|
Welcome!
Thank you for visiting our website.
We invite you to listen to Pastor Greg's messages
on the
RESOURCES page. We make
these messages available at no charge.
You can even download them to your computer and use Apple
iTunes to load a copy of the message to your iPod device, for listening on the
go.
We encourage you to tour our website to get to know us. We are a
congregation of Christians committed to prayer for an awesome revival to come to
change us, our communities, our state, our nation, and the world. We believe that a revived Church is
the only answer to the ills of the world we live it.
We invite you to come and experience
with us the awesome presence and power of God at our meetings.
Our hunger for revival has increased our hunger for God. And
He is blessing us with physical healings, words of knowledge, and
other signs and wonders. His signs and wonders are continual
evidence of His power and majesty, and of His great desire to heal
our hearts, our minds, and our bodies. The best is yet to
come!
Revival has started here at FOL. We are after
more holiness and righteousness. A cleansing and purifying of all that would
weaken us and interfere with God’s plans in our lives. We want society, the
economy, the government, everything in our churches and our country changed.
Change that brings forth the glory of God, and change that brings healing to a
world so much in need of it.
Healings and deliverances are taking place in our
meetings, and by ministry to those in the world. We will share them after
they are confirmed or documented medically.
We expect, and believe for,
an ongoing and deepening revival here and now. Let's continue to pray for
it. Let's continue to seek it with all that is within us. And let
our God be glorified in and through our lives.
Do you desire more of God's life in
yours? Do you hunger for more holiness? We would like to
invite you to visit us.
Our services schedule can be found above. If you have any questions, we invite you to contact us by email or phone.
Greg & Andrea
Manalli

The Storm Before The Calm
While I was on a
prayer walk just recently, I heard this phrase, “you have heard of the calm
before the storm, well this is the storm before the calm.” We are living in a
time of great upheaval. Nothing is peaceful. There is concern all around, in
every sector of society from finances, education, government, you name it. The
weather is unpredictable, unstable, even life threatening to those suffering
floods and fires in their areas. Crops are struggling to survive in many places.
The ripple effect of troubled agriculture on our economy makes many nervous.
Last there are religious conflicts, terrorism, wars and epidemics.
Yet these are but the
storm before the calm. History proves revivals are preceded by such events. They
are really the stage setting for moves of God. It is not that God brings them
about, man does, and God uses the influences on the human thoughts and emotions
to awaken the sleeping church and the sinner alike to call on Him. Prayer is the
initial response of the church, fear is the one for the sinner. They have no one
to appeal to and are left to their dwindling resources of finance and personal
plotting. In the end they know these won’t do.
This all makes for a
soul searching time. The church begins to admit it has been asleep or worse,
bogged down in selfishness and sin. The sinner is alone without God. He knows
it. He is ripe for Jesus because he is more in touch with his sin and frailty.
Thus the agitation of the world becomes a perfect entrance for the God of peace
of to come on the scene. It is entrance time for the greatest hero of all time,
Jesus.
Jesus comes at the
request of the prayers of the saints. He is made known to the hearts of the lost
by the word of God, the prayers of the faithful and the presence of the Holy
Spirit. But He doesn’t come without being asked. Neither does a revival come
without the cry of the church.
We are being given a
chance to change the world. This change comes through the power of our prayers.
Prayer is the release of our faith in God. By this faith we will see
kingdoms subdued, righteousness prevail, promises obtained, the mouths of lions
stopped, fires put out, escape from the sword, strength growing more powerful
in battle, armies routed, seeing the dead raised, Heb. 11:33-35 (my paraphrase).
Now of
course we should turn these into the present day realities we face and
understand our power in prayer to see the spiritual powers in the heavenlies
routed the mouths of those who threaten the church shut, freedom from peril and
sword, disease, famine, pestilence while we gain ever increasing power. In the
end, the church will manifest more of Christ, multitudes will enter new life in
Jesus, and society will benefit from the manifesting righteousness and peace.
Calm always comes after the storm.
Greg
|