Posts with the category “year-on-fire”

The size of your prayer life is largely determined by your hunger for God. You know God, but the big question is how much more do you want to know God?  Read More

All prayer is moving toward the ultimate vortex of the manifest presence of Christ—we want to know Christ better and better and better.  Read More

Imagine hearing God’s voice today.  Read More

This is a most encouraging Bible verse that tells us two vital truths -- one about God and one about us.  Read More

You may only have one heart, but that one heart has who-knows-how-many eyes!  Read More

God made taste buds so that we can enjoy eating. Though some of us may overindulge, it is safe to say that healthy people are hungry people. The same is true spiritually.  Read More

For every receptor you have in your physical body, God can activate a parallel receptor in your spirit. Just as you have physical sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch so that you can know, appreciate and experience the physical universe, you also have spiritual sight, hearing, taste, and touch so that you can experience similar realities in the spiritual realm.  Read More

When you first encounter the manifest presence of Christ, it can be overwhelming. It can even make you feel awkward—almost out of place.  Read More

We don’t need more prayer meetings; we need more receiving meetings. Asking is what we do in prayer; receiving is what God makes possible.   Read More

The entire Lord’s prayer pattern involves receiving. We receive the Father’s love, the revelation of His Name, His kingdom, food and forgiveness, forgiveness to give others, and victory over sin and satan.   Read More

Every day you get out of bed, you face two enemies—sin and satan. Toward the culmination of our Lord’s carefully crafted prayer pattern, He strategically places a prayer that deals with both the enemy on the inside (sin), and the enemy on the outside (satan).  Read More

The greatest power on earth is the power of forgiveness. Nothing makes you Christ-like faster than forgiveness. Nothing opens the floodgates into the manifest presence of Christ faster than the choice to forgive others. Is there anyone you have not yet forgiven?  Read More

As a child of the Father, it is your privilege to come to your Daddy each day and receive everything you need to meet your two daily needs—food and forgiveness. Like a good father, God loves to bring in the groceries—Give us today our daily bread—and to take out the garbage—forgive us our debts.  Read More

As mind-boggling as it sounds, Christ has assigned to you the responsibility of advancing His kingdom by prayer.   Read More

Declaring the supremacy of Christ’s name in prayer clears the atmosphere from the distracting noise of everyday life and from the static of demonic interference.  Read More

All true prayer rises out of a fresh encounter with the love of God in Jesus Christ; everything else is little more than hollow religious talk. For this reason, when Jesus crafted His prayer pattern, He starts with the four key words, Our Father in heaven.  Read More

Your local church exists for one primary purpose—to hold out the flame of Christ’s manifest presence. This is the single mark that distinguishes the church from every other organization on earth.   Read More

The fire of God’s manifest presence is not the latest fad or some toy with which to play. God does not strut His miracles in front of the church like a three ring circus. On the contrary, God always prepares us in advance so that we appropriately humble ourselves under the weight of His glory.  Read More

All Israel met God in the fire. They were led through the wilderness by the pillar of cloud each day and by the pillar of fire each night (Exodus 13:17-22).  Read More

The entire early church met God in the fire. There were no exceptions. On the day of Pentecost, the Bible explicitly says, “Fire appeared on them and rested on each one of them” (Acts 2:3).  Read More

Christ is the manifest presence of God. When John the Baptist declared that Christ would one day baptize people in the Holy Spirit and fire, he put his finger on both the role of Christ and the role of the Holy Spirit.  Read More

Abraham met God in the fire. In a vision God showed Abraham a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch. On that day He sealed the covenant He had made with Abraham with fire.  Read More

When you encounter the manifest presence of Christ, you are shaken to the core.  Read More

When the genuine fire of God’s manifest presence comes, it accomplishes three things that only the manifest presence of Christ can accomplish.  Read More

Yes, Elijah met God in the fire, but when it comes right down to it, Elijah never prayed for fire. Instead, he simply prayed for the manifest presence of God to be made tangibly known to God’s people.  Read More

Normally when you want to start a fire, you do not pour water on the wood. When Elijah challenged the prophets of Baal, however,  Read More

On this day, August 22, in the year of our Lord 1727, “The Prayer Watch” was launched in Herrnhut, Germany. The Prayer Watch was a twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week, fifty-two week prayer meeting that lasted one hundred years.   Read More

Elijah met God in the fire. In perhaps one of the best known fire-encounter moments in the entire Bible, Elijah challenges the prophets of Baal at Mt. Carmel.  Read More

King Solomon met God in the fire. When he dedicated to God the magnificent temple he knelt on the floor, spread out his hand to God and declared the temple holy to God.  Read More

The Apostle John met God in the fire. He was serving as a political prisoner of Rome on the Mediterranean island of Patmos when he saw the exalted Christ.  Read More

King David met God in the fire. He knelt at a simple altar and called on the Lord, and the Lord answered his prayer with fire—the fire of His manifest presence.  Read More

Moses initially received his call out of an encounter with the fire of God’s manifest presence. It ruined him forever. Later in his ministry, he was still crying out for the manifest presence of God, If Your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.  Read More

No sooner had Moses encountered the fire of God’s manifest presence than he stepped into barefoot worship. God ordered him to take the sandals off his feet—because he was on holy ground.   Read More

Moses met God in the fire. His life was immediately and permanently changed the day he encountered the manifest presence of Christ in the burning bush.  Read More

It is not your responsibility to set yourself on fire for God; that’s God’s job! The Holy Spirit is a skilled Fire-starter—not with a physical fire that kills and destroys, but with an internal Spirit-fire that purifies, empowers, and mobilizes.  Read More

On this day, August 13, in the year of our Lord 1727, the manifest presence of Christ was poured out on Nicholas Ludwig Von Zinzendorf and his church family in Herrnhut, Germany.  Read More

The highest privilege you have today is to minister to the presence of Christ.  Read More

On this day, August 11, in the Year of our Lord 1906, the manifest presence of Christ was poured out in Akidu Yellamanchili, India. Meetings lasted ten hours at a time, and in some places, far longer.  Read More

No matter who you are, the highest calling you have is to minister to the presence of Christ. When the small group of church leaders gathered for their prayer meeting in Antioch, it was not just any prayer meeting. They gathered explicitly to minister to the presence of Christ.  Read More

On this day, August 9, in the year of our Lord 1907, A.B. Simpson, missionary pioneer, renewed his love covenant with Christ. Toward the end of a Bible conference, he reported that he received a “mighty baptism of the Holy Ghost in His complete Pentecostal fullness,  Read More