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Hello, my name is Stacy Payne, and I am an apostle, prophetess, visionary, author, and founder of Love and United Faith Ministries, L.A.U.F for short. I love the people of God and the things of God. This ministry is an opportunity for me to be able to share in what God cares about and loves and that is taking care of His sheep. I feel deeply honored that God would entrust me with such a task.
When God gave me the vision for this ministry, He also gave me a plan and call of action. Currently, I am in the process of growing, and in order to be able to build at the rate and capacity God desires, it's important that people are incorporated within that growth plan.
If you desire to aid in the process of the up building of L.A.U.F then I encourage you to lend you gifts to Lord by becoming an online member. You can fill out the membership form here, which will be available to you so that you can state your interest. If you desire to be made aware of when the in-person congregation will start so that you can become a member, I encourage you to join us online for services and get involved with various events and programs that will occur throughout this upcoming year.
Ministry thrives off of the heart of a people that stand ready and willing to not only be obedient, but who do not mind giving to what they desire to see God do. I pray that if God lays it on your heart to be a blessing in the form of sowing seed, that you would take the time to donate to our building fundraiser which you will be able to find the link here.
It's so important that we build for the glory of God. In a generation where so many have been broken and are hurting, it becomes all the more important for us to provide safe havens for the people of God to be able to dwell.
Are you ready for something new? I am the founder of L.A.U.F ministries, which stands for Love and United Faith. L.A.U.F ministries is currently an online ministry, with a goal and mission to plant an in-person church as God leads, and you get to be a part of the beginning phases of the journey.
L.A.U.F's Story
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Love and United Faith is a ministry that God is raising up in the end times to ready His people for the Great Return. Jesus is soon to come back, and as people of God we want to be found not only doing the greatest commandment but also living a life that is pleasing to the Lord God Jehovah! Jesus told His disciples that the greatest commandment was loving the Lord God and the second was loving your neighbor as yourself. (Matt 22:34-40, Mark 12:28-34, Luke 10:25-28) This still holds true today. His word does not and will not change (Matt 24:35;Malachi 3:6; Isaiah 40:8). With so many hearts that have chosen to hardened against the pure and good things, its imperative that as an individual you make the wise choice in not being one.
Furthermore, faith is the thing that pleases God and without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6). In order to make it to Heaven, we are going to have to abide under the umbrella of faith. Faith that says I choose to walk in an obedient lifestyle towards Jesus because I recognize that I desire to go to live in Heaven with Him one day because Heaven is a real place that exists. Jesus told His disciples that He was going to prepare a place for us that where He was there we may be also (John 14:2-6). Do you believe that Jesus desires you to be one of the ones that gets to live with Him in Heaven? I pray that you know that salvation is a gift that God offers to any soul that chooses to believe (Ephesians 2:8-9). All things are possible to Him that believes.
What we believe?
We believe that works are an expression of our faith in Jesus Christ, but it is by grace that we are saved according to these scriptures:
1. Ephesians 2:8-9 (Saved by grace)
2. John 3:1-6 (Being Born of the Holy Spirit)
3. John 3:16 (Belief)
4. Mark 16:15-18 (Salvation)
5. Acts 2:38 (Baptismal)
6. Matt. 22:36-46 (The Greatest Commandment of Love)
We believe in standing on the word of God and we cannot add anything to it, nor take away from it, that His word stands as the ultimate truth in which the believer must make a choice to abide by.
We believe in Jesus Christ, the remission of sins, and that salvation is something that must be confessed with your mouth, believed in your heart, lived out in faith by the baptismal of the Holy Spirit, a repented lifestyle that makes manifest evidence of God's fruits and Spirit.
We believe that according to scripture, there are nine manifestations of the Holy Spirit and there are nine fruit of the Spirit through the gift of discernment we know what those look like in order to avoid being carried away by the spirit of deception in these end times. According to these scriptures:
1. I Corinth 12:7-11(manifestation of the Spirit)
2. Galatians 5:22-23 (fruit of the Spirit)
3. Hebrews 5:14 (discernment)
4. I Corinth. 10-16 (discernment)
5. Matt. 24:24 (false teachers and the elect)
We baptize in the name of Jesus, being that Jesus is the fullness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 2:8-10)-God the Father, God the Son, God, the Holy Spirit. We do not condone idolatry and God made it very clear in His word that He would not share His glory with no man (Isaiah 42:8). Jesus was in the form of a man, He did not make any exceptions to this rule, which further confirms to our beliefs as Jesus being God made manifest in the flesh according to John 1:1-14.
Furthermore, when Isaiah prophesied of the coming of The Messiah, he wrote in Isaiah 9:6. "For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace." NKJV
