PENECOST SUNDAY (2025) THE GREATEST GIFT
PENTECOST SUNDAY
THE GREATEST GIFT
Sunday, May 8, 2025
1 Co. 13:13b: The greatest of these is love.
Gal. 5:6b: Faith which works by love.
“Carolyn, I gave my people the Gift of Love through My Spirit in Christ Jesus that destroys the lust of the flesh and all sins of the flesh, that my people will be healed of disease and infirmity.”
Matthew 14:14: Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
The church/Ecclesia is being called and commissioned to a higher realm of healing through love which is the compassion of Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit.
1 Co. 13:1-3: Though I speak with the tongues of man and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteri8es and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Mic. 7:19: He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities, and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
On March 10, 2024, I wrote the following: “We the church/ecclesia have been operating in healing through the gifts of healing, but we have now entered a new era of supernatural power. My faith statement is the Apostolic authority given by Jesus to heal the sick and cast out demons is in the overcoming Kingdom/ church to usher in the Harvest. For those of us who have labored in the fields, we know the sins and sickness of mankind are too enormous for mere pastors and preachers to affect. We must have a greater outpouring of supernatural divine power and authority from Christ’s throne of grace and mercy.
As you know, many are called to be apostles and some move in that authority in measure. It is my faith statement that there is another level of healing and deliverance authority within the preaching of the Kingdom of God. I have waited before the Lord to see the manifestation of this power in the Church. That is wrong. He is waiting on us to move by faith and decree the power and authority He has already given us. However, this new level of the supernatural operates from the realm of faith which decrees the Word of God.”
I have a correction to make to that statement.
According to the message in my vision on May 15, 2025, It will be the realm of “faith which works by love.”
I have been pondering all the LORD showed me about healing his people through His Gift of Love. For those of you who know me well, you know I have the Gift of Faith. I will believe the LORD for anything. I believe every Word of Scripture to be infallible.
I have taught often on the gifts of healings: Laying on of hands (Mk. 7:32), the spoken Word (Ps. 107:20), elders anoint with oil (Ja. 5:14), prayer of Faith (Ja. 5:15), the Lord’s Supper (1 Co. 11: 23-30), point of contact (Mk. 5:56), handkerchiefs, aprons (Acts 19: 11-12), casting out devils (Lk.8:26-39), anointed healers (1Co. 12:9). JESUS through the Holy Spirit gifts of healings moves through all the above.
By teaching, preaching and faith, our church has operated in all the above over the many years we have gathered unto Jesus. BUT in the last several decades, we have only seen a sprinkling of “special miracles”, (Acts 19:11), “Notable miracles” (Acts 4:16), “signs and wonders” (Acts 4:30). Not to minimize the wonderful power of God transforming our lives through prophetic direction, insight, emotional healings, and miracles; BUT, as I said before, I am looking with expectation for miracles and healings for God’s people. I am expecting the Great Harvest to be activated any day with deliverance and healing. I am expecting the lame to walk, children to be delivered from autism and missing chromosomes, diabetes, heart trouble, cancer, obesity, Alzheimer’s, etc. I believe for a congregation that lives in divine health until they are taken to be with the LORD.
Does that mean I have not been praying for people with love? No, surely not, because I have a genuine love for all the saints as well as the lost. Then there must be a greater visitation of Christ’s divine love (1 Co. 8:2-3 AMP). Even His divine compassion, which is Holy Spirit directed knowing no limits. Agape is the highest form of love, “charity” and “the love of God for man and of man for God.” Divine love is an action love.
When Brother Keith Miller was here last week, he asked me to pray along side him in the prayer line. The Holy Spirit moved on me to lay hands on everyone for “activation.” “Activate, activate, activate.” What was the Holy Spirit activating? Certainly, the message Brother Keith preached which was with might and power; but also, activation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit in each of us. “Stir up the gift of God, which is in you by the putting on of my hands.” (2 Ti. 1:6).
Sunday, May 25, 2025, I quoted the following from Tim Sheets:
“It’s time for a New Healing Movement.” It will be a Kingdom revival. Most revivals have been local, that is people had to go to the place where revival was happening. This revival will be worldwide in the New Testament churches under Kingdom Government. The Revival will be with notable miracles. There will be a release of the Elisha and Elijah anointing. It will be a release of God’s love saying, “how much I want you to be healed and be well.” (May 22, 2025, Tim Sheets on Elijah Streams.)
Note: I made notice of this May 25th, “it will be the New Testament churches under Kingdom Government of the Kingdom of God who will receive and release this healing power.”
Luke 10:9 Heal the sick that are therein, and say to them, “the Kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.”
Luke 9: 1-2: He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.
Luke 9:11: The people when they knew it, followed him, and he received them, and spoke unto them of the Kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.
Luke 11:20: If I cast our demons with the finger of God, surely the Kingdom of God has come upon you.
Luke 10:8-9: Whatever city you enter …heal the sick there, and say to them, the kingdom of God has come near to you.
Mt. 12:28: If I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Mt. 20:34: Jesus had compassion upon them and touched their eyes and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
The Gifts of Healing are power gifts activated by the love of Christ. Like all the other gifts are powerless without love and the fruit of the Spirit. These gifts are not given for show, but for service.
Eph. 3:19: to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Ro. 5:5: Hope does not disappoint, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost who is given unto us.
What is Love?
1 Co. 13: 4-8: Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy, love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails… (vs 13) Now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
PRAYER FOR HEALING.
Carolyn Sissom, Pastor
Eastgate Ministries Church, 10115 West Hidden Lakes Ln., Richmond, TX. www.eastgateministries.com. Scripture from K.J.V. and N.K.J.V.