What We Believe (Tenets of our church)

Our beliefs (Tenets) are solely based on biblical standards, teaching our members to live pure and holy lives at all times eschewing sin to allow the Holy Spirit to reign in the Church, thus bringing liberty and deliverance to all who flee into it.  Prayer and teachings of sound doctrine are the vital aspects of our service, accompanied with praises and worship.

OUR PRINCIPLES
Based upon God’s covenant with the church, the church does not solicit financial assistance from any external source.  Through the members’ faithful Tithing and offering, God is able to meet our financial needs in season to prove His divine presence, blessing and glory with the church.  Thus, the church operates on total dependence on God.

As a loving father, the church rebukes, disciplines, and restores its erring members in the spirit of love, compassion and patience, to prepare its members as brides without blemish for God on the last day.

WHY WE STAND TO SING
1.  “And the Levites … of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the Lord
God of Israel with a loud voice on high (2 Chronicles 20:19).
2. After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the” (Revelation 7:9-10).

WHY WE CLAP OUR HANDS IN PRAISES
“Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph!” (Psalm 47:1)

WHY WE LIFT OUR HANDS IN WORSHIP
1.  “Thus I will bless you while I live; I will lift up my hands in your name” (Psalm 63:4)
2.  “Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord” (Psalm 134:2)
3.  I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting” (1Timothy 2:8).

WHY WE HAVE AUDIBLE PRAISE UNTO GOD
1.  “Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me bless His holy name” (Psalm 103:1)
2.  “And after these things, I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying, ‘Alleluia!  Salvation and glory and honor, and power unto the Lord our God … And I heard as it was the voice of a great multitude, as the voice of many waters; and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying Alleluia; for the Lord God omnipotent reigns” (Revelation 19:1, 6)

WHY WE SING AND PRAY IN TONGUES AND IN ENGLISH
“For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.  What is it then?  I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also” (1 Corinthians 14:14-15).

WHY WE HAVE THIS TYPE OF WORSHIP
1.  “But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father seeks such to worship Him.  God is Spirit; and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24).
2.  “For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh” (Philippians 3:3).

WHY WE SING CHORUSES AS WELL AS HYMNS
1.  “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the spirit, speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:18-19)
2.  “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (Colossians 3:16).

PROPHECY
“ … the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?” (Amos 3:8). “But he that prophesies speaks unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort” (1 Corinthians 14:3).

WHY DO WE PROPHESY?
1.  “Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that he may prophesy” (1 Corinthians 14:1).
2.  “But the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal … To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy” (1 Corinthians 12:7, 10). 3.  “But he who prophesies speaks to men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort” (1 Corinthians 14:3).

WHY WE SPEAK IN GONGUES AND INTERPRETATION OF THOSE TONGUES
1.  “Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues” (1 Corinthians 14:39).
2.  “But the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal … To another diverse kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues” (1 Corinthians 12:7, 10).
3.  “I would that you all speak in tongues, but rather that you prophesy; for greater is he who prophesies than he who speaks in tongues, except he interprets, that the church may receive edifying” (1 Corinthians 14:5)
4.  “If any man speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and that by course, and let one interpret” (1 Corinthians 14:27).

WHY MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ARE PART OF THE WORSHIP SERVICE
1.  “Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; praise Him with the psaltery and harp. Praise Him with the tambourine and dance.  Praise Him with the stringed instruments and organs.  Praise Him upon the loud cymbals:  Praise Him upon the high sounding cymbals” (Psalms 150:3-5).
2.  “And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: (Revelation 14:2)

WHY THE CONGRETGATION PRAYS AT ONCE FOR SPECIFIC NEEDS
“And when they heard that they lifted up their voices with one accord, and said, Lord, Thou art God, which has made heaven and earth … “ (Acts 4:24).