On this day, October 13, in the year of our Lord 1971, God wonderfully manifested His presence in Saskatchewan, Canada. Pastor Bill McLeod invited evangelists Ralph and Lou Sutera to speak at his church. An amazing spirit of conviction gripped the people that day, and many confessed sin publicly. Their numbers grew each night until they filled the capital Civic Auditorium, seating two thousand people. People did not want to leave. They prayed together, humbled themselves, confessed sin, and were miraculously converted. Almost half those who met Christ were young people. Sherwood Wirt, editor of Billy Graham’s Decision magazine, visited the phenomenal revival and said, “We’re walking knee deep in love up here.”   Read More

It is in the act of being worshipped that God often chooses to reveal Himself. Take time today to declare the potency of God’s Name. King David centered his soul and his identity in Christ. He emphatically declares God’s great Name as Shield, Glory, and Lifter of my head.  Read More

All true worship rises out of an encounter with Christ; it expresses itself in a profound appreciation of God’s Name. In these two verses from Psalm 18, King David declares no fewer than ten distinct names of God. Powerful!  Read More

On this day, October 10, in the year of our Lord 1821, Charles Finney encountered the manifest presence of Christ. He fell weeping at Jesus’ feet and cried out, “‘I receive the mighty baptism of the Holy Ghost’…without expecting it, without ever having thought in my mind there was any such thing for me, without any recollection that I had ever heard the thing mentioned by any person in the world, at a moment entirely unexpected to me, the Holy Spirit descended upon me in a manner that seemed to go through me body and soul.”  Read More

Tomorrow marks a significant anniversary. On October 10, in the year of our Lord 1942, a revival broke out at the Missionary Training Institute in Nyack, New York. A.W. Tozer was the speaker. A holy hush settled over the students. Then groaning, weeping, holy laughter followed. All these manifestations of the Holy Spirit were spontaneous, authentic, and God-initiated. The young students in the meeting were marked for life.  Read More

King David often began his prayer by appropriately declaring the Name of God . He teaches us an important principle—the Name of God is given to us as a powerful weapon for us to use in prayer as we enter into God’s presence and advance His kingdom.  Read More

When you pray, don’t waste your time praying from a spirit of rejection. The orphan spirit has no place in your prayer life. God the Holy Spirit has not given you a spirit of slavery so that you fall back into fear of rejection. Instead, He has given you a spirit of adoption as sons and daughters. If you are in Christ, you are loved as Christ; you are accepted as Christ; you are welcomed as Christ.   Read More

To be filled with the Holy Spirit is to be filled with the love of God. Today, as you receive the Holy Spirit, be sure to allow the Holy Spirit to fill you with the steadfast, unrelenting, life-transforming love of Christ. Receive it for yourself and declare it over your loved ones and those in your sphere of influence.  Read More

On this day, October 5, in the Year of our Lord 1703, Jonathan Edwards was born to the Reverend and Mrs. Timothy Edwards. The young Jonathan quickly distinguished himself as a child prodigy, learning to read Latin by the age of six and writing remarkable treatises on insects, botany and science by the age of eleven. He earned his master’s degree at Yale in 1722, and would go on to be one of the greatest revivalists and Christian theologians in North America.  Read More

If you lose contact with the love of God, your prayer life will shrivel up like a dead frog on an expressway. The fastest way to revive your prayer life is to begin your time of Christ-encountering prayer each day by receiving a fresh infilling of His overwhelming love for you.  Read More

Too many people have turned their prayer lives into an anxiety session. They pray themselves into a nervous frenzy. They are more upset and worried about life after they are finished praying than when they started. This is messed up. God has a better approach to prayer. Encounter the love of Christ first and allow His perfect love to grab your worries, fears, and anxieties by the throat and kick them out to the curb!  Read More

If your prayer life has become dry and boring, I can almost guarantee why. Most likely, you have made your prayer time more about your love for Him than about His love for you. It’s time to reverse your focus.   Read More

Let’s not make prayer too complicated. The greatest commandment is love. God is love. What motivates all true prayer is love. Since we love because He first loved us, there is nothing more important for you to do everyday in prayer than to receive a fresh encounter with His love. For this reason, Jesus began His model prayer pattern, Our Father in heaven.  Read More

Christ invites you to frequently spend an hour with Him in prayer just as He invited His disciples. Why? Very simply, because He loves you and He wants to spend time with you. The reason the twelve disciples slept rather than pray was because they had not yet received the Holy Spirit. Once they received the promise of the Holy Spirit, they were not only able to pray an hour, they were able to pray ten days!  Read More

On this day, September 29, in the year of our Lord 1903, the Welsh Revival broke out. It was a sustained move of God that lasted more than 24 months. Under the leadership of Evan Roberts, there were thousands of Charismatic-like manifestations such as prophecy, discerning of spirits, tongues, interpretation, visions, and much holy trembling.   Read More

When you love Jesus, it is easy to rejoice always. Jesus is your life, your joy, your fulfillment, your hope, and your purpose in life. We need the reminder to rejoice always. When you love Jesus, you are happy for the reminder to rejoice always. It’s no wonder Paul said elsewhere, “Rejoice in the Lord always, again I say, rejoice” (Philippians 4:4).  Read More

There may not be a verse in the entire Bible from which we think we are somehow more exempt more than this one—pray without ceasing. Impossible! we think. How could I possible pray without ceasing? This may apply to someone else, but it certainly can’t apply to me.  Read More

Simon and Andrew enjoyed their careers as fishermen in the family business. They were ready to walk in their father’s footsteps until they chose the footsteps of Jesus. The two words Follow Me changed everything. They went from cleaning fish to changing lives.  Read More

On this day, September 25, in the Year of our Lord 1949, Armin Gesswein facilitated a prayer meeting with two thousand people praying in a tent on one side of the street while Billy Graham preached his Los Angeles Crusade to ten thousand people on the other side of the street. Many Hollywood movie stars would receive Christ that week, and reports of these dramatic, life-changing testimonies spread around the world. In many ways, this Billy Graham Crusade in Hollywood would catapult forward Billy Graham’s international world-impact  Read More

As people who enjoy serving Christ, it is always beneficial to make sure what juices us the most is not what we do for God, but what He does through us. When the 72 disciples returned from their short term mission trip (see Luke 10:1-20), they returned with exuberant joy, because for the first time in their lives, they were able to take authority over evil spirits.  Read More

On this day, September 23, in the year of our Lord 1857, Jeremiah Lanphier knelt in prayer all by himself in the upper lecture room of Old North Dutch Reform Church in New York City, New York. He had rigorously distributed handfuls of invitations to this noon time one-hour business person’s prayer meeting. For the first thirty minutes, he prayed alone. A lesser man would have quit. Then someone joined him, and then another.   Read More

On this day, September 22, in the year of our Lord 1967, Raymond Edman, beloved President of Wheaton College stood before the student body to give what would be his last chapel address and his final moment on earth. Dr. Edman was preaching about being in the presence of the King. While bringing his message, he collapsed and fell to the floor. Soon after, he was pronounced dead. But he was very much alive in the presence of Christ.  Read More

Tomorrow is the birthday of the College of Prayer International. On September 22, in the year of our Lord, 1997, the College of Prayer was born. 120 students gathered at Toccoa Falls College in Toccoa, Georgia for four days of encountering the manifest presence of Christ. Fred Hartley, President, Bruce Bliss, Dean, Don Young and Paul Radford formed the first Servant Leadership Team of the College of Prayer  Read More

What makes the ground on which you stand holy is not your feet, nor socks, nor shoes; what makes the ground holy is the manifest presence of God. When God manifests His presence, He immediately changes the everyday common into the extraordinary holy. To become holy is not as much a process as an orientation toward His presence.  Read More