A Blog by Pastors Frank and Parris Bailey
2 Cor.9:6-9 - Here’s my point. A stingy sower will reap a meager harvest, but the one who sows from a generous spirit will reap an abundant harvest. Let giving flow from your heart, not from a sense of religious duty. Let it spring up freely from the joy of giving—all because God loves hilarious …
Phil.4:19 - And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. I had to relearn lots of things when I first began to pastor this church. I had spent four years in a Jesus Community working for various businesses run by the ministry. I had learned a …
Malachi 3:10 says, “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” …
Josh.3:17 - Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan. Everyone wants to carry the ark of God, at least they think …
Jn.4:38 - I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor. The blessing of the Lord has an accelerating effect on everything it touches. In this passage Jesus is using the move of God in Samaria as a glimpse into the day …
Amos 9:13 - Sept. - Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord, “when the threshing will overtake the harvest, and grapes will ripen at the time the seed is sown, and the mountains will drip sweetness, and all the hills shall share in it. I will never forget how fast things happened when we …
MERRY FRIDAY by Parris - Amos 9:13-15 The Message (MSG) “Yes indeed, it won’t be long now.” God’s Decree. “Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, …
Gen. 8:22 - While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease. I had to learn quickly about provision when the Lord called me to pioneer a church in New Orleans in 1979. I had spent my previous six years as a …
Jn.4:35 - Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. God’s word is more powerful than any of us can realize. After all, everything that is was created by …
Matt.6:28 - So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin... What is Jesus getting at? Why did He say for us to “consider the lilies?” He was saying that the lilies don’t need our help to grow. Plant them in the proper …
