A Prayer for a non-Christian to meet Jesus: Father, Your Word clearly states that it is not Your will that anyone should die, but that all repent of their sin and live (Ezek. 18:23). Your Word also tells us that You are patient, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:9). You desire for all men come to a saving knowledge of the truth (1 Tim. 2:3-4). You loved...
The Book of Acts is the first account we have of revival. After the ascension of Jesus, 120 believers prayed for ten days in an upper room in Jerusalem. On the tenth day, God poured out the Holy Spirit on them. This sparked a revival in Jerusalem which spread to many countries in the Roman Empire. Reading the Book of Acts gives us a biblical picture of what normally happens during a revival...
A pastor in India planted 10 churches in 14 years. Then he changed his strategy by incorporating Discovery Bible Studies, begin to make disciple-making disciples and then gather these disciples in small churches. By December 2012, there were 55 Discovery Bible Groups, all consisting of lost people. By December 2013 there were 250 groups (churches and Discovery groups). By December 2014 there were...
Iran has the world’s ‘fastest-growing church,’ despite no buildings – and it’s mostly led by women A new film tells the story of the “fastest-growing church” in the world, an underground, persecuted Christian movement in a country known for exporting radical Islamic terrorism — Iran. People in Iran, a Muslim-majority nation, are fleeing Islam in droves as believers bow...
I published this story a long time ago. Since then many people joined. Thought to post it again.
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Revival: All hell will break loose The following is a quote from The Fire of Revival, by M.I. Luen, a man God used powerfully in the 1976 Nagaland Revival (Himalayas, India) Luen describes above, is very much the experience of most revivalists. “Trials and tribulations began coming to us. And yes, it was like a storm. Reports of lies came against our works, suspicions arose, and we were...
John the Baptist said: “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” So what shall we then call preaching and teaching and witnessing where there is not a transfer of fire…?
The ministry of tears, said Charles Spurgeon, is like liquid prayer. On occasion, he also said: “The best form of prayer is to cry (out to God).
Duncan Campbell (Revival in the Hebrides) He wrote, “When I speak about revival, I do not mean a time of religious entertainment, with crowds gathering to hear and enjoy an evening of bright gospel singing; I do not mean a well-organised evangelistic crusade with ever-so-many converts. Revival is rather a going of God among the people, an awareness of His presence, His holiness, His fear...
Matta Boush, an outspoken evangelist in South Sudan was arrested on political charges under questionable circumstances. He was given a sentence of thirty years at a local military prison. Many people around the world prayed for him, and for his family at home. He asked prison authorities for permission to hold prayer meetings. At first they declined, saying, “We already have a mosque; you should...