Spiritual hunger
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I love reading about past moves of the Spirit. Too often the temptation is too look at a past revival and try to predict a future movement. There is really only one thing that is predictable: prayer. If we then try to say what IS or IS NOT a revival after that, and base it… Read more
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As I pray for my friends Steve and John, two men of God, two ministers, who have battled physical attacks and it has seemed like “night,” I was listening to a sermon by John Kilpatrick. The word he spoke that gave me a new boost in prayer was, “Usually a bad report is a prelude… Read more
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I don’t know how to pray. I don’t know a thing about prayer. Not really. I read about prayer. I read Scripture. I read from people of prayer, from people who have gloriously walked with God, and yet… I don’t know how to prayer. These past few weeks have stretched me in interecessory prayer like… Read more
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Every once in awhile I blog on making a case for humming more. Or whistling. There’s not enough of it in our world anymore. My grandpa was a carpenter. I would watch him work and while he worked, especially when he was cutting a board, or measuring for the cut, he would whistle. As I… Read more
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Yesterday our family was in Duluth and we took a trip to Gooseberry Falls. It’s a state park and the river at that point is magnificent, pouring over a series of falls as it makes its final journey Lake Superior. The falls were immense and strong. Several years ago, we had visited there in August… Read more
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“Your eternal destiny is not cosmic retirement; it is to e part of a tremendously creative project, under unimaginable splendid leadership. on an inconceivably vast scale, with ever increasing cycle of fruitfulness and enjoyment — that is the prophetic vision which ‘eye has not seen and ear has not heard.’” — Dallas Willard It is… Read more
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The call of Jesus to his disciples was to wait until they were clothed with power from on high. In the waiting, we need a sense of anticipation. For the Church, we shouldn’t be waiting alone. We should be waiting together. It’s not about sticking ourselves in a room until something happens… although I’m not… Read more
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Not this: But THIS: 4 Our weapons that we fight with aren’t human, but instead they are powered by God for the destruction of fortresses. They destroy arguments, 5 and every defense that is raised up to oppose the knowledge of God. They capture every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (2 Cor. 10:4-5) Let… Read more
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Two key questions that come up for me when I am trying to walk in a discipline: 1. What keeps me FROM this? 2. What drives me TO this? The first question is ready because it brings guilt. “I know I’m supposed to study the Word, but…” We can come up with reasons: “I can’t get… Read more
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Palm Sunday. It’s a great day of celebration. And examination. The King has come into his Temple and it’s not a pretty trip. Part of the reading of Holy Week can really grate on a person! 7 “Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is close to me!” declares the Lord Almighty.“Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and… Read more
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