Smile! You’re the Focus of God’s Picture!
I don't know about you, but when I am included in a group photo, the very first person that I look for when I see the picture is myself. At first, I forget about all of the others in the picture. In fact, I really don't care what the others in the picture look like because my primary focus is on me. (Now, don't get some cocky, hotty-totty attitude. Whether or not you will admit it, you do the very same thing.) Evidently, God knows about our "me" mentality. In reading the Word, when God takes a "picture" of a crowd, we find over and over again God making a promise and immediately directing...
What God Expects When You Minister
Want to know God's expectation for every pastor, children's/youth ministry pastor, Sunday school teacher, and mid-week Bible club teacher? It doesn't take paragraph after paragraph to tell His purpose for you stepping into a ministry opportunity. Smith Wigglesworth said it best ... "Now, beloved, I am out for men. It is my business to be out for men. It is my business to make everybody hungry, dissatisfied. It is my business to make people either glad or mad. I have a message from heaven that will not leave people as I find them." ~ Smith Wigglesworth "Faith That Prevails" Nothing more needs...
Heaven’s Prayer Elevator Operator
The Holy Spirit constantly finds a way to amaze me. I was baptized in the Holy Spirit when I was just 10-years-old in a Royal Rangers meeting and here it is ** years later (I'll leave it to your imagination just how old that I am) and He is still revealing things about His personality and desires that I have never seen before. For example, early this morning I was awakened with Him talking to me and giving me an illustration that made me all the more thankful that I have a relationship with Him. Here is what He showed me. One of the Holy Spirit's many assignments and unofficial titles is the...
Afraid of a Supernatural Demonstration of the Gifts of the Spirit?
I am one blessed person. I was raised (and reared ... but that is for a different blog post) in a Christian home by two Jesus-loving, Spirit-filled parents who knew the importance of continually being in church services (again ... another possible future blog post) where the Holy Spirit was a resident and not a guest (another possible future blog post). Because of constantly being in an environment where the Holy Spirit was free to speak and demonstrate His presence, I know what the New Testament "norm" is for Church. Speaking and worshiping God in tongues in a church service for personal...
Your Children … Filled with the Holy Spirit
Before you get into reading this blog post, I need to apologize. I know that what I am going to share is so, so simple and yet, perhaps so simple that it is overlooked and ignored in many children's ministries. Here are some facts ... If a child is capable of understanding God's gift to the sinner (salvation), then a child is capable of understanding God's gift to the believer (the Baptism in the Holy Spirit). If a child is capable of receiving the gift of salvation, then a child is capable of receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit. If a child is capable of knowing that they have received...
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