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Christian Life Church The Church of "New Beginnings"
Pastor Maria Goodwin


"The Spirit of the LORD is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be Sunday Services: Spanish 10:30am 2000 NW 100th Clive, IA 50325 Ph: 515-334-0177 [email protected] www.clministries.com

Today is the day to make a Choice for the rest of your life!What if one prayer could change your life forever?No mistake...
08/17/2026

Today is the day to make a Choice for the rest of your life!

What if one prayer could change your life forever?

No mistake is too great for the mercy of Jesus.

When we confess our sins, He is faithful to forgive us and cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness (1 John 1:9).
His grace doesn't just cover your past—it gives you a brand-NEW beginning. You don't have to Carry guilt any longer.

Jesus HAS already PAID the price. Receive His forgiveness,
walk in freedom,
and let His LOVE transform your heart today.

PRAY:
“Jesus, I Repeat of All my past, present and future sins. Forgive Me, Cleanse Me from All My unrighteousness, Take away my guilt and give Me a brand New beginning. Amen, Thank you Jesus.”

Which of the Seven Spirits is speaking to you?The Seven Spirits of God… are they seven different spirits?Many assume so ...
07/29/2026

Which of the Seven Spirits is speaking to you?

The Seven Spirits of God… are they seven different spirits?

Many assume so — but Scripture reveals something deeper.

The “Seven Spirits of God” represent the fullness and perfection of the Holy Spirit, resting upon the Messiah:

The Spirit of the Lord
The Spirit of Wisdom
The Spirit of Understanding
The Spirit of Counsel
The Spirit of Might
The Spirit of Knowledge
The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord

“And there shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse… and the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him…” — Isaiah 11:2

The One who empowered Christ is the same Holy Spirit given to all who belong to Him.

The TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURES WITNESS to the "DEITY" OF CHRIST!
07/11/2026

The TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURES WITNESS to the "DEITY" OF CHRIST!

EXODUS: “We read the measurements and skip to the next chapter” —“Don’t QUIT keep reading “ use “The 66 Roots Guide Jour...
06/28/2026

EXODUS: “We read the measurements and skip to the next chapter” —
“Don’t QUIT keep reading “
use
“The 66 Roots Guide Journey.”-
“The Foundation of each Book in the Bible.”

Most people have never been told this…

The chapters most Christians skip in the Bible contain the Entire Gospel hidden in plain sight…

That is the book of Exodus, God gives Moses extremely Specific Instructions for building a tent in the desert called the Tabernacle…

The measurements.
The materials.
The colors of the curtains.
The dimensions of the furniture.

It reads like an ancient construction manual…

Boring.
Dense.
Irrelevant.

Except it is not irrelevant. It is the Most important blueprint in the entire Bible.

Because when you walk through the Tabernacle from the entrance to the innermost room, you walk through the entire PLAN of Salvation…

Step by step.
In exact order.
Built in the desert fifteen hundred years before Jesus was born.

Here is what the Tabernacle actually contains…

There is one entrance. Only One.
It faces east.
There is no back door, no side gate, no alternative way in.

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

One entrance. One way in.

The first thing you encounter inside is the Bronze Altar…
This is where the sacrifice was killed and burned.
You cannot go deeper into God's presence without passing the place of sacrifice first.

The cross…

Next is the Bronze Laver…
A massive basin of water where the priests washed themselves before going further.
You cannot approach the holy place with the dirt of the world still on you.

Baptism. Cleansing. Being washed clean.

Then you step inside the covered structure — the Holy Place…
Inside you find three pieces of furniture…

On the left is the Golden Lampstand…Seven branches burning with oil.
The only source of light in the room. Jesus said, "I am the light of the world."

On the right is the Table of Showbread…Twelve loaves set before God's presence continually.
Jesus said, "I am the bread of life."

Straight ahead is the Altar of Incense…Fragrant smoke rising day and night toward heaven.
The prayers of the saints ascending to God.

And then you reach the Veil…
A massive curtain —
sixty feet tall,
thirty feet wide,
four inches thick.
It separated the Holy Place from the one room on earth where God's presence physically dwelled.

The Holy of Holies…

Only one person was allowed to pass through that veil.
The High Priest…
Once a year. Carrying the blood of a spotless sacrifice. With a rope tied to his ankle in case he died in God's presence and had to be dragged out.

And when Jesus died on the cross, that veil tore in two.
From top to bottom. Not bottom to top, as if a man had ripped it. Top to bottom. As if God Himself reached down and tore the barrier open.

Access to God's presence went from:
one man, one day a year,
to
Every human being on earth - Permanently.

One entrance.
Sacrifice.
Cleansing.
Light.
Bread. Prayer.
The veil torn open.
God's presence made available to all.

That is the GOSPEL…
Laid out in physical form.
In a tent.
In a desert.
Fifteen hundred years before Bethlehem.

And most Christians have skipped right past it because nobody ever told them those "boring" construction chapters are the most DETAILED PREVIEW of the cross in the entire Old Testament.

Talking to a woman in my office she told me she was thinking about leaving the faith.

Not because of anything dramatic. Because she was exhausted from reading a book she did not understand.

"I read Exodus every year," she said. "And every year I hit chapter 25 and I quit.
All those measurements.
All that furniture.
All those curtains.
I do not know what any of it means and I do not see why God would put so much of it in His book if it was not important."

She was not angry. She was just tired. Tired of feeling stupid every time she opened her Bible. Tired of reading chapters that felt like they were written for someone else.

I asked her if anyone had ever shown her what the Tabernacle actually meant.

She looked at me like I had asked her something impossible.

"Nobody has ever explained any of it to me. I just thought it was filler."

I pulled my Bible off the shelf and spent the next hour walking her through it.

The entrance.
The altar.
The laver.
The lampstand.
The showbread.
The incense.
The veil.
The Holy of Holies.

One step at a time.

I watched her face change.
Not confusion.
Not blank staring.
but
Understanding.
Pure understanding.

By the time we reached the veil tearing from top to bottom she was crying.

"I have read this book my whole life and I never saw any of this. I almost left the faith over chapters that contain the ENTIRE GOSPEL and nobody ever showed me what they meant."

I drove home that night and could not stop thinking about it. How many other people sat in pews every Sunday carrying that same quiet exhaustion. Reading their Bibles alone. Hitting the Tabernacle chapters. Quitting. Blaming themselves. Never being told that the chapters they were skipping were the most important ones in the entire Old Testament.

They could not see it. And it was not their fault…

Nobody had ever given them THE ROOTS…

Everything someone needs to know before reading any Book of the BIBLE…

Not a sermon. Not a devotional.
Just the roots…

Who wrote it.
When.
Why.
What was happening.
The main themes.
How it connects to the larger story.

Genesis, Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers.

Every single book (66) of the Bible.

Sixty-six pages. One page per book.

A Study format any believer could use completely on their own.

No pastor required.

I printed a copy and gave it to her and told her:
"Read the page on Exodus first, Then open to Exodus 25 and read it again."

She called me the next day.

"I finally see it. I read the page you gave me and then I read Exodus 25 and I could not stop. I kept going. Through all the measurements. Through all the furniture. I saw every piece pointing to Jesus. I have never read my Bible like this before in my life."

"This is the first time I have ever understood what I was reading."

I gave her what she actually needed.

The Roots…

And once you have those roots, the Bible you thought you knew becomes something you have never actually encountered before.

The Tabernacle is just one moment. There are thousands more waiting in the pages you have already read.

Did you know that the Ark of the Covenant contained three objects — the broken tablets,
the rejected manna,
and the questioned rod —

and that the Mercy Seat where blood was sprinkled sat directly on top of all three?

That The GOSPEL was physically sealed inside a Gold Box in the desert?

Did you know that the name Barabbas literally means "son of the father"
and
that the crowd was given a choice::
between two men with the same title —

the innocent Son of the Father
and
the guilty son of the father —

and the guilty one went free?

Context changes everything.
Every single time.

Take The 66 Roots Journey and get a Faith Sprout.

66 pages. One for every book of the Bible. Each page gives you what you need before you read. Who wrote it. When. Why. What was happening. The key themes. The symbolism. And how it connects to your actual life today.

Written in plain language.

No seminary terms.
No complicated theology.

Just the Roots that make everything you have already read suddenly land with the full weight God intended.

The Bible is Not confusing because it is unclear.
It is confusing because we are reading it without The FOUNDATION that made it clear to the people it was first written for.

They walked through that Tabernacle and understood every step.
They saw the altar and knew it meant sacrifice.
They saw the laver and knew it meant cleansing.
They passed through the veil and understood they were entering the presence of God Himself.

This GUIDE gives you that foundation back.

If you have ever skipped the Tabernacle chapters because they seemed irrelevant.

If you have ever read the Old Testament and sensed there was something underneath the details that you could not quite reach.

If you have ever wondered what you would find in God's Word if someone had just given you the roots first.

Then The Roots is what you have been looking for.

God did not dictate every measurement, every material, and every color by accident.
- He never does anything by accident.

Do not let a lack of context be the thing that keeps you from understanding the blueprint He built For YOU in the desert three thousand years ago.

Get closer to God by actually understanding His Word.

Not just the familiar parts.
All of it.
The whole story.

That is what The 66 Roots Journey was created for.

04/08/2026

Prophecy Fulfilled: The Proof in the Word - “The Bible “

The Bible:
- is not just a book of stories
- is a divine tapestry of promises made and promises kept.

Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, prophets like Isaiah and Micah foretold his birth, his lineage, and even his suffering.
Seeing these Old Testament prophecies match perfectly with New Testament events reminds us that:
God’s Word is true. * His timing is perfect. * Jesus is exactly who He said He is.

Read these verses and let your faith be strengthened by the consistency of the Scriptures!

"For no matter how many promises God has made, they are 'Yes' in Christ."
2 Corinthians 1:20

These are days to which every believer needs to be aware!
03/30/2026

These are days to which every believer needs to be aware!

12 Apostles  - ¿Quiénes eran realmente los hombres que Jesús eligió para cambiar la historia?- No eran eruditos, ni nobl...
03/30/2026

12 Apostles -

¿Quiénes eran realmente los hombres que Jesús eligió para cambiar la historia?

- No eran eruditos, ni nobles, ni guerreros.
— Eran pescadores, recaudadores de impuestos y gente común que, tras ver la tumba vacía, se transformaron en gigantes de la fe.

En nuestra infografía especial de hoy, analizamos el perfil de los Doce Apóstoles:
Cada uno con una personalidad distinta, pero unidos por un mismo propósito:

“llevar el mensaje de la Cruz hasta los confines de la tierra.”

Referencias Bíblicas para Estudiar:
Marcos 3:14-19:
El momento del llamado oficial:
"Y estableció a doce, para que estuviesen con él, y para enviarlos a predicar".

Mateo 10:2-4:
El listado detallado de sus nombres y orígenes.

Apocalipsis 21:14:
Su importancia eterna:
"Y el muro de la ciudad tenía doce cimientos, y en ellos los doce nombres de los doce apóstoles del Cordero".

¿Sabías que...?
Juan fue el único que no murió como mártir, sino de vejez en el exilio.

Mateo dejó su lucrativa mesa de impuestos para seguir a un Maestro que no tenía dónde recostar su cabeza.

Bartolomé llevó el Evangelio hasta regiones tan lejanas como la India y Armenia.

Hoy, NOSOTROS somos los encargados de continuar ese fundamento. Su historia es la prueba de que DIOS no llama a los capacitados, sino que CAPACITA a los llamados.

03/30/2026

Numbers 6:24-27

Know The Names of God…and How to Use it in Prayer…
03/27/2026

Know The Names of God…

and How to Use it in Prayer…

Dodie Osteen’s healing ScripturesDodie Osteen has stood on this healing scriptures for over 25 years. She was diagnosed ...
03/16/2026

Dodie Osteen’s healing Scriptures

Dodie Osteen has stood on this healing scriptures for over 25 years. She was diagnosed with cancer and told by her doctors “go home and prepare to die.”

Praise God she did not accept their diagnosis into her Spirit but ran to her Father and stood on “His Word and promises.”

I found the list on the Lakewood Church website. They are using King James Version, however you can go to Bible Resources or BibleGateway to look up other versions of these scriptures.

SCRIPTURES TO BE READ DAILY

Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits – who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases. Psalm 103:2-3

Exodus 15:26
Mark 11:23-24

Exodus 23:25
Mark 16:17-18

Deuteronomy 7:15
John 10:10

Deuteronomy 28:1-14, 61
Romans 4:17-20

Deuteronomy 30:19-20
Romans 8:11

I Kings 8:56
2 Corinthians 10:4-5

Psalm 91:16
Galatians 3:13-14

Psalm 103:3
Ephesians 6:10-17

Psalm 107:20
Philippians 2:13

Psalm 118:17
Philippians 4:6-7

Proverbs 4:20-23
II Timothy 1:7

Isaiah 41:10
Hebrews 10:23

Isaiah 53:4-5
Hebrews 10:35

Jeremiah 1:12
Hebrews 11:11

Jeremiah 30:17
Hebrews 13:8

Joel 3:10
James 5:14-15

Nahum 1:9
I Peter 2:24

Matthew 8:2-3
I John 3:21-22

Matthew 8:17
III John 2

Matthew 18:18-19
Revelations 12:11

Matthew 21:21

1. The Word of God will save your life. My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings. Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart. For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh. (Prov 4:20-22 NKJV)

2. God’s Word will not fail. Not a word failed of any good thing which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass. (Josh 21:45 NKJV)

3. God’s will — healing– is working in you. for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. (Phil 2:13 NKJV)

4. The Spirit of Life is making your body alive. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.(Rom 8:11 NKJV)

5. God is for you. For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. (2 Cor 1:20 NKJV)

6. It is God’s will for you to be healed. And behold, a l***r came and worshipped Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean. Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. (Mat 8:2-3 NKJV)

7. Obey God’s Word and be healed. and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.” (Exo 15:26 NKJV)

8. Serve the Lord and healing will be yours. “So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you. (Exo 23:25 NKJV)

9. God takes all sickness away from you. “And the LORD will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you. (Deu 7:15 NKJV)

10. Obey all God’s commandments and receive all His blessings. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the LORD of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough to receive it. (Mal 3:10 NKJV)

11. One of God’s benefits is healing. Bless the LORD, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. (Psa 103:1-5 NKJV)

12. God’s Word is healing. He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions. (Psa 107:20 NKJV)

13. God wants you to live. I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the LORD. (Psa 118:17 NKJV)

14. Choose to live. Be a fighter! “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; (Deu 30:19 NKJV)

15. You will live a long life. With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.” (Psa 91:16 NKJV)

16. Jesus bore your sins AND your sicknesses. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. (Isa 53:5 NKJV)

17. God will restore your health. For I will restore health to you And heal you of your wounds,’ says the LORD, ‘Because they called you an outcast saying: “This is Zion; No one seeks her.”‘ (Jer 30:17 NKJV)

18. You can take authority over the sickness in your body. “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. (Mat 18:18 NKJV)

19. Agree with someone for your healing “Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. (Mat 18:19 NKJV)

20. What you say will make a difference. So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. (Mark 11:22-23 NKJV)

21. Believe, and you will receive. “Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. (Mark 11:24 NKJV)

22. Plead your case to God. even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins. Put Me in remembrance; Let us contend together; State your case, that you may be acquitted. (Isa 43:25-26 NKJV)

23. Have someone lay hands on you for healing. “And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; “they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” (Mark 16:17-18 NKJV)

24. Worship God. “Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him. (John 9:31 NKJV)

25. The devil wants to kill you; God wants to heal you. “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. (John 10:10 NKJV)

26. You are redeemed from the curse. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Gal 3:13-14 NKJV)

27. You will not waiver in your faith. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. (Heb 10:23 NKJV)

28. You can have confidence in God and His Word. Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. (Heb 10:35 NKJV)

29. You can find strength in God and His Word “…. Let the weak say, ‘I am strong.'” (Joel 3:10 NKJV)

30. Jesus Christ has never changed. What He did in the Bible, He will do for you today. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Heb 13:8 NKJV)

31. God’s highest wish is for you to be well. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. (3 John 1:2 KJV)

32. Be anointed with oil by a Christian who believes in healing. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. (James 5:14-15 NKJV)

33. Jesus has already paid the price for your healing. who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. (1 Pet 2:24 NKJV)

34. Be confident in your prayers. Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. (1 John 5:14-15 NKJV)

35. God answers the prayers of those that keep His commandments. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. (1 John 3:21-22 NKJV)

36. Fear is not of God. Rebuke it! For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (2 Tim 1:7 NKJV)

37. Cast down those thoughts and imaginations that don’t line up with the Word of God. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, (2 Cor 10:4-5 NKJV)

38. Be strong in the Lord’s power. Put on His armor to fight for healing. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; (Eph 6:10-17 NKJV)

39. Give testimony of your healing. “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. (Rev 12:11 NKJV)

40. Your sickness will leave and not come back again. What do you conspire against the LORD? He will make an utter end of it. Affliction will not rise up a second time. (Nah 1:9)

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