We have exciting news! We’re planning a live virtual fundraiser for His Vessel Ministries for Tuesday, October 6, at 7:00 PM Central. This event is usually a wonderful in-person gathering, but we’re going virtual due to the pandemic! We would love for you to join us to hear about all the transformational work God is doing through this ministry.

Virtual events are still new for many of us! We are grateful for the technology that allows us to connect in new ways. The whole team at His Vessel Ministries is involved in planning this virtual gathering called Passion in Action. Joining in is simple! All guests will join the virtual event from one of these links:

• hisvessel.org/passion-in-action
• His Vessel Ministries Facebook Page
• His Vessel Ministries YouTube Channel

Programming will include a series of messages sharing the exciting work happening through His Vessel Ministries. You’ll hear a special ministry update from Jo Hancock, testimonies of the impact made in 2020, and a call...

Hey Christians, it's high time that we wake up. (Romans 13:11). What does that mean? That we come out of our spiritual inactivity and it's time to get active, to get spiritually active walking those principles, those precepts, those truths that we hear in the sermon every Sunday, those truths that we read in our Bible, those truths that we glean from our Bible study, those truths that we'd been taught to walk all of our life.
It is time that we don't be lax about them or that they lay over there on the shelf and it's time to get them off, dust them off and put them into practice and to live it. See, our nation, I believe is hanging in the balance.  Our way of life as we know it, and many of us, as we have known it, probably all of our life, is hanging in the balance and we see there's a problem, but we're just waiting for somebody else to solve it. God, I believe is speaking to the Christian, to the heart of His people.  It is time to wake up and there's some things that we need to do...

Because prayer is vital for God’s people, His Vessel Ministries invests in Watchmen over the City. These prayer teams cover our city and streets with prayer based on Psalm 127:1, “Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless the LORD guards the city, the Watchman stays awake in vain” and Mark 13:33, “Take heed, watch and pray.”

We are thrilled to welcome new Watchmen groups covering Morgan County and the city of Selma! Your support makes it possible for us to reach and equip more people to pray for God’s transforming power over our communities. And if you are interested in becoming a Watchman or starting a Watchmen group over your city contact us! Call 334.356.4478 or learn more here.

Seeking God in prayer is an immense privilege and joy, and a foundational part of our discipleship work. Every one of us—staff, leaders, and participants alike!—has committed, as God’s vessel, to practice dependence upon Him by seeking His face daily. His Vessel founder Jo Hancock models this and served as one of the prayer leaders for the O.U.R. Montgomery Prayer Gathering event in June.

Standing for One United Reaching, O.U.R. Montgomery is an alliance of churches, houses of worship, ministries, and community agencies seeking a better future for our city together in Christ. Its June 3 community-wide prayer event was held in downtown Montgomery and drew people from many churches and groups. What a blessing it was to unite with other believers and seek God’s covering, guidance, forgiveness, and restoration! God is moving among His people, and we knew you would be encouraged by the news. Thanks for praying along with us to see our community transformed through prayer.

At the start of 2020 we planned a summer teaching event for the Vessel Room called Now Stand! By summer, we had to adjust due to COVID-19 restrictions—we didn’t want to miss an opportunity to see lives transformed! We stepped out in faith and tried something new: livestreaming! God has already drawn 2,114 people to the teaching between in-person and streaming views.

Last month’s special funding request covered tech upgrades for livestreaming. God has already supplied it—and more! Your gifts of $8,600 have made it possible for more hearts to hear Now Stand! than we could have ever imagined. Thank you for giving to reach people with God’s transforming love. Together, we can reach more hearts, homes, and communities for God’s glory!

The enemy wants to destroy, he wants to confuse and separate the family. And he's done a good job, spiritually separating hearts, also separating family members, even in the home. When we come in the home, people go to their separate rooms and that get in their rooms, even in the living room or the family room, around the television.  Although they're physically in the same room, they're separated because each one may be on their Smartphone or may have the television on. They're not looking face to face at one another. They're looking at these apparatuses that we have, whatever type it is. So, the enemy wants to separate us. And as a result, when there is separation, things get out of order. And so, I want to zero in on something we can use this time while our nation is facing these huge issues. And they're in our face. We can use this as an opportunity to examine our family, to strengthen our family and use it as a time to regain a face to face relationship with one another.

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We're to love God, that love that word for love, there is an action. It is an action that gives so where to respond in an action. When we love God with all of our heart, all of our soul, and all of our strength, and it's a giving action. Now I want to stop right here and say something so many times when we hear the word give, we think of what we think of money. When we say the word love, we think of feelings. I want to broaden our scope, our understanding of love and zero in on God's love to go beyond those narrow understanding of love because in Deuteronomy 6:5 it that love there is an active giving, but it's much, much more than materialistic giving of money. This is amplified. This is repeated in a commandment when Jesus spoke. And he said in Matthew, 22:37, when he said the greatest commandment is to do what? Is to love the Lord, your God, what?

With all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind, that Greek word for love. There is an agape. What I want you to see in the new Te...

Video Clip from the Now Stand teaching by Jo Hancock,  July, 2020.  

Click to view the entire teaching.  https://www.hisvessel.org/now-stand 

Excerpt from One Nation Under God?  Podcast by Jo Hancock

This is a law in our land in 1954, it was enacted by Congress and we recognize that we are a republic and that we are a nation.  The words “under God” was added to our pledge and added in this piece of legislation.  Why was it even an important matter at that time that Congress would dictate some of their time to take action on this, to add the words “under God”, to the Pledge of Allegiance? Well, at that time in our history, there was a scare, a threat of communism taking over and invading in our nation, and it would invade and overtake our liberty as people. And so, our lawmakers and our President, at that time made a profound declaration that this nation, United States was under God. The word under seems to be a minor word, but it is very, very important in this matter. The word under means to get beneath. It means submission, submission to what?  Submission to God, submission to God that he would be our protector.  He's our...

Wow!  What challenging yet exciting times we are living.  Challenging because we are dealing with so many unknowns and how to overcome the coronavirus pandemic.  Exciting because we see how Father God has prepared us for the hour: to run to the Word for wisdom, strength, and healing; to pray earnestly for one another; and to connect through technology platforms already in place. 

 There are so many opportunities and avenues available to help one another during this time. We have so many options, in fact, that I personally was becoming overwhelmed with the possibilities! Recently, one morning while in my prayer closet, the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart, instructing me to do what God has gifted me to do: teach the Word and pray the Word. The Holy Spirit began to download within me a message about the spiritual RELIEF we needed during this time.  I grabbed my pen and began to write Scriptures as the Holy Spirit guided me.  When the Holy Spirit grew silent, what I saw on paper was the bir...