Justin Taylor, one of Pastor Dawn’s spiritual sons, gave us a deeper understanding of the Parable of the Sower and how to cooperate with Jesus in tending the garden of our life. The key to a fruitful life is having deep roots, but every garden has weeds and stones hidden beneath the surface that must be dealt with so we can grow in God! Weeds in our garden of life are the cares and pleasures of life, things that might not be evil but they separate us from God and choke our roots and fruitfulness. Stones represent sin or compromise that hinder root development in your relationship with God. Justin gave us very practical ways to deal with the weeds with God’s help, and to uncover the stones and choose to do the work to dig them out and live stronger for God!  Once you choose to be free for your roots in God to go deeper, then you realize God helps you and you don’t have to do it in your own strength. It is God’s will and pleasure to fulfill you and release the greatness He has hidden inside you!

Elder Jonathan Farrell expanded our understanding of the “Parable of the Sower,” in that Jesus equated the birds stealing the seeds sown by a farmer with how demons come to steal the Word of God from being planted in the good soil of our hearts. Your heart can get trampled and hardened when you have difficult circumstances in life or have challenges in relationships. We need to let God deal with our hearts, so that unbelief and hardness of heart don’t block the Word of God from penetrating our hearts. As an object lesson, Elder Farrell held up a large hoe and presented seven practical ways to break up hardened ground in your heart. These wonderful spiritual practices will keep your heart protected and tender to God, set apart for growing the good seed of God’s Word and producing a bountiful 100-fold harvest for God’s glory in your life.

Pastor Dawn is continuing this life-changing series on how to receive and XPAND your 30, 60, 100-fold harvest from the “Parable of the Sower.”  We need to turn our ground—our heart—from being hardened, unbelieving, shallow, and neglected to being good soil for God so we can have eternally fruitful lives for His glory. Spiritual fruit comes when we set our minds on investing in our relationship with Jesus. Pastor Dawn made it easy by identifying 10 areas in which we can intentionally grow so we can realize God’s DNA is our true identity and bear 100-fold fruit for God. Focusing on these things will help us confront and conquer our enemy the devil, stay consecrated to God and not give up, and enjoy the win!

Pastor Dawn is starting a series to bring understanding of how to receive and XPAND your 30, 60, 100-fold harvest. The “Parable of the Sower” has many layers in understanding how to make your harvest more fruitful, but if you understand this parable then you will be able to understand all the parables of Jesus. We are in a season of taking back all that the devil stole from us during the beginning of this decade, and God is in the midst of removing the chaos and restoring good soil for our harvest. The four types of soil represent the conditions of the hearts of the hearers, and the seed is the Word of God planted in each heart. Be a sincere listener of the Word, and let the Holy Spirit evaluate the condition of your heart, whether it is: a hardened and unbelieving heart that denies the power of God a stony, shallow heart that only hears emotionally a thorny neglected heart that is overtaken by the cares and pleasures of life or a fruitful heart that hears and accepts the Word and bears good fruit. You can actually change your ground by asking God to help you have a heart that is able to hear His Word and believe it and obey it!

Apostle Ken Malone and his wife Cheryl of Forerunner Ministries in Satellite Beach, Florida, were with us for a 2-day Church Revival this weekend.  Apostle Ken shared very personally how the Lord delivered him from the spirit of poverty, which is a horrible religious spirit. And praise God, he imparted a revelation of grace, blessing, abundance, double portion, and how to decree it and walk in it! God is able to make grace abound to each of us—grace upon grace, because God wants His people to be successful! Apostle Ken expounded on the meaning of 2 (agreement/double) and 5 (grace/double for our trouble) to reveal the abundant “grace upon grace” that God has for us in 2025. God has empowered our decrees against the strongholds of the enemy. Apostle Ken blessed Pastor Dawn and Liberty, and then he called up everyone who wanted prayer for a double portion, and he and Pastor Dawn prayed with them. It was a beautiful time of empowering each person with a double portion of God’s grace and favor!

Apostle Ken Malone and his wife Cheryl were with us from Forerunner Ministries in Satellite Beach, Florida. Apostle Ken revealed two prophetic dreams to us to explain where the Church is going in 2025. In the dreams, he saw a meeting tent and the word “Mashach” (meaning both Messiah and anointing), and the people were waiting for “Mashach” worship. God said prepare to be overwhelmed with the tangible presence of the Lord. The Holy Spirit is going to be the main attraction and there will be restoration, healings and miracles. Even children will be playful in the anointing, for the anointing destroys the yoke and brings revival and reformation! The atmosphere in our sanctuary was full of grace and the glory of God, and we knew angels were present. Apostle Ken ministered prophetically, then called out healing for every knee and prayed for those with heart problems. Heavenly knee replacements were released!

While Jesus was on earth, it is recorded that He asked many questions—about 307 specific questions, by one estimate.  Jesus modeled for us how to strategically ask questions that go to the heart of a matter and cause each person to evaluate and dig deeper, and in the process help each person awaken spiritually and grow in spiritual understanding. A question Jesus asked His disciples that increased their understanding was, “Who do men say that I am?”  Then Jesus asked His disciples, “But who do you say that I am?” Today, Jesus wants to ask this question of us. He knows what the world says about Him, what other religions say about Him, even what satan says about Him, and He is not moved. But He is personally interested in what YOU have to say in answer to that question. He wants to be your Savior and Lord and have a relationship with you.

Pastor Dawn presented the importance of Isaiah 61, as the mandate from the heart of God for our Church and for our very lives! We have XPANDED on our re-established foundation in this last year with relevant teaching on how to receive a Word of Knowledge and the Names of God, and that nothing is impossible with our God! Now we are intentionally focusing on the harvest of souls as our number one thing, and receiving strategies and strength to preach the good tidings of Jesus to the poor and needy. We must live our lives purposefully and make the most of our time! God has written a scroll of divine assignments for each one of us, and the Holy Spirit will help us do the will of our Father, just as Jesus always did. Then Pastor Dawn asked several people to give testimonies of how the Holy Spirit lead them to each person that they prayed with at the Town of Davie Orange Blossom Festival this weekend. We are celebrating our XPANDING!

First, Pastor Dawn listed 10 benefits of prophecy and how it changes your life and increases your faith. Then, Pastor Dawn made a strong case for knowing clearly what the Word says about who God is and about who you are in God!  You need to understand that because God thinks strategically and in terms of victory, you can have His plans come to pass when you know who He is and that He has given you dominion—the power to rule and reign with Him!  God has given you the ability to think higher and align circumstances in the world to what He says. You are God's son or daughter, and you need to rise up and be who God has called You to be, and not be afraid to represent Him—or "re-present Him!" Breaking generational curses, winning against poverty mentality, and letting go of natural mindsets will release you from fear and insecurity, so you can XPAND and be a demonstration of the glory of God!

On Super Bowl Sunday, Pastor Dawn took the opportunity to let the world know that God has chosen us to win, and that Jesus is our Champion! God said in our prophetic word for this year that He is intersecting Heaven and earth, so we can put our faith on partnering with Him in “going for the touchdown” for the BIG win. It is all for souls saved and people living their life for Jesus as Lord and Savior! Several testimonies from football star Tim Tebow inspired us to see that it is the things we do with God’s heart for others (fishing for souls) that gets us to the end zone!  Prayer changes things, and the people of God have to “take it by force” for the final win!  We speak into the spiritual realm and take back our joy, take back our children from the land of the enemy, take our health and prosperity back, and openly proclaim Jesus as Lord for the final win! We know Jesus didn’t come here to lose!

Elder Jonathan Farrell expounded on how 2025 has to be a different kind of year for us because God has said it is a year for us to go farther, to XPAND God’s Kingdom in every significant way.  Focusing our attention on Jesus, and letting Him be our Treasure that we give up everything else in order to possess, will lead us deeper into loving obedience to God. If we want to do big things for God, it means tuning in and willingly obeying God in the little things. Anytime we obey Him in the small things it prepares us for more. We need to pray daily, “Help us be the people this year who can EXPAND ourselves into Who You are!” Then we will be able to XPAND and believe for God to show up in notable ways and notable miracles!

Pastor Calvin imparted an urgency about the will of God being that none should perish without receiving Jesus as Savior! If we truly believe that Jesus is coming back soon, nearer than when we first believed, every sign happening right now, near and at the door, then there needs to be an urgency that grips our hearts! We are not ashamed of the gospel, so we must seize the moment, receive grace for each day, live holy, pray and GO with the fire and glory of God to advance His Kingdom! There is only one thing better than heaven for you, and that is all the people you take with you to heaven will make heaven even better for you! God doesn’t care near as much about you getting your blessing as He cares about you getting your neighbor saved and on the way to heaven!

Pastor Dawn’s beloved mentor, Bishop Rick Thomas of Abundant Life in Margate, Florida, blessed our congregation with godly wisdom on how to be a friend of God and receive His favor on your life! The same attributes that brought God’s extreme favor on Abraham’s life will bring God’s extreme favor on your life, too. You will see God release faith and favor for souls to be saved, for unusual miracles when you pray, and for supernatural increase in your finances. You will also see God release in you a spirit of generosity because He Himself takes great pleasure in the prosperity of His children. Generosity is a key in fulfilling God’s promise to make sure your future is always greater than your past!

After worship, Pastor Dawn opened up the front and called on Elders and Leaders to pray for everyone who needed healing. Many received healing prayer. Pastor Dawn gave a fiery first-hand account of attending the week of special healing meetings with Evangelist Ankit Rambabu at Abundant Living, and everything she learned. Through her teaching, Pastor Dawn imparted a determination into all of us to receive all that God has for us this year! God has commanded us to XPAND this year, and we are discovering that God has given us just what we need to align with Him and let Him XPAND us as He desires. Our YES even before He speaks is what attracts Him to us so He can release His fullness on our behalf!

Pastor Dawn introduced “XPAND” as the theme that God has given us for this new year of 2025! God is going to extend extreme grace and favor to His people as we intentionally—on purpose with great determination—move in His power and peace to fulfill our assignments for the Kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit is drawing us into revelation in God’s Word, and He is moving us beyond our natural abilities to partner with us to fulfill the desire of His heart! We believe many will come to know Jesus this year, and signs and wonders will be natural to us if we stay close and obey Him!

This year of 2024 was a year that God said we were being re-established. What He meant by “re-established” became evident as the year rolled on! Pastor Dawn encouraged us that with all the challenges we had, He has proved over and over that He is still our Great Big God, and He is more than able to take what we offer Him and bring in the harvest and advance His Kingdom. With many testimonies and beautiful transparency, Pastor Dawn and others in the Church shared testimonies of how God has worked in their lives in this year to re-establish them and build a strong foundation. God is faithful to His word, and He will do it!

Before God announced His love to the whole world through Jesus, there were 400 years of silence from God in Israel. And then, the angels announced Jesus’s birth! Jesus told the world that He came so we could know God’s love. God wants to bring you to a new understanding that you need to be saturated in who Jesus is, because Jesus is our very Hope. He brought heaven to earth in Jesus, so that you might experience Him, and know that God dwells in you. You are coming to know that God is doing something bigger and greater in the world—and it’s YOU! Jesus came to enlarge God’s family, and you are His family! You are living proof that Jesus is alive!

God wants to see you succeed so He has put a system in place based on the principle of “First Fruits.” One of the big challenges we face as Christians is a lack of understanding about how finances work in the Kingdom of God. God wants you to invest in His Kingdom and His way of doing things, and He is looking to give you a harvest! Just as Abraham overcame doubt, built an altar and sowed a seed into his barrenness, God wants to bring your seed to life through an offering of faith that re-establishes the things that are important in your life. As you obey the Lord this year, as Abraham did, you are going to see God’s system of abundance begin to flow again. Sowing precious seed releases precious harvest!

Pastor Dawn laid the foundation from God’s Word of how important it is to honor God and put Him first. God is a Giver—an extravagant Giver, and He wants us to give so that He can release His blessing to us. Just like planting a seed brings a return for the one who plants, giving an offering to God acknowledges Him and enables God to give back to us from the abundance of His Kingdom. Giving to God at the beginning of the cycle of harvest, and releasing my first and best offering to Him, is a wonderful way to prove your trust in God. It says to God that my confidence is in Him and that I want to include Him in my future. I can know the joy of living because I’ve learned the Kingdom principle of giving! God wants me to live with more than enough, and when I put Him first, He takes care of everything else!

With many personal stories and wonderful encouragement that everyone can hear from God, Bryan Emory outlined how God talks to us, and how much God wants to reveal His love and His purpose for each of us! Very persuasively and with supporting scripture, Bryan presented several ways God speaks to all people and especially gets the attention of each one that opens their heart to seek God and hear His voice.