Prayer
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☆ WE WERE CREATED, DESTINED, AND MADE FOR GOD’S GLORY! Glorious… honorable… wealthy… majestic… radiant… Most Christians would never use those words to describe themselves. But that’s because we don’t see ourselves as God sees us. Through our new birth, we have become the supernatural children of a supernatural God, or as the Amplified Bible
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(NOTE: This week’s post continued below) ************************************************ NEWS FLASH! URGENT PRAYER NEEDED! We are sure that by now you are aware of the desperate plight of the Iranian people. Thousands of unarmed Iranians have been slaughtered in the streets of their nation as they protested against their evil and tyrannical government, Many thousands more have
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(NOTE: This week’s post continued below) ************************************************ NEWS FLASH! URGENT PRAYER NEEDED! The Berlin wall fell in November 1989. This historic event ripped open the Iron Curtain, ending the Cold War, and resulting in the collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It marked a powerful turning point for the
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Glory to God! We’ve just entered a shiny, brand New Year! Hopefully, now, we’re all revived, refreshed, and renewed… with God’s passionate fire rekindled and blazing intensely in the fireplace of our hearts. Late last year Holy Spirit began to lead me to study the prayers of Jesus. As I studied, I wrote a series
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Jesus prayed… He prayed at every opportunity. He prayed earnestly. He prayed urgently. He prayed intensely. He prayed powerfully. He prayed productively. He prayed passionately. Jesus prayed with focus, faith, and fire. He prayed at His baptism in the Jordan.He prayed before choosing the apostles.He prayed before feeding the multitudes.He prayed publicly, and He prayed
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Before beginning this week’s post, I would like to thank those who have responded to the recent tragic events in the Philippines with their heart-felt prayers for the people of Cebu and the neighboring provinces. Relief and recovery work in the hardest hit areas is ongoing, and there is still much to do. Please continue
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This week, as I have thought about and prayed for the Philippines, I felt Holy Spirit drawing me to the following passage of scripture: ¹¹ “(God said) ‘(Elijah), leave this cave, and go standon the mountainside in my presence.’ The Eternal passed by him. The mighty wind separated the mountains and crumbled every stone before
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As I chronicled in my previous post, the Philippines has recently been pummeled and pounded by a series of catastrophic natural disasters. The island of Cebu, where I lived and worked as a missionary for many years, was hit especially hard. First, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in northern Cebu, struck on the
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As you know, I was a missionary in the Philippines for more than 13 years, and it quickly became my adopted home. Filipino people are gentle, caring, cheerful, hard-working, resilient, and family-oriented.They quickly find their way into your heart. The nation of the Philippines has many nicknames, one of which is “Land of the Morning”.
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One of the greatest mysteries in all of eternity is this: Man was made in the image and likeness of God. (Genesis 1:26) And Jesus, God in the flesh, was made in the likeness of man. Philippians 2:7 says that Jesus: “… became human! He humbled Himself and became vulnerable, choosing to be revealed as
His Heart, My Home 