Posts with the category “year-on-fire”

There is no such thing as a low calling. If you are in Christ, you have a high calling. Period.  Read More

On this day, July 9, in the Year of our Lord 1742, a revival that began the day before was still continuing past 1 AM. George Whitfield had preached to an enormous crowd in Cambuslang, Scotland, on the afternoon of July 8, and a mighty revival erupted.  Read More

On this day, July 8, in the Year of our Lord 1894, D.L. Moody and R.A. Torrey met with a large group at Northfield’s Student’s Conference. They received their baptism with the Holy Spirit and encountered the manifest presence of Christ.  Read More

On this day, July 7, in the Year of our Lord 1741, Jonathan Edwards was preparing to preach the next day his most memorable sermon,  Read More

On this day, July 6, in the Year of our Lord 1415, John Huss was burned at the stake. We honor this day on behalf of the persecuted church worldwide.  Read More

The key to authentic Christianity is learning to live from the inside out.  Read More

On this day, July 4, in the year of our Lord 1776, the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Read More

While this world’s system tries to put ultimate emphasis on the physical, God’s redemptive order is to put the primary emphasis on the spirit, or heart, of a person.  Read More

Everything in the Christian life flows out of being born again.  Read More

On this day, July 1, in the Year of our Lord 1857, the North Dutch Reform Church in New York City appointed Jeremiah Lanphier to do outreach because they were in spiritual decline. Lanphier was forty years old and a single businessman.  Read More

On this day, June 30, in the year of our Lord 1905, the Spirit of God spread like wildfire across India to Puny, Bombay, Yoetmal, Manmad, Hyderabad, and other cities in Gujaret.  Read More

On this day, June 29, in the Year of our Lord 1905, the Holy Spirit poured out the manifest presence of Christ on a group of girls in western India.  Read More

On this day, June 28, in the Year of our Lord 1810, the first official foreign missions organization was founded in the United States, named the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.   Read More

Don’t ever underestimate the power of your prayers for your child.  Read More

Some of the strongest prayers you will ever pray are for your children.  Read More

Not only does Christ allow children to enter the kingdom, He requires all the rest of us to become like children in order to enter.  Read More

Rwanda, Africa on FireThe people of Nineveh believed God. Jonah 3:5On this day, June 24, in the Year of our Lord 1936, the manifest presence of Christ flooded the African country of Rwanda. Groups of believers gathered to sing and worship, and they fell down under the conviction of the Holy Spirit in open repentance and conviction of sin. Following repentance came singing, dancing, and celebration...  Read More

Don’t ever underestimate the power that is released when one person in the family receives salvation.  Read More

A healthy marriage is not just for the enjoyment of the husband and wife; it is also for the enjoyment of God Himself.  Read More

When you serve your spouse, you serve Christ, even when you don’t feel like it.  Read More

On this day, June 20, in the year of our Lord 1907, at the Wesleyan Hall in downtown Boston, Ira David, Bishop over a network of churches, led a corporate gathering where many members came under the power of the Holy Spirit.  Read More

It is easy to allow our marriage to become spiritually dry. If you are married, Jesus obviously did not join you together with your spouse, so that you would drift apart.  Read More

Let’s be honest—most husbands and wives struggle to pray together. This is often an area of defeat in Christian marriages. Today is a perfect day to reverse this pattern and get the victory.  Read More

Declaring your family under the supremacy of Christ is one of the best declarations you will ever make.  Read More

Do you have a family member who does not know Christ? If so, you most likely carry a heavy burden for their salvation.  Read More

Some of the most radical transformations take place when we open the front door of our home to Christ. It’s time to invite Him to live with us inside our family life.  Read More

There are normally five elements to an encounter with Christ. The first is high worship. The second is deep repentance. The third is forgiveness and freedom. The fourth is being filled with the Holy Spirit. The fifth is being empowered for ministry.  Read More

There are normally five elements to an encounter with Christ. The first is high worship. The second is deep repentance. The third is forgiveness and freedom. The fourth is being filled with the Holy Spirit.  Read More

There are normally five elements to an encounter with Christ. The first is high worship. The second is deep repentance. The third is receiving forgiveness for sins and, when necessary, deliverance from evil strongholds.  Read More

There are normally five elements to an encounter with Christ. The first is high worship. The second is deep repentance.  Read More

There are normally five elements to an encounter with Christ. The first element is high worship.  Read More

Good parenting flows from the inside out, from the hearts of fathers and mothers.  Read More

Happy Pentecost Sunday Confidence in the Trinity—One God, three Persons—is essential to effective prayer.  Read More

The final unreached people on earth will never be reached through a lukewarm church. They will only be reached through a revived church that is consistently encountering the manifest presence of Christ.  Read More

God wants to manifest His presence to you in every life situation. Because the promises of God are a means by which God wants to encounter you, there are promises of God waiting for you today.  Read More

More than a warehouse of information, the Bible is more like a gymnasium full of exercise equipment. It is sitting there waiting for you to use it. Today, there are promises of God waiting for you to take hold of like hand weights and begin lifting!  Read More

The Apostle Paul learned to pray the promises of God. Three times Paul pleaded in prayer for his thorn in the flesh to be removed. Instead of removing his problem, God gave Paul a promise—My grace is sufficient. That promise changed everything.  Read More

Healthy lives are made up of healthy habits. There is no more healthy habit than learning to pray the promises of God.  Read More

Consistently praying the promises of God is your daily cross-training for your faith. There is no more relevant promise in the Bible than the promise of His manifest presence consistently with you.  Read More

Our authority over demons is in Christ. On our own it would be utterly presumptuous to assume a posture of authority over evil spirits. Yet in Christ, to fail to exercise spiritual authority would be an abdication of our God-given position.   Read More