NFCC Podcast

NFCC Anderson Williams- 2/13/2022

Acts 9:31, Nehemiah 5:14-15, 2 Corinthians 7:1

NFCC Crosshairs - John Signorelli - 2-20-22

Crosshairs Prayer Agenda:
1. International Focus: Continue to pray for Albert Kitcher and Ukraine as situation escaltes.
2. Canadian Truckers require prayer as the issue is now on knife's edge.
3. Pray for Anderson Williams, John Signorelli and the Leadership Team of NFCC for wisdom to lead and capacity to build effectively and relevantly.
Pray for numerical growth within the Community of NFCC and for the full appropriation of the Word of the Lord in the hearts of those who hear His Truths.  

NFCC - Randy Thurman - 2-20-22

Nation Changers update

NFCC - Anderson Williams - 2-20-22

The urgency of NOW

NFCC Crosshairs - John Signorelli

Review of Crosshairs Prayer objectives:
1. Prayer for the Nation and those in Ukraine
2. that the mind of the Lord prevail in International negotiations
3. Stability in the community and NFCC
4. Pray for our local spiritual leaders - Lou Perez of Destiny Christian Church

NFCC - Anderson Williams - 2-27-22

Hebrews 11:13-16
13 All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. 15 And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them.
No longer trapped by the present - no matter what the present looks like. Whether comfortable or uncomfortable (seeing things afar off)
A new sense of acceptance, not rejection or indifference to the future (welcomed it from a distance)
The present placement becomes woefully inadequate, strange and uninviting (confessed the were strangers and pilgrims in the earth)
Design a strategy to cut off opportunity to return to former positions - doctrinally or organizationally (if they were thinking of the country from which they had come they would have sought an opportunity to return…)
God takes pleasure in partnering with this mentality (therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God)
 

NFCC Anderson Williams 3-06-22

Deuteronomy 11:10-12 (NKJV)
For the land which you go to possess is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a vegetable garden; 11 but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, 12 a land for which the LORD your God cares; the eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year. 

NFCC Crosshairs 3/06/22

And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.  
Mk. 11:17 (KJV)
 
Words go through evolutionary processes known as semantic shifts - where the original meaning of a word is displaced by the more used and commonly accepted definitions. An example of this is the word “dinner.” Through the evolution of use, the word “dinner” now refers to and is widely accepted as the day’s main meal or the evening meal. But the etymology of the word speaks of the breaking of a fast. Thus, the word “dinner” was originally used to describe breakfast. When Jesus said, “My house shall be called a House of Prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.” He was referring to a similar evolutionary process. A contrary order became entrenched through consistency of practices, perspectives, and persuasions, resulting in the original intent being replaced by an aberration that Jesus called “a den of thieves.” 
 
You have made it - This term springs from the Greek word POIEO which speaks to actions, attitudes, and habits as manifested in the formation of something tangible. It is easy to create entrenched deformity and assume it is kingdom conformity through consistent contradictory religious practices.
 
When Jesus went into the Temple, he engaged in a premeditated whipping of the people (Jn 2:15) and declared the House of the Lord was made into a “den of thieves”, He was making a direct reference to Jer 7:11 (NKJV). “Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of thieves in your eyes?”. Jeremiah asks this probing and rhetorical question after identifying a series of indiscretions that best characterize a Peter-Pan Church that is terrible at adulting.
 
4- A presumption that is equally idolatrous, that believes that the physical Temple or the brick and mortar building possesses a power it does not (Acts 7:48)
5- The urgency for impartiality and equity between man and his fellow man. Any spiritual grouping that gives oxygen to injustice, bigotry, tribalism, prejudice, insularity, and ethnocentricity betrays its status as God’s people. It is an indictment of our love for God if our love for one another ever comes into question. (1Jn 5:2)
6- The call for empathy to immigrants, orphans, and widows. “True religion” is demonstrated in how the less fortunate are treated in the company of the redeemed (James 1:27).  
6- A murderous and idolatrous spirit that permeates the house of God
9- A fundamental violation of the moral codes of not stealing, not committing murder, not committing adultery, and not committing idolatry. 
10- The assumption that indiscretions are off the radar once under the mist of religion
 
These indiscretions represent a deferential posture to a brand of “Christianity” that does not fear God and puts Him at the highest place of affection. 
 
After identifying the spiritual carelessness of the people, God pointed their attention to Shiloh as an example of His response to spiritual irresponsibility (vs.12). Shiloh is the place where God walked out of His House and reduced it to a God-deprived system. Like Elvis, He left the building. When God is gone, all you have left is Ichabod. 
 
The House of Prayer is not necessarily replaced by prayerlessness; it is swallowed up by spiritual recklessness. Prayerlessness is not just the absence of praying. It can easily be the regularity of prayer, but inner Babylonian dispositions mixed with religious posturing ultimately invalidate both the power and importance of our prayer.
 
LEGISLATIVE AGENDA:
Ukraine needs our prayer as this war can have enormous refugee and humanitarian repercussions.
Pray for the mind of the Lord in global negotiations and for quick resolution to the current crisis
Pray for Pastor Randy Thurman as he negotiates the next phase of the call of God on his life