God Encounters Ministries in partnership with Empower 2000 presents: Free Webinar with James W. Goll Do You Cast a Powerful Shadow? Increase Your Impact Through Prayer, the Prophetic, and the Presence of God Tuesday, August 8th @ 3:00 PM CST / 4:00 PM EST Replay available for all registered attendees! Click here to Register for the Free Webinar
I want to bring you a word of exhortation — this is simple, but simple things can be profound — your prayer counts and your sacrifice matters. Habakkuk 3:2 says, “Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.” We all need mercy, don’t we. In prayer revivals, this scripture is one of the most prayed in all the Bible. I've heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds. Lord, I remind you, I repeat [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
"With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints" (Eph. 6:18, NASB1995). Multiple forms of prayer exist with great diversities of application, including every expression from devotional communion with God, to praying and singing in the Spirit or in the gift of tongues, to spiritual warfare dimensions accenting the gift of discerning of spirits. In addition to these different models of prayer we also have petitions, devotional contemplation, travail, the prayer of tears, reminding God of His Word and [...]
