Have you ever felt like your prayer life was dead or dying? All you need is a touch from the Holy Spirit. The same Christ who raised Lazarus from the dead can take your prayer life and raise it from the dead, as well. God wants to raise your prayer life from the dead today and every day.  Read More

If you want to consistently enjoy Christ-encountering worship, learn to follow the lead of the Holy Spirit when you pray. Jesus tells us as His disciples that the Holy Spirit, “will glorify me.” If Christ seems distant and your prayers seem to get no higher than the ceiling, ask the Holy Spirit to glorify Christ to you.  Read More

The Holy Spirit is good at many things, and one of them is obedience. The Holy Spirit has never disobeyed God the Father, and He is the One who enables us to obey Him, also. The Holy Spirit leads us to obedience, and obedience leads us to receive more of the Holy Spirit.  Read More

It is all too easy for our daily prayer time to become ritualistic, or even legalistic, doing the same thing and saying the same words every time we pray. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, has unlimited creativity. He wants to inspire prayers within you that you have never before prayed.  Read More

As you learn to pray, you want to get to know the Holy Spirit. Not only is He a praying Spirit, He is a loving Spirit who loves to activate God’s love in us. When the Apostle Paul appealed to the saints in Rome, he relied not simply in his own love, but the love of the Holy Spirit.  Read More

None of us know how to pray properly. No matter who you are or how long you’ve been a Christian, you still need help from the Holy Spirit. Once we acknowledge our prayerlessness, God wants us quickly to accept the help of the praying Holy Spirit.  Read More

When the Apostle Paul exhorted the believers in the city of Ephesus to pray in the Spirit on all occasions, he opened the door to the them to enter a whole new level of prayer that depended not on their own ability to pray, but on the ability of the Holy Spirit. At any moment, the Holy Spirit has access to every form of prayer imaginable. The Holy Spirit knows exactly what kind of prayer we need at every moment.  Read More

On this day, January 22, in the Year of our Lord 1995, the fire of God’s manifest presence filled Coggin Avenue Baptist Church in Brownwood, Texas. This movement of the Holy Spirit spilled over to nearby Howard Payne University and far beyond.  Read More

If all the unused Bibles were picked up at one time, it would cause a dust storm so severe that it would eclipse the sun! Why is it that so many Christians are biblically illiterate? Could it be that we have exchanged reading our Bibles toward an encounter with God and have settled for simply checking off Bible reading on our to-do list?  Read More

The Bible may be 2,000 years old, but it has not lost its razor sharp edge. The Bible is more relevant than headline news and more personal than a text message from your best friend.  Read More

God not only wants you to read the Bible, He wants to encounter you in your daily Bible reading. If Bible reading has become a hollow religious discipline, today God wants to clean out the cobwebs, open up the windows, and give you a breath of fresh air.  Read More

If you want a word from God, read the Bible. We are rapidly becoming a generation in danger of becoming so focused on prophetic Words from God that we are in danger of neglecting Scripture. While not every word from God comes from the Bible, every word of the Bible comes from God. Let’s not forget it. As we open ourselves to the revelatory ministry of the Holy Spirit today, we want to wholeheartedly embrace the primary word of the Holy Spirit in Scripture.  Read More

Every phrase in the Lord’s prayer is Christ-encountering. Every phrase builds towards an ever-deepening encounter until it reaches a fitting conclusion, “Yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever.”  Read More

Humility attracts the presence of God the way a low pressure zone attracts a storm. Unfortunately, the opposite is also true—pride repels the presence of God the way a high atmospheric pressure will repel a storm center. It is no wonder God says that He opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble (see James 4:6).  Read More

The devil will tell you unforgiveness, resentment, retaliation is the greatest power on earth. He is a liar. The greatest power on earth is forgiveness. The only Person who could ever effectively lead us in a forgiveness revolution was God Himself, and He does it every day in the Person of Christ.  Read More

On this day, January 14, in the year of our Lord 1739, George Whitfield, one of the greatest preachers who ever lived, was ordained. He spent the day before his ordination in prayer and fasting, praying late into the evening. On the Sunday morning of his ordination, he rose early and prayed, “When I went up to the altar, I could think of nothing but Samuel standing as a little child before the Lord… when the Bishop laid his hand upon my head, my heart was melted down, and I offered my whole spirit, soul, and body in the service of God’s sanctuary! I read the gospel, at the Bishop’s command, with power.” From that day forward, George Whitfield ministered with unusual anointing.  Read More

A banana is sweet, moist and nutritious. The banana peel, on the other hand is bitter, dry and stringy. Let’s face it, the only problem with the Lord’s prayer is that we have made it religious when God wants it to be relational. Perhaps it is time for you to take the banana peel off of the Lord’s prayer—the stigma of using it as a religious mantra or a mindless, empty prayer. If the Lord’s prayer has become tasteless or even bitter for you, perhaps you have been biting into the religious banana peel. It may be time to return to the Lord’s prayer and use it as a Christ-encountering pattern, the way it was intended.  Read More

God cannot advance His kingdom through you by prayer without advancing His kingdom within you. As intercessor you learn this principle every day. Before you can intercede for anyone or anything else, God wants to meet you—He wants to encounter you.  Read More

As you follow the Lord’s prayer pattern today, use His Name to boldly declare the supremacy of Christ. Clear the atmosphere of static and interference. In the final months of Bill Bright’s life, Henry Blackabee asked Dr. Bright in an interview, what burden he had for the church. Bill Bright had founded Campus Crusade for Christ, the largest missions organization in the world, and without hesitation, he said with confidence, “The Name—the church needs to rediscover the power of God’s Name.”  Read More

Every part of the Lord’s prayer pattern is intended to be Christ-encountering. As we will discover over the next seven days, when Jesus gave His prayer pattern, He was not providing us with a religious instrument. He was imparting to us a means of encountering the manifest presence of Christ every day.  Read More

If you are dreading your extended fast, you are focused on the wrong thing. You need to stop and change your perspective. Yes, it is true that you will abstain from solid food, but what you are giving up is not worth comparing to what you will be receiving from God.  Read More

When you fast there are several guidelines that will be helpful. Read extensively in the Bible. Your fast needs to be more feasting on God’s word than skipping food; you want to focus more on what God is giving you in the Bible than on what you’re physically giving up.  Read More

People often ask, “How can I determine how long I should fast?” The answer is easy—how hungry are you? If you have a one day hunger for God, then fast one day. If you have a seven day hunger for God, then fast seven days. If you have a twenty-one day hunger for God, then fast twenty-one days. Let’s not make it too complicated.  Read More

This day, January 6, in the year of our Lord 1907, marks the beginning of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Korea. The Presbyterian church in Korea had been experiencing unusual hunger for God for months prior. People loved reading God’s Word and spending extraordinary time in prayer. On this day, prayers turned to confession of sin, open repentance, deep sorrow, loud weeping, and an overwhelming sense of repentance. Fifteen hundred people erupted simultaneously in audible prayer. “It seemed as if the roof was lifted from the building and the Spirit of God came down from Heaven in a mighty avalanche of power upon us. I fell…and wept and prayed as I had never prayed before…” Some threw themselves their full length upon the floor; hundreds stood with arms outstretched to Heaven. Each man forgot the other. Each was face to face with God. “I can hear yet that fearful sound of hundreds of men pleading with God for life, for mercy.”  Read More