Skyway Church of the West Valley

Fight for your family

gbrown — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:01:02 +0000

Exodus 10:10 (NASB)
¹⁰Then he said to them, “Thus may the Lord be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Take heed, for evil is in your mind.

Dear Church family and friends. Our 2010 devotion of the 10 reveals an interesting strategy of the enemy. God had commanded Moses and Aaron to bring all the Hebrews out of Egypt to worship him. This included every member of their families. The strategy of the enemy was to allow the men to go but they must leave their families behind. Does this sound familiar to you? Pharaoh was willing to let the men go off to worship but he knew he could not let the entire family go together. He created an option for Moses that God did not tell Moses to accept. Moses saw beyond this tactic and walked away from Pharaoh rather than giving in to his plan. This is a season to prioritize your entire family serving the Lord and going to church together. Refuse to settle for less. God has promised for you and your entire household to be saved. The enemy threw a great fight, but God overcame every obstacle and in the end, the entire family unit of every Hebrew left Egypt and worshipped God. Make your family’s redemption your goal and God will back it up.

Pastor Greg

Outlast the Enemie’s Plan

gbrown — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:16:39 +0000

Exodus 1:10 (NASB) 10 “Come, let us deal wisely with them, or else they will multiply and in the event of war, they will also join themselves to those who hate us, and fight against us and depart from the land.” Dear Church Family and Friends, Our 2010 devotion of the 10 brings us to the book of Exodus. Here we find that Pharaoh was afraid of the growing numbers of the Hebrews. He wanted to kill them before they became a greater threat to him. We have a spiritual enemy that is afraid of what we are about to become as well The enemy is trying to stop you before you enter into your destiny. Pharaoh saw a sleeping giant that was growing more numerous than his forces. He rallied his troops to create great pain and hardship for all the Hebrew people. This included a decree to murder the babies born at the time Moses was born. The plan we are facing from the enemy like this in our lives today. He would rather stop you from starting than face you once you are successfully moving in the will of God. Moses was sparred by his family and even raised by the daughter of Pharaoh. God uses others to help us through these tough times and he can even place us in the enemy’s camp to get us in the right place tobe a modern day deliverer. Outlast the strategy of the enemy because he knows his days are numbered! – Pastor Greg

A Word From Pastor….

gbrown — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:12:05 +0000

Put away treacherous actions and embrace God’s way of living. Genesis 20:9-11 (NLT) 9 Then Abimelech called for Abraham. “What have you done to us?” he demanded. “What crime have I committed that deserves treatment like this, making me and my kingdom guilty of this great sin? No one should ever do what you have done! 10 Whatever possessed you to do such a thing?” 11 Abraham replied, “I thought, ‘This is a godless place. They will want my wife and will kill me to get her. Dear Church family and friends, today our 2010 devotional of the 10 reminds us that God wants us to trust him with every area of our lives. Sometimes we think we need to take care of the “difficult things” for God, and when we do, we fail to follow his ways. Abraham obeyed the Lord and began on his journey with Sarah his wife. Along the way he encountered fear that king Abimelech would have him killed if he knew they were married. Abraham chose to lie to try and protect his life. God called him out by visiting Abimelech in a dream.How often do we feel we must “help God out” as we try to live by faith in our life journey? God wants us to trust him with all the details and exercise our faith to allow God to see us through the tough parts of the journey. The great news about this story was that God’s mercy was there to keep Abraham on the right path even when his flesh was temporarily in the way. Let’s trust God with everything going on in our lives. If you have been helping God out, it is time to give everything over to him. – Pastor Greg

Build Godly Foundations and Boundaries

gbrown — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:01:46 +0000

Dear Church Family and Friends,
Today we are starting our new 2010 devotion from verses of scripture that come from ten. Enjoy… Genesis 1:10 (NASB) 10 God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. The tenth verse of scripture recorded in the Bible speaks about God’s boundaries between the earth and the sea. God created a separation between the land of the earth and the waters of the sea and he called it good. The world that does not respect God’s ways wants to create lifestyles without boundaries. When we live this way we find our life filled with trouble and we bring trouble to others around us. This is the season to rebuild godly boundaries for your life. This is a time to build or rebuild the basic foundations of godly living from the scriptures. We might be called judgmental or intolerant by others who do not want godly boundaries in their lives or for us to have them in our own lives. Stand up for what the Bible teaches you to follow. Focus on your foundations and ask God to reveal to you the proper boundaries to walk in each and every day.

Bible Study of the 10’s

Philip — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:48:54 +0000

Dear friends and family:
As I was praying about the new decade I had an inner sense to study specific verses of the bible connected to the number ten. When I did this I realized that I still must read everything in context historically and accurately. I did not read these verses to “try” to make every verse fit into something for the year of 2010. I simply obeyed the leading of the Holy Spirit and read these specific verses and allowed Him to speak to me about how these topics applied to what God is doing in the Church and in the earth as we enter into this second decade. I started reading the following chapters and verses of each book of the Bible, 1:10, 2:10, and 20:10. As I read each verse I listened to hear if there was anything specific for us in this hour from these verses. The following devotional blogs are written out of what I learned while reading these verses in this way. Some of the devotions have more than one verse because it was important to understand verse ten in context of the other verses around it. I encourage you to read these scriptures with the leading of the Holy Spirit to speak personally to you about what he is doing in your life and how you can be properly connected to the Church to work with others to advance God’s kingdom in the new decade. Stayed tuned….. -Pastor Greg

State of the Church Address

gbrown — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:53:45 +0000

Dear friends and family:
Today is our annual State of the Church address. Over the many years of leading Skyway Church I found that when told people our annual business meeting was going to take place many chose to stay away. I then learned how to take this time as an opportunity to share my vision for our future and it changed into one of the best Sunday’s of the year. As we look back at 2009 our congregational finances were affected as our families were affected. We stayed in faith and moved forward beyond our struggles. As we look forward into 2010, I am committing to provide training and prayer to help people prepare for a new and different economy. We are opening new Skyway House Churches throughout Arizona as well as expanding our WLI training to other cities in Arizona and other states in the USA. Today we will recognize our new chaplains who have spent the last two years in training for us to license them into ministry. I look at the current world struggles as a pruning time. When you prune, you prepare to have greater fruitfulness in your life. Even though our finances were cut back we have not stopped preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. We have expanded to reach over 26 nations, the most ever! We have not stopped preparing for the foundation for a great future; we are making it deeper and larger than ever before. All of this is preparing us for great multiplication in the next decade. God promises us a great and glorious future through Jesus Christ. I ask every member to support this vision with prayer, participation and finances as we move into our new decade together. – Pastor Greg

Another Year Older

gbrown — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:23:53 +0000

Today is my forty-ninth birthday. This is the only year I can honestly say that I am 49, and still people will smile and think I am not telling the truth when they ask me my age. Looking back I can’t remember how many birthdays or anniversaries I have celebrated by first throughout Arizona as well as expanding our WLI training to other cities in Arizona and other states in the USA. Today we will recognize our new chaplains who have spent the last two years in training for us to license them into ministry. I look at the current world struggles as a pruning time. When you prune, you prepare to have greater fruitfulness in your life. Even though our finances were cut back we have not stopped preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. We have expanded to reach over 26 nations, the most ever! We have not stopped preparing for the foundation for a great future; we are making it deeper and larger than ever before. All of this is preparing us for great multiplication in the next decade. God promises us a great and glorious future through Jesus Christ. I ask every member to support this vision with prayer, participation and finances as we move into our new decade together. – Pastor Greg

God’s Financial Plan

gbrown — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:04:16 +0000

Dear friends and family:
Today is the day that I am going to share with all of you from my heart about God’s financial plan for us in the new decade. At the same time in response to a request by more than 40 pastors and ministry leaders throughout Arizona, Governor Jan Brewer has issued an historic proclamation for a Day of Prayer forArizona’s economy and state budget on January 17th, 2010. Gov. Brewer has joined Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln by urging Governors, and Congress to seek God’s guidance during times of difficulty. The proclamation states: “Throughout this day of prayer, we ask for God’s favor, blessing, wisdom, and guidance to rest upon our state government, businesses, and our citizens … that God would aid and empower the citizens and businesses in our state ….” Financial health is vital to health in all other areas of life. God does not want the weights of debt to create the many problems we are currently facing. God’s plan involves us putting him first and then being able to live on the rest. As we put God’s plan for finances into action we will see true change take place in our lives. Let’s prayand obey as we see economic change start with us. – Pastor Greg

Home Church Movement

gbrown — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:37:49 +0000

Dear Church family:

In June of 2007 the Lord gave me a vision of the map of Arizona and told me I was to prepare our state for what is about to happen in the next move of God. I did not know how it would transpire but since the fall of 2009 we launched the Skyway Home Church with Tim Pederson leading this for us. Here is the latest email I have just received from Tim…

Pastor Greg,

Happy New Year and what a great year to come. We had 20 people in our living room last night for Home Church. Gordon and Romona Hofer ministered and it was awsome. The power of God was intense and we built more relationships with more people excited with what God is doing in Home Churches. I talked to a couple who has a small Home Church in Chino Valley, AZ and they would love to come under the Sky Way covering, we will be meeting in a few weeks. I believe that by the end of April, we will have five Home Churches in operation under the Sky Way DNA!!!. Can’t wait to get to Camp Verde and Cottonwood, AZ and get those towns going as well.

My focus and vision is to plant Generals in every region of Northern AZ.

These Generals will then help Pastor and plant multiple Sky Way Home Churches in their towns. God keeps sending more and more people who are hungry for His presents and just are not finding it in the small communities of Arizona.

Thank you again for this opportunity, God is truly blessing it.

Tim Petersen

Let’s remember to keep Tim and these new church plants in our prayers this year!

Pastor Greg

Start the Year Off Right

gbrown — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:53:18 +0000

Dear friends and family:
As we enter into the New Year of 2010 we are starting the second decade of the 21st century. Can you imagine how fast time is passing! Things are transpiring quicker than we would have thought possible even ten years ago. We cannot be victims of our circumstances and filled with hopelessness any longer. I heard the Spirit of the Lord say, “It is time to rebuild.” God is going to strengthen those who have been torn down, He is going to re-enforce those that are leaning because of the storms and He is going to build some of us in completely new and different ways. Today I encourage you to mix your faith with God’s promises as we start the year off right!