Sep 29, 2011 | Prayer & Spiritual Warfare
I enjoy reading anything from E.M. Bounds. He was a saint who lived from 1835 to 1913. He may or may not have known it, but he was prophetic. He was certainly a man of prayer. He said things like this: We have in the Holy Spirit an illustration and an enabler of what...
Sep 28, 2011 | Prayer & Spiritual Warfare
No one could help their son. Sanjeev Trivedi had been under the control of an evil spirit for two years. His parents, Bindusar and Vasanti, had taken him to witch doctors and sorcerers; they had sacrificed chickens and goats to their gods; they had spent large sums of...
Sep 27, 2011 | Faith that Overcomes
Some say you can smell the spirit of death. I wasn’t born again when my great-grandmother was on her death bed—discerning of spirits wasn’t in operation—but I somehow still knew it was the last time I would see her. And she had something...
Sep 26, 2011 | Spiritual Growth
By Brother Lawrence Difference between himself and others. * Faith alone consistently and persistently. * Deprecates this state being considered a delusion. NOT finding my manner of life in books, although I have no difficulty about it, yet, for greater security, I...
Sep 23, 2011 | Prayer & Spiritual Warfare
Umed had been striving to please his gods for many years. Now, when he needed them, they didn’t answer. Having grown up diligently participating in religious activities, Umed was devoted to his family’s traditional beliefs. At some point in this spiritual...
Sep 22, 2011 | Faith that Overcomes
Addressing a congregation with long-held beliefs that it’s shameful for a woman to speak in church isn’t the most comfortable assignment. That's especially true when it’s in a church that’s more than 120 years old and where most in the...
Sep 21, 2011 | Spiritual Growth
By Brother Lawrence How the habitual sense of God’s Presence was found. SINCE you desire so earnestly that I should communicate to you the method by which I arrived at that habitual sense of GOD’s Presence, which our LORD, of His mercy, has been pleased to...
Sep 19, 2011 | Jennifer LeClaire Exclusives, Prophetic Insight
Every time I step out to do something God has called me to do I get smacked upside the head with naysayers and nasty name-callers. The same thing probably happens to you. So what are we going to do about it? I'll admit it. I've wasted far too much time worry...
Sep 16, 2011 | Prophetic Insight
By David Wilkerson Certain elders of Israel came to the prophet Ezekiel seeking direction and guidance from the Lord. These men were not like many of the Israelites, who openly bowed their knees to idols. No, you wouldn’t find these elders in some idol temple,...