Every name of God is a promise from God because every name reveals God’s unchangeable character. He wants you to grab hold of each of his names because every name is an encounter with him.  Read More

When my mentor, Armin Gesswein, was a young man he was introduced to Uncle Am, a man of prayer with a strong reputation in his town. Uncle Am would spend hours alone with God in prayer. When Armin met him, Uncle Am exhorted him, “Young man, learn to plead the promises of God.”  Read More

Every name of God is a promise. He will not change and his name is true. God will remain consistent to his name. You can count on him to be Faithful and True.  Read More

Healthy Christians not only have a desire to get answers to prayer, but to consistently encounter the face of God.  Read More

Not every Bible promise is labelled a promise. Some promises are simply declarations of fact. When God speaks, he doesn’t need to say, “I promise.” His word is his promise.  Read More

Welcome to the 21 Day Breakthrough Fast: Praying the Promises! During these 21 days, God wants to identify key promises in the Bible in order to build our faith, activate our receptors, and lead us to encounter Christ.  Read More

Every name of God is a promise from God—he promises to be true to his name and His character. You can bank on it! The name of JESUS is given to you today to embolden you and bless you. Notice the name JESUS has full dominion over several realms. In heaven (holy angels)On earth (people) Under the earth (fallen angels—demons)  Read More

Every name of God is a promise. God’s name does not lead you to an encounter with God, it IS an encounter!  Read More

The Bible contains thousands of promises, but there is only one promise known as the promise of the Father. This particular promise bears this distinguished title because this promise is the motherload of all promises.   Read More

When God gives you a promise in his word, he wants to teach you to take it to the bank of heaven, cash in, and make a withdrawal. God does not simply want you to read the promises; he wants you to say a loud AMEN!  Read More

Every promise from God is on fire—that is, they are intended to lead you to encounter the fire of God’s manifest presence. Today God wants you to know a secret about his promises—all the promises are Yes! This means that the certainty of fulfilling the promises does not depend on you, but on Christ. This is huge!  Read More

Why settle for a New Year’s resolution when you can take hold of a promise from God! A New Year’s resolution starts with your will; a Bible promise starts with God’s word. Don’t trust yourself when you can trust God.  Read More

Every promise from God is on fire—that is, they are intended to lead you to encounter the fire of God’s manifest presence. Some promises empower you to download God’s best; other promises empower you to offload your worst.  Read More

The steadfast love of the Lord is invincible— and that’s a promise! If you have wandered into a dark night of the soul where you feel like life is not fair, like no one cares, like God has turned his back on you, that God no longer loves you, God hands you one of his bedrock promises that you can stand on even if you feel like you’re standing alone— the steadfast love of the Lord endures forever.  Read More

Every promise from God is on fire—that is, they are intended to lead you to encounter the fire of God’s manifest presence.  Read More

Every promise from God is on fire—that is, they are intended to lead you to encounter the fire of God’s manifest presence. For this reason, God’s promises are called precious and very great. This all-new 2022 Year on Fire is devoted to leading you to encounter Christ daily in the promises of God. Every day will contain a new promise from God that will strengthen your faith, build your prayer life, and deepen your love relationship with Christ.   Read More

On this day, December 31, in the year of our Lord 1738, a mighty group of sixty seekers gathered on New Year’s Eve in London, England for prayer and fasting. They prayed into the early hours of the morning until they caught fire with the manifest presence of Christ. The group included George Whitfield, John Wesley, and Charles Wesley.   Read More

God invites each of us to consistently have new-song encounters with Him. There are essentially two ways to encounter God by singing a new song. Sometimes we sing to the Lord a song we have never previously heard, and God encounters us in that moment. We can also encounter Christ while singing a song we’ve sung a hundred times before; only this time God takes us to a place we’ve never been before—to encountering His presence as we sing.  Read More

Hearing the voice of God was never intended to be a sporadic, random, nor infrequent occasion. God is always speaking, and He intends for you today and every day to hear His voice clearly.  Read More

It is only appropriate that when Jesus was born, all heaven would be opened and burst forth in praise and celebration. Heaven was unable to contain itself, and the celebration happening in heaven spilled over into earth. The blue collar working, unshaven shepherds were called up into heaven’s party. Glory to God in the highest! the angels shouted. Thousands of angels were cheering in full voice as the shepherds stood gazing with their mouths hanging open in wonder. This is a biblical example of both “high worship” and an “open heaven.”  Read More

Imagine meeting an angel eyeball-to-eyeball—an angel who spends all his time in the manifest presence of God. One day, Angel Gabriel went on assignment from the presence of God to visit Zechariah, the priest with the incredible announcement that the priest’s wife, Elizabeth, would miraculously become pregnant and that the boy’s name would be John and he would serve as a forerunner to the Messiah. The angel then went on to announce to Mary that she, too, would become miraculously pregnant. Gabriel went from the manifest presence of God to tell about the coming of the manifest presence of God.  Read More

Most religious people are familiar with a distant God. When a person comes to know God in Christ, however, they encounter not only a God who is infinitely superior, they also encounter Emmanuel - - God who is intimately present. As you celebrate today the coming of Emmanuel 2,000 years ago, take time to enjoy the fact that in Christ, this same God is still present. He wants to manifest Himself to you now and every day as Emmanuel.  Read More

Merry Christmas from your College of Prayer family! Christ is the manifest presence of God. There is no better day to celebrate His presence than Christmas day. The only way to encounter God’s expressed and tangible presence is to encounter Him in Christ. For this reason, Jesus said, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father,” and “I and my Father are one” (John 14:9,10). And for this reason, it was written of Christ, “The Word became flesh”.  Read More

The naming of a child is always significant. When Father God named His Son He gave Him the name Jesus, which literally means Savior, Conqueror, Deliverer. Today, there are many people around the world who have the name Jesus; there is, however, only one Savior.  Read More