Here at Chapel Valley, we choose to come to Him. Continually. All the time. Today, there are many places and options where we can take our time, our money, our cares, and our priorities. No matter what the world says to do, believe, or think – we take the position that He is our Lord. As a result, we acknowledge Him first in all our ways.
The treasures available to every believer are true and endless. It is the laying hold of the unfolding bounty of God’s riches towards His people that brings liberty, fulfillment, and refined focus to living a life with eternal meaning and promise.
Moving from isolation, individualism, and mere existence into active fellowship with God and His people, and sharing our discoveries with others.
It is a church that only God can build, where He gets to do what He wants to do, and where He receives all the glory for its fruitfulness. It is a church where people are constantly being saved, delivered into wholeness, filled with the Holy Spirit, and passionate about reaching others for Christ. It is a church that functions in such size and scope that it cannot be explained any other way than “a powerful move of God.”
It is a church that overcomes and lives above ethnic, gender, cultural, economic, and generational boundaries and limitations. Where the love of God and the spirit of unity fosters an environment where all can experience meaningful relationships. It is a church full of people who live full of the Holy Spirit and move in His power in their everyday lives with humility, love, and submission. Where everyone is a minister of the gospel, growing as disciples, and bringing their portion with a servant heart. It is a church where children and youth are viewed as fully enfranchised ministers who move boldly and confidently as giant slayers for God.
It is a church in constant motion where God leads the various activities like a symphony. Where the very atmosphere is charged with the tangible presence of God. It is a church where heaven and earth meet. Where members arrive long before starting time and stay long after conclusion to offer themselves in worship to God. Where God’s tangible presence brings order, peace, and breakthrough. It is a church where the uncompromised Word of God is taught. Where understanding of truth floods the people, bringing wisdom, understanding, answering challenges, and releasing innovative ideas.
It is a church that takes the message of Jesus Christ into its surrounding communities and around the world through media broadcasts, training, outreaches, missionary sponsorship, and quality resources. It is a church where the hungry are fed – with the Word of God, with God encounters, and with food that is regularly and supernaturally multiplied to meet the needed demand. It is a church that receives people from all around the world to experience God’s glory, to be trained by God’s anointing, and be sent forth by divine commission. It is a church that has supernatural influence with governments /and leaders. It is a church that inspires other ministries and believers to take God at His Word and allow God to be God.
It is a church full of spiritually mature people who give honor, desire excellence, value trust, ignore criticism and arguments, and are wise to Satan’s tactics of breeding disunity to stop God’s blessing. It is a church that has no lack because it is a giving church full of good and faithful stewards who God can trust to share His abundant resources with others. It is a church filled with people of prayer – fervent believing prayer – prayer that gets results that money cannot buy.
It is a church made up of people who have such a desire for a move of God that they are willing to do any job, pay any price, and even forfeit personal ambitions to help God accomplish His plan on the earth. It is a church that cannot be stopped because God is the driving force. It is so beyond human ability, ingenuity, or planning that God gets all of the glory.
This is the church God sees. He has set it in my heart and I will follow God and obey His voice until everyone can see the Chapel Valley Church I see.