Prayer is a plea for God’s ordained order to prevail above earthly powers. We can overthrow hell-power by prayer. When we pray the Word of God we can have on earth what heaven had already decided on. [Jack Hayford] That is why we pray according to Jesus’ command: Whatever you bind on earth will be…
Category: Christian, Bible Study
78. Only the very best – always?
Jesus’ response is very simple. One of the Jewish Rabbis asked, “Is there a man who ever hates his son?” Jesus’ argument is that no father ever refused the request of his son; and God the great Father will never refuse the requests of his children. Jesus’ examples are carefully chosen. He takes three examples;…
77. In the secret place of the Most High.
It doesn’t sound like much. Kneeling by a bed behind a closed door and speaking to the God of heaven and earth. It is after all the image we grew up with, if we had the privilege of being raised in the home of praying parents. We might even have the memory of a mom…
76. Our secret power of life.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Matthew 7:7,8 The divinely targeted life seeks the way of the Lord revealed by the…
75. He is good, good, good – always.
What do you “see” when you think of God the Father? Do you have a picture of Him? Do you see Jesus or is He sort of separate? What is this Trinity-doctrine with which the theologians shape our God-concept? Stay with me in these chapters of Exodus; in this most dramatic scene that will shape…
74. Delivered, baptized and … uh-oh, the desert?
Do you know the story? The drama of dreams, kidnapping, lies, slavery, prison, more dreams and then the palace of ancient Egypt at the climax of its civilization – gosh, no wonder Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote an extremely successful musical about it. God delivers Jacob’s family from famine in the story of Joseph, when he…
72. Words of blood for my future.
Oh, the uncertainty, the dread, the misty outlook, the hesitant gaze upon a path covered in the fog of the time span called the future. To us it is not revealed; to God it is known. Like death, the future is a mystery belonging to God. “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to…
71. Come out – where are you?
Are you with me? Way, way back when the story of the Bible began, let us walk with Adam and Eve into the well-known disaster describing the birth of all destruction and devastation. Twisting the magnificence and glory in God’s promise of bounty and beauty, Satan sows doubt in Eve’s thinking and make her think…
70. Only rumours …or firsthand?
There is another principle to prayer that we often overlook. God initiates prayer. Not us. He speaks to get the exchange going. So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17) Every time the words “He who has ears to hear, let him hear” occur in the New Testament, Jesus…
69. Because He said so.
Prayer is a wonderful, ongoing learning experience. I would like to learn until that moment I know I am in His presence. In the meantime I want to live life in His kingdom IN His manifest presence so that I can be used to the life IN Him. From the very first moment, I would…
Pebbles of Perpetuity 