Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
February 20, 2011
Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All
“The Principle of Firstfruits”

Proverbs 3:1-10 Genesis 4:1-7 Romans 11:16 Romans 15:4
Leviticus 2:12 Deuteronomy 26:1-11


• God is a “God of Principles”

• When you live according to His principles – You know that God will always show up big on your behalf

• The enemy fights against men and women who commit their lives to a life of living by God’s principles

• You already know a lot of the principles – But the devil will fight against the principles of God in your life

• You must fight to keep the principles

• The word keep is a military term – It means to guard and to protect with your life

• You must guard and protect the principles that you were taught in the word of God

• Honor the Lord with your substance – Be careful that you don’t start thinking that what you have is yours

• Everything that you have – God has given it to you

• If God is going to continue giving to you – You must be prepared to release what God has given to you so that He can give you more

• It is a principle – Give and it shall be given back unto you

• If God ever ask for something – He has more in store - If you release what He ask for

• Firstfruits is about honoring God – He always wants to be first

• Firstfruits giving is about honoring God and declaring Him “number one” in your life

• It’s about you letting earth, heaven, beneath the earth, and every demon – Know that God is “number one” in your life

• During the first part of the year – We have one Sunday designated as “Firstfruits Sunday”

• On that Sunday - You should bring your Firstfruits – Recognizing God as first

• If you put God first – He will put you at the top of His agenda

• Some people want God to do something first – God has already did His part

• God had respect for Abel’s offering

• Cain did not do as God had commanded – Therefore God did not honor Cain’s offering

• When you bring your Firstfruits – God declares it blessed – Then everything associated with it is blessed

• Jesus came from heaven and became a man – He was pulled out of humanity to be a sacrifice for us

• Because Jesus was a Firstfruits – When He gave His life – He became Holy and everybody connected with Him is also Holy

• Jesus is blessed – So everybody connected with Him is blessed

• Jesus is declared righteous - Everybody connected with Him is declared righteous

• If you don’t come on Firstfruits Sunday because you don’t want to come

• Then your attitude is going to cost you more than you can imagine

• If in the past you didn’t come because you didn’t think you had enough to give

• It’s not about how much you have – It’s about the attitude of what you do have

• Everybody can’t give on the same level

• Everybody can do something – Because what you want is the blessing

• Your Firstfruits is not being offered to Calvary Christian Center

• It is being offered unto the Lord - You should offer it with some excitement

• God is looking for you to have the right attitude –Stand and declare that your God is able

• Firstfruits is about God being:
1. First in your life
2. It’s about your worship
3. It’s about your rejoicing

G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
February 13, 2011
Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All
“The Principle of Firstfruits”
God is First
Proverbs 3:1-10 I John 3:22 Hebrews 11:5 Genesis 4:1-7 Romans 11:6


• Principle: Statutes – Commands – Laws - God is a “God of Principles”

• Everything God does – He does it according to principles

• God wants you to do everything according to principles

• Therefore, you will have: Safety – Protection – Blessings - God’s Anointing

• There is the principle of Love – If you give love – Love will come back to you

• If you give bitterness – Bitterness will come back to you

• Let your heart keep God’s commandments

• Keep: Means to protect with your life – You have to fight to keep the principles

• Keeping the principles will bring length of days and long life to you – God will continually add peace to you

• You must acknowledge God – So that He may direct your path

• You’re not smart enough to direct your own life

• The way you get smarter – Is to acknowledge God in all your ways

• You know that you will be successful when God is in charge

• Honor means to: Obey –Reverence – Worship - Respect

• What does God want from you? – He wants you to honor Him

• When you honor God – He honors you - When a man honors his wife – She will honor him

• Then God will honor that man because that man is operating according to what God has told him to do – That man is operating according to principle

• God so loved the world – He gave His only son “Jesus” – Which is a firstfruits

• As a result of God giving His son as a firstfruits offering

• He is still receiving a harvest today – You are a part of that harvest

• There is so much power in understanding the firstfruits offering

• Principles can be activated at any time – By doing the principle

• Principles are the pathway to abundant living – The enemy is fighting the principles working in your life

• Principle is trusting in God’s word – When you operate in principle – You are showing God that you trust Him according to His word - You can not separate God from His word

• Some Christians say they prayed but “never got their prayers answered, or nothing ever happened for them” – It is either them or God – That is the problem

• Let me tell you, “It’s not God” – Here’s the problem – They are not keeping His principles or they are not doing those things that are pleasing to Him

• Written in his book, “In His Presence”, E. W. Kenyon stated that “Jesus always did those things that are pleasing to God

• Make up your mind that God will be first in your - Marriage – Business dealings - Interpersonal relationships - Finances

• Whatever you do, put God first – Then God will promote you – God wants to be first

• When Adam sinned , it put God on the outside - Principles obligates God to function back in the earth – When you operate in principles, it gives God a legal right to get involved

• When you operate according to the principle of firstfruits – When you bring it and God blesses it – He still wants you to have some sense

• Many people have extended themselves beyond where they should have

• As God starts turning some things around in your life and starts blessing you again – Learn to be smarter – Don’t go out right away and start spending on things you don’t need

• Save your money – Pay off some debt – Start being wise with your stewardship

• “Father, today I want to commit my life to you; to always do those things that are pleasing unto you. I commit my life to serving and giving in every area of my life. I break and take authority over the cycle of destruction, lack, want, and need in my life. Thank you Lord God, that you are mindful of me; that you got me on your mind to increase me in every area of my life. I believe, by faith that today is the beginning of bigger and greater things because I commit to do those things that are pleasing and honorable unto you Father for the rest of my life.”

Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
February 06, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“The Principle of Firstfruits”

Proverbs 3:1-10


• God shows himself strong on the behalf of a person who is a Firstfruits giver

• God always wants to be first

• Anytime God ask you to do something – It is never going to be without a promise or a reward connected to it

• That is why the enemy fights you so hard – To keep you from obeying God

• When you don’t forget His principles – When you keep them in your heart

• Length of days – Long life – Shalom (Peace) - Shall be added to you

• Many people are looking for the fountain of youth – When it is right in the Bible

• All you have to do is learn how to operate according to God’s principles

• Principle: Love thy neighbor as thyself

• Most people don’t love their neighbors as themselves

• Many Christians are prejudice, have anger, bitterness, lack of forgiveness, critical, and fault finding

• These are Christians who have been washed in the blood and yet they are holding onto these things - Then they want God to bless them

• The enemy does not play fair – It’s not you – The enemy is fighting against principles

• The enemy knows that God is a “God of Principle” - Just remember to say that

God wants you to be a person of principle – When you are – Then you obligate God

• Most people don’t like that word “obligate”

• But it’s not so much that you obligate Him – God obligates Himself



• When we operate according to God’s principles – God can tell the devil that “they did my word, now I’m obligated to do it for them”

• Satan is the God of this world – However, every time you operate according to God’s principles – God has a legal right to bless you

• Every time you do something good – God does something

• Every time you do something evil – The devil does something

• The reason you are in some situations today is because you have violated a principle

• Most of you think you can do it yourself – You don’t take the time to acknowledge God

• The reason why you get into the situations that you do is because you don’t acknowledge God – You just do it yourself

• In all your ways – Acknowledge Him and He shall direct your paths

• Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the Firstfruits of all thine increase

Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Minister Carlos Gonzales
January 30, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“Covenant with Tithes”

Genesis 9:14-16 Genesis 28:18-22 Genesis 31:13 Psalms 89:34
Deuteronomy 8:18 Deuteronomy 7:9, 10

• Covenant is a weapon of war – Just like obedience is a weapon of war

• The greatest covenant that is in scripture is – The covenant we have through the Blood of Jesus Christ

• However, there are other covenants that are part of the promises of God for you to benefit from as you obey God

• God is a “God of covenant” - God promises to do – If you will do

• Covenant: Agreement – Contract – Promise – Vow – Similar to our understanding of a firm handshake

• The greatest motivator for covenant is love - You should tithe because you love God

• God is committed to covenant – You must see and value covenant as God does

• Every time God made a covenant with man – He gave them a sign

• The sign is to remind God of His covenant with man - With every promise – There is a sign

• The tithe is a sign of the covenant – God is not committed until you do your part

• Every time you give – You remind God of the covenant – You also remind God that you remember covenant

• The word remember is a covenant word - It means to recall – Bring to remembrance – It also means memorial

• Let your giving be a memorial – A sign before the face of God

• Every time you tithe - It’s before God’s face - God is being reminded of what He said to you

• “To open the windows of heaven – Pour you out a blessing that there is not room to
receive – I will rebuke the devourer – I will make you a delightsome land”

• The tithe is not a religious obligation – It is a sign of the covenant – A reminder of God’s promise to you

Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
January 23, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“Seven Deadly D’s Of Spiritual Warfare”

Hebrews 8:6-9 Hebrews 7:1-9 Leviticus 17:30 I Corinthians 14:40 Malachi 3:7-12

• Whether you know it or not – You are under attack from the enemy

• If you will return unto God – He will return unto you

• When you disregard God – He will disregard you

• God takes it very personal when you turn your back on Him

• God said that He has bind Himself to you – He will be there to meet your needs

• All you have to do is keep His: Statutes – Principles - Order

• You need to understand that everything you have belongs to God

• God ask that you return a tenth to Him – When you do this, you are following His statutes

• One of the main areas that the enemy attacks is your finances

• Satan is trying to get you into situations that will prevent God from working on your behalf

• The enemy knows that if he can stop you from tithing - There will be a curse put on you for your disobedience to God

• God gave you everything you have – He asks you to return the tithe to Him - They are Holy

• God is not storing up money in heaven – What He is storing is your attitude of gratitude

• Therefore, the robbery is not the money – The real robbery is the opportunity for God to bless you the way He wants to bless you

• It’s a slap in God’s face when you say that you love God – Yet you will not obey God

• God is a “God of Order”

• God wants your life to be in order


• Here are Seven Deadly D’s To Spiritual Warfare:
1. Divider – Satan is a divider. He will try to divide you from your relationship from God -
your church – marriage – family
2. Denounce – Satan wants to denounce everything good about your life
3. Destroy – Satan’s MO is to destroy you
4. Doubt – This is a big weapon of the enemy
5. Discourage – Satan wants you to give up – to loose courage – to feel hopeless
6. Denial – Satan wars against you trying to get you to deny the things of God
7. Deception – Satan’s greatest weapon used to destroy you when you need God the most

• Everyone of you need God now more than you have ever needed Him before

• God is a “God of Order” – Whatever you give out – That same thing is coming back to you

• You can never complain about what you receive – Because you’re only receiving what you have given out

• Some people do not understand order – Would you put your money in a vending machine that had a sign saying “Out of Order”?

• When you disregard God with the tithe – It’s like a sign being placed on your back saying “Out of Order”

• When you come to church late – leave early – You’re “Out of Order”

• There’s people who ask God to bless them, their finances, their health, their business – Yet they are robbing God of the tithe

• Some people are eating the Word and enjoying the benefits of a ministry just like everyone else - Without contributing anything

• When you call the spiritual police on them – They have the nerve to get upset

• Are you allowing outside circumstances to get you “Out of Order” with God?

• Is your attitude towards what life is dishing out - Getting you out of faith with God?

• Are you allowing the Seven Deadly D’ s to get you “Out of Order”?

• You can not stay on the road to giving the enemy access to every area of your life

• The enemy wants to affect you and your family for generations to come – Demons love to find Christians who have “Out of Order” signs on them – You can not afford to continue giving the enemy the opportunity to block God from blessing you

• You can not give to God without God giving you back much more than you gave Him – It’s a matter of trust

Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Minister Carlos Gonzales
January 16, 2011
“Pursue, Overtake, and Recover All”
“Warring With the Word”

II Corinthians 10:3-6 I Timothy 1:18 Malachi 3:10-12

• In these last days, the Holy Spirit has been teaching the church more and more about spiritual warfare – How to pray – How to rebuke the devil

• God is beginning to release more revelations concerning spiritual warfare so that His body can advance the Kingdom

• Holy Spirit will show you how to use every area that He has given you concerning weapons of warfare

• You know and use the spiritual warfare prayer – You loose, bind, cast out, and rebuke

• You do all that – But that is not complete

• There are more things that God is releasing so that you can see change in your life

• Your fight is not against flesh and blood – It’s against spiritual wickedness

• There are many weapons of our warfare – The spiritual warfare prayer is just one

• The word of God is a weapon – Until it is obeyed, it has not been activated

• You can come against the spirit of debt – Until you obey – Nothing changes

• In Deuteronomy 15:6, God told Israel “Thou shall not borrow” – But we are still borrowing

• People are borrowing so much until they began loosing their homes

• In Deuteronomy 28:12, God said “You shall be the lender and not the borrower”

• Romans 13:8 says: “Owe no man anything except to love him”

• The point is - You can come against any spirit you want – But until you obey God – You really have not waged a good war

• Every time you obey the word of God – You do serious damage to the kingdom of darkness

• God will not be out done – You have weapons – You need to know what they are

• Your obedience to the word is a weapon of warfare

• Everything that God has given in the word is a weapon for use – For you to overcome with

• Tithing is a weapon – When you obey God in the tithe – You advance in the Kingdom of God and punish the kingdom of darkness

• Too many Christians see the tithe as a traditional religious service – They don’t see it as a weapon of warfare

• You are a soldier in the Body of Christ – You’re not a civilian anymore

• When you gave your life to God – You became an enemy to the devil

• Disobedience is a weapon of the devil – Obedience is a weapon of God

• Many people are saying that the world’s financial crisis is a judgment of God

• The financial problems that has hit the world is sent by the enemy

• It was not sent to his children – It was sent for the children of God

• What the church was suppose to do – Was not get into fear and continue to obey God

• The church got afraid just like the world – They started listening to the news – What the government and others were saying

• Every time you disobey God – You slap God in the face

• Four things that will happen when you tithe:

1. Position: You will be placed into right position – You’ll be in the right place, at the right
time, to meet the right people

2. Provision: God will open up the windows and pour you out such a blessing – You will
have the power to prosper

3. Protection: God will rebuke the devourer for your sake – God provides protection for
His children when they obey

4. Partnership: God said if you return unto Him – He would return unto you – This is
Covenant - You enter into alliance with God

Calvary Christian Center
G-12 Administration – Life Notes
Pastor: Phillip G. Goudeaux
January 09, 2011
“God’s Encouragement”
“I Shall Pursue”

I Samuel 30:6- 26 I Samuel 17:34 -46 Ephesians 1:19-23 Ephesians 2:6 James 4:7

• It is about Spiritual Warfare – Attitude - Restoration

• If you want a year like no other - If you want all your stuff back – There is something that you have to do

• Stop waiting on God to do something – He has already done it

• You must take an aggressive attitude of fighting – The enemy is either fighting you or you are fighting him

• Learn how to engage the enemy on the level that will allow you to get your stuff back

• Learn how to fight off discouragement when you are in the mist of a battle

• When going through the darkest days of your life – Stop doing things the normal way

• Stop watching TV and doing other things that takes the focus off you praising God and pursuing Him – The anointing to pursue is upon you right now

• This is the time for you to say: “Enough is enough” – “I have taken all that I can take, and I’m not taking any more” – “I want my stuff back” – “I’m ready to fight”

• It is not about a physical fight – This is a spiritual battle

• You must have a spirit of pursuit – Stop letting the enemy get away with so much

• God is going to fight with you – He is not going to just fight for you

• You have the authority, in Jesus name, to engage the enemy – to disarm him - to defeat him to utterly destroy his works over your life

• You can not name a name that is not under the authority of the name of Jesus

• All things have been put under the feet of Jesus – He is the head over al things to the church

• We are the body of Christ – His feet are the church’s feet – Therefore, everything that can come against you is already under your feet – You and Christ are one

• Don’t subjugate your position of authority and allow the enemy to run over your life without fighting him back – Be an engager and a warrior

• Take your authority and fight the good fight of faith - To win every battle

• Resist: Stand against – In apposition – Deny it’s operation in your life – You must stand against everything that is standing against you

• Devil –same as the Spanish word Diablo – which is derived from the Greek word Diabolos

• Diabolos: He keeps coming – Keeps wearing you down until he wins

• Submit yourself to God – Resist the devil – And he will flee from you

• When you speak in the name of Jesus – By the authority of His name – By the blood, when you declare and decree a thing – It is going to happen if you stay in faith believing

• The worst thing that can ever happen to Diabolos – Is for you to get a righteous indignation and say : “Enough is enough” – “I’m not going to take any more” – It’s time for War

• The enemy wants to contain and restrict you – He is always fighting to keep you contained

• The only way out – You have to break out by the authority of the name of Jesus

Things to know when you pursue

• Pick – Be wise on the things you decide to pursue - Know what direction you’re going while pursuing – Attack the strongholds that are associated with the situation

• Participate – It is going to take participation with God for your deliverance and victory – This means engaging together, “we fight the good fight of faith”

• Practice – Being persistence is the key to you winning – Engage the enemy – Declare that you are not coming out of prayer until you see your victory

• Point – Be open for guidance and correction – Success is not measured by how many times you fail – It’s measured by how many times you try after you fail

• Pursue – Overtake – Recover All

• The way to pursue is with your heart

• It can not be in your head - Because things in your head come and go

• It has to be in your heart