Prayer can be described using three critical components. First, prayer is a relationship between our loving and caring heavenly Father and us, His children. God invites us to a personal relationship. He desires a deeper, intimate relationship with us – Holy and Consecrated. A relationship can be defined as “a state of connectedness between people…
Prayer Watch International is excited to offer a new blog series which highlights Prayer School IA – Face to Face with God by Pastor Bjørn Pedersen. These excerpts are brief snapshots from the 15 lessons of this Prayer School and from Pastor Bjørn’s book, Face to Face With God in Your Church: Establishing a Prayer Ministry. …
In Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5, God’s people are commanded to have no other God than The Lord. It is part of The Ten Commandments. In the New Testament, Jesus describes the kind of worshipers God is looking to follow Him: “Yet a time is coming and now has come when the true worshipers will…
God has plans for all people, Christians included. It is called knowing and doing God’s will. His will is comprised of two parts: (1) God’s General (or Universal) Will which is the same for all believers, and (2) God’s Specific Plan for each individual follower of Jesus Christ. The latte plan is unique to…
Never Deny the Name of Jesus Continuing from RO Focus 5 on the Revelation Overcomer church of Philadelphia, they were true to the Word of God and they never denied the Name of Jesus. It must have been a significant challenge for the Philadelphia church to fight those who attacked them from the synagogue of…
True to the Word of God In reading Revelation 1-3 concerning the seven churches and their spiritual conditions, it seems only one church has it “all-together.” That is the church in Philadelphia (Revelation 3:7-13). It is described as having “little strength.” This is not a spiritual weakness, but rather an indication it was a small…
To Be Patiently Enduring Reading through the book of Revelation, especially the latter half, this powerful and challenging phrase is found, “This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness on the part of the saints.” In the end times, believers will encounter trials, tests and tribulations such as the Christian church has never experienced before.…
To Be Faithful God is faithful to all of His creation. He is faithful to all of His promises. He has never gone back on any promise He has made and He never will! As followers of Jesus Christ, we are to be faithful to the Lord and His call upon our lives. Faithfulness is…
To Be Repentant and Humble Five of the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3 were asked by the angels of God to repent of their wayward ways. Living in repentance opens the door to being sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s communications, encouragements and admonitions. God responds in a most special and powerful way to…
For the next several post in our Living and Walking in Spiritual Maturity Series we are going to be focusing on “Becoming and Staying a Revelation Overcomer until Jesus Returns.” Introduction: In Revelation 2 and 3, the prophetic word to the seven churches in Asia Minor is recorded. It describes the spiritual conditions of the seven…
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