Posts with the category “year-on-fire”

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

God loves it when we talk to Him in His own language. Learning to pray the promises of God is the Rosetta Stone of learning His language.  Read More

On this day, May 30, in the year of our Lord 1735, Jonathan Edwards published his book on the manifest presence of Christ at work in North Hampton, Massachusetts, entitled A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God.  Read More

The promises of God define for us what is fair for us to expect from God when we come to Him each day in prayer.  Read More

Today is a good day to remember to embrace the Trinity, one God, three Persons. Understanding the trinity is essential to effective prayer.  Read More

Learning to pray the promises of God is like strapping a jet-pack on your prayer life.  Read More

On this day, May 26, in the year of our Lord 1907, Assemblies of God leader Stanley Frodsham was the baccalaureate speaker for the Nyack College students. Many students, faculty and administrators had fasted and prayed for weeks prior  Read More

Having perfect confidence in the Trinity, one God, three Persons, helps you pray with confidence.  Read More

On this day, May 24, in the Year of our Lord 1738, John Wesley, while attending a Moravian meeting at Aldersgate Street in London, England, listened to the reading of the preface of Martin Luther’s commentary on the book of Romans and was born again.   Read More

On this day, May 23, in the Year of our Lord 1498, the Italian revivalist Girolamo Savonarola was hung in the city square. As the hangman placed the noose around his neck, Savonarola spoke his final words: “The Lord has suffered so much for me.”  Read More

On this day, May 22, in the Year of our Lord 1662, Richard Baxter preached at St. Bride’s Church in Blackfriars, England. He stood at the pulpit and invited the manifest presence of Christ. God came.  Read More

On this day, May 21, in the Year of our Lord 1738, Charles Wesley met Christ as his Savior. He was so filled with joy over his conversion that he wrote his first, and perhaps greatest hymn, “And Can It Be.” Three days later, his brother, John, would also meet Christ.  Read More

You are never too young to be called by God. God knows just the right time to reveal to you your distinct calling. He is never too late; He is never too early.  Read More

We all want to be led by the Holy Spirit. We love it when the Holy Spirit leads us up on the mountain, or to the front of the line, or into the spotlight. But when was the last time the Holy Spirit led you into the wilderness—did you obey His leading?  Read More

Acknowledging the Trinity, one God, three Persons, is essential to effective prayer.  Read More

It is essential that when you pray you understand who you are talking with. You are talking with none other than the One True God whose Son is Jesus Christ. Affirming the Trinity is essential to any healthy prayer life.  Read More

The deity of Christ is not simply another plank in our doctrinal statement, it is a life-giving reality you want to declare with confidence when you pray.  Read More

Take time today to consider what it means to be a coheir with Christ. It will blow your mind.  Read More

Calling God ‘Father’ is not a right you earn or deserve, but it is a right you receive when you come to Christ. Christ alone gives you the right to call God, Father.  Read More

Breaking off the orphan spirit is nothing you can accomplish through your efforts; Christ accomplishes it for you.  Read More

Christ is the one who conquers the orphan spirit.  Read More

On this day, May 11, in the year of our Lord 1727, Nicholas Ludwig Von Zinzendorf welcomed a mighty move of prevailing prayer. He and his young congregation gathered for a praise service where he exhorted them toward unity within their fellowship and spontaneously, a wave of confession, repentance of sin, and a burden for prevailing prayer broke out among them.  Read More

Christ tells us we are not orphans, but the orphan spirit tries to convince us otherwise. It is all too easy to believe the lie.  Read More

Perhaps the greatest enemy to your intimacy with Christ is the orphan spirit. When God is your Father, no one can steal your birthright, but the orphan spirit works overtime to question your birthright.  Read More

We have turned away from the persecuted church for too long. We can no longer turn away; we must turn toward our precious brothers and sisters whose lives are on the line.  Read More

God is inviting you to stand in prayer with the persecuted church. What do you say?  Read More

Let’s face it, most of us feel incapable of praying for the persecuted church. We even feel unworthy. Who are we to pray for these precious people whose lives are on the line everyday for Christ? What do we know about persecution?  Read More