Each month Pastor Riley writes a letter to encourage you, challenge you, and strengthen your faith.
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JULY 2026 Partner Letter
Contend (Fight ) For Your Promises
Dear Partners,
I want to ask you a question, are you, by faith are declaring Isaiah 45:3 over yourself “and I will give thee the treasures of darkness”?
When God spoke that in my spirit a few years ago! By faith I received it, and I begin to speak it according to 2 Corinthians 4:13; “We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written. I believed, and therefore have I spoken: we also believe, and therefore we speak”.
I want to encourage you to contend for the word that the Lord has spoken over your life. 2 Corinthians 10:4 tells us that God has given us weapons that are mighty. Faith has the ability to pull down things from the heavenly realm into the earthly realm.
By faith you can pull down from Heaven:
1. Financial breakthrough
2. Physical healing
3. Favor in any situation
4. Salvation of loved ones
5. Wisdom and revelation
6. Ministry growth
"Even when we were dead in sins, He quickened us together with Christ. That means God (made us alive by grace through faith in Christ) and raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" Ephesians 2:5-6.
As children of the Most High, our faith should be from a seated heavenly place. We should pray from a seated heavenly place. We should love from a seated heavenly place. We should receive from a seated heavenly place. Whatever we do it should be from a seated heavenly place.
Beloved, don’t allow the delays of your declaration to stop you from fighting the good fight of faith. Beloved of God let me remind you that your faith is always under attack.
A few reasons your faith is being attacked is found in 2 Peter 1; which says that your faith is:
1. Precious.
2. It multiplies.
3. It’s part of God’s nature.
4. It helps us escape corruption.
5. It gives us entrance into the Kingdom.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places" Ephesians 6:12.
Even though John 10:10 also tells us Satan’s plan, the heavenly places belong to you. That is where your blessings are. Jesus told the disciples in Matthew 6:10, that God’s will be done in Earth, as it is in Heaven. In Daniel 10:13, the angel tells Daniel that God heard his petition from the moment he prayed. But for 21 days he had to fight in the heavenly realm, until Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help him.
When God gives us a word understand that it comes from his mouth. "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing, whereto I sent it" Isaiah 55:11.
Beloved, God watches over His word to perform it. He has given us the spirit of faith to use as a mighty weapon. You are not alone in your fight, there are angels fighting on your behalf because of the words of faith that you speak. Remember your faith is a mighty weapon.
Marcia and I are believing for your success and prosperity!
Marcia and I are believing for your success and prosperity!
Bless You,
Pastor Howard Riley