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Fresh move of God
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 solely on what we’ve read…
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The concert of prayer
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 I have yet to be…
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The rush of the Spirit
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 and the falls were so…
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How to wait
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 sure that’s not a completely…
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A passionate prayer, a hunger for God
No longer from thy creature stay, My author and my end. The bliss thou hast for me prepared, No longer be delay’d: Come, my exceeding great reward, For whom I first was made. Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, And seal me thine abode! Let all I am in thee be lost: Let all be lost in God. — John…
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Frontline Prayer
I am getting into Timothy Keller’s book Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City. I have been refreshed by the subject matter of prayer, and more specifically revival prayer. He discusses “frontline prayer,” which consists of these elements: 1. A request for grace to confess sins and to humble ourselves. 2. A compassion and zeal for the flourishing of the church…
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Are you happy to suffer for others?
When it comes to thinking of others, we might do well. But to suffer for others? And be happy about it? What planet are you from? Now I’m happy to be suffering for you. I’m completing what is missing from Christ’s sufferings with my own body. I’m doing this for the sake of his body, which is the church. (Col. 1:24) We can relegate…
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Does Jesus know you showed up?
Luke 8 has the story of the woman who had been bleeding for 12 years. It’s a great story of “pressing in” (literally) to Jesus. The question that comes to my heart today is this: “Are you so passionate about prayer that Jesus knows you just showed up?” All the people pressing in, Jesus knew something happened when the woman touched him.…
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Living in Jubilee
I am reading prayerfully through the Gospel of Luke and today found me in Chapter 7. It has been a chapter I’ve slowly worked through in prayer the last couple of days, and I imagine I may be here a little longer. It is a wonderful place to start a New Year. As I reflect on life and ministry, the…
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Praying the impossibilities into possibilities
A few days ago I was meditating on the Isaiah 2 text for the first Sunday of Advent. The challenge from the Spirit when I woke up that morning was this: pray differently. One of the texts for next Sunday is Isaiah 11:1-10. It seems I am still being stirred by the Spirit to pray differently. It is to pray the impossible prayers.…
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