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My Soul Melts…
There is a verse in the book of Psalms and I find that it speaks to me more and more lately for various reasons. What is the verse? It is Psalm 119:28. “My soul melts from heaviness. Strengthen me according to Your Word.” You may be wondering why that verse of all the amazing ones in Psalms? It’s because it reveals a place that I think we – those of us seeking Him- have to get to so we can…
Prayer Life #29
More is at stake through our prayer life than what we think! Worldwide revival waits on the reverent, submissive prayer of God’s people, in the same way that Jesus submitted His life to the Father’s will and, in turn, was the instrument used to bring salvation. As we submit our lives to the Father’s will, He can then use our lives to touch a lost and hurting world. Prayer adjusted Jesus fully to the Father’s will and God’s great salvation…
Prayer Life #28
Because of Jesus’s prayer life and His obedience to what He learned, a watching world came to know and experience the wonders and the truths of the father. In John 14:9-10 Jesus proclaims, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father” and “the Father who dwells in Me does the works.” When Jesus spoke these word He went on to makes this surprising statement to His disciples in John 14:12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes…
Prayer Life #27
From Jesus’s times of prayer with the Father, followed by His obedience to the Father’s will as revealed in those times, Jesus did not fail in anything God gave Him to do. Because He always listened to His Father’s agenda and was always obedient, the Father was free to fully accomplish His eternal purposes through the Son. Jesus knew that the Father had eternity in mind each time He prayed. This is revealed at the most crucial moment for…
Prayer Life #26
Jesus was faithful to live out obedience to the Father’s agenda and many times the disciples did not understand what He was doing. These were the times that He had to rebuke them and remind them of the Father’s activity. The most memorable time was in Matt. 16:21-22 Peter actually “took Him aside and began to rebuke Him” after Jesus had told the disciples that He must go to Jerusalem to be killed and be raised again the third day.…
Prayer Life #25
As Jesus understood the plan of God for His life, He also understood that without the guidance and the strength of the Father He would not be able to carry it out. Jesus understood His need for constant intervention from the Father, and His life from the very beginning proved His dependence on the Father. The constant witness we see from Jesus’s life is a life of empowerment through dependence on the mighty power of God the Father. In…
Serving As WARRIORS
Battle Boot Camp – will you be my “Battle Buddy” for this mission? Good morning to all of you… I’m going to just put this out there this morning because I am TIRED! I am tired of the enemy and the scheming ways he tries to get to us. AND when what he does doesn’t work…. he goes in another way to hit harder. Well guess what?! That ain’t gonna work either! I am wondering how many of you are…
Prayer Life series #24
John 14:116-17 “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, and Standby), that He may remain with you forever—The Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive (welcome, take to its heart), because it does not see Him or know and recognize Him. But you know and recognize Him, for He lives with you (constantly) and will be in you.” John 14:26 “But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate,…
Prayer Life series #23
God’s Word shows us that even at the young age of twelve, Jesus was very much aware of following His Father’s agenda. In Luke 2:49 in response to His parent’s frantic search for Him, which finally ended when they found Him in the temple, He asked them: “Why did you seek Me? Did you not know that I must be about My father’s business?” From an early age, Jesus was following His Father’s agenda, and the Father’s will always came…
Prayer Life series #22
Jesus’s entire life was patterned by His daily adjustments to the Father’s will Jesus said it this way in John 8:29: “I always do those things that please the Father.” Obedience was an absolute for Jesus and it has to be for us too. Every time Jesus entered the Father’s presence, His understanding was opened to what the Father was doing. Having learned the Father’s agenda through prayer, and after preparing Himself through prayer for each assignment God gave Him,…
Prayer Life series #21
Jesus’s entire life was patterned by His daily adjustments to the Father’s will Jesus said it this way in John 8:29: “I always do those things that please the Father.” Obedience was an absolute for Jesus and it has to be for us too. Every time Jesus entered the Father’s presence, His understanding was opened to what the Father was doing. Having learned the Father’s agenda through prayer, and after preparing Himself through prayer for each assignment God gave Him,…
Prayer Life #20
We have to apply this lesson to our lives, or we miss the whole point of it. Does Jesus know what we are about to encounter? Does He know the temptations that we are about to experience? Yes, He does! And He wants to prepare us for them in advance through our relationship with Him in prayer. Be sensitive to the Lord when He calls you to go further with Him in prayer. In these times, expect Him to reveal…