Tea With Toni - Toni Lagaras

The position from which we pray matters. We don't want to pray prayers from the perspective that the problem looks bigger than our God does. No. God is always bigger. In session #4, we take a look at what our position in prayer needs be to be the most effective and open the mic up for a Q&A time.

Join Toni as she walks through the life of Abraham and focuses on the thread that holds it all together - the promises, the faith walk, the fulfillment, the happily ever after......no matter what we're facing, this is the most important thing - You Will Always Be My God.

Generations. Generation X. Millenials. Baby Boomers. So many generations. Which is the most important generation? The answer is - all of them. There wasn't a generation missing in the first coming of Christ. Every generation played a vital role the first time around. Well, I have some news for all of us. Jesus is coming again, and it's time for every generation to take its place to help usher His presence into this earth again. What part are you supposed to play?

Join Pastors Mikel and Toni for this conversation about life and faith and God and trust.

Why? Why did this happen to me? That is a thought we all think at one point or another. It's a thought I'm sure Joseph had. In this message Toni shares a few thoughts to help us look at the life of Joseph (and our own lives) with a little different perspective.

I love the story of when Jesus sat down, gathered His materials, and on purpose made a whip to drive out of the temple what didn't belong there. We are now the temple of God, and there are things in our lives that don't belong there. Only now we use our words to drive them out. Learn how to use your words as a whip to drive things out of your life what doesn't belong.

What If? We play the what if game to the negative all the time. What if I fall? What if I fail? But what if we think bigger? Think in God proportions? What would our life of faith in God look like if we really knew and trusted God? What would it be like to pray and see Him answer? What would it look like to lay hands on the sick and watch them recover? What does really knowing God have to do with all of this? Check out this podcast to find out.

When God when? What's taking so long? Will this ever happen? Have you ever asked those questions? If you have, you're in good company. More times than not God's timing is no where close to ours. What do we do when our timetables don't match? Take a listen and find out.

Part of the fun of the New Year is making lists. What do I want to add to my life this year? What do I want to cut out? There are 3 very crucial things we want to make sure to add to - and keep on - our list. These 3 things will get us through life - through the good times and the not so good times. These 3 things are vital to life. Are they on your list?

Jesus was born. It was the culmination of centuries of prophecies and eager anticipation of Messiah....and then what? Christmas didn't end at the birth. That was just the beginning. God had so much more in mind.

I love the Christmas story. I've read it hundreds of times. And it can get a little ho-hum. But I got stuck on one verse of Luke chapter two, and it inspired a poem and a whole message. Take a few minutes to recapture the wonder of Christmas with this podcast. Never lose the wonder!

What do you have in your hand? We may look at it and see very little, but little is much in the hand of God. He still does miracles today, and He uses what we have in our hand. How do you see what you have?

We live within limits. My checkbook has a limit. My energy has a limit. My car has a limit of how far it can go on one tank. It's hard to imagine life without limits, but that's the realm our God lives in. His power is limitless. His ability is limitless. What He can and will do for us knows no bounds. Let this inspired your faith today about what God is doing for you right now. There are no limits to His miracles.

I love the Christmas Story. Jesus. Born in a manger. Proclaimed in the heavens on a silent starry night. And Luke is my all-time favorite rendition of it. Luke Chapter 1 is like the prequel to the whole thing. I've read it hundrends and hundreds of times, but this year, I saw so much more in it than ever before. Take a listen and learn how we can live the Christmas Story in our lives every day.

We all have a purpose. A dream. A something. There's something each one of us can do to make an impact and change the world around us. Sometimes we can't see it. Sometimes it seems hidden. Sometimes what's in our hand to do seems so small and insignificant we dismiss it. But everything we do has value and can make a difference. What's Your Something?

Faith. It's a belief. It's a firm persuasion. We need it. But what does it look like? Take a listen to Go Get Your Own and see what faith looks like, what it does, and why we need it in these last days.

In this final lesson of Jesus Our Example, we see the key to how Jesus was able to live in rest. Live in peace. Living in such humility, stress-free and free from insecurities. By Abiding. I am in the Father and the Father is in Me. Take a look at just what it means to Abide and how that will help us find rest for our souls.

Stress. Yuck. It's a real peace killer. It can keep us up at night. It can make us sick. It steals our joy for life. In this message, we take a look at how Jesus handled stress and stressful situations to see how we can walk free of it too.

Hope drives prayer. And much of the church has lost hope where it comes to praying for our nation. We can't see HOW it can change, so instead of praying in faith we shrink back in fear. In Can These Bones Live? we look at fear, faith and what God has called the church to do in these last days.

Walk with Me. Work with Me. Watch how I do it. That's how Jesus told us we would find real rest for our souls. In my quest for rest, I've noticed something that was missing in Jesus' life but very present and causing unrest in ours. Insecurity. In this message we'll see how we can walk free from the unrest causing insecurities that try to plague our lives and find real rest for our souls.