October 2026
Section 1 Youth & Children’s Ministry Update
October 2nd – Combined Youth & Children’s Holy Ghost Rally Update
What a tremendous night at our Combined Youth & Children’s Holy Ghost Section 1 Rally!
About 170 youth gathered for the youth service, where Bro. Luke Kyle from West Palm Beach, FL. ministered in the Holy Ghost and challenged section 1 youth with a powerful message on perseverance.
Our children’s service had around 60 attendees, where Sis. Cypress King and the FAC team ministered to our children and taught them how to receive the Holy Ghost. The theme of the Kid’s Rally was “GLOW FOR JESUS!”
We are so thankful for every parent, attendee, volunteer, and everyone who helped make this incredible night possible. What a joy to see the next generation learning, worshipping, and choosing live for Jesus.
Walking Alone, Never Abandoned
There is a kind of loneliness that has nothing to do with failure, rejection, or poor choices. Some loneliness is a result of true faithfulness.
Jesus took twelve to the garden gate, three further in, and then went on alone to sweat drops as it were great drops of blood falling to the ground. That is the pattern of consecration itself: it does not add followers, it subtracts spectators.
Holiness has a way of separating truth from convenience, conviction from applause, obedience from ease. This is not divine cruelty. It is divine architecture and divine order.
The Solitude That Sanctifies
David gave us the theological key to this truth when he wrote,
“But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him” (Psalm 4:3).
To be set apart is not to be discarded; it is to be claimed. Scripture is filled with people whose obedience cost them the company of the crowd, precisely because they would not trade integrity for approval.
Joseph’s purity separated him from his own brothers long before Egypt entered the story. When Potiphar’s wife pressed him to sin, he did not weigh the social cost of refusal—he simply answered,
“How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” (Genesis 39:9).
That refusal cost him his position and his freedom, yet even in the pit and in the prison,
“the LORD was with Joseph” (Genesis 39:2).
The isolation was real, but so was the Companion who walked with him.
Job’s integrity set him at odds with the comfortable theology of his own friends, who insisted that his suffering must be proof of hidden sin. Job refused to manufacture a confession he did not owe. And Scripture ultimately vindicates him over his comforters:
“for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath” (Job 42:7).
It was not Job who had spoken wrongly—it was the crowd of easy answers around him. His loneliness was not evidence against his righteousness; it was proof of it.
Micaiah stood before King Ahab and contradicted four hundred prophets who were unanimously telling the king exactly what he wanted to hear. Micaiah did not enjoy standing alone, but he could not be bought by the comfort of consensus:
“As the LORD liveth, what the LORD saith unto me, that will I speak” (1 Kings 22:14).
There were four hundred flattering voices against one faithful voice—and his voice was the only one who spoke the truth.
Jesus Himself told us to expect this.
“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13–14).
The narrow way is not narrow because God is stingy. It is narrow because truth cannot bend to accommodate every crowd, and some doors must remain closed if you’re going to find the way to victory.
Do Not Misinterpret the Pain of Being Set Apart
When your convictions cost you company, do not quit pursuing God’s purpose. It is true that loneliness can distort perception as easily as it can refine it. Elijah once believed he was the only faithful man left in Israel, hunted and utterly alone—yet the Lord corrected him:
“Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal” (1 Kings 19:18).
You must remember that not every season of trial is proof of superior spirituality. We have all faced moments of obedience that place us in the minority, when the faithful path is not the popular one. To the world obedience is bondage. But heaven calls it holy.
The Time of the Angels
Here is a word of encouragement if you feel that you are alone.
Remember we are not alone; we are surrounded by servants of flame, for the same God who calls us apart is the Lord of hosts, Commander of angel armies.
“The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them” (Psalm 34:7).
“For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways” (Psalm 91:11).
The writer of Hebrews asks plainly,
“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” (Hebrews 1:14)—
and warns us not to be
“forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares” (Hebrews 13:2).
From Job’s account of creation’s dawn,
“when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy” (Job 38:7),
to Daniel’s vision, when the angel Gabriel came “to give thee skill and understanding” (Daniel 9:22), to Revelation’s trumpets, vials, and winds; He is the Lord who dispatches heavenly help throughout every age.
One angel shut the mouths of lions so that Daniel could testify, “My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me” (Daniel 6:22).
One angel struck the camp of Assyria in a single night: “the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand” (2 Kings 19:35).
One angel rolled away the stone at the tomb and sat upon it “like lightning, and his raiment white as snow” (Matthew 28:3)—not fleeing the scene of resurrection but presiding over it in victory.
One angel troubled the waters of Bethesda, so that “whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had” (John 5:4).
One angel stood by Paul in a storm at sea and said, “Fear not, Paul” (Acts 27:24).
I believe, here and now, that God still dispatches help. When Elisha’s servant saw the Syrian army surrounding the city and panicked, Elisha prayed that the young man’s eyes would be opened.
“And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha” (2 Kings 6:17).
The chariots were not summoned that morning—they had been there all along. Only the servant’s sight had changed.
“They that be with us are more than they that be with them” (2 Kings 6:16).
I have heard the testimonies too—
the hospital room where a believer felt a holy presence in the night; the persecuted saint guided to safety by a stranger who then vanished;
the mother whose mind was restored; the wreck that should have ended in death, but instead a miracle saves you from the wreckage.
I will not argue with the doubters about angels. I will simply agree with Scripture: He sends help. He still does wonders. Could it be that even now, as you battle for your family, your church, your city, God is sending them? Could the resistance you feel be proof of reinforcements you cannot yet see? Lift your eyes until the hills from whence cometh your help.
Guarding the Flame
Faith is “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1), and it must be guarded as deliberately as life itself, because it is life. Jude urged believers to keep
“building up yourselves on your most holy faith” (Jude 1:20).
Paul told Timothy to guard “that good thing which was committed unto thee” (2 Timothy 1:14). And Solomon warned, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Proverbs 4:23).
Cynicism is among faith’s most powerful enemies, precisely because it wears the mask of wisdom. Scripture answers cynicism not with argument but with remembrance: “they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony” (Revelation 12:11).
Surround your faith with testimonies. Anchor it in promise.
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away” (Matthew 24:35). “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God” (Hebrews 11:3), for “by the word of the LORD were the heavens made” (Psalm 33:6)—and the same Word that framed the cosmos is able to hold your future together.
Even Paul, seemingly abandoned in a Roman prison, having watched “no man” stand with him at his defense (2 Timothy 4:16), could still testify,
“I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day” (2 Timothy 1:12).
Let headlines report; let Heaven define. Culture can challenge, but covenant conquers.
The King on the Ferry
Near the end of David’s exile, after Absalom’s rebellion had collapsed, an aged and faithful man named Barzillai the Gileadite, who had already sustained David with provisions during his flight into the wilderness (2 Samuel 17:27–29), came down to escort the king home. Scripture tells us
“And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good” (2 Samuel 19:18).
A little further in the same chapter we read,
“And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan” (2 Samuel 19:31).
Watch the scene as it unfolds. A vessel arrives from the other side. The king is aboard. A household is carried across water none of them could have crossed alone. A crowd is already gathered, waiting on the far bank. There will be crossings you must make that no friend, however faithful, can make for you: the narrow bridge of repentance, the deep water of grief.
The lonely obedience that no one around you fully understands. You may feel you are stepping onto that ferry by yourself but look again: the King is on board. He does not merely point toward the other shore; He has already made the way across, just as He divided the Red Sea for Israel’s multitude, held back the Jordan for Joshua’s priests, and sat in the boat with His disciples through the storm on Galilee. He has promised,
“lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world” (Matthew 28:20).
And when your feet finally touch the far bank, you will discover what Barzillai’s household discovered—you were never actually alone, and joy will meet you on the other side.
The narrow road of consecration will cost you company, but it will never cost you companionship. What the world calls isolation, Heaven calls sanctification. What feels like abandonment is, more often, angelic encampment invisible to natural eyes. Your obedience is the ferryboat that brings you across the waters of affliction but remember it is also means to bring back the king.
“The LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself” (Psalm 4:3)
—and what He sets apart, He never leaves unattended. Lift your eyes. The hills are crowded, the ferry is waiting, and the King is already aboard.
May the King Return.
Yours for the Kingdom,
Pastor Kinsey
