Prepare Your Heart to Receive: Mix the Ingredients

Hello AGC Family!

I am so excited about this upcoming weekend! I am excited about what God is doing and going to do in your life, and I am expecting great things for each one of you. Come expecting!

Did you get your pan greased yesterday? Did you spend time praying in the Holy Spirit over the requests you have for God? Good! I put my faith with your faith, and we believe we have already received!

That brings us to our next step in “baking the cake of faith.” Today, we are stirring in our ingredients. The Bible tells us Hebrews 4:2,

For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. 

God gives us His word to help us profit, but we must mix that word with faith for it to become profitable in our lives. So, one of our ingredients must be His word. On Monday, we put together all our scriptures to stand on. We wrote them down, and now we are going to “mix” those scriptures in with faith! These two ingredients must be mixed at the same time: hear the word, mix it with faith. Hear the word again, mix it with faith again. 

So far, we have the word and faith as our ingredients. Next, let’s add hope. Why hope? Because hope, according to the original Hebrew meaning, is a confident expectation of what we are believing for. Faith and hope go together. The definition of faith states, FAITH is the substance of things HOPED for the evidence of things not seen. They are two powerful forces that work together to bring forth the manifested results. So, stir in hope! It’s like when you add baking soda to flour and it makes a chemical reaction to help that cake bake. So, it is the same with faith and hope - they provide a “chemical reaction,” power, to bring forth the word you are standing on. 

Our final ingredient is love. Without love it is impossible to please God. Love is the ingredient that never fails. When the enemy is trying to get you to walk out of love this week, tell him, “No way, mister! I stir up the gift of love on the inside of me right now! I choose to walk in love.” The Bible says, “now faith, hope, and love but the greatest of these is love.” You absolutely cannot leave out the ingredient of love. 

Mix the word, faith, hope, and love to get yourself ready to bake the best cake you have ever tasted. Expect that cake to be the best! Add that oil of prayer through the Holy Spirit over that cake before you put it in the oven. Then, sit back and wait with confident expectation for this cake of faith. 

I am SO excited for you, church family! You are going to receive what you are believing for because you are mixing all of this with faith, hope, and love! 

-Pastor Candace