Sunday Service With Dr.DIana Brevan 6/30/2024

Senior Pastora Dr.Diana Brevan
Jun 29, 2024
20 min read

Sunday Service 6/30/2024

JESUS IS LORD FELLOWSHIP WORLD WIDE INTERNATIONAL

Opening Prayer:

Lord as we gather this day we ask that you bless those that are delivering your word especially our Senior Pastor Dr Diana Brevan. We also ask that all those receiving your word will do so with a open heart and that your message will be written in their spirit,

We also hold up the Leadership of Jesus is Lord Fellowship and pray that you will build a hedge of protection around their lives.

Praise and Worship: More Than Able

When did I start to forget

All of the great things You did?

When did I throw away faith for the impossible?

How did I start to believe

You weren’t sufficient for me?

Why do I talk myself out of seeing miracles?

You are more than able

(You are, You are) You are more than able (yeah)

(We’ve seen it) You are more than able

Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?

It’s easy for You, oh

And now I see all that I have

Oh, I’ve got my confidence back

I put my trust in the One who still does miracles

You do miracles (come on, sing)

You are more than able (hey, oh)

(Hey) You are more than able

(We know, we know it) You are more than able

(We’ve seen it, we’ve seen it)

You are more than able

Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?

Can you imagine

With all of the faith in the room

What the Lord can do?

And it’s gonna happen

Just let the Waymaker through

He’s gonna move

And can you imagine

With all of the faith in the room

What the Lord can do?

And it’s gonna happen

Just let the Waymaker through

He’s gonna move

Yes, He’s gonna move

And can you imagine

With all of the faith in the room

What the Lord can do?

And it’s gonna happen

Just let the Waymaker through

He’s gonna move (He’s gonna move)

He’s gonna move

Anything is possible

(Sing it out)

Anything is possible

(I know)

Anything is possible

(C’mon)

Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?

Anything is possible

(We’ve seen it)

Anything is possible

(So we believe it)

Anything is possible

(Hey)

Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?

Anything is possible

(Anything)

Anything is possible

(Who am I?)

(Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?) say, “Who am I?”

Who am I to deny what the Lord can do? (Who am I?)

Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?

He still can do it

Still can do it

He’s not run out of time, yeah, He still can do it

You are more than able

(Oh) You are more than able

Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?

I’ve come a long way (c’mon)

I’ve seen how You work

There’s so much goodness and grace, ha-ha

Much more than I deserve

‘Cause I know who l am

And I can’t stay where I’m at, oh

We’ve come this far by faith, oh, yes we have

And I just can’t turn back

‘Cause He’s not done with me yet

He’s not done with me yet, hey

There’s so much more to the story (hey)

You’re not done with me yet

You’re not done with me yet (yes)

You’re not done with me yet (no-no)

There’s so much more to the story (c’mon)

You’re not done with me yet (say)

You’re not done with me yet (after this there will be glory)

There’s so much more to the story (after this there will be glory), you’re not done

You’re not done with me yet

Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?

God is more than able

(Hey)

God is more than able

God is (more than able)

Don’t stop believing right now

Don’t quit believin’ right now

God is more than able

Who am I (to deny what the Lord can do?)

He still can do it

Who am I to deny (what the Lord can do?)

Just ‘cause I haven’t seen it in my lifetime

That doesn’t mean He can’t do it

Who am I to deny what the Lord (can do?)

Just ‘cause it’s not on my resume

Or just ‘cause I don’t have it, doesn’t mean He can’t do it

Oh, who am I to deny (what the Lord can do?)

He can still do miracles with nothing

All it takes is nothing

He can do a miracle

Who am I to deny what the Lord can do?

He can do it, he can do it

(He can do it)

(He is able)

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In Matthew 10:42, Jesus promised: And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

When you give to Jesus is Lord Fellowship WWI, you give a virtual “cup of cold water” to tens of thousands daily. How you ask? By enabling Jesus Is Lord Fellowship WWI to daily satisfy their spiritual thirst in the Virtual world of the Internet where we minister to homes through out the world. We also supply needs by post world wide. Please consider sending us regular tithes and offerings. May the Lord richly bless each and every one of you. We do pray that our Fellowship does minister to you on Sundays, and throughout the whole week on A daily basis. God Bless you and have a blessed Jesus filled day, we daily are available to assist each of you daily in all the areas of your lives through Christ Jesus in Jesus is Lord Fellowship World Wide International through Senior Pastor Dr Diana Brevan

This Sermon today is spoken by your very Own Dr.Diana Brevan

As Dr Diana comes to the podium let us take a moment to bow our heads in prayer.

Today let us remember to prayer today for ourselves. For our own needs in health, wealth and happiness and for our spiritual wellbeing and growth

As we pray also let us hold up all the prayer requests that we have received this past week. Let us also be in agreement with the unspoken prayers that lay in each of our hearts.

Let us lift up all those that have been called as Prayer Warriors, that they may have the Lord’s strength as they pray and that a hedge of protection may surround them and their families

Let us also prayer for the needs of our local Church including the needs of Jesus is Lord Fellowship WWI. Let us as God for provisions so that His church may be able to continue the work that He has set aside for it. Let us pray for those that have been called to leadership in His church that they may always have strength and a Godly vision. Let us place a hedge of protection around Leaders and their families so that they may be healed from all health problems.

Let us pray that as we listen today our heart and our inner soul will be open to the words so that we may feed freely on the message and drink from the Holy Spirit.

We welcome all National and International Fellowship members and visitors around the globe as you receive the spiritual nutrition of the Lords Word.

May the Lord richly bless you today around the globe. I am Senior Pastora of Jesus Is Lord Fellowship Dr. Diana Brevan. Let us prepare ourselves for this lesson: Let us turn our bible to:

How To Receive the Holy Ghost

Part 3

What It Means to Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ

The Importance of Faith

This part of our series is very important for at least two reasons.

1) Faith cannot be stressed too much

2) There is a great need to define the meaning of

“Believing on the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Believing on the Lord Jesus Christ is a very common religious statement which is often given without qualification to people who have not studied out what it means, and are not sure how to take hold of it and apply it to their lives.

In Parts one and two in this series, I have brought out, step by step, how we can, by our acts of faith and obedience, claim the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ for our own lives, accepting Christ’s substitutionary sacrifice as our justification.

Having our faith anchored in scriptural truths is very important if we are to arrive at a lasting and fruitful experience with God.

We must as Jesus spoke in Matthew 7, build our house upon the rock.

Faith is the basic element that must exist if any mutual relationship is to endure.

Even in secular business, two men who may happen to be partners must have faith in one another.

The absence of trust and confidence is sure to bring on the eventual downfall of any enterprise.

In marriage, a husband and wife must have faith in one another.

Because the absence of trust and confidence will destroy the marriage relationship.

Even a friendship will not last if there is not, first, trust in one another. So it is not a strange thing at all to say, “He that cometh to God must believe . . .” and “without faith it is impossible to please him.” Hebrews 11:6

A person must exercise faith in reference to salvation, for in salvation we face a need that we cannot supply within and of ourselves.

We must reach outside of ourselves with the imploring trust and hope that we will be lifted and helped.

No kingdom can of itself evolve into a higher kingdom.

FOR EXAMPLE: No matter how fine a particular strain of hay may be cultivated to be, it can never, of its own power, evolve into a cow.

FOR EXAMPLE: The richest and most fertile soil cannot transform itself into a field of corn without the planting and germination process of corn itself.

The plant kingdom must reach down into the mineral kingdom and lift out the nitrate, phosphate, and other elements and transform them upward into the plant kingdom.

That cow must reach down to the plant kingdom also and lift, assimilate, and take the corn into the animal kingdom and by doing this the corn nourishes the cow.

It is always the higher kingdom that must do the lifting. Jesus said “That which is born of the flesh is flesh”. It remains flesh in its own right until it is born from above.

The new birth is a miracle, and only God can perform it.

But how can this transition be made from the fleshly kingdom to the spiritual kingdom?

What is the medium of contact and communication between the earthly man and a heavenly God?

Of course it is faith.

As we have already considered, faith is the only approach which puts us in contact with God.

And this faith comes by hearing the preached word.

Faith Comes By Hearing the Preached Word

Romans 10:10-17: “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness. . . . The scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. . . . For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. HOW THEN SHALL THEY CALL ON HIM IN WHOM THEY HAVE NOT BELIEVED? AND HOW SHALL THEY BELIEVE IN HIM OF WHOM THEY HAVE NOT HEARD? AND HOW SHALL THEY HEAR WITHOUT A PREACHER? . . . SO THEN FAITH COMETH BY HEARING, AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD.”

Many times the question is asked, “Why is it, if the Holy Ghost is for us today, that the good people in other churches do not receive it?”

Of course, some folks are receiving it today, but the reason that so very few do receive it is because it is not preached as a gift that can be presently and readily received.

“How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?”

Even though Jesus Christ is preached, he is not preached as John the Baptist preached Him. John the Baptist preached that he indeed baptized with water, but Jesus, who would come after him, would baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.

The Jesus that John the Baptist preached about, baptized with the Holy Ghost.

In II Corinthians 11:3-4 Paul wrote that he was afraid that the Corinthians would be turned away from the simplicity that was in Christ. He warned them about someone coming and preaching another Jesus whom he had not preached.

The Jesus Paul preached baptized with the Holy Ghost.

The problem is today many preachers today do not preach the Jesus who baptizes with the Holy Ghost and fire, and consequently the scripture rings true, “How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?”

When we believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, it is important that we believe according to truth. There are many who have believed but have believed in vain. In John 7, Jesus spoke of believing upon him “as the scripture hath said.”

Notice the method of the apostles in Acts 16:30-34 in getting people to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

In this chapter is the account of the imprisonment of Paul and Silas, their prayer at midnight, and the earthquake which freed them. Beginning with the twenty-seventh verse is the account of the fear-stricken jailer who would have killed himself had Paul not assured him that there had been no mass escape. Trembling with fear, he fell at their feet and imploringly asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

This heathen jailer asked a question that demanded an answer. The answer given him was, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”

While this was a correct answer, our knowledge of the scripture and reason would immediately teach us that believing would have to be explained to this man who had never in his life heard a gospel sermon. It may have been that he had not even heard of Jesus Christ.

“How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard?”

This man needed faith planted in his heart before he could believe. Jesus said that this faith must be “according to the scriptures.” So in verse 32 it is stated, “And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.” This scripturally unlearned man had to be taught the terms of the gospel.

This man who had never heard a gospel sermon was taught, by the Apostle Paul, what it meant to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

So Paul and Silas took him and his family and taught them the Word of the Lord.

What they taught this jailer led to repentance, “and he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes.”

This shows us he expressed his sorrow and showed his willingness to make things right as near as he was able.

This word which they taught this man about believing on the Lord Jesus Christ led to baptism. “And was baptized, he and all his, straightway.”

This corresponds with Jesus’ statement in Mark 16:16, “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.” It is just as impossible to separate faith and baptism as it is faith and works. “Faith without works is dead.” (James 2:26) Baptism is not merely works, but it is an act of faith itself. It is a demonstration of the faith a candidate has in the terms of the gospel.

According to apostolic teaching, it was a part of believing on the Lord Jesus Christ.

What they taught about believing on the Lord Jesus Christ led to this man and his house (family) being filled with the Holy Ghost. “And rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.” While the scripture here is silent on the jailer receiving the Holy Ghost, think back, “according to the scripture,” what happens when a person believes on the Lord Jesus Christ? “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive . . .” (John 7:38-39).

This is a plain and strong promise. The declaration of Christ is that when people believe on Him, as the Scripture teaches, they will receive the Holy Ghost in a rushing riverlike experience.

In Mark 16, Jesus again relates to us that believing on the Lord Jesus Christ produces within the believer an energetic, active experience.

Among several signs which he stated would follow them that believe was “they shall speak with new tongues.”

Jesus indicated, ten days before He ascended into heaven, that each time a person was baptized and believed in Him, particular signs would miraculously be manifested in that person’s life.

A little thought would lead us to see that this arrangement is both needful and reasonable.

Who can correctly gauge the depth of the thinking process?

Who can know and judge the human heart?

Surely this must be left to God, since He alone knows our mental and spiritual processes.

Relative to the heart of man, the Scripture asks the question, “Who can know it?”

So a sign which automatically accompanies saving faith is safe, assuring, and conclusive.

The sign of tongues is a witness, both to the recipient and to the unbeliever, that the candidate has indeed been thoroughly baptized with the Spirit.

The first people to receive the Holy Ghost in the New Testament church era were the one hundred twenty on the Day of Pentecost. How did they receive the Holy Ghost? (Acts 2:1-4)

Peter refers to this great experience at Pentecost in Acts 11:15-17: “The Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. . Who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ . .” According to Peter, when they believed on the Lord Jesus Christ they received the Holy Ghost just like they did on the day of Pentecost

In the tenth chapter of Acts, Peter went to preach to a very good man named Cornelius. In spite of his goodness, according to Acts 11:14, he was not saved.

Why was he not saved?

Simply because he had not “believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Despite his sincerity and hunger for God, his experience with God was limited to that of a Jewish proselyte.

Jesus Christ had never been preached to him. Remember the scriptures:

“Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.”

“How shall they believe in him whom they have not heard?”

Cornelius could not save himself. Only Jesus the Savior can save.

Remember these scriptures:

John 14:6 “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

John 10:1-2 “I am the door of the sheep.” “He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.”

Acts 4:12 “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.”

John 3:15-18 “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

So we can see, “according to the scriptures,” that Cornelius, in spite of his goodness, was lost beyond doubt.

It is no wonder that the sermon which Peter preached to Cornelius and his house was literally filled from start to finish with Jesus Christ.

Peter knew that only Jesus could save Cornelius and that Cornelius could know Him only by faith.

The sermon which began in Acts 10:34 was only ten verses long. The key verse spoken was the last verse vs 43, and it contained enough truth to save this heretofore Christless man. Notice it carefully. “To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.”

Cornelius knew his sins were not remitted, for he was a Jewish proselyte always performing sacrifice to put his sins ahead one more year awaiting the coming of Mosiach or the Messiah, who had come and Cornelius was just now finding this wonderful truth out.

As Peter spoke of His name, and Cornelius began believing on Christ, the results were startling.

Acts 10:44-45 “While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.”

Then, according to verse 48, they were commanded to be baptized in the name of the Lord.

Cornelius had repented.

When faith came by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Roman 10:17), and he discovered that “through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins,” he immediately believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, and according to the promise of Christ in John 7:37-39, out of his innermost being flowed rivers of living water, and he received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost!

As we are beginning to see, believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, and being baptized and receiving the Holy Ghost, mean the same thing in the New Testament.

In the Apostles day, when people believed on the Lord Jesus Christ they did get baptized, and they did immediately receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Peter summed it up in Acts 11:14-17 with these words,

“Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved…. And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. . . .”

Each time in the New Testament where reference is made to believing on the Lord, it also indicates the receiving of the Holy Ghost and baptism in Jesus’ name!

This statement proved true again in Acts 19:1-6.

The question Paul put to them was,

“Did ye receive the Holy Ghost when ye believed?” (R. V.)

He could have asked them a question that is very common among us today but has become very misleading and vague. This is the question that he could have asked them: “Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ?”

While this would have been perfectly scriptural, it would have given the disciples room to make a personal human judgment of their faith.

Salvation is too momentous a thing to be left to human judgment.

It is much safer, instead, as Paul did here, to ask rather for divine verification of their faith. He did not so much ask them about their faith as he did about the results of their faith.

Notice, “Did you receive the Holy Ghost when you believed?” He very well knew that if they had not received the Holy Ghost they had not believed. Had not Jesus said plainly thirty years before, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his [innermost being] shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive . . .”? in John 7:37-39

Jesus had taught His disciples concerning faith in Mark 11:24, “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”

The receiving was the proof of the petitioners’ faith.

Certainly if they had received the thing they asked for they had believed.

The father who had a deaf-mute son in Mark 9:22-23 pleaded, “If thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us. Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”

Receiving and believing are always linked together. Receiving is always a proof of the petitioner’s faith.

A few hours before the end of Jesus’ earthly ministry He urged His disciples, “Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full” (John 16:24).

In today’s theology your believing (also called faith) needs to show a result in order to know you have believed God for a miracle

Many will say have faith and pay your tithes and God will do a miracle of providence but you 1st have to pay your tithes.

Many will say have faith and pray for a miracle of healing and that sign of your healing is the release from that sickness and is dependant upon your believing.

But isn’t it strange that according to today’s theology, that in all things, visible, tangible, and positive proofs can be shown as the result of believing, except in the realm of salvation.

I’ve seen groups who proudly display Acts 4:12 in there church, but when you go to them and ask them to baptize you in Jesus name they refuse!

They will tell you the infilling of the spirit is a quiet thing experienced by faith and there is no positive proof or tangible evidence.

Isn’t it strange that we can point to a healing, a job, a restored home or any number of things that can be seen and verified to be the result of our faith in God but, in the awful question of a soul’s salvation, modern theology tells us we are left without a witness at all.

How can it be that we are required to exercise a degree of faith strong enough to secure our salvation and yet never have any visible, audible, or tangible proof that our faith had been effective.

I am here to tell you that New Testament salvation is not predicated upon such doubtful grounds. “Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed?” asked Paul. “These signs shall follow them that believe,” said Jesus.

Whether you have believed or not is nothing more than a matter of your personal opinion, unless your faith has been rewarded by the signs which Jesus said would follow the believer.

Where eternity, heaven, and hell are involved, we dare not trust our opinion.

If the signs have not followed, we have not believed according to the scripture.

Notice that Paul, in Acts 19, after ascertaining that the Ephesians had not received the Holy Ghost, immediately taught them that “they should believe on him which should come after . . . , that is, on Christ Jesus.”

You can see the results of that faith which had been sown by hearing the Word of God. They were baptized in Jesus’ name and received the Holy Ghost.

They believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as Paul had taught them.

They were baptized as an act of faith, and signs followed the believers as Jesus had said they would in Mark 16.

They received the Holy Ghost and spoke in other tongues. In the New Testament this is what is meant by “believing on the Lord Jesus Christ.”

In the book of Acts people received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost suddenly, quickly, and easily. In not one instance besides the Day of Pentecost do we have record that those who were filled came by their experience as the result of long periods of tarrying and seeking him for the promise of the Father.

The Baptism of the Holy Ghost is represented to us as a gift.

Since it is a gift, it would seem that it is to be merely received by faith.

Usually a person receives a gift with gratitude and thanks,

without a strain or a struggle.

You do not have to beg God to be filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost

You do not have to tarry to be filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost

It is a simple matter of faith in the word of God

Please understand this: You are not seeking God for the gift of tongues!

You are seeking God for the gift of the Holy Ghost, the baptism of his spirit, the river of water springing out of your soul!

When God pours out his spirit upon you it will be evidenced by speaking with other tongues, but your not seeking to speak in tongues, your seeking to be baptized in his spirit!

The simple faith in the promises of God and God said I could have it, I’ve repented, I’ve been baptized I can have it, is all it takes

Over the course of the next few Sundays I want to continue to build your faith

I am not here to destroy your faith or belittle you

My goal, my objective is to build your faith, so despite what your flesh says or you have been told in the past, you can also receive the promise of the Father

We will talk about:

· Why some don’t receive the Holy Ghost quickly

· Making Contact with the Spirit

· The Method of Transition from the Flesh to the Spirit

· The Act of Transition from the Flesh to the Spirit

I promise that if your desire is to fully believe and be filled with the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, you do not want to miss the next few Sundays

It's time to believe God and for yourself receive the promise of the Father.

Have you ever made Jesus the Lord and Savior of your life?

If not, pray this prayer and start a new life in Christ.Dear God,I come to You in the Name of Jesus. I admit that I am not right with You, and I want to be right with You. I ask You to forgive me of all my sins. The Bible says if I confess with my mouth that “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in my heart that God raised Him from the dead, I will be saved (Rom. 10:9). I believe with my heart and I confess with my mouth that Jesus is the Lord and Savior of my life. Thank You for saving me!In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.If you prayed this prayer for the first time, I would Love to Hear from You Please Send me an email or and a Testimony to Headquartersjilfwwi@yahoo.com or to Jesus Is Lord Fellowshi p WWI Attention Dr.Diana Brevan PO Box 2752 Inverness Florida 34451