Our authority over demons is in Christ. On our own it would be utterly presumptuous to assume a posture of authority over evil spirits. Yet in Christ, to fail to exercise spiritual authority would be an abdication of our God-given position.  Read More

God loves it when we talk to Him in His own language. Learning to pray the promises of God is the Rosetta Stone of learning His language. Before Jesus ascended into heaven, He promised His disciples, “You will receive power.” He promised them power. It was that promise of Holy Spirit power that led the disciples into the Upper Room,   Read More

On this day, May 30, in the year of our Lord 1735, Jonathan Edwards published his book on the manifest presence of Christ at work in North Hampton, Massachusetts, entitled A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God. In it he wrote, “I know of not one young person who has returned to former ways of looseness and extravagance in any respect, but we still remain a reformed people and God has evidently made us a new people. For here in this corner of the world God dwells and manifests His glory.  Read More

The promises of God define for us what is fair for us to expect from God when we come to Him each day in prayer. Jesus tells us that it is fair for us as the children of God to expect Him to provide us with food and clothing. Just as God feeds the birds of the air and provides for their daily needs, so God even more provides for us.  Read More

On this day, May 28, in the year of our Lord 1908, Christian leader A.B. Simpson not only experienced the Holy Spirit manifestation of the gift of prophecy, he wrote about it with keen insight and clarity: “Prophecy is not always the power to foretell future events. A prophet is rather a divine messenger, the man who catches the mind of his Master, and gives it out to his fellow men at the divine direction  Read More

Learning to pray the promises of God is like strapping a jet-pack on your prayer life. On the final night of His life, Jesus promises joy to His disciples. While they were understandably sorrowful, He nevertheless gave them the promise of joy. When you have Jesus, you have joy.   Read More

On this day, May 26, in the year of our Lord 1907, Assemblies of God leader Stanley Frodsham was the baccalaureate speaker for the Nyack College students. Many students, faculty and administrators had fasted and prayed for weeks prior. Many had spent the night in prayer coming in to the baccalaureate. As the service started, there was a “quiet sobbing going on in several hearts as we bowed in prayer…we all felt like going through with God, cost what it may.  Read More

Having perfect confidence in the Trinity, one God, three Persons, helps you pray with confidence. Whatever God does, He does as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. When He created the world, He functioned as He always does—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.   Read More

On this day, May 24, in the Year of our Lord 1738, John Wesley, while attending a Moravian meeting at Aldersgate Street in London, England, listened to the reading of the preface of Martin Luther’s commentary on the book of Romans and was born again. Wesley writes about this gathering, saying: “About a quarter to nine, when he was describing the change which God works through the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warm. I felt that I did trust Christ, Christ alone, for salvation, and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.” Wesley admitted that he went to the meeting that night very unwillingly and depressed. But that night proved revolutionary, not only to Wesley but also to history.  Read More

Happy Pentecost Sunday! Confidence in the Trinity—One God, three Persons—is essential to effective prayer. When Christ’s birth was announced to Mary, of One God, three Persons was present. Father God sent the Son. Son God was sent. Spirit God activated Christ in Mary’s womb. Not only did Father, Son, Holy Spirit work together in Jesus birth, this is precisely how the One God, three Persons continues to eternally function.   Read More

On this day, May 22, in the Year of our Lord 1662, Richard Baxter preached at St. Bride’s Church in Blackfriars, England. He stood at the pulpit and invited the manifest presence of Christ. God came. The visitation from Heaven was powerful. From that day forward until Baxter’s death in 1691, churches all across the British Isles experienced unusual revival, deep repentance, and confession of sin. The move of God was so deep, it resulted in a lifestyle of holiness and devotion to Christ.  Read More

On this day, May 21, in the Year of our Lord 1738, Charles Wesley met Christ as his Savior. He was so filled with joy over his conversion that he wrote his first, and perhaps greatest hymn, “And Can It Be.” Three days later, his brother, John, would also meet Christ. While Charles Wesley is best known for writing over 6,000 hymns, he was a powerful preacher and remarkable leader in his own right.   Read More

You are never too young to be called by God. God knows just the right time to reveal to you your distinct calling. He is never too late; He is never too early. When God revealed Himself to Jeremiah, his calling was initially met with resistance. Jeremiah had two objections. I do not know how to speak…I am only a youth. Jeremiah 1:6 It was natural for him to feel inadequate and insecure. But when he encountered God’s manifest presence those feelings vanquished. He was empowered, emboldened and activated. He went on to walk in his calling.   Read More

We all want to be led by the Holy Spirit. We love it when the Holy Spirit leads us up on the mountain, or to the front of the line, or into the spotlight. But when was the last time the Holy Spirit led you into the wilderness—did you obey His leading? When Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit at the front end of His ministry, before He was ever led in front of the crowds, He was led into the wilderness—led into solitude.  Read More

Acknowledging the Trinity, one God, three Persons, is essential to effective prayer. In only a few words, Ephesians 2:18 gives us profound revelation into the dynamic role of each Person of the One True God. It is the Father God whom we approach in prayer. It is Christ, God the Son, through whom we have access to the Father. It the Spirit of God who activates our encounter with the Father.  Read More

It is essential that when you pray you understand who you are talking with. You are talking with none other than the One True God whose Son is Jesus Christ. Affirming the Trinity is essential to any healthy prayer life. The Bible is full of Trinitarian scripture. Acts 2:33 is one such example. When Christ was exalted to the right hand of the Father, He was given the Holy Spirit to pour out on the church. What a dynamic picture of the tri-unity of God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  Read More

The deity of Christ is not simply another plank in our doctrinal statement, it is a life-giving reality you want to declare with confidence when you pray. When Jesus was being grilled by the religious leaders of his day, the leaders tried to prove that Jesus was inferior to Abraham. The Jews accused Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?” (John 8:47). It didn’t take long for Jesus to turn the tables.  Read More

Take time today to consider what it means to be a coheir with Christ. It will blow your mind. The orphan spirit is one of fear, poverty, rejection, pain, abuse, dishonor, curses and insecurity. The Spirit of adoption, on the other hand, is a Spirit of freedom, acceptance, abundance, healing, respect, honor, blessing and security.  Read More

Calling God ‘Father’ is not a right you earn or deserve, but it is a right you receive when you come to Christ. Christ alone gives you the right to call God, Father. For all eternity you will be praising Christ for adopting you into the family—for giving you the legal right to call Him Daddy. What an honor! What a joy! What a privilege!  Read More

Breaking off the orphan spirit is nothing you can accomplish through your efforts; Christ accomplishes it for you. The orphan spirit is easy to recognize—it is a spirit of fear, poverty, rejection, pain, abuse, dishonor, curses and insecurity.   Read More

Christ is the one who conquers the orphan spirit. Anyone without Christ is an orphan. Only Christ can adopt orphans into God’s family. And the most effective way to evict the orphan spirit is to welcome the manifest presence of Christ. After all, when He said, “I will come to you,” He was not talking about the omnipresence of God; He was obviously talking about His manifest presence.   Read More

On this day, May 11, in the year of our Lord 1727, Nicholas Ludwig Von Zinzendorf welcomed a mighty move of prevailing prayer. He and his young congregation gathered for a praise service where he exhorted them toward unity within their fellowship and spontaneously, a wave of confession, repentance of sin, and a burden for prevailing prayer broke out among them. This was the first recorded move of God among the group of believers that would become the Moravian Missionary Force. Over the next seventy-five years they would send out six hundred missionaries worldwide. This would become the birth of the modern missionary movement. And it began with prayer that led them to an encounter with the manifest presence of Christ.  Read More

Christ tells us we are not orphans, but the orphan spirit tries to convince us otherwise. It is all too easy to believe the lie. If you are going to evict the orphan spirit, you first need to understand it and expose it. An orphan is not a full-fledged member of the family. Orphans fear rejection. Orphans fight for everything they get. An orphan lives in fear of rejection, fear of loss, fear of hurt, and fear of abandonment. An orphan continually questions their self worth.  Read More

Perhaps the greatest enemy to your intimacy with Christ is the orphan spirit. When God is your Father, no one can steal your birthright, but the orphan spirit works overtime to question your birthright. The orphan spirit is a lying spirit. It deceitfully accuses you that God does not love you, that He rejects you, disqualifies you, and holds you in contempt. This lying spirit is a religious spirit that makes you feel like an orphan—unloved, lonely and lost.   Read More