” (Romans 5:3)

🎯 Bottom line
Adversity doesn’t have to take your joy—👉 You can take adversity with joy
And when you do, it becomes a pathway to strength, endurance, and victory.

If this message helped you:👍 Like the video📩 Share it with someone who needs encouragement🔔 Subscribe for more powerful biblical teaching

05/24/2026

Thank you for watching our Sunday morning service at Northsmoke Church! If you would like to be a part of the offering you can text to give at 618-364-8441 or go to northsmoke.org to give online. For Northsmoke news and updates text "NS NEWS" to 55498

05/24/2026

31 DAYS OF JOY & THE HOLY GHOST - WATCH LIVE NOW! - https://youtu.be/8k1xQc5oqME

What happens when God’s presence shows up? Mountains tremble. Enemies scatter. Obstacles melt away.

In this message, we dive into the overwhelming power of God’s presence—how it brings victory, protection, healing, and provision. From Mount Sinai shaking under His glory to enemies perishing before Him, Scripture reveals that nothing can stand when God manifests Himself.

But there’s something powerful many overlook: God meets those who rejoice.

Joy is not just a response to victory—it is often what brings His presence into the situation. When believers lift a joyful sound, they create an atmosphere where God dwells and moves.

In this message, you’ll discover:

What happens when God’s presence is revealed
How His presence destroys enemies and removes obstacles
Why devils tremble at His presence
The connection between joy and encountering God
How praise and joyful expression invite His presence

From Paul and Silas in prison to Jehoshaphat’s army going into battle, we see a consistent truth: when joy is released, God moves—and everything changes.

God doesn’t just respond to need—He meets the one who rejoices.

Step into the power of His presence, and experience the victory that comes when heaven invades your situation.

If you want, I can combine both messages into one series description or give you a shorter version for mobile viewers.

05/23/2026

WATCH LIVE NOW - https://youtu.be/x0OsEYVObAg

Prayer is not optional in the life of the believer — it is essential. In this teaching, we examine powerful scriptures that reveal this truth: many things in our lives are directly connected to whether or not we ask God.

James 4 declares, “You have not because you ask not.” Jesus repeatedly responded to people who cried out to Him, sought Him, asked Him, and invited Him into their situations. Blind Bartimaeus, Jairus, the centurion, the woman of Canaan, Hezekiah, and many others saw God move because they asked.

This message explores:
• “You have not because you ask not”
• Why asking is essential in receiving
• How asking invites the Lord into situations
• Scriptures revealing that God looks for someone to pray
• Why we must never stop asking because of past disappointments
• The difference between asking in faith and asking amiss
• How prayer affects the will of God being done in the earth

“If His will was going to be done independent of us praying, there would be no reason for Jesus to tell us to pray, ‘Thy will be done.’”

Be strengthened and stirred to ask, seek, knock, and never stop believing God.

05/23/2026

Satan doesn’t operate randomly—he looks for environments where he has room to function.

Scripture reveals that the enemy is constantly seeking a place, but he can only work where he is given space. Fear, sorrow, despair, and unbelief create an atmosphere that gives him access. But faith, joy, and praise shut the door and leave him with no place to operate.

In this message, you’ll discover a powerful spiritual truth:
👉 The atmosphere of your life determines what can function in it.

This teaching breaks down:

How the enemy looks for “place” and how it is given
Why emotions like fear and sorrow are not neutral—but spiritual doorways
How yielding to wrong feelings creates an environment for the enemy
Why environments of faith and joy make demonic activity seize up
How praise, joy, and faith shift atmospheres instantly
The connection between your response and what is allowed to remain

31 DAYS OF JOY & THE HOLY GHOST - WATCH LIVE NOW! - https://youtu.be/y26SjqzBDBQ

You’ll also see how throughout Scripture, when the atmosphere changed, everything changed—victory, deliverance, and breakthrough followed.

Key Scriptures:
1 Peter 5:8–9, Ephesians 4:27, Matthew 12:43–45, James 3:16, Acts 16:25, 2 Chronicles 20:22, 1 Samuel 16:23, Psalm 33:1–3, Acts 3:19

Bottom line:
👉 The enemy needs a place—but you decide if he gets one.
👉 Change the atmosphere, and you change what can operate in your life.

Subscribe for more teachings on faith, joy, and walking in spiritual authority.

05/22/2026

Fear, torment, sorrow, anxiety, and unrest are not harmless emotions—they are indicators of a spiritual atmosphere. Scripture reveals that where the enemy is in manifestation, these things show up. But where God reigns, there is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

In this message, we uncover a powerful truth:
👉 Joy is not just a feeling—it is a weapon.

When you understand how to walk in joy, you position yourself to resist the devil—and he must flee. Through the Word, faith, and joy, you can shift the atmosphere of your life and enforce the victory that Christ has already won.

This teaching will show you:

How to identify spiritual atmospheres in your life
Why the absence of joy reveals who is influencing the environment
How faith and joy work together to resist the enemy
Why God laughs at the enemy—and why you should too
How joy helps execute the judgment already written against Satan
What to do in seasons of pressure and adversity
31 DAYS OF JOY & THE HOLY GHOST - WATCH LIVE NOW! - https://youtu.be/neAD6sh--B0

You’ll also hear powerful real-life testimonies demonstrating how laughter and faith drive out fear and demonic oppression.

Key Scriptures:
Romans 14:17, James 4:7, 1 Peter 5:9, Romans 15:13, Psalm 149:5–9, Matthew 4:1, James 1:2, Psalm 37:12–13, Psalm 59:6–8

Bottom line:
👉 When you walk in joy, you step into a position of authority.
👉 When you resist the enemy with faith and joy, he cannot stay.

Subscribe for more teachings on faith, joy, and walking in the Spirit.

05/21/2026

🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚨

In Part 5 of the series “Where Is My Honor?”, Pastor Matthew dives deeper into the biblical principle of honor and how it directly affects our relationship with God and the blessings we experience in life. Teaching from key Scriptures including 1 Samuel 2, this message reveals how dishonor is not just a heart issue but is demonstrated through how we treat God’s Word, His presence, His offerings, and His delegated authority. You’ll discover the danger of giving your best to things above God, the importance of excellence flowing from a heart of honor, and how God personally responds to those who honor Him versus those who despise Him. This broadcast will challenge you to examine your priorities and realign your life so that God and His kingdom receive your very best in every area.

🎧 Download the notes for today’s broadcast at mam.tv!
✉️ Request your free copies of Pastor Matthew's books, "Victory In Troubled Times" and "Faith Declarations," by emailing [email protected].

Join us at Northsmoke Church this Sunday at 10:00 am! ⛪️

🚨 NEW EPISODE ALERT 🚨In Part 5 of the series “Where Is My Honor?”, Pastor Matthew dives deeper into the biblical principle of honor and how it directly aff...

05/20/2026

31 DAYS OF JOY & THE HOLY GHOST - WATCH LIVE NOW! - https://youtu.be/KSsaZk7NRpk

What if your joy is more than a feeling—what if it’s evidence of your faith?

In this message, we uncover a powerful truth: your joy demonstrates what you believe. Even in pressure, even before you see the promise—joy is how faith responds.

📖 “Though now… ye are in heaviness… yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable” (1 Peter 1:6–8)

🔥 In this teaching, you’ll discover:

Why joy is a demonstration of faith
How to rejoice even when you don’t see the answer yet
Why joy is essential to go from believing to receiving
How to respond when your faith is being tested
✨ Key truths

👉 Joy flows from hope

A lively hope = confident expectation
You rejoice because God promised it

📖 “Rejoice in hope…” (Romans 12:12)

👉 You can rejoice in pressure

Heaviness may be present
But joy is still possible

📖 “As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing” (2 Corinthians 6:10)

⚡ Joy in the trial

👉 When your faith is tested:

joy is your response
not fear
not sorrow

📖 “That the trial of your faith…” (1 Peter 1:7)

💡 From believing to receiving

👉 You don’t reach the end of your faith without joy

Believe → Rejoice → Receive

📖 “Receiving the end of your faith…” (1 Peter 1:9)

🔥 Joy must be expressed

Joy isn’t silent—it shows up:

laughing
singing
shouting
smiling
dancing

📖 “Mouth filled with laughter… tongue with singing” (Psalm 126:2)
📖 “Let them praise His name in the dance” (Psalm 149:3)

🧠 The key mindset

👉 You rejoice:

not because you see it
but because you believe it
🎯 Bottom line

Joy is not optional—it’s part of faith

👉 If you can rejoice before you see it
👉 You position yourself to receive it

If this message helped you:
👍 Like the video
📩 Share it with someone who needs encouragement
🔔 Subscribe for more powerful biblical teaching