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My name is Pastor Tony Catron I graduate from K.S.U. with a degree in electronic/electrical engineering. While doing that I became a Junior Deacon and also a musician in my dad's ministry in Cleveland, Ohio. Years later, my career took me to Michigan where I worked as a Electrical/Electronic Engineer. While in Michigan I became a Minister, then later went to Seminary training at Birmingham Bible Institute and became an Elder at a large Pentecostal church in Michigan called LLCC. I was called to the ministry by God. So I headed up an outreach ministry based on the End Times, dealing with restoration in people lives. Then my dad called me back to Ohio to help him Pastor his church. During that time, God changed my outreach ministry, turning it into a full-time restoration ministry. He gave me the name Ark of Covenant Ministries and the rest is history.
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Who’s Life Story’s Are You Trying to Repeat?

It’s so funny in many ways how people try to relive their lives through others, after having messed up their own. Giving themselves a second chance through someone else. You only have one human life to live the first go around. There is one thing you hear some people say and that is this: “If I had the chance to do it all over again, I would do things differently.” You might hear others say “I’m just human and people make mistakes.” But until you come to reality that you can’t live your life by excuses, you begin understanding that the life you made for yourself was completely done of your own free will. But to live your life through someone else will only lead that person down the same road you traveled in you own life.

So to teach, mentor or lead someone down the new road by the new understanding that you have, with the old mindset and understanding that you have now, which is tainted with the old thoughts and emotional anger, pain and broken heart, will have an overwhelm effect on your decision making, which just might turnout to be a form of control, and or subjugation mentoring. It would even prevent that person being delivered and also being restored.

Proverbs 21:2-4 says:
2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts. 3 To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. 4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

We must remember that there are five responsibilities of a child of God on this Earth and they are listed below:

  1. To give people an understanding of the truth of what this world is all about
  2. Teaching and of the kingdom of God and being an example for them
  3. Restoring human souls back into the true understanding why Jesus Christ died for all
  4. Create a path back to Jesus Christ
  5. For people to be delivered from their themselves and sin

Sometime I ask when will the heart of man and woman stop being jealous? When will they be less concerned about what others will people think or say or do if they don’t like how you live or what you do?:

1 John 2:15-17
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

In my conclusion, I’ll leave you with this verse: Philippians 2:1-11
1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2 Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Selah!

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Luke 7

Jesus Heals

Faith is extremely important in getting things done in the Kingdom and without it, its impossible to please God. Faith in words: God spoke and things came into being. Faith does not operate without purpose.

Jesus Raises the Dead

The dead can come back to life, through faith.

The Prophet John’s Question

If John had not known the old testament prophecy from Isaiah that One would come to restore, John would not have know whether Jesus’ response was true or not. Know the scriptures.

Summary

  1. Faith needs a purpose to exist in you, 9
  2. Have faith in Jesus’ words, 7
  3. Ever look to God with a heart of holy awe, 16
  4. Lay all you have at Jesus feet, 38
  5. To what degree do you love, 47
  6. The Lord will dry all your tears, 13-15
  7. Have compassion before reaction, 13-15
  8. In what ways are you rejecting God?, 30
  9. True faith will save you, 50
  10. Who is Jesus to you, 34
  11. The least in the Kingdom shall be the greatest, 28
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How Many Unopened Doors Are Left in Your Mind?

Have any of you ever been to a hotel and got on an elevator and went to a floor and then came out of the elevator? What is the first thing you see? Well the first thing you see is a long hallway, and along that hallway are a lot of doors; and all of the doors have numbers and each of those numbers a location where an event has or will transpire. In any case, the owners of that hotel, through one way or another, will have to bare the responsibility of all and any results of each one of the corresponding numbered doors on each hall on each floor of that building. Clients may ask, “how many rooms do you have available?” Before the front desk can answer anything with clarity, they must check with housekeeping in some way first.

This is somewhat the same way, our minds or “psyche” operate, by searching and checking the recesses of our mind to answer any task or situation that is asked of us. In that hallway on that floor, some doors may read “occupied” while others may have a sign on the door that reads “do not disturb” and others may have on it “storage,” and that door can only be unlock by management or maintenance. But today we’re going to talk about the “do not disturb” sign. Sometimes in our mind, we have a way of thinking that we don’t want no body to disturb or discuss, because to do so will cause you to challenge your self made theology and in some cases may cause you to call forth that Peter spirit in you when the Lord had told him, “Peter, if you live by the sword you will die by the sword.”

Proverbs 14:7-14 says:
7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge. 8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit. 9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour. 10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. 11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. 12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness. 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

It’s not until a person opens and releases the contents behind that door in their mind or even their heart that there will always be apart of themselves that will never be free. This may be the reason why a lot of things that you have had dreams and vision about haven’t come to fruition. You see, Jesus can’t bless or restore back to a level to do His will until you release you. A lot of times, the Lord has set you free; but we haven’t set ourselves FREE!

Proverbs 23:7-9 says:
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. 8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words. 9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

In my Conclusion, Job 8:6-15 says:
6 If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. 7 Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. 8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 11 Can the rush grow up without mire?
can the flag grow without water? 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish: 14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web. 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.