Building a Powerful Life | Frank Castrejon | Oct 12th 2025

All right, Father, we just thank you for today. God,

we pray that your word be so good and enriching

to your people today. Thank you God for the equipping

of the saints today. Yes, Lord, we just bless this

word that you've given to us. Thank you Jesus, that you,

being the word, were made manifest to us in the flesh. God,

we thank you God that you ascended on high and

took captivity captive on our behalf. Thank you Lord for

your freedom today in Jesus' name. Amen. Mm hm, WHOA. Well, today,

somebody's gonna get stretched today. Tap your neighbors, say you're

gonna get stretched today. Some of you guys are going

to get really affirmed. Say I pray that you get

affirmed today to your neighbor. Okay. The goal today is

to be grounded on a good foundation from where you

can build a powerful life. That's the sermon title today,

building a powerful life, say restored living. Thank you God.

You know with the title today, I was pondering something

when I was praying about what to talk to you

guys about, and I was thinking about Pastor Dwayne's last

week's message, and I was thinking, you know the interesting

thing about building a powerful life. Is that that is

not the common Christian experience is a powerful life? Say

not in this house, Say I want to have a

powerful life, Say I have a powerful life. Hey man,

you guys got louder on that second one. Okay, hell me, okay, Amen, Amen, Amen,

you know what church you're in? Hallelujah? All right, good?

I like that? All right. Well. What I have seen, though,

is that the common Christian experience since I became a

Christian in twenty sixteen, is that it is not very

common for people to look like they're walking out a

powerful life. Those things need to change in Christianity. I

also observe that the Christian Church in the United States,

sin is actually often a byword. And yet this teaches

us all about it and how to overcome it. And

yet that doesn't seem to be the norm in the

American church. The conversation of deliverance isn't commonly found in

most churches. Do you know that? And yet Jesus the Christ,

the Lord, the King of the universe, the Prince of Peace,

the one by whom the world was formed. One third

of the ministry on earth was casting out of devils

and deliverance. Now Why do you believe that that would

be something that plagues the American Church or churches abroad

the world, in the whole world. Doctrines of demons, teachings

of ignorance. That has to change. That has to change. Amen.

On the one hand, sin is not talked about. On

the other hand, and deliverance is ignored. That's good. We're

living in a society that is plagued by sin and

is in heavy need of deliverance. Even in Christianity. Oftentimes

Christians who are disempowered are confused by whether we are

experiencing an attack of the enemy or we're reaping the

reward of sin. Wow, that's two right there. One, it's

either an attack of the enemy or to the reward

of sin. There's something worse, and I'll submit this to you.

It's a lack of understanding. Three. The third option is

a belief system that things just happen to me, that

God is in full sovereign control, even of the negative stuff.

It is a lie from the pit of hell. That's

worse than the first two. Come on, I want us

to begin with dealing with sin. Can you guys do

that with me? Amen? Because see Pastor Dennis said in

the first service, this is an apostolic house. Well, the

gifts of the gifts of Jesus that were given down

right from heaven when he ascended on high. He gave

gifts to men for what the building and the edifying

of the body of Jesus Christ. Say I'm going to

get edified today. Say I'm going to be encouraged today.

I'm the body of Jesus. So this word applies to

the body of Christ. Amen, man, we're going to equip

you today, Say I'm being equipped sin. Paul in Romans

chapter six said specifically, do not present your members meeting

your body members an instrument of unrighteousness, but rather give

them over to God. There is a lot of participation

on our own behalf when it comes to dealing with sin,

because it's up to you to give your members over

to God. You want to stop sin issues in your life,

give your members, your body over to God. Some of

your gears may be already grinding. Some of you, guys,

are probably experiencing these thoughts or thought patterns that say,

shut them out, shut them up, don't listen. What's happening

here is unbiblical. I'm going to give you by example.

Right now, I'm just going to do some things, okay,

because this is what this house is about. We're about

equipping you. But we're also not messing with spiritual things

that are messing with us. We're not going to play

no games with that. We're just gonna tell them to

kick rocks and move right. So I bind now the

spirit of blindness over anyone who is listening. Right now,

I bind the spirit of religion that keeps you repeating

anything over and over and over, a pattern of sin

and repentance, sin and repentance. I cut it off now.

In the name of Jesus. I command any spirit of

complacency to shut up and go and leave these people alone.

In the mighty name of Jesus, I command you to

leave now. Yes, Lord. As we were learning last week

from Pastor Dwayne, we were learning that through Adam's sin,

we all became sinners when we were born, to the

point that we would satisfy the desires of our flesh

in the flesh. But for this reason Christ died. It

says in the Word that through one man's sin, sin

entered humankind, and through the one man Christ, Jesus, who

died blameless and perfect all who believe would be made

alive through His death and resurrection. Amen, Let's read Romans

chapter eight, verses one through fourteen, and this is the

basis for the entire sermon. So I'm going to be

referring back to this, So you're going to want to

follow along with what I'm reading. Okay, there is therefore

now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus

meaning once you got saved, who do not walk according

to the flesh, meaning there is a difference in salvation

whether you will walk in the flesh or walk in

the spirit. Like you can choose to defer one or

the other. You can choose, says says, who do not

walk according to the flesh, but according to the spirit,

say I want to continually walk in the spirit. Verse two.

Let's keep going for the law of the Spirit of

life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the

law of sin and death. For what the law could

not do, in that it was weak through the flesh.

This thing God did by sending his own son in

the likeness of sinful flesh on account of sin. He

condemns in the flesh perfect man, right that the righteous

requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who

do not walk according to the flesh, but according to

the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh

set their minds on the things of the flesh, say mind,

But those who live according to the spirit the things

of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded, carnally minded

sir is death. But to be spiritually minded is life

and peace, hallelujah. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God.

That means it fights and wars against God. Your carnal mind,

if you let it, wars again God. Before you were saved,

and you live carnally minded, your mind continually warred against God,

for it is not subject to the law of God,

nor indeed can be so. Then those who are in

the flesh cannot please God. But you say, but me,

are not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If say,

if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now,

if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he

is not his. And if Christ is in you the body,

this thing is dead because of sin, but the spirit

is life because of righteousness. But this is my favorite.

Like top two verses, okay, top two But if the

spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells

in you, he who raised Christ from the dead, will

also say, also give life to your mortals body through

his spirit who dwells in you. Meaning what, meaning what

that all of the sudden I can present my members

alive through the Spirit of God and present them before

God to perform righteousness. All of the sudden we start

to learn that the Spirit of God, who dwells within me,

can give life life that is springing up animated to

my mortal body in the present time. That means I

can perform good right now, amen, next verse. Therefore, brethren,

we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according

to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh,

you will die. Remember I told you reaping, reaping the

reward of sin. Right. But if you, but if by

the spirit you put to death the deeds of the

body or the flesh, you will live. For as many

as are led by the Spirit of God, these are

the sons of God. Hallelujah, Come on, hallelujah, Thank you God.

The issues that prevent a powerful life are not a

salvation problem to the Christian. The issues that prevent a

powerful life in a Christian is a neglect problem. It's

a neglect problem. We neglect this. We neglect believing everything

that is in here is for me. Many stories have

walked through this door, many many different testimonies, including my own.

There's three things that are in common usually when they

come into new horizon. One we didn't know how disempowerab

we were with the limited understanding of the Gospel truths. Two,

we didn't know we were deceived by doctrines of demons

or deceived by wrong theology. Three, we weren't taught that

everything in this word applies to me. Do we practice

following Jesus or do we practice following an idea of Jesus.

I'm going to present to us truths from the Apostles

themselves that are in here, which was written by the

Holy Spirit for us, because they didn't write to non believers.

First Peter, chapter two, verse eleven, Beloved, I beg you,

as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshley lust, which war

against the soul. He's given us a blueprint. Peter just

told us abstain, say, abstain from fleshley lust. Which will

against the soul. He's telling you something outwardly is happening

on the exterior, in the flesh, being performed by the flesh,

and it's warring against your soul. So what we do

outwardly affects us within. We're dealing with sin. We can

What did he say of staying, come on yeah? Verse

John three, verse one through four. Look, you're getting a quip.

You're getting equipped first John three, verse one through four.

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on

us that we should be called children of God. Therefore

the world does not know us because it did not

know him loved. Now we are children of God, and

it has not yet been revealed what we shall be.

But we know that when he is revealed, we shall

be like him, for we shall see him as he is.

And everyone who has this hope in him, Say, purifies

himself just as he is pure. That is an action,

that is something that we have to do, that is

living out, walking out the word of truth. Say, I'm

walking it out. Whomever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and

sin is lawlessness. Verse three. Purifies himself, say, going to

purify myself, Jesus tewod Corinthians, Chapter seven, verse one. Now

we're going to Paul. We just did Peter, we did John.

They both walked closely with Jesus. Now let's see what

Paul says. Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse

ourselves hello, from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,

perfecting holiness in the fear of God. You think there's

a pattern in this, It's all over the New Testament.

This is the New Testament. This is the one that

everybody tries to trample on the grace of God with

the New Testament rush. But this is the New Testament.

There is work to be done for the believer because

this was written to the saints, and that's how they

That's how they started those letters to the saints. So

he's reminding them, what is how do we stay in

alignment with God? Every apostle has said it so far,

So what is the spirit telling the church? Even in

context of chapter seven, verse one, Paul is actually writing

to them about how they're being drawn away by They're

being drawn away by their affections for non believers. Wow,

I can talk to you about the world and the

way of the world. Till the cows come home. But

how about the way of the believer's good? He said.

He was talking to them, and he says, I know

that you guys are are being called to godly grief

because of my strong words. He says, But I'm all

the glad that at least my harsh word towards you

has led you to godly grief. So bad company corrupts

good habits, It's written, we get drawn away by our

own passions and affections. Those verses a sin issues in

our lives as believers. As believers say, this is the

restored life, we have a responsibility. We're now talking about

being perfect. I'm not here to cause you panic if

in case, you're genuinely saved. So if you're genuinely saved,

you can be all right, say top your neighbors say

you're gonna be all right if you're If your neighbor

starts to feel too hot, just just just say just

just don't pay attention. You listen to me. Okay, this

works for you, all right. I'm not you know, But

I'm also not here to soften the scripture. I let

scripture speak for hisself. God doesn't need my protection. I'm

not here to please man. This is not going to

get a lot of likes. It's not going to be popular. Right,

it might not go viral. But guess what you are

being equipped. You're being equipped, You're getting fed. Yes, we're

building powerful lives in this church. We're not building We're

not building a pansy life. Okay, we're building powerful lives.

God is inviting us that if you desire to build

a powerful life, there's a framework and one foundation. That's Christ, Jesus.

There's only one bar to look up to that is

already set, and that's him. It is Christ. We don't

lower the bar because of because of our inability to

follow what the scripture says. We don't lower the bar

and take away words from the living God and say

that's not for me because I don't like the way

it sounds. The bar has been set. It's Christ. He

came to this world, walked it out in the flesh.

He said, now you do it, Oh, power, power. I

want us to reframe our thoughts. That is commonly used

versus in the Bible. It's Second Corinthians five, verse six.

Let's start at sixteen. Therefore, from now on we regard

no one according to the flesh, even though we have

known Christ according to the flesh. In other words, when

we came to the Lord, we knew him. We only

understood that we need were in need of a savior. Okay,

Yet now we know him does no longer. Therefore, if

anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. All

things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us

to himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the

ministry of reconciliation. That is that God was in Christ

reconciling the world to himself, not imputing the trespasses to them,

and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now

then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were

pleading through us. We implore you, on Christ, behalved, be

reconciled to God. He's talking to believers. He's not talking

to the world. This isn't about salvation. This is to

the believer. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as

though God repleating through us. We implore you, on Christ,

be reconciled to God Verse twenty one. For He made

him who knew no sin to be sin for us

that we might become the righteousness of God in Him Christ.

Do you know that you are the righteousness of God

in Christ. Now that you believe, Thank you Lord, that

one will set you free. Do you want to be powerful?

Give up? Give up? What? Give up control to the

Holy Spirit. Give yourself fully to the anointing, the anointing

which you have received. If you indeed have believed, like

we read in chapter eight, if indeed the spirit of

Him dwells in you, give yourself fully to him. He

is an expert at dealing with the flesh. What is

this anointing? What is this anointing? First John, chapter two,

verse twenty. But you have an anointing from the Holy One,

and you know all things. I have not written to

you because you do not know the truth, but because

you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

First John two twenty seven. He continues, But the anointing

which you have received from Him abides in you, and

you do not need that anyone teach you. But as

the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true,

and it is not a lie. And just as it

has taught you, you will abide in him, teaching and learning.

Being taught and learning brings abiding Verse twenty nine in

that chapter. If you know that He is righteous, you

know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

What do we do with these verses? What do we

do now on the next part of this when we're

talking about spiritual matters, because now we talked about the flesh,

let's talk about spiritual matters. What do we do with

verses that talk about the weapons of our warfare are

not carnal or flesh right, but they are mighty through God,

to pulling down of strongholds and bringing every thought captive

to the obedience of Christ. The weapons of our warfare

are not carnal, right, but they are through the Anointing.

They're mighty powerful through Holy Spirit. When I first got

saved in twenty sixteen, I didn't have any denomination. When

I first got saved, I came to the Lord and

I said, you are God. I'm not I need you,

You don't need me. That's the truth is He is

the creator of the universe. We need him. We're in

need of God. That's what separates you from the world.

We understood, we're in need of God. Later on down

the road, I got baptized in the Holy Spirit. At

the same time, my wife was looking for a church

and she found this one. Then she discovered heard that

this church believes in deliverance, and she took the Restored Life.

She went to the Restored Life conference, right, and then

she sends me nine pages printed, nine pages. She says here,

I was spending a lot of hours. My devotion was

a lot of hours of pouring over the scriptures. I'm

a lot and so I didn't want to read anything

that was not this. But there was something missing in

my understanding of the scriptures. And she sent it to

me with nine pages of Restored Life and they were

all back scripturally. What it did for me in my

walk was it changed everything I used to get maybe

you know, one and ten answer prayers, or like if

somebody asked me for prayer, I pray for them, maybe

something would shift, you know again, denomination lists right, Like,

I'm I don't have a denomination at that moment, right,

I just was practicing what I knew was in that word.

I was just praying for people, right, But there was

always something missing when it came down to observing Jesus

doing deliverance or watching Paul do watching right. I was

in the scriptures. Literally, my vision was fixed on that scripture.

It was like there was downloads from heaven and I'm

seeing the apostles walk it out right. So when I'm

observing that Paul is casting demons out too, I was

always like, hmm, wonder what that's about. Wonder what that's about.

But you know what, you're not taught. You're not commonly

taught that Jesus gave authority to disciples before they were

even baptized. In the Holy ghosts over demons and they

were going around casting them out before the baptism of

the Holy Spirit. There was the authority of Christ living powerfully.

So I got those pages, I read them, I poured

over those, I read the scriptures attached to those. Guess what,

All of the sudden things started shifting. All of the sudden,

I felt like this annoyingting got stronger. All of the

sudden things started getting kicked out of my life. Demons

started to go, they started to leave. Guess what. All

of the sudden desires that I had started to disappear.

All of the sudden, my flesh was learning new things,

learning how to walk, learning how to pray, learning how

to minister properly, because guess what, when Jesus here's what

You'll start reading the Gospels tell you that Jesus went

as many as he healed, he also set free, He

delivered them. As many as were healed, he delivered. You'll

start to see these scriptures and they'll bounce off the page,

and then you'll say, well, then maybe if it's not

just a health issue, maybe it's a demon issue. Maybe

they're just being afflicted. I have a whole nother sermon

lined up. Okay, listen, I have a whole other sermon

lined up on that alone. But I believe I've already

presented enough body of evidence to let you know that experientially,

there is more power in this kind of ministry than

there are in others. And I'm not just comparing. I'm

just saying it's sad that Americans churches are missing out

and other churches are missing out on a restored life. Okay,

they're missing power, they're missing authority, they're missing supernatural, spirit

infused living Jesus. So anyways, we started seeing a bunch

of miracles where I was at the chapel got full right,

and all of a sudden, they're like, oh, there's actually

the power of Christ. And these guys that are walking

around here, walking into quarantine zones with people who have

viruses all over them and they're contagious. Guess what, I

walk in. Those things have to die, they have to leave, Okay,

And I walk in, I lay hands on them. They recover,

they come out the next day, okay, and they say

there's nothing wrong with them. Okay. But that is the

actual empowerment of the Holy Spirit. The anointing do come

when you start, When your words start to agree with Heaven,

When your words start to agree with the Holy Spirit

and the new life that Christ has given you, all

of the sudden things will change. They will change. This

is the truth. So Yes, restored life change. My theology

answered many questions about the Word of God for me

and for our family. Can't do this without the anointing.

The deception of the enemy of your souls has to leave.

The world needs you to live and walk in power.

It yearns for you to do. So I'm gonna show

you what else the anointing does. Let's go to Isaiah

ten twenty seven and it shall come to passing that

day that his burden shall be taken away from off

thy shoulders, and his yoke from off thy neck, And

the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. The

yoke of sin shall be destroyed, because of the anointing.

That which comes against your soul will be destroyed because

of the anointing. Casting out devils, they will be removed

because of the anointing. How do we know this, Ephesians.

Let's go to Ephesians chapter four, verse twenty five. Therefore,

putting away lying, let each one of you speak the

truth with this neighbor, for we are members of one another.

Be angry and do not sin. Do not let the

sun go down on your wrath, nor give place to

the devil, outward experience, outward expressions, right, a fight at home, right, lying,

speaking lies? Why does it lead us to verse twenty seven,

go back, nor give place to the devil? In other

In other versions it says, nor give a foothold that

describes you losing ground somewhere. How many Christians are living

that way, disempowered because they gave foothold to the devil,

and they think that they're outward happenings. Well, this just happens. Well,

that's just how I am, this is just who I am.

It's deception. God wants that out of your life. That's

what restored living is about. Hallelujah. We don't give a

foothold to the enemy. We bind them, We tell them

to leave, We command them to go until those patterns

of sin leave fully, and then the Holy Spirit starts

to teach you how to actually walk. Not everything has

to be covered up with lies. Not everything that that

you're talking about has to be you know X y

Z right, It doesn't matter. Your reaction doesn't have to

always be lust right. You're a believer. Old things have

passed away. Behold, all things are new. If you're still

dealing with old, you got things to work on. Amen.

This is about building a powerful life. Jesus modeled it,

he walked it out. He said to his disciples, Now

you go and make disciples of all the nations. That's

you and I, and now we're told the same thing.

Now you do it. It's the anointing. It's the anointing.

The yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. Hallelujah,

Thank your Holy Spirit, Thank you that you modeled it

so well, you loved us so well, you died, you

were crucified, You rose from the dead and took captivity

and death captive. We can begin to grab onto the scriptures,

and then we start to understand why he stood up.

I believe it's in Luke four and he read out

of the scroll of Isaiah. The spirit of the Lord

God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me

to preach good tidings. He didn't come to preach bad news.

He came to preach good tidings. He has sent me

to heal the broken hearted, good healing, to proclaim liberty

to the captives. It's the anointing us, he says. The

Lord has anointed me, and the opening of the prison

to those who are bound to proclaim the acceptable year

of the Lord. Glory to God, Glory to God, Glory

to God. Thank you Jesus. You're in a good place.

You're in a good place. You, unlike most, know what

to do with sin, and you know how to get

rid of it in your life. It's in the scriptures.

I just said a bunch of them to you. The how,

which means it gives us hope that there is a

way out of that pit that you crawled into, that

pit or that jail that the enemy has held you in.

There is that ground that you know that you can

take back because of the anointing. Glory to God. You're

building a powerful life. You're building a powerful life. Here,

You're building a powerful life. Come on, just right there,

just let's start to talk to God. Thank you God,

Thank you that you've made a way through your son,

Jesus Christ, the Anointed. Thank you Lord that you have

come to set us free, that you bound up my

broken heart and that you're fixing everything in it. Lord.

I thank you God that you're even taking the desires

of my heart, Lord, and that you are that you

are restoring those parts of my heart and redeeming them. God,

Thank you, Lord Holy Spirit. Right now, if there's anyone

in this Lord that needs you. We all need you, Lord,

we all need you. But if there's someone in here

that doesn't know you, Lord, I pray right now that

as they're asking you to come in that you would

indwell them. Even right now, if you start to feel

really warm in your heart, you start to feel really hot,

whatever it is, just let him come and invite him.

Just say, Holy Spirit, come be my teacher, lead me.

Would you break every yoke, every bondage, all affliction. Lord,

I thank you how your word says that if we

submit to God, resist the devil, he will flee from us. Submit.

We're submitting to you God. Today we're resisting the enemy

of our soul. God, and we thank you that he

is fleeing even right now. We thank you for a

new horizon. We thank you for a new day. We

thank you Lord that there is there is a day

today that is yours. We will rejoice and be glad

in it in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen,