by Manny Rivera | Aug 31, 2011 | Church, Leadership
It is in your genetic makeup to win battles. You won your biggest battle before you were conceived. While you were yet still the seed of your biological father, you were the fastest and the strongest. As a sperm, you had the ability to fertilize the egg. You are...
by Manny Rivera | Aug 29, 2011 | Church, Doctrine
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...
by Manny Rivera | Aug 25, 2011 | Church, Motivation
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...
by Manny Rivera | Aug 23, 2011 | Church, Motivation
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...
by Manny Rivera | Aug 22, 2011 | Church, Motivation
“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...
by Manny Rivera | Aug 18, 2011 | Church, Leadership, Motivation
“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...