ALL IS GOOD

Table of Contents

1. Opening Greetings and Appreciation for the Ministry Family
2. The Kingdom Conference and God's Provision for Victorious Living
3. The Two Trees and the Power of Our Thinking
4. Living Under Grace Instead of the Fallen Mindset
5. The World's Influence on Our Thoughts and Decisions
6. Renewing the Mind to the Reality of Our New Identity
7. Pastor Leonard's Testimony of Overcoming a Cancer Diagnosis
8. Kingdom Thinking and the Promises of Healing and Provision
9. Learning to Make Decisions That Agree with Kingdom Life
10. Pastor Lori's Example of a Mind Established in Truth
11. Responding to Negative Thoughts Through Prayer and the Word
12. Encouraging One Another Through Our Identity in Christ
13. Living Together in Hope and Confident Expectation
14. Waiting Patiently for the Manifestation of God's Promises
15. Invitation to the Healing Service and Final Encouragement

Opening Greetings and Appreciation for the Ministry Family

Pastors Leonard and Lori Rola begin their teaching with a warm greeting to everyone joining them. Pastor Leonard affectionately introduces his wife, Pastor Lori, expressing his admiration for her with humor and love. He jokes about being hesitant to kiss her because she is wearing lipstick, creating a lighthearted beginning to the message.

Before entering the main teaching, Pastor Leonard takes time to express heartfelt appreciation for the people who support their ministry. He explains that October is Pastor Appreciation Month, something he had not initially realized. During this time, many people have blessed them with encouraging words, messages, emails, text messages, phone calls, gifts, and continued support.

Rather than focusing solely on appreciation directed toward pastors, Pastor Leonard suggests that perhaps Pastor Appreciation Month should also be a time for pastors to openly express their gratitude toward the people they serve. Both pastors emphasize that their appreciation is not limited to October. They are thankful for their ministry family every day of the year.

Pastor Leonard describes their supporters as God's hands extended, acknowledging the important role they play in helping the ministry reach and encourage others. He then explains the ministry's teaching schedule. Tuesday messages generally expand upon the previous Sunday's teaching, providing additional insights and applications. He also announces a new Thursday teaching opportunity called Thoughts Thursday, which Pastor Lori will lead. He mentions that many people have expressed a desire to hear more from her and jokingly promises to try to remain quiet while she teaches.

Pastor Lori responds that he is welcome to speak as much as the Holy Spirit leads him.

This introduction establishes the loving relationship between the pastors and their ministry family while preparing listeners for a teaching centered on kingdom living and the importance of what believers allow into their minds.

The Kingdom Conference and God's Provision for Victorious Living

Pastor Leonard shares that he and Pastor Lori recently attended a ministers' conference in Johnson City, New York, focused on the kingdom of God. Both describe the experience as wonderful, enlightening, refreshing, and spiritually uplifting. The speakers at the conference emphasized life in God's kingdom and the kind of victorious living believers are expected to experience.

Pastor Leonard explains that kingdom living includes prosperity, health, wellness, soundness of mind, and blessing in every area of life. He connects these blessings to the riches of God's grace.

According to the teaching, God has already made provision for His children to live blessed lives. The issue is not whether God desires His people to experience His goodness, but whether believers are thinking and living in agreement with what He has provided. The conference prompted Pastor Leonard to examine his own life.

He recognized that certain thoughts, habits, and influences were working against the kingdom life he believed God had provided for him. He makes an important distinction: these influences did not possess authority over him by themselves. Instead, he had allowed them to gain influence through his own thinking and decisions. This realization becomes a central foundation for the rest of the message.

Living in the kingdom is not simply a matter of believing that God's promises exist. It also involves learning to think and respond in agreement with those promises.

The Two Trees and the Power of Our Thinking

Pastor Leonard introduces the contrast between the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He explains that these two trees represent two different ways of thinking.

The tree of life represents the reality of what God has provided through Jesus Christ. It points toward the blessings, truth, and life available to believers through grace. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents the fallen mindset and the thinking associated with humanity's fallen nature.

Pastor Leonard acknowledges that although he has victory over the fallen nature through Christ, he has sometimes allowed thoughts associated with that nature to influence his life. He explains that the problem is not that the fallen mindset has greater power than the believer. Rather, believers can give negative thoughts influence by repeatedly entertaining them. A person can know that God's promises are true while continuing to think in ways that contradict those promises.

Pastor Leonard emphasizes that what believers continually focus on will influence how they experience life. If their attention remains fixed on fear, sickness, lack, and other negative circumstances, those thoughts can begin to shape their expectations and decisions.

However, when believers focus on the truth of God's Word, their thinking begins to agree with the life God has provided. The message is not simply about avoiding negative thoughts. It is about replacing the fallen mindset with the truth of who believers are in Christ.

Living Under Grace Instead of the Fallen Mindset

Pastor Leonard turns to the Apostle Paul's teaching in Romans chapter 6.

He recalls Paul's question about whether believers should continue in sin when they have already died to it.

Romans 6:1–2 “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”

Pastor Leonard emphasizes that believers have died to the old sinful nature through their identification with Jesus Christ.

He then specifically references Romans 6:14.

Romans 6:14 “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”

This verse becomes central to his explanation of kingdom thinking. He teaches that sin no longer has dominion over believers because they are no longer under the law but under grace.

He extends this principle to the negative conditions and patterns he associates with the fallen mindset, including sickness, poverty, and destructive thinking.

Pastor Lori agrees that these things should not have dominion over believers because their power has been broken through Christ.

Pastor Leonard explains that believers may nevertheless allow negative influences to affect their lives by continually thinking according to the wrong tree. He stresses that the believer's victory has already been established in Christ.

The challenge is learning to live from that victory rather than continuing to think as though the fallen nature still possesses authority.

During this discussion, the pastors also recall a powerful testimony shared at the recent kingdom conference. A minister named Eve described facing a serious medical diagnosis approximately a year and a half earlier.

Initially, she was tempted to allow the diagnosis to dominate her thinking. Instead, she entrusted the situation to the Lord and experienced tremendous peace. The pastors describe her testimony as one of victory and encouragement.

Pastor Leonard says that her message was among the ten best he had heard during his approximately forty-five years of walking with the Lord. He expresses his desire to share the recording with their ministry family when it becomes available.

Her experience illustrates the central point of the teaching: circumstances may present opportunities for fear, but believers can choose to remain established in God's truth.

The World's Influence on Our Thoughts and Decisions

Pastor Leonard explains that people have been trained throughout their lives to think according to the world's messages. He uses familiar examples from food advertising to demonstrate how easily thoughts and desires can be influenced. He begins by describing his love for Kentucky Fried Chicken, particularly the original recipe.

With considerable humor and detail, he imagines eating a perfectly cooked drumstick, enjoying the juicy meat, and then moving on to the thighs and crispy skin. He then describes Burger King and his attraction to a double Whopper with cheese and bacon, particularly a Rodeo Whopper with onion rings and barbecue sauce.

He continues by discussing French fries from various restaurants, including Wendy's and McDonald's, expressing particular enthusiasm for McDonald's fries. Pizza commercials are another example. He mentions Papa John's and Pizza Hut, especially stuffed-crust pizza, explaining how advertisements can create an immediate desire for foods simply through their presentation.

His purpose is not merely to discuss eating habits. He wants listeners to recognize how strongly repeated images and messages can influence their thoughts. He points to colorful breakfast cereals marketed toward children.

The bright colors, appealing packaging, happy children in commercials, and memorable advertising characters all encourage children to desire the products. He questions the ingredients, artificial colors, and other substances commonly associated with heavily processed foods.

Pastor Leonard also discusses how advertising influences people's ideas about vacations, lifestyle choices, and health. He and Pastor Lori explain that even when watching television programs they consider safe, they are frequently exposed to pharmaceutical advertisements. They often mute or fast-forward through these commercials.

Pastor Leonard acknowledges that pharmaceutical companies can provide beneficial products and services. However, he is concerned about the repeated messages suggesting that people should expect certain illnesses or health problems as they grow older.

He describes how these advertisements can encourage people to focus on potential sickness and the need to combat it. He also reflects on how school instruction has changed since his childhood in the 1960s. His larger point is that people are constantly receiving information that shapes their understanding of life.

Without intentionally renewing their minds, believers may continue to accept the world's expectations instead of thinking according to God's kingdom. He summarizes this principle by explaining that kingdom living depends greatly upon kingdom thinking.

Renewing the Mind to the Reality of Our New Identity

Pastor Leonard explains that kingdom thinking requires believers to renew their minds to the truth. This means deliberately setting their thoughts on the reality of who they have become through faith in Jesus Christ. He teaches that believers have been made righteous, holy, sanctified, set apart, perfected, and complete in Christ. These realities belong to their new spiritual nature.

However, believers also live in physical bodies and possess souls, including their minds, wills, and emotions.

Pastor Leonard identifies the soul as a particularly important area of transformation.

Pastor Lori explains that the mind, will, and emotions often attempt to take control.

She observes that this happens because of what people have continually fed their minds throughout their lives. The information people repeatedly receive can become so familiar that it begins to determine their automatic responses.

Pastor Leonard emphasizes that the believer's true identity is found in the new nature received through Jesus Christ.

Yet the mind must learn to agree with that identity.

This process involves allowing the Holy Spirit to reveal the truth of God's Word and then accepting that truth as the foundation for daily thinking. The pastors teach that the goal is not merely to memorize spiritual statements but to become so established in God's truth that it influences everyday reactions and decisions.

Pastor Leonard's Testimony of Overcoming a Cancer Diagnosis

Pastor Leonard shares a deeply personal testimony about receiving a cancer diagnosis approximately five years earlier. He explains that the doctor told him the condition was incurable. For approximately thirty seconds, he experienced fear and concern.

However, he clarifies that his greatest concern was not for himself but for what might happen to Pastor Lori if he were no longer there.

After those initial moments, he made a deliberate decision not to allow the diagnosis to determine his expectations. He and Pastor Lori remembered the promises they believed God had given them. They recalled prophetic words spoken over their lives and the ministry work they believed God had called them to complete.

Pastor Leonard explains that they believed their assignment was not finished. He began praising and worshiping God rather than continuing to focus on the doctor's statement. During that time, he recalls receiving the assurance that he would live and not die. This testimony reflects the language of Psalm 118:17.

Psalm 118:17 “I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD.”

Pastor Leonard emphasizes that five years later, he is still alive and continuing in ministry. He presents this experience as an example of how his thinking had been transformed. Although he initially felt concern, he did not continue allowing fear to dominate his mind. He then shares a related testimony involving Pastor Lori. Approximately fourteen years earlier, she had been diagnosed with colonic inertia and told that her large intestine would need to be removed.

Pastor Leonard asks whether she ultimately had the surgery. Pastor Lori answers that she did not.

The pastors present these experiences as personal testimonies of trusting God's promises in the face of serious medical circumstances.

Pastor Leonard's central emphasis is the transformation of his thinking. Rather than allowing a diagnosis to become the final authority over his expectations, he chose to remain focused on what he believed God had spoken.

Kingdom Thinking and the Promises of Healing and Provision

Pastor Leonard explains that the enemy's agenda is to move believers away from the truth of what Jesus Christ has accomplished. He specifically mentions healing, provision, redemption, forgiveness, and righteousness. He reminds listeners of the promise concerning healing through Christ's suffering.

Isaiah 53:5 “But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”

He also expresses this truth using the language of the Apostle Peter.

1 Peter 2:24  “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”

Pastor Leonard explains that kingdom thinking means identifying with the healing provision of Jesus Christ rather than allowing sickness to become the controlling expectation. He also refers to the provision made available through Christ's willingness to become poor for humanity's sake.

2 Corinthians 8:9  “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.”

He teaches that believers should think according to God's provision rather than accepting lack as their permanent identity.

Pastor Leonard then discusses the eternal redemption, forgiveness, cleansing, and removal of sin accomplished through the blood of Jesus. He explains that believers should not continue identifying themselves primarily through their failures.

A person may stumble or make mistakes, but Pastor Leonard teaches that those experiences do not change the new identity established through Christ. Kingdom thinking declares that the believer is righteous, loved, and victorious. He recalls the truth that believers are more than conquerors.

Romans 8:37 “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”

Pastor Leonard connects this victorious identity with his belief in divine health and God's provision. He also acknowledges that his own choices have not always agreed with what he believes. At one point, he had become approximately seventy-five pounds overweight.

He attributes much of this to allowing advertising, food cravings, and worldly influences to shape his decisions. This leads into a practical discussion about how kingdom thinking should influence everyday behavior.

Learning to Make Decisions That Agree with Kingdom Life

Pastor Leonard explains that believing in supernatural provision does not mean ignoring the natural aspects of life. He and Pastor Lori believe that the natural should cooperate with the supernatural. He uses his own eating habits to illustrate this principle. He admits that advertisements for fast food have often influenced him. A large television screen displaying a Big Mac can make the sandwich appear especially appealing.

He humorously describes the bun, beef patties, special sauce, cheese, lettuce, onions, pickles, and sesame seed bun. He recognizes that repeatedly entertaining these thoughts contributed to unhealthy eating choices and weight gain. He then contrasts his experience with Pastor Lori's habits. He asks when she last ate a Big Mac.

She indicates that it was when she was much younger. He asks about McDonald's French fries, and she recalls eating them when their children were young, more than thirty years earlier. He then turns to Coca-Cola.

Pastor Leonard jokes about how advertising has trained people to associate certain products with pleasure.

Pastor Lori explains that she remembers drinking a little Coca-Cola when she became sick after riding a roller coaster during menopause. Apart from that occasion, she had not regularly consumed it for many years.

Pastor Leonard expresses amazement at how little influence these familiar food advertisements have over her. He explains that Pastor Lori has trained herself to make decisions based on what she believes supports kingdom living. She does not continually struggle over whether to eat certain foods because many of those choices have already been settled in her thinking.

Pastor Lori acknowledges that she still has temptations, particularly involving potato chips and chocolate.

Pastor Leonard discusses her preference for choosing foods with ingredients she considers better, including potato chips prepared with avocado oil, olive oil, or coconut oil rather than products containing long lists of additives, dyes, and certain other oils.

The pastors use these examples to illustrate how repeated choices become established habits.

Pastor Leonard's point is that kingdom thinking should influence practical decisions, including the way believers care for their bodies. He sees Pastor Lori's consistent habits as an example of allowing spiritual convictions to shape natural behavior.

Pastor Lori's Example of a Mind Established in Truth

Pastor Leonard asks Pastor Lori how she has developed such a consistent approach to thinking and decision-making. He particularly wants to understand why thoughts about sickness do not seem to dominate her mind.

Pastor Lori explains that she continually remains in God's Word and maintains fellowship with the Holy Spirit. She describes how the Holy Spirit reminds her of her spiritual realities. As those truths are revealed, she changes her thinking to agree with them.

Pastor Leonard recognizes this as the process of renewing the mind. He explains that the Holy Spirit reveals the realities of God's Word, and believers must allow those truths to become deeply rooted within them. He uses the picture of soil to describe how truth becomes established in the soul. When a person has continually cultivated good soil, certain decisions no longer require an extended internal struggle.

For example, Pastor Lori does not need to repeatedly debate whether she should eat a particular fast-food meal. Her thinking has already been trained to agree with the choices she believes are best.

Pastor Leonard sees this as an important example of spiritual maturity.

The goal is not merely to resist wrong thoughts occasionally. The goal is to become so established in the truth that those thoughts no longer easily control one's decisions. He attributes Pastor Lori's consistency to the work and presence of the Holy Spirit in her life.

Responding to Negative Thoughts Through Prayer and the Word

Pastor Leonard acknowledges that negative circumstances and thoughts still arise. He asks Pastor Lori how she responds when something negative enters her life. She explains that she prays, returns to God's Word, praises the Lord, and continually reminds her mind of the truth. She does not pretend that negative situations never happen.

Instead, she chooses how long she will allow those situations to influence her thinking.

Pastor Leonard asks how long she sometimes entertains negative thoughts.

Pastor Lori admits that there are occasions when she allows them to remain longer than she believes she should.

However, she explains that she makes a point of returning to God's Word before going to bed.

When Pastor Leonard presses her for a more specific answer, she clarifies that she may sometimes wrestle with a negative thought for an hour or several hours during the day. She does not describe allowing it to continue for weeks or months.

Pastor Leonard emphasizes the importance of this distinction. He explains that repeatedly entertaining negative thoughts gives them greater influence. By returning to prayer, praise, and the truth of Scripture, believers can prevent those thoughts from becoming deeply established.

Pastor Lori's practice is to tell her mind the truth rather than simply accepting whatever negative thought appears. The pastors teach that renewing the mind is an ongoing practice. Even believers who have developed strong spiritual habits must remain attentive to what they are allowing themselves to think.

Encouraging One Another Through Our Identity in Christ

Pastor Leonard explains that Pastor Lori also helps him when his own thinking begins to move away from kingdom truth. He openly acknowledges that he has not progressed as far as she has in certain areas. He jokes that some of the time she spends dealing with negative thoughts may involve helping him through his own struggles. He asks what she does when he becomes frustrated or begins responding in ways that do not reflect his true identity.

Rather than condemning him or telling him to grow up, she reminds him of who he is in Jesus Christ. She tells him that he is righteous, holy, and complete in Christ.

Pastor Leonard explains that these reminders help him move away from negative thinking.

Pastor Lori also mentions praying in the Spirit silently while dealing with these situations.

Pastor Leonard emphasizes that she looks at him through the eyes of Christ.

Instead of defining him by a temporary mistake or emotional reaction, she reminds him of the life of Christ within him. He sees this as a powerful example of how believers should encourage one another. The purpose of spiritual encouragement is not simply to point out what someone is doing wrong. It is to help that person remember the truth of what God has made them to be.

Pastor Leonard connects this practice to keeping the soil of the soul healthy.

When believers continually reinforce the truth in one another, they help prevent the fallen mindset from gaining influence. He also humorously observes that their discussion has moved far away from the original teaching notes.

Nevertheless, he recognizes that the conversation is illustrating the very principles they intended to communicate. The more believers learn to see themselves and others through the truth of Christ, the more they can experience the kingdom life God has provided.

Living Together in Hope and Confident Expectation

Pastor Leonard returns to the Scripture that formed the foundation of the earlier teaching.

He directs listeners to Romans 8:24–25.

Romans 8:24–25 “For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”

He explains that believers may encounter situations in which circumstances are not yet what they believe they should be. However, they are called to live in hope.

Pastor Leonard defines hope as confident expectation. It is confident expectation in the truth of God's Word, in the leading of the Holy Spirit, and in the blessings God has provided. He emphasizes that believers are not meant to walk through these experiences alone. They are called to hope together. They encourage one another, build one another up, and help one another remain focused on the truth. When someone becomes distracted by negative thoughts, other believers can help redirect that person's attention toward God's promises.

Pastor Leonard explains that this shared encouragement is part of how believers experience victory. Hope is not presented as empty wishing. It is a confident expectation grounded in what God has said. The pastors encourage listeners to remain united in this expectation and to help one another reject the lies that compete for their attention.

Waiting Patiently for the Manifestation of God's Promises

Pastor Leonard places particular emphasis on the final portion of Romans 8:25.

Romans 8:25 “But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”

He explains that believers may be trusting God for something they have not yet seen manifested in their physical circumstances. For example, someone may believe in God's healing provision while not yet seeing the desired change in the body. Pastor Leonard teaches that the appropriate response is to remain in hope and patiently wait. He emphasizes that patience does not mean assuming the answer will never come. Nor does it mean focusing on how long the waiting period might last.

Instead, believers simply remain patient while continuing to trust God's Word.

He explains that the more the mind becomes aligned with kingdom truth, the more believers can live in hope rather than despair. He returns to the picture of the two trees. Believers can continue thinking according to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which he associates with the fallen mindset, or they can choose to live from the tree of life.

Pastor Leonard teaches that as believers remain established in the tree of life, they can expect to see the results of God's healing, provision, and miraculous power. He describes this power as already present within believers through their relationship with Christ. The central encouragement is to remain confident rather than surrendering to negative circumstances.

Pastor Leonard and Pastor Lori emphasize that the believer's responsibility is to continue trusting, renewing the mind, and patiently expecting God's promises. Their message is that hope and patience work together. Hope maintains confident expectation, while patience allows believers to remain established in that expectation even when the desired results are not yet visible.

Invitation to the Healing Service and Final Encouragement

He encourages listeners to invite friends, family members, and anyone who needs prayer for healing. He explains that the ministry believes in preaching the gospel of the kingdom and in the accompanying evidence of signs, wonders, and miracles.

Pastor Leonard recognizes that not everyone has access to a local church or ministry where people regularly pray for the sick. For this reason, they are opening their doors to those who desire prayer. He encourages the ministry family to help spread the invitation.

The pastors express their expectation that miracles will take place and that people will experience God's healing power. They close by blessing their listeners and looking forward to seeing those who can attend. Throughout the teaching, Pastors Leonard and Lori Rola have emphasized one consistent truth: believers have been given a new identity and a new way of living through Jesus Christ. They encourage Christians to recognize the difference between the fallen mindset and kingdom thinking.

The world continually presents messages that can influence people's expectations, habits, and decisions. However, believers have the opportunity to renew their minds through God's Word and the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

The pastors' personal testimonies illustrate their conviction that circumstances do not have to determine what believers expect from God. Their examples of health challenges, daily choices, prayer, praise, and mutual encouragement demonstrate how they seek to apply kingdom principles in everyday life.

They remind listeners that spiritual growth includes learning to recognize negative thoughts, refusing to give those thoughts lasting influence, and returning continually to the truth of God's Word. Above all, they encourage believers to remain established in hope.

Even when the fulfillment of a promise is not yet visible, believers can continue in confident expectation and patience. The message of “ALL IS GOOD” is ultimately an encouragement to live from the goodness and provision of God, to think according to the life received through Jesus Christ, and to support one another in experiencing the realities of His kingdom.

Thank you for taking the time to read this teaching from Pastors Leonard and Lori Rola. We hope this message has encouraged you to renew your mind, remain confident in God's promises, and live each day with a greater awareness of the life and victory available through Jesus Christ. Remember that your circumstances do not have to determine your identity or your expectations. Continue to fill your heart with God's Word, listen to the Holy Spirit, and encourage others to do the same. If this teaching has blessed you, please share it with your family, friends, and anyone who needs encouragement to live in hope and experience the goodness of God.