Posts with the category “year-on-fire”

God wants to not only teach you what to look for in order to recognize His kingdom, He wants you to pray with your eyes open so that you know how to recognize the kingdom when it comes.  Read More

It is essential to have an accurate view of Christ when you pray.   Read More

When the Apostle John saw the risen, ascended, glorified, exalted Christ, he saw Him standing in the middle of seven flame holders. The Greek word used here is LUXNOS, which represented a freestanding piece of furniture that held oil and was continuously lit as a flame holder. This means that the church exists for one primary purpose: to hold out the flame of the manifest presence of Christ.  Read More

No one knew Jesus better than the Apostle John who was called the beloved disciple. John laid his head against Jesus’ chest. He had been invited into Jesus’ closest circle of friends, and when His mother stood at the foot of the cross watching Jesus die, the Lord said to John, Here is your mother.  Read More

The Apostle John was a political prisoner of Rome on the island of Patmos when he was conspicuously re-filled with the Holy Spirit. Within moments he encountered the manifest presence of Christ in a way he had never encountered Him before.  Read More

Every encounter with the manifest presence of Christ thrusts you more forcefully on mission with God. When the Apostle John was utterly ravaged by encountering the glorified, ascended, exalted Christ and was reduced to a heap of ashes in true, on-your-face worship, Jesus didn’t leave him there on the floor.  Read More

Fear is often the natural response when you encounter the manifest presence of Christ because you are encountering the unknown.  Read More

Imagine feeling the hand of God on your shoulder, or on your forehead. Most of us will never experience that sensation, but the Apostle John did. You can know, however, the reality of what God’s hand transmitted to John.  Read More

You always want to be battle-ready to face the day. Since both your authority and your identity are in Christ, you can confidently put on your battle-ready armor right now.  Read More

Every morning when you get out of bed, no matter what else you will face that day, your two most significant battles are these: 1) Will you praise the Lord? 2) Will you encounter the steadfast love of God? If you can win these two battles, you can win every other issue you face.  Read More

Every promise God gives to us in the Bible is a means by which He intends us to encounter His manifest presence and to actually become partakers of the divine nature.  Read More

When King David was in crisis mode following his lapse in judgment and moral failure, he took firm hold of the attributes of God in prayer—His steadfast love and abundant mercy.  Read More

On this day, October 13, in the year of our Lord 1971, God wonderfully manifested His presence in Saskatchewan, Canada. Pastor Bill McLeod invited evangelists Ralph and Lou Sutera to speak at his church.  Read More

It is in the act of being worshipped that God often chooses to reveal Himself.   Read More

All true worship rises out of an encounter with Christ; it expresses itself in a profound appreciation of God’s Name. In these two verses from Psalm 18, King David declares no fewer than ten distinct names of God. Powerful!  Read More

On this day, October 10, in the year of our Lord 1821, Charles Finney encountered the manifest presence of Christ. He fell weeping at Jesus’ feet and cried out, “‘I receive the mighty baptism of the Holy Ghost’…without expecting it,  Read More

Tomorrow marks a significant anniversary. On October 10, in the year of our Lord 1942, a revival broke out at the Missionary Training Institute in Nyack, New York. A.W. Tozer was the speaker.   Read More

King David often began his prayer by appropriately declaring the Name of God . He teaches us an important principle—the Name of God is given to us as a powerful weapon for us to use in prayer as we enter into God’s presence and advance His kingdom.  Read More

When you pray, don’t waste your time praying from a spirit of rejection. The orphan spirit has no place in your prayer life. God the Holy Spirit has not given you a spirit of slavery so that you fall back into fear of rejection.  Read More

To be filled with the Holy Spirit is to be filled with the love of God.  Read More

On this day, October 5, in the Year of our Lord 1703, Jonathan Edwards was born to the Reverend and Mrs. Timothy Edwards. The young Jonathan quickly distinguished himself as a child prodigy, learning to read Latin by the age of six and writing remarkable treatises on insects, botany and science by the age of eleven.  Read More

If you lose contact with the love of God, your prayer life will shrivel up like a dead frog on an expressway. The fastest way to revive your prayer life is to begin your time of Christ-encountering prayer each day by receiving a fresh infilling of His overwhelming love for you.  Read More

Too many people have turned their prayer lives into an anxiety session. They pray themselves into a nervous frenzy. They are more upset and worried about life after they are finished praying than when they started. This is messed up.  Read More

If your prayer life has become dry and boring, I can almost guarantee why. Most likely, you have made your prayer time more about your love for Him than about His love for you. It’s time to reverse your focus.  Read More

Let’s not make prayer too complicated. The greatest commandment is love. God is love. What motivates all true prayer is love.  Read More

Christ invites you to frequently spend an hour with Him in prayer just as He invited His disciples. Why? Very simply, because He loves you and He wants to spend time with you.  Read More

On this day, September 29, in the year of our Lord 1903, the Welsh Revival broke out. It was a sustained move of God that lasted more than 24 months.  Read More

When you love Jesus, it is easy to rejoice always. Jesus is your life, your joy, your fulfillment, your hope, and your purpose in life.  Read More

There may not be a verse in the entire Bible from which we think we are somehow more exempt more than this one—pray without ceasing.  Read More

Simon and Andrew enjoyed their careers as fishermen in the family business. They were ready to walk in their father’s footsteps until they chose the footsteps of Jesus. The two words Follow Me changed everything  Read More

On this day, September 25, in the Year of our Lord 1949, Armin Gesswein facilitated a prayer meeting with two thousand people praying in a tent on one side of the street while Billy Graham preached his Los Angeles Crusade to ten thousand people on the other side of the street.   Read More

As people who enjoy serving Christ, it is always beneficial to make sure what juices us the most is not what we do for God, but what He does through us.  Read More

On this day, September 23, in the year of our Lord 1857, Jeremiah Lanphier knelt in prayer all by himself in the upper lecture room of Old North Dutch Reform Church in New York City, New York. He had rigorously distributed handfuls of invitations to this noon time one-hour business person’s prayer meeting.  Read More

On this day, September 22, in the year of our Lord 1967, Raymond Edman, beloved President of Wheaton College stood before the student body to give what would be his last chapel address and his final moment on earth.  Read More

Tomorrow is the birthday of the College of Prayer International. On September 22, in the year of our Lord, 1997, the College of Prayer was born. 120 students gathered at Toccoa Falls College in Toccoa, Georgia for four days of encountering the manifest presence of Christ.   Read More

What makes the ground on which you stand holy is not your feet, nor socks, nor shoes; what makes the ground holy is the manifest presence of God. When God manifests His presence, He immediately changes the everyday common into the extraordinary holy.  Read More

On this day, September 19, in the year of our Lord 1906, the Holy Spirit of God swept through an orphanage in Khamgaon, India. God’s presence was so strong that the children stood for an extended time of silence, hands lifted up prayerfully to the Lord.  Read More

When you pray, no matter what else you ask for, you always want to ask for the Holy Spirit.  Read More

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