Manny Rivera

Thy Kingdom or My Kingdom?

Jesus instructed us to pray to the Father by first declaring and petitioning, “Thy kingdom come…” (Luke 11:2-4) This is a term that has, unfortunately, become very religious in rhetoric.   We impiously blab it and “pray it” with much familiarity.  In many...

IMPACT INITIATIVE this SUNDAY!

IMPACT INITIATIVE is this Sunday, August 28th @10:00am at Impact Church! This will be a  “MUST BE THERE” in the physical body time of celebration.  You will leave with 2 things: You will leave with an impartation of God’s power and anointing to fulfill the plan of God...

The “Good” in Good-Byes

My mother in-law, Nancy Shackelford, quoted to me a saying she recently read, “I’m learning to recognize the “good” in good-bye.”    When she read that to me, I had an epiphany concerning certain things that were happening in my life. I’ve never been a “good-bye” kind...

I Love When a Plan Comes Together!

“I love it when a plan comes together!”  This was the famous line cited by the fictional Colonel John “Hannibal” Smith of the A-Team.   As a teenager, I loved the show because it’s characters, even though the plot was somewhat predictable.  There was a...

Transformers!

“But as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority to become the children of God, that is to believe in His name” (John 1:12) My boys are intrigued with movie making.  They all desire to either be in them or make them. We just finished filming a new...