During the Christmas holiday of 2008, I had plans to be in Naples Florida spending Christmas with my Niece and her husband. Before I left, I asked our Prayer Team in our church to get alone with God and find out what He is saying to us. There was no other directives. When I returned, we gathered together and I asked them what the Lord was saying to them. Unanimously, they said that the Lord had pointed out to them that we, as a church, had not dedicated our building to the Lord. We had no idea what had been taught or done in the building, and felt like we needed to consecrate this building and our ministry to the Lord and for His glory. When the Lord first blessed us with this building, we were renting the local DAV building. This was a church facility that we began to rent, and then soon buy. Since we were already involved in various ministries, we kind of hit the ground running. Dedication of the building was soon "out-of-sight, out-of-mind."
During this time, it had come to our attention that there may be some in the area who are involved in some type of occult activity who may have been spiritually fighting against us, and this led to demonic attack against our church and its people. So, on February 22, 2009 we held our dedication service. We cancelled Sunday School and gathered our Prayer Team together and we prayed through the building, anointing it and consecrating it to the Lord. During that time, the Lord gave us a message in tongues and the interpretation was that He placed two waring angels over the top of our church to encamp there and that they were there to protect us and keep the enemy at bay. When the Morning Service began, I led the people in a dedication service. We then opened the door and had placed four people at the four corners of our property and at the same time that we as a congregation had dedicated our building, our ministry, and ourselves to the Lord, the four people poured out the anointing oil they had been given. And God blessed! After we dedicated the building, we had a Healing service. God touched many people that day. He healed some, delivered others, and deepened the intimacy of many in attendance! It was an awesome service, in which the Lord truly received our dedication and sanctified our building and our ministry here at our church! GLORY TO HIS NAME!
During this time, it had come to our attention that there may be some in the area who are involved in some type of occult activity who may have been spiritually fighting against us, and this led to demonic attack against our church and its people. So, on February 22, 2009 we held our dedication service. We cancelled Sunday School and gathered our Prayer Team together and we prayed through the building, anointing it and consecrating it to the Lord. During that time, the Lord gave us a message in tongues and the interpretation was that He placed two waring angels over the top of our church to encamp there and that they were there to protect us and keep the enemy at bay. When the Morning Service began, I led the people in a dedication service. We then opened the door and had placed four people at the four corners of our property and at the same time that we as a congregation had dedicated our building, our ministry, and ourselves to the Lord, the four people poured out the anointing oil they had been given. And God blessed! After we dedicated the building, we had a Healing service. God touched many people that day. He healed some, delivered others, and deepened the intimacy of many in attendance! It was an awesome service, in which the Lord truly received our dedication and sanctified our building and our ministry here at our church! GLORY TO HIS NAME!
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