Posts with the category “year-on-fire”

Today is known as Good Friday, the day on the Christian calendar when we pause to honor the crucified Christ. At 12 noon that day, darkness was over the entire land until 3 PM.   Read More

On the Christian calendar, today is what is known as Maunday Thursday, or the Thursday prior to the crucifixion when Jesus gave the mandate to love one another. This was a major upper room encounter for Jesus and his disciples.  Read More

Christ is the Door and the Doorkeeper. He shuts doors that are impossible to open, and He opens doors that are impossible to shut. Of the seven “I AM” self disclosures Jesus gives in the Gospel of John, this Name has strategic significance for us as we pray.  Read More

On this day, April 15, in the year of our Lord 1906, God profoundly manifested His presence in the New Testament Church in Los Angeles pastored by Joseph Smale.  Read More

When you pray in the Name of Jesus, you are praying in the Name of the great I AM. Dating all the way back to Father God’s encounter with Moses in Exodus 3:14 when He declared, “I AM who I AM,” Jesus is now revealing Himself as one-in-the-same I AM.   Read More

In one way or another, effective prayer always leads by declaring the supremacy of Jesus’ Name.  Read More

When you pray, do you lead with Jesus’ Name? Or do you tack it on the end?  Read More

Declaring the deity of Christ in prayer is absolutely essential. Without it, our prayers will never get off the ground.  Read More

On this day, April 10, in the year of our Lord 1852, William Booth not only celebrated his twenty-third birthday, he became a full-time preacher in Clapham, England. William Booth went on to become one of the greatest evangelists and soul winners of his generation.  Read More

The Holy Spirit can pray up a storm in the weakest vessel. Do you qualify? Can you sincerely say, I do not know what to pray for as I ought?  Read More

The Name of Jesus is more than a password that gives you access to God in prayer. Jesus is a person who wants to take you by the hand today and give you access into the presence of your loving Father.  Read More

There is no more empowering name than the Name of Jesus. As you declare His Name in prayer today, remember, you are declaring the great I AM.  Read More

We are sheep and we need a shepherd; without a shepherd, we are lost.  Read More

Healthy Christians long for the visible, bodily return of Christ. They live in anticipation of His second coming. They even pray for His soon appearing.  Read More

When Jesus invites you to come, His invitation is instantly empowering. The full force of the resurrection is available when God says come.  Read More

When Jesus invites stressed out people to come to Him, He not only promises them His presence, He promises them peace and rest as well.  Read More

When God invites you to come to Him, He is not only giving you permission, He is giving you divine empowerment. Never walk away from God’s invitation to come, or you will be missing out on an opportunity of a lifetime.  Read More

On this day, April 1, in the year of our Lord 1906, William Seymour received his own personal Pentecost. Within eight days he would welcome the great Azusa Street Revival that would rock the nations. On this day, he received his own personal revival that rocked his soul.  Read More

On this day, March 31, in the year of our Lord 1739, John Wesley preached his first sermon. He stood in an open field as he preached his heart out.  Read More

As you pray for your pastor today, would you ask God to set him on fire?  Read More

As you pray today, it is important to declare the supremacy of Christ.  Read More

If you are having trouble loving someone, the problem may be more of a spiritual issue than a relational issue.  Read More

There are not many times in the Gospels where we find Jesus this impressed with someone’s faith.  Read More

God loves faith. He looks for faith. When Christ was physically here on earth, He was able to spot faith a mile away. It was as if He had a faith-Geiger counter inside His chest that would start to vibrate whenever He got close to faith.  Read More

Faith is not self generated; it is God-given. Most of us have faced dark moments when we have beaten ourselves up for having weak faith. We reason that since faith is required in order to get anything from God, when we are desperate for a miracle, we think we need to pump up our faith into a heightened state of optimism.  Read More

As you grow in Christ, you grow in faith and as you grow in faith, you grow in Christ. It’s not one without the other, but it is one in front of the other. When it comes to faith-building, you want Jesus to go first.  Read More

There is nothing more robust than new faith, and there is nothing more faith-building than the promises of God.  Read More

On this day, March 22, in the year of our Lord 1758, Jonathan Edwards died. He has been called by many the greatest American theologian who ever lived.  Read More

God wants to grow your faith. During Jesus’ discipleship ministry, He did not rebuke His disciples often. In fact, there is only one reason for which He ever rebuked His disciples—because of their unbelief. He rebuked them three times for being, “an unbelieving, sinful generation.”  Read More

On this day, March 20, in the year of our Lord 1858, Burton’s Theater in New York City, New York, was filled with the manifest presence of Christ. Three thousand people were miraculously converted in a single service. What a day!  Read More

That short prayer is a good one for all of us to use periodically. “Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief!” Jesus must have liked it—look at how quickly He responded!  Read More

The impact of your prayers does not depend on the size of your faith, but on the size of your God.  Read More

It is unfortunate Saint Patrick is known only for shamrocks, leprechauns and tall drafts of beer. While history has forgotten the important facts, it is time for us to recover the real story.  Read More

Some people pray with a whimper. Some casually knock. Some seek if they have nothing better to do. Others, however, ask as if their life depended on it; they strain every nerve as they are seeking, and they knock until their knuckles are raw.  Read More

Everyone prays, but not everyone is devoted to prayer. A person who dabbles in prayer dabbles in the manifest presence of Christ. Anyone who dabbles in God’s presence has obviously missed the point. Those who are devoted to prayer are normally those who are devoted to God’s presence.  Read More

God wants to build your faith muscle. He not only wants you to want what He wants, He wants you to go after it with all your heart. There is nothing more relevant to muscle-building faith than asking for the nations. Asking for the nations is part of the maturing process of prayer.  Read More

When God’s manifest presence came to Jonathan Edwards church in North Hampton, Massachusetts, in 1734, the move of God started with young people. Many revivals throughout history stirred among young adults.  Read More

Do not sell your children short when it comes to their ability to know God and to encounter His manifest presence. More than simply raising good kids, we want to raise godly kids—champions who forcefully advance Christ’s Kingdom.  Read More

Control central in the entire universe is not in Washington, D.C. -- nor is it in the Oval Office nor on Capitol Hill. It is not the Ayatollah in Iran, nor the Kremlin in Russia, nor the Parliament in England, nor the European Union. The New Testament shows us that control central in the entire universe is the upper room in heaven from which God carries out His will through the upper room on earth.  Read More

On this day, March 10, in the year of our Lord 2001, Armin Gesswein died. Today we honor the one whom many people called, “the apostle of the modern prayer movement.”   Read More