Prayer
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Luke 10:1-11:13 is about basic discipleship. I quite frequently let the chapter breaks (which were added centuries later) effect how I read a unit. I think the unit here is from 10:1 to 11:13. Four basic things concerning discipleship: 1. Bold proclamation 2. Radical love for the neighbor 3. Intimate worship with Jesus 4. Bold prayer… Read more
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That is a phrase I read in Mark Batterson’s book quite a bit. Sometimes God shows up and sometimes he shows off. God shows up. He showed up for us and our church this week. Right on time. I will admit, it was so much “on time” (and I really didn’t realize just HOW on… Read more
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The place of the miracle… the place of God doing something spectacular… is a dangerous place to be. We, as believers, need to plan. We need to work hard. But at the end of the day, if we have worked hard and planned well and something good happens… is it just us working hard and… Read more
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Luke 8 lays out several areas where Jesus demonstrates his authority. The Kingdom is powerful over nature, demons, death, and sickness. Then, in Luke 9:1-6, Jesus tells them simply to go repeat what they’ve seen him do. They obeyed. Here’s our challenge: Don’t argue yourself out of a victory. If Jesus said, “Go do this.… Read more
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Our church has been in the process of selling our building over the last several months. A journey that began almost a year ago is about to take a tremendous step up. Last June the Lord gave me the idea in prayer to sell the building and take the proceed to invest in a new… Read more
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The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones… Read more
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I am meditating through the temptation of Jesus in Luke 4 again. I am continually challenged with the thought of Jesus being full of the Spirit, then led BY the Spirit into spiritual battle. We pray for spiritual power, but we don’t want the battles. Miracles don’t happen in calm times. Jesus didn’t walk on… Read more
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My journey in prayer and Scripture currently has me reading prayerfully through the Old Testament narratives beginning in 1 Samuel. The prayerful journey is to think in terms of spiritual warfare. 1 Samuel 14 is a story that draws me because of the contrast between Jonathan and Saul. I remember youth speakers really embellishing this… Read more
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