Janet L. Byrd Ministries Statement of Faith

We believe:

1. The Bible is the inspired and infallible Word of God.
2. The Godhead exist as three individual personalities; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, and yet they are one at the same time.
3. Our Lord Jesus Christ was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin.  He was the Son of God and Son of man while on the earth.  He was sinless while living in the form of human flesh.  He came from the Father in heaven to die for lost mankind in order to redeem us back to God through His atoning blood that was shed on the Cross.  After His burial, God raised Him from the dead, then He ascended back to be with the Father and is seated at the Father’s right hand in heaven.  He will soon return to the earth in His second coming to rule and reign with the redeemed for a thousand years.
4. Mankind can only receive salvation through personally receiving and believing in the atoning death and resurrection of what Jesus did on the cross.  There is no other way to God or heaven other than through His Son, Jesus Christ, and His shed blood.
5. Divine healing is available for every person because of the stripes that where laid on His back.
6. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is an experience in which the Holy Spirit comes upon the believer with power to be witnesses of the Gospel.  When a person is baptized in the Holy Spirit they will have the evidence of speaking in tongues, a heavenly language. 
7. There is a final resurrection of the dead; the saved to everlasting life to be with the Lord forever, and the unsaved to eternal damnation in the lake of fire that was created for Satan and his followers.  There will be a final judgement in which all the living and the dead will stand before God.
8. After the final judgement, a new heaven and the celestial City of God will descend upon the new earth where all will live under the rule and reign of our God and His Son Jesus Christ.
9. Marriage between man and woman is a covenant relationship designed by God to represent the relationship between our Lord Jesus Christ and His bride, the Church, every true believer in Him.
10. Baptism by immersion in water is to be after a person’s salvation experience to represent following the Lord in His death of self and resurrection to new life in Christ.
11. The taking of communion or the Lord’s supper is symbolic of Jesus' broken body and shed blood on the cross.  We can receive by faith our healing in any area of our lives because of the stripes that where laid on His back, and also forgiveness of sins through His atoning blood.
12. The five-fold ministry gifts are the apostle, prophet, pastor, evangelist, and teacher.  These where given to the church by Jesus for the equipping of the saints as stated by Paul in Ephesians 4:11-13.
13. There are nine gifts of the Spirit, which are: the gift of faith, working of miracles, gifts of healing, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecy, and discerning of spirits.  All these gifts can operate by the Spirit through born again Spirit-filled believers at any given time.  I Corinthians 12:7-11.
14. We are in the last days and the Kingdom of God is manifesting more and more in the earth through His true dedicated believers.  We are beginning to see more signs on the earth and in the sky, such as the blood moons.  The Spirit of God is moving in supernatural signs and manifestations and these will increase.  His power is being poured out onto the earth and we will see everything the Old Testament, New Testament and even those in recent years have prophesied.  Joel, Isaiah, William Seymore of the Azusa Street revival, Smith Wigglesworth and William Brannon are just a few that come to mind that have prophesied of the great out-pouring of the Spirit of God and the massive revival that will soon take place.