Deeper is coming!

What is Deeper Conference?

Deeper provides an opportunity to bring together Penn State students and Apostolic Hyphen adults from across the region in one spiritual environment.

“Experience Pentecost” is our theme for Deeper 2016.  We will explore the history of the Pentecostal movement and the development of the Pentecostal experience.  Answer the question of relevancy in today’s society and be challenged to Experience Pentecost.

If you would like to learn more please visit the Deeper website at http://www.deeperpsu.com.

January Post

Deeper is literally right around the corner.  Very soon we will be talking about how we experienced a mighty move of the Holy Ghost and witnessed many lives, students and non-students alike, transformed by the power and anointing of the Holy Ghost.   This kind of experience doesn’t just happen without preparation on our part.

Chuck Yeager didn’t break the sound barrier alone. He had the Bell X-1 research rocket plane that propelled him to reach mach 1.07 breaking the sound barrier for the very first time.  We as a church have the greatest opportunity to be the force behind Deeper that will propel this conference to new heights which the UPCI has never seen before.

I want to encourage each and every member of the church to set aside the month of January for some focused prayer and fasting for Deeper.  Be the force that will tear down strongholds and even break the backbone of the spiritual principalities, powers, and rulers of the darkness and spiritual wickedness of State College.

A few things to pray for:

Pray the “Spirit of Prayer” would be prevalent in the church

Pray for our speakers – Matthew Johnson & Tim Greene

Pray that our alter services would be effective

Pray we see a great harvest of Penn State Students

Pray for miracles, signs & wonders to be released

Pray that the weather will be nice (no snowstorms)

It is really important that during this time of prayer & fasting we pray in the Holy Ghost.  Ask the Lord to give you prayers in the Spirit that will destroy the yokes of bondage of our city and on the campus.  Deny yourself some things you would normally do or eat. Pick up your weapons of prayer and fasting & be the fuel that will take Deeper & this church to greater levels.  We are standing on the brink of the greatest move of the Holy Ghost since the day of Pentecost.  This revival could go beyond even what was experienced during the Azusa Street revivals.  It’s awesome to think you are a part of it!

All of us working together…… Makes a great Church!

-Scott Patterson

A NEW Year

New Year. New in what sense? When we think of something new it seems to bring with it the connotation of bright, shiny, fresh, and fulfilling. The “New Car” smell. The anticipation of getting something that we either have never had or a new one to replace the old one.

What will make this a New Year? Is it going to quickly turn into just a replay of the past years? Am I looking forward to the coming year with anticipation or dread? Do I hope for something new but deep inside my heart I really believe it will be more of the same. Is there any hope for New?
In the Book of Psalms new is mentioned 7 times. Six out of those seven times the Psalmist speaks of a “New Song.” A song, the message of the heart. A New Song, the heart singing a new melody.
Through Isaiah The Lord declares that New is possible! “Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.” (Isa 42:9)
And again He asserts: “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” (Isa 43:19)

The Lord speaking through the Prophet Ezekiel stated that there would be a new covenant where men would be given a new heart and a new Spirit. He also declared plainly that it would be the Spirit of God.

The Book of Acts gives us first-hand accounts of men becoming “New Creatures.” Fishermen become great preachers. Tax collectors become Apostles. Men made new with an overwhelming, transforming, experience from God. The record is clear. They all received the Holy Ghost (Spirit) and New Lives began.

2 Cor 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! Let us set 2015 as the “Year of the Spirit!” Let us seek God continually for the baptism of the Spirit of God! We want the “New” Lord! Grant us Jesus to once again taste of your Great Spirit as the Apostles of old.

We will have a New Year!

Pastor