March 22nd 2020 Message

Apostle Dr Lucille Baird and Apostle Chris Baird were certified as International Foursquare Ministers today at church by Foursquare Missionary Rev Dave Stone, who streamed from his home in America due to his inability to travel to Barbados because of restricted flying at this time.

Apostle Dr Lucille Baird thanked Rev Stone for holding their hand through the process of courtship and marriage with Foursquare Church and now through the process as becoming certified licensed Foursquare ministers. She thanked him for being an advisor, a guide and rescuing them when they got lost in the mall! MZM will hold up the banner high for Foursquare, we will bring our skills and anointing to Foursquare.

Speaker: Rev Elvis
5. REMEMBER THAT YOUR PAST WILL FOLLOW AND PURSUE YOU –

Exodus 14:5-10 New International Version (NIV) 5 When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials changed their minds about them and said, “What have we done? We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services!” 6 So he had his chariot made ready and took his army with him. 7 He took six hundred of the best chariots, along with all the other chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them.

8 The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites, who were marching out boldly. 9 The Egyptians—all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots, horsemen and troops—pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pi Hahiroth, opposite Baal Zephon.
10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord.

1. Pharaoh and his mighty host. Exodus 14:23 New International Version (NIV) The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea.

2. You are going out harnessed ready for warfare
Exodus 13:18 New International Version (NIV)
18 So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle.

Your past is part of you, it belongs to you and it will follow you. The past symbolizes who you were and in some cases who you are. Skeletons in your closet are shameful things that you have done in the past. But we must let our past be the past. God has thrown our sins into the sea of forgetfulness. He has but a wall between us and our past failures. God is concerned about our future, He was more concerned about where He was taking the Israelites. Don’t be ashamed of your past do not receive condemnation God is more interested in your present and your future. Be encouraged God bless you

Speaker: Rev Gail Price 6. THE RED SEA WILL BE PARTED. God is in the midst of us and He will part your Red Sea. Right now we have the Red Sea ahead and Pharoh behind us. The Lord is in the midst of us He is in control.

1. Use what you have in your hand Exodus 4:1-5 New International Version (NIV) Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you’?” 2 Then the LORD said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied. 3 The LORD said, “Throw it on the ground.”

Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. 4 Then the LORD said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. 5 “This,” said the LORD, “is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”

All of our local Cricketers used what was in their hand their power and strength and skill to make the Caribbean number one crickets in the world.

Moses action propelled God to act, his obedience propelled God to move.

When I raise my hand I expect God to manifest Himself in my life.

The Rod was to chastise and rule, God is asking us what is in our hand, He is in control and the Red sea will be parting. What the enemy meant for evil God will turn around for our good.
Somebody needs to know that God is still in control, that He is still a healer, that He is still the one that we need to look to.
All things work together for good, when you are shut in your house its time to pick up the Word and pray. I believe this is a time to use Social Media not for silly cartoons and jibes but to raise our hands and thank God and testify of His goodness.
When we raise our hands it’s a spiritual connection to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
We raise our hands in worship, praise and prayer. Even though you may be in lock down God is about to part the Red sea. God has put people in lock down to speak to them, to use them like David, who only had 5 smooth stones that had the power of God.
What do you have in your hand, what do you have in your mouth that can be used for God. Use this time to have Bible Study in your home. God is about to move. We are Ambassadors of God, walk with your head high, God is looking for a people for a people that will raise their hands and worship Him.

2. Every obstacles will be pushed back
Exodus - 14:16; 21-22 New International Version (NIV)
16 Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided,
22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.

Speaker: Apostle Dr. Lucille Baird When Paul was locked away in prison is when he did his finest job writing the Epistles’ that we still live off of today. Chill out God will give us the victory and He has not changed His mind, Corona Virus did not take God be surprise. God is able and He is still in charge, He is still our healer and sometimes God brings situations to get our attention. We have been so distracted so now you are stuck in your house, there is no excuse for not listening to God. We sometimes don’t make time for God, so now it’s time to look to God.

Stores are running out of necessities such as toilet paper and hand sanitizer, but the Blood of Jesus is the best sanitizer.
There is a lack of fellowship and closeness due to social distances. You have to learn to love them from a far, now it’s time to hug up on God.
God is bringing the church closer even in this distance.

1 Samuel 14:6 6 Jonathan said to his young armor-bearer, “Come, let’s go over to the outpost of those uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will act in our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.” This virus is a weapon and it will not prosper.

9. HE FEEDS AND LEADS YOU UNDER AN OPEN HEAVEN
Exodus 14:14 ‘The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

1. Follow instructions Exodus - 14:1-4 New International Version (NIV) Then the Lord said to Moses, 2 “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon. 3 Pharaoh will think, ‘The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert.’ 4 And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will pursue them. But I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” So the Israelites did this.

2. Stop complaining, God hates it –
Exodus 14:11-12 New International Version (NIV)
11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
12 Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”

Exodus 16:2-3 New International Version (NIV)
2 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.”

Exodus 16:8 New International Version (NIV)
8 Moses also said, “You will know that it was the LORD when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the LORD.”

Stop grumbling, maybe God wants you to fast. Stop complaining God will provide He gave them Manna.

3. Manna (God’s nourishment) will fall – Exodus - 16:4 New International Version (NIV) Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions.

Don’t hoard your food, God told them to only take enough for a day. Stop grumbling, give Him praise and glory.

Don’t be afraid, God is a God of everything, this is a time when our faith will be tested. God told Moses He is our provider, He will feed and lead us with an outstretched hand.

This virus is bringing people to their knees, people are turning to God, it’s time for the church to be strong and do as He tells us to do.

4.Your needs will be met
Exodus - 16:11 New International Version (NIV)
The Lord said to Moses, 12 “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’”

Your needs will be met. God can multiply the food, He did it back then and He will do it again.

Take what little you have and lift it up to God and He will use it. He will supply your needs. Isaiah 60:2
See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you.

When does it rise? In the midst of the dark times. We must shine brighter in this time of darkness.

Be the church in the midst of the darkness. Just like to Israelites were chased by the Egyptians we are being chased by Corona Virus but God will keep us. God is depending upon His church, He will speak and direct His church to give the world encouragement. The church is the most essential service right now. We must continue to speak up, preaching the Word of God.
See yourself as essential at this time, for comfort and encouragement the people, we are moving into another level of anointing where we will call those things that are not as though they are, He has given us power over serpents, we must prophecy that no virus will touch us.

When the Corona sees the blood of Jesus it must bow.

Start to act like the church, walk in the power that Jesus walked in.

John 14:12
Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.

Jesus beat Corona ‘bad’ on the cross and on the third day when He rose and was victorious over death. God is victorious, the church is victorious.

Jesus took a lash for Corona and He handed the victorious keys to His church. Victory is assured if you obey and have faith. Have no fear, dogs smell fear. A tied dog is no dog at all, and the devil is tied, he can only bark. God is mighty over Corona He is mighty over death, He reigns.