Recently McDowell County, WV was hit hard by flooding. If you would like to donate, there is a link in the Store under donations. Please pray and donate as the Lord leads you. No Donation is too small.
Prayer Needed
Please Pray for Bro. David “POPS” Locke and Bro. Donald Brown. They were in a motorcycle accident, and they sustained injuries. Bro. Locke is currently in a Trauma Hospital in Houston, Texas. IT is reported he has multiple fractures.
Change of Venue for BTSM in Texas
Due to circumstances out of our control, the Texas Central Region Bind the Strongman location has been moved to Price, Texas.
New Life Tabernacle 3635 State Highway 42 S, Price, TX, United States, Texas Pastor Randy Hennigan.
If you were planning to attend the Baytown event, please try to make these adjustments and support this last, short-notice change.
Bind The Strongman March 7th, 2025 7:00 PM – 12:00 ish AM
We are just a month away from the annual prayer service to prepare for our riding season. I hope everyone is as excited about this event as I am. As we ended the riding season last year Azusa Street Riders members were in a spiritual attack in which several members were involved in motorcycle accidents and a couple were severe. Prayerfully we banded together in a season of fasting and prayer for our ministry and our downed riders, of which, all have overcome this attack and are on the mend. Joining with my Pastor Ken Dillingham we prayerfully sought the Lord for our theme for this year’s Bind The Strongman Prayer service. When we reflected on the unity we had during the season of attack we wanted to continue with the movement and decided our overall theme would be Spiritual Warfare. Session 1: The Armor of God and Riding Protected. Session 2: The Battle is the Lords, The Basics of Spiritual Warfare. Session 3: Enduring, Not Holding on for dear life – Holding on Until the Glory Comes. Session 4: Exercising Authority, Having a Spiritual-Led Battle Plan. Session 5: The Weapon of Worship, Leveraging the Victory of Jesus.
The locations have been selected and the planning has begun. Plan to unite with other Azusa Street Rider members across our nation as we come together in separate locations for the same purpose to show the devil that we are ready and will never back down as we prepare to spread the Gospel in the Highways and Byways and compel them to come in so that His house may be filled.
Join Us for Azusa StreetRiders: Bind The Strongman! 
Friday, March 7, 2025
7:00 p.m.
The Pentecostals of Baytown5303 N. Hwy 146, Baytown, Texas 77523
A powerful night of prayer and worship!BENEFIT & PRAYER RUN
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Coffee @ 9:00 a.m. KSU @ 10:00 a.m.Join the Prayer Run and experience unity and purpose on the road!
Local Baytown Hotels:– Days Inn (8115 N Hwy 146, Baytown, TX 77523)
– Motel 6 (8911 N Hwy 146, Baytown, TX 77523)
– Super 8 (9032 N Hwy 146, Baytown, TX 77523)
Bring your passion for God and the open road! Let’s come together in prayer and action to Bind the Strongman! 
Chapter Information
Thank you to those chapters who have submitted your membership rosters and chapter officers. If you have not submitted this information, please do so ASAP so we can have accurate information heading into the 2025 riding and ministry season.
Thank you.
Winter Riding
It’s a crazy time of the year – it can be snowy one day and warm just a few days later. Cities love using road salt to treat icy and snowy roads. Road salt causes ice to melt and prevents refreezing. It is a relatively inexpensive solution to dangerous, icy roads.
But once the snow melts, residue from the salts often remain on the road and in puddles and moisture. If you plan on biking in the winter months, this salt and moisture is unavoidable. There are some steps you can take to prevent damage to your bike.
Preparation is key! Take the time to buy a few products to keep on hand and you will be able to prevent any corrosion or damage that the salts can do.
When road salts come in contact with precipitation, they release free-radical ions. When you ride and there is still salt on the roads and in puddles, you will get salt residue and these free-radical ions on your bike.
In the short term, these salts won’t do much more than create a hazy appearance to the paint and chrome on your bike. But if you don’t clean off those salts, over time and with exposure to oxygen, iron oxide forms which can destroy metal.
Your motorcycle is full of nooks and crannies and little crevices that allow roads salts to enter. This salt water can lead to corrosion and, over time, can destroy the finish on your bike. Enough exposure can even lead to degradation of the parts themselves.
1. If you ride your motorcycle in the winter in an area that receives snow and ice, wash your motorcycle regularly.
2. When riding, avoid puddles as much as possible. Puddles collect runoff and salts, and will splash your bike with a mess of chemicals.
3. In order to avoid corrosion, you should repair any nicks or scratches in your paint. These exposed areas are quick to corrode, and also more difficult to wipe clean after you ride.
4. Use a salt neutralizer. These products contain a blend of corrosion inhibitors to neutralize salt and chemicals on the roadways so that they can’t harm your bike’s finish. A less expensive method is to combine baking soda, water, and some bike wash and use this mixture to wash down your motorcycle.
Roadways tend to deteriorate after heavy snows. The freezing and refreezing of ice on the roads and the damage caused by road plows can leave behind potholes and divots in the pavement. If you ride in the winter months or even in the early spring, be aware that the roads can be especially dangerous. Loose pavement and fresh potholes can be treacherous for bikers, so be sure to actively scan the road when you ride.
Website Project
Over the next couple of months, ASR will be transitioning to a brand new website with an estimated completion by the end of March. The new site will offer better security, as well as improved store integration. The current site will continue functioning normally until the launch of the new site.
An Apostolic Resume
According to statistics posted on the US Chamber of commerce website, in 2023, employers ended up adding 3.1 million jobs. A strong jobs market is good news, but many of those job openings are going unfilled because the U.S. does not have enough workers to fill them. Even though we have more Americans participating in the workforce today than before the pandemic, the overall share of the population participating in the labor force has dropped. If our labor force participation rate today was the same as it was in February of 2020, we would have more than two million more Americans in our workforce to help fill those open jobs.
In fact, the decline of Americans’ labor force participation is nothing new—fewer and fewer Americans have been participating in the labor force for decades, resulting in a smaller workforce that is expected to continue shrinking for years to come.
Right now, the labor force participation rate is 62.7%, down from 63.3% in February 2020 and 67.2% in January 2001. Additionally, in May 2022, the U.S. Chamber surveyed unemployed workers who lost their jobs during the pandemic to gain more insight into what is keeping them from returning to work. Here are a few of the key findings.
Two-thirds (66%) of Americans who lost their full-time job during the pandemic say they are only somewhat active or not very active at all in searching for a new job.
About half (49%) are not willing to take jobs that do not offer the opportunity for remote work.
More than a quarter (26%) say it will never again be essential for them to return to work.
Nearly one in five have altered their livelihood, 17% have retired, 19% have transitioned to homemaker, and 14% are now working part-time.
Almost a quarter (24%) say government aid packages during the pandemic have incentivized them to not actively look for work.
Younger respondents, aged 25-34, are prioritizing personal growth over searching for a job right now; 36% say they’re more focused on acquiring new skills, education, or training before re-entering the job market.
I wonder, if God sometimes looks down on the people who are claiming to follow Him, who are attending church, maybe even calling themselves Christians. And says, no one wants to work anymore.
No doubt it is still on His mind. He said it to his disciples in Matthew chapter 9, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few. If the statistics in the work force of the United States are any indication of the mindset and the willingness of people to get out and get a job, then I can’t imagine the decline in the modern day church.
Do you get excited when you see someone come in and get a blessing from the Lord that was headed down the road to a place called hell? Do you rejoice over someone being baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, and filled with His Spirit? I know I do, I rejoice with them that rejoice. I love seeing a life made new, and sins washed away. I love seeing the joy of the Lord get all over somebody, and they shout and dance across the front of the church.
There are countless people across this country and world that are relying on a strong labor force in the Apostolic Movement. The fields are white unto harvest. Everywhere you look, there is someone ready to receive what God has for them.
Can you imagine what would happen to the food industry in the country, if half of the farmers suddenly stopped planting and harvesting. There would be a lot of hunger across this land. We take it for granted in this great country of ours, because we have plenty of everything we need.
But, if we could look out over this country through the eyes of the Savior, and see that the population is starving to death spiritually. Because, it’s not enough to attend church, or call ourselves a Christian.. There is a desperate need for people in the fields.
There are more than 25,000 web sites that list job openings. There are a few well-known sites like LinkedIn, Indeed and Monster.. All of these sites offer a place to upload a resume. Indeed describes what a resume is on their site.
A resume is a formal document that displays an individual’s professional background and relevant skills. Those interested in finding a new job write a resume. Hiring managers or recruiters usually collect resumes through an organization’s career website, a job search engine, a professional social media page or in person. Most resumes consist of work history, education, a professional summary and a list of skills.
Far too often, we discount ourselves, and the ability we have to be used by God, when all He is looking for is someone to be willing to be used by Him. He doesn’t need references or a list of accomplishments. He is just waiting on the words………..
Here am I, send me.
Samson Did As Before, Daniel Did As Before
Shared from Pastor Wylie Rhinehart Jr.
An annual January Post. Thank you for reading.
I distinctly heard these words:
Samson did as before, Daniel did as before.
God, you have my attention!
I had never heard these words uttered by anyone, and I certainly wasn’t thinking of anything at that moment. I instantly knew it was God speaking to me, which to be sure has only happened a couple of times in my life in that manner. Instantly, being tired was the last thing on my mind.
I immediately went to the Bible and looked up these two men and the moments when each did as before.
I found the incident where Samson did as before….
Judges 16:20 And she (Delilah) said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out …..as at other times before……., and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.” Just as God had spoken to me, Samson shook himself as before.
This is the only place where the Bible reveals what Samson had done when trouble came. When he needed the supernatural strength to defeat the Philistines he shook himself. However, this last time (It) didn’t work.
I had found the first one, now to look up Daniel. I had never been more determined and focused to look up bible verses in my entire life.
Just as God had spoken, In Daniel 6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, ……..as he did aforetime.
I had found in short order the two incidents: Samson did as before, Daniel did as before. God what are you wanting me to learn from this?
I believe God wanted to show me the contrast of their yesterday’s. He wanted me to see the results of their investments. There was a great contrast in the results of the yesterday’s, or their “befores.”
I searched and read as much as I could and determined that Samson’s investment was an investment in himself. Again, while this shaking of himself is only mentioned this one time, the Bible lets us know this is what “he’d done before.” How can I summon supernatural strength? I’ll shake myself. Paul said in me dwelleth no good thing. No Samson, it’s not in you or about you.
Early in Samson’s feats of strength he made a false connection between shaking himself and summoning superhuman strength. Listen Samson, listen Wylie, you might shake, and we might shake because of the Spirit of God, but our shaking could never and will never bring the power of God.
This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. Zechariah 4:6
It’s not anything that we do in and of ourselves. Like the superstitious baseball player who hits two home-runs and thinks it’s the new pair of socks that did it, and wears them every game after, Samson thought his shaking brought on the power of God. The only record of Samson praying is at the end of his life after his eyes are removed from his head and he is bound and made sport of. I will add here, if the only time you pray is at the end of your life, you are certainly doing the best thing you can do at that moment. Shaking yourself is a poor investment.
Contrast Samson and Jesus if you will.
The man Samson: He said to his parents Bring her to me for she pleases ME.
The man Christ Jesus:
And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please HIM.
Samson is the only man in the Bible who says those words: Please me.
When we do what pleases us God won’t be pleased. That’s backwards. That’s shaking to bring the Spirit of God, instead of shaking because of the Power of God.
I am convinced that the way to be pleased with your life is to please God. If your pleased, but God isn’t, trouble isn’t too far away. Samson was self centered whereas we must be God centered. Paul said I have suffered the loss of all things that I may win Christ. Paul was God centered.
Suffice it to say, Samson’s go to wasn’t worth going to. His shallow, powerless solution was to shake himself.
Enter Daniel.
The decree was made, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. Daniel 6:7
In spite of the decree, Daniel kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime…. as he did before.
Daniel didn’t pray in response to the kings decree. He didn’t pray so he wouldn’t be thrown in the den of lions. Daniel prayed because that’s what Daniel did. Daniel did what he had done before. As God said, Daniel did as before.
We need to have a “what we did before” in our lives thats worth repeating. What did you do yesterday that’s worth doing today? What did you say yesterday that’s worth saying today?
You took drugs yesterday? That won’t help you today. Alcohol? Cursed God, cursed life? Cursed others? That won’t help. Indulged in addictions? That won’t help. Smoked cigarettes, marijuana or crack? That won’t help. None of those things will help you. None of those things are worth repeating. None of those things will save you.
We need to do and say things today that are worth repeating tomorrow and every day after.
Daniel did as before. Daniel didn’t pray in response, he prayed because that’s what he did. Daniel prayed as before. It wasn’t new. It was a pattern. It was a lifestyle. It was an investment.
Samson shook himself like he did before. Daniel prayed like he did before. One is powerful, the other is powerless. One is trust in God; the other is trust in self.
Samson lost his vision, Daniel started seeing visions. We must strive to live out a day worth repeating tomorrow.
Daniel didn’t have to change anything. He did the same thing he did yesterday. Is what you did yesterday worth repeating today? If not, change your yesterday by changing your right now.
We exist simultaneously in three dimensions of time. Our current moment, this current second even, cannot be separated from our past as this moment is our past. It is also our arrived at future. Seamlessly our past, present, and future exist with nothing differing, even down to the smallest element. You are living your yesterday now. If you want to change your past, there is only one way to do it: change your present moment.
Even though it’s been over a year, even though I know it was God that spoke those words, I find myself acting like Samson at times instead of Daniel.
Wherewithal shall a young man/woman cleanse his ways? By taking heed to the Word of God. You can defeat everything that’s wrong in your life by hearing and obeying the Word of God.
Don’t try and fix yourself by yourself. You can’t defeat the smallest foe that way. Shaking yourself won’t do. Praying today, and praying tomorrow and praying the next day, that’s a day worth repeating. Dying to self today tomorrow and the next day? That’s worth repeating. Praising God today tomorrow and the next day? That’s worth repeating.
May we say, yesterday I prayed, yesterday I worshipped. I will do the same today. Samson did as before, Daniel did as before. Those words left an indelible mark on me that morning, but I have failed to allow them to change me in a way that is satisfying to me. But today I have a chance to live out a day worth repeating, and worth sharing.
What you did yesterday matters. What you’re doing right now is your yesterday.
Let the Samson in you die. Be a Daniel. Start living a day that’s worth repeating tomorrow.
Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish……..
As we close out the year 2024, as in other years gone by, we often take a look back over the accomplishments in our personal lives. Perhaps we were promoted in our job, got a raise, was able to pay some things off, or simply had a great year over all.
But, when we shift our sight to what we’ve accomplished in the kingdom of God, how does it compare to the accomplishments in the natural? How did the year 2024 compare over 2023. How many people were touched by the Master because we did what we were called to do? How many people were brought into the kingdom, because we made ourselves available to the will of God?
I for one, have seen a tremendous shift in the past few years within ASR. There has been a dedicated focus for outreach in events all over the country. I am thankful to be a part of a ministry that has decided, that we are to be about the kingdom of God, and the Master’s business.
As we look forward into 2025, I believe there are greater things in store for this ministry. I believe there will be greater reports than we’ve ever seen. I believe there will be greater harvest than we’ve ever seen. I believe that miracles, signs, and wonders will become commonplace for Biker Sundays, and Biker Weekends.
So, goodbye 2024, hello 2025. Let’s hit the road, and win the lost to Jesus!