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9 Aug, 2021

5 Keys to a Life of God Encounters

By James Goll|2021-10-12T16:03:35-05:00August 9th, 2021|Charisma Blog|0 Comments

By the grace of God, my life has been filled with "God encounters"—God taking me to mountaintops, leading me through the valleys and walking with me in the small moments, every step of every day.And you can live a life filled with God encounters too.Guiding people into encounters with God has been my passionate pursuit for many decades. During all this time I have seen proof repeatedly: "God encounters are for everyone!"5 Keys to a Life of God EncountersInitially, I thought I would keep it simple and highlight prayer, the presence of God and the prophetic.But as I prayed more [...]

2 Aug, 2021

Why You Should Pray for God’s Wisdom Ways

By James Goll|2021-08-02T14:55:00-05:00August 2nd, 2021|Charisma Blog|0 Comments

"And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men" (Luke 2:52, NKJV). Wisdom is one of the primary qualities of God's Holy Spirit—in Isaiah 11:1-3, the spirit of wisdom is listed as one of the seven Spirits of God. He is wisdom personified: "God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself" (1 Cor. 1:30, NLT). I would say wisdom is even more vital to prophetic people than the divine revelation they receive because only through God-sent wisdom can they know how to handle the word [...]

26 Jul, 2021

Identifying and Praying Into Our Core Values

By James Goll|2021-07-26T10:31:30-05:00July 26th, 2021|Charisma Blog|0 Comments

The Lord spoke to me about my core values more than 40 years ago when I was a young pastor, and what I learned then has stuck with me. At the time, I was not thinking 40 or 50 or even 100 years into the future; I was just thinking about the week ahead and my next Sunday sermon. Yet out of the blue, this sentence occurred to me, and I knew it was from God: "Your end-time worldview will determine your lifestyle." The Lord wasn't delineating to me what my end-time worldview should be. He was simply pointing [...]

19 Jul, 2021

Revelation’s Ultimate Purpose: Presenting Jesus to the World

By James Goll|2021-07-19T11:26:01-05:00July 19th, 2021|Charisma Blog|0 Comments

The ultimate purpose of discerning revelation is presenting Jesus to the world. In other words, we let God's Word become flesh in us so that others can experience Him. One of joys in my life is the people I have the honor of working with. One of them is Jeffrey Thompson, the project manager for my ministry, God Encounters Ministries. Here, he tells about a revelatory experience he had with the Lord that expresses revelation's ultimate purpose: One day not long ago, I was given the opportunity to preach at the church where I serve part-time on the pastoral staff. [...]

12 Jul, 2021

Prophet: Learning to Listen With Discernment

By James Goll|2021-07-12T14:54:52-05:00July 12th, 2021|Charisma Blog|0 Comments

Learning to listen with discernment means that you begin to recognize the voice of God so well that other voices sound unfamiliar. In John 10:5a, Jesus told his followers, "Yet they will never follow a stranger." This statement needs to become a reality in your life. It takes practice and requires that you learn well the lessons in listening with discernment offered to all of us by the Holy Spirit. Don't be so overly zealous, that instead of making the time to take driver's training classes, you quickly get into the fastest car you can find and go off to [...]