Each month Pastor Riley writes a letter to encourage you, challenge you, and strengthen your faith.
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Current Partner Letter
OCTOBER 2025 PARTNER LETTER
“No More Delayed Promises”
Dear Partners,
Beloved, we have entered into a very special time of the year in God’s calendar. There have been delays of the seeds we’ve sown, and I believe it is time for our harvest to manifest. Beloved to reap our harvest, you and I will have to do some work. Jesus Christ has redeemed us from the curse of poverty and brought us into the work of faith. The work of faith requires us to stand firm and declare God’s promises during delays. I want to encourage you to stand firm in your faith. Draw a line in the sand and tell poverty and sickness it’s your harvest time, no more lack and no more sickness.
From experience, I know when you stand on the promises of God, the enemy of our faith, will do anything he can to stop you from receiving those promises. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour: whom resist steadfast in the faith; (1 Peter 5:8-9a). Satan wants to destroy the fruit of your faith, but the Bible instructs us on how to disrupt his plan. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you (James 4:7).
I declare by faith, “Now is the time for the manifestation of that which you are believing for, so draw a line and stand in faith.” Beloved, our faith should rest in the power of God, and not in what we see or feel. (Jeremiah 1:12) tells us that God watches over His word to perform it. Beloved, I want to encourage you to draw a line in the sand and stand in faith. That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God (1 Corinthians 16:13 NIV).
When I was a kid, the older boys in our neighborhood would challenge some of us younger boys to see how tough we were. We would draw a line in the dirt and tell them, “If you cross over this line, you will get it.” When they crossed over the line, we would back up and draw another line. We would continue to back up and draw lines until we eventually ran from the older boys, because we knew we couldn't beat them, nor did we really want to fight.
Sometime believers respond the same way when the enemy begins to challenge their faith. When the manifestation doesn't come when they think it should, they back up from standing on God's promises and continue to draw lines in the dirt until they are no longer resisting the devil.
I want to encourage you to be like the widow in Luke 18:1-8; She persisted until she received justice from the judge. We have been given faith as a mighty weapon. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds (2 Corinthians10:4).
And may these words of mine, which I have prayed before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, that He may uphold the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel according to each day’s need (1 Kings 8:59 NIV). When you stand in faith, and you resist the desire to stop declaring God's word. Your declarations are near to God day and night, and He will perform His word that you are declaring over your life, so draw a line and stand in faith because you are covered by the Blood of Jesus.
If you're being attacked in your body, your finances, your family...
This is how you draw a line in the sand!
1. Declare more promises.
2. Worship more.
3. Read God's Word more.
4. Thank God more.
5. Love more.
6. Witness more.
7. Sow more.
We are believing for your success and prosperity,
Pastor Howard and Marcia Riley