How Mentoring Changed My Life
When I was new in the things of the Holy Spirit, at the height of the Jesus People and the Charismatic Movements, I found myself hungering to be mentored by someone. I was an absolute “no one from nowhere” but the hunger in my heart had no limitations. So, I saved up the little money I had and bought a book by Derek Prince called Shaping History through Prayer and Fasting. This was followed by Andrew Murray’s classic book, With Christ in the School of Prayer, and then No Easy Road by Dick Eastman, which I read at least ten times. These [...]
The BIG SHIFT: From Victory, Not Towards Victory
You are not a loser. I am not a loser. None of us who belong to Jesus are losers. We do not labor toward victory, but from victory. In all reality, this one truth affects every aspect of the Christian life—especially our prayer lives! Yes, the One to whom we pray has already won the spiritual battle once and for all. Jesus is the Victor! As long as we are on this earth, we will have a vital role to play—to help enforce the victory of Calvary—but we do not have to worry about the final outcome, because it was decided already [...]
The Power of Coming into Agreement
Jesus told us to persist—continuously and tirelessly—in asking, seeking, and knocking on the doors of heaven.The New Living Translation emphasizes the ongoing action of Jesus’ words:“And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and you will the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.” (Luke 11:9-10 NLT)Keep on doing it. Keep on keeping on. Keep on praying!I also want to urge you to keep on coming—keep coming [...]
First Nations Outreach
This summer, our GEM Missions mission focus is on our friends Charles and Siouxsan Robinson, founders The Red Road. They have ministered to the First Nations Peoples throughout the U.S. and Canada for many years. This year they are visiting a number of reservations to minister to the poorest of the people. We want to help them bring the hope in Christ by blessing these precious people with the necessities of everyday life. We invite you to join with us in this opturnity to bless the First Nations Peoples. Mark Roye Director of GEM Missions James W. Goll Founder of God Encounters [...]
Removing All Common Ground with the Enemy
As a prayer warrior, would you consider yourself a good “wrestler?” Or do you run at the first sign of contention, having lost battles too often? In order to fight effectively, we must know clearly who our enemy is and what our weapons are, removing all common ground with the enemy. I hope that you, along with all other believers and intercessors, can recognize yourself in these words of Paul: “We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” Ephesians 6:12. When Paul [...]
Praying in These 9 Locations Will Change the World
Across the world, the Spirit of God has been stirring intercessors to begin praying like this. Some pray while walking their cities, street by street, following pre-arranged plans. Others prayer walk only occasionally, under a special anointing. They pray everything from general “blessing” prayers to finely tuned, detailed prayers that displace demonic spirits of darkness. They do not all pray expecting necessarily to see immediate, short-term results, because many have faith for the long haul that reaches into the future. Intercessors prayer walk in their own neighborhoods as they walk past each house. They spread out to other neighborhoods and commercial districts, [...]
Exposing Demonic Gateways
Today it appears that the enemy’s fingerprints are on just about everything. We can become so accustomed to them that we allow him to carry on his dirty work unchallenged. Intercession Challenges the Devil’s Work Well, not forever. When intercessors get involved, they challenge the powers of darkness. People who know how to pray effectively also know how to apply the Word of God to figure out what, exactly, they are dealing with. They know that God’s people have an enemy who opposes them at every opportunity. They also know that their prayers put a restraining order on the devil and the work [...]
7 Benefits of the Blood of Jesus
In the Scriptures, we can find at least seven benefits concerning what the blood of Jesus has done for us. We overcome the devil and his works when we testify to what Jesus’s blood has accomplished. We become like those believers who are already in heaven, having followed Him faithfully all the way: “They triumphed over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death” (Revelation 12:11 NIV). Jesus’s triumph over the powers of darkness is reinforced whenever we agree with and declare the [...]