November 2010 Blog Posts (35)

Because prayer is vital to spiritual warfare and because we tend to spend little time in silence in and listening I would suggest the following pattern for prayer. I have developed this over the years and have found it very helpful to me and I hope it is helpful to you as well. I call it WARTIME prayer and I will give a brief summary below. If you spend 5 minutes on each segment you will pray for a half hour, if you spent 10 minutes on each part you will pray for a full hour. When I have…

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Psalm 36:10-12

Oh, continue your steadfast love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart! Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away. There the evildoers lie fallen; they are thrust down, unable to rise.



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Connect The Dots

I was very blessed to have an enjoyable drive to work. Most of it was back country road, no interstate…

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Veterans have given of themselves to serve our country. Some were physically

hurt during their tour of duty. Some were psychologically hurt in Vietnam by

the actions in our country. There has been some healing here—but scars remain.

Some have what is called Post Traumatic Syndrome. Some of our pastors are

veterans—and that includes some of you, and others reading this are Veterans too.

I too am a Veteran and share this request as a Veteran.



Why don’t we ask God… Continue

Psalm 36:5-9

Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds. Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your judgments are like the great deep; man and beast you save, O LORD. How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. For with you is the fountain of… Continue

Psalm 36:1-4

To the choirmaster. Of David, the servant of the LORD. Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated. The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good. He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.… Continue

Group Type=Group Activity

Small groups are often defined by their main activity. This is a good approach, but let me offer my alternative.

Before deciding on a specific activity for your group, think through the central reason for which the group exists.

• Process-oriented groups focus on the spiritual and/or social relationships among the members. What the group does is secondary.
• Content-oriented…

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The New Vision for the Mom's Day of Prayer Ministry in 2011 is for each Saturday of the year to have a MDOP. 47 weekends - 47 MDOP Coordinators - 47 Churches! The only Saturdays we are leaving out are January 1st and all the Saturdays in December. Please visit the MDOP website at www.momsdayofprayer.com.

As one MDOP attendee said, "I wonder how many of our precious children will be spared from suicide, rape, abortion, sexual…

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Asking for prayers for a team that will depart tomorrow (Monday, Nov. 8) to Zimbabwe to minister and teach. We will return on, Tuesday, Nov. 16. Would appreciate your prayers.

1. Safe air travel…

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Pray For Unction In The Pulpit

By Leonard Ravenhill

It requires neither top bracket intelligence nor yet super-spirituality to curse the darkness. It does require God-fashioned, God-filled and God-fired men to bring revival! We need some lion-hearted, wise-as-a-serpent prophets,…

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Prevailing in Prayer by Dr. Walter Fletcher

PERSONAL PRAYER

“In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation”(Psalm 5:3 NIV).

“Why do you pray?” someone may ask me. My answer is “I Need To Pray!” In the end, the prayers…

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I don't know about you, but I'm on a quest to become a more self-less pray-er, so I have been looking for something that would be sort of an "Intercessory Prayer for Dummies." My search led me to one of the Classic Christian authors on Prayer, Andrew Murray, and to his book, "The Ministry of Intercession".

Not everyone as we know, is into prayer, much less Intercessory Prayer. I've been asking myself why some are such strong and persistent prayer warriors while others are not.…

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The US Lausanne Committee



THE PRAISE & PRAYER REPORT for

The Mission America Coalition!



--PRAISE GOD for His love, grace and mercy for His loving provision for the MA Coalition Ministries. "May we seek You, dear Lord, while You may be found; call upon You while You are near." (Jeremiah 10:6)



--PRAISE GOD for His protection and provision for our MAC Team Members who traveled to South Africa for the Cape Town 2010 Congress on World Evangelization. We are… Continue

Newly released, prayer workbook - http://www.mimtoday.com/booksbygail.html

Journey of Prayer Instruction™

"…are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour?" Mark 14:37 NIV

If you or someone you know desire to go deeper in your prayer life or have ever found yourself asking these questions; "How can I intercede…

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In her book, Live a Praying Life, Jennifer Kennedy Dean refers to some major misconceptions about prayer. The first of these is that prayer is only for material needs. This really resonated with me, especially since material needs-based prayer so often dominates prayer in our churches, in our small groups, and in our lives.

Jennifer points out that this type of prayer is not wrong, but that it is not meant to be the dominant theme of our praying lives. God already…

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