“If an experience fails to engender humility, charity, mortification, holy simplicity, and silence, etc., of what value is it?…In this faith God supernaturally and secretly teaches the soul and, in a way unknown to it, raises it up in virtues and gifts…When together [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jesus’
Love & Humility
Posted in Life, Theology, Writings, tagged easy, false accusation, gossip, human, humble, humility, hypocrisy, injurer, Jesus, love, low road, narrow road, offender, offense, pain, path, pride, rejection, relationships, selfishness, spiritual, way, wide road, wrongly accused on August 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My First Blues Concert
Posted in Prayer Room Life, tagged blues, cello, character, Christian, excellence, grace, harp and bowl, Hebrews, high priest, IHOP, immaturity, Jesus, mayor, music, musicians, prophetic, RHOP, Roseville, singer, singing, Theology, voice, weakness on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I will never be asked to play music for the mayor of Roseville. It just wouldn’t happen. I’m sure he wouldn’t like spontaneous prophetic music even if he did want a concert of local musicians playing for him.
But let’s create a hypothetical scenario: I’ve been asked to play awesome blues on my cello for the [...]
So America Chose Obama
Posted in Politics, tagged Bush, Christian, debrief, election, end of the world, end times, eschataological, eschatology, faithfulness, God, gratefulness, hope, IHOP-KC, invitation, Jeremiah, Jesus, loss, Matthew, McCain, Obama, perspective, pray, prayer, religious, second coming, thank you, trust, united, victory, view, viewpoint, win, worldview on November 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What will be our response? Will we despair and say that God doesn’t answer prayer, or that x group of people didn’t pray enough? Will we be offended and shake our fist at God, claiming He didn’t come through for us?
I was impressed with IHOP-KC’s response within minutes of Obama’s victory. They interrupted the last [...]
Série de Prière: Intercession (Part 1)
Posted in Prayer Room Life, Theology, tagged Exodus, intercede, intercession, intercessor, intervene, intervening, Israel, Jesus, Moses, prayer, prayer room, prayer series, remember, set on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve left the most complex subject for last. I’m timid about defining intercession for three reasons: a) people I respect disagree with my definition, b) hundreds of thousands of intercessors have gone before me and must know much more than I, and c) because there is so much to be said. But the rule is [...]
Série de Prière: Communion
Posted in Life, Prayer Room Life, Theology, tagged abiding, breathings, brother Lawrence, busyness, communing, communion, distraction, divine, Eucharist, Henri Nouwen, Holy Spirit, internal, Jesus, John, Luke, peace, prayer, prayer series, sin, unceasing, worship on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“God [is] Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” John 4:24
What is it?
I’m not here to talk about the Eucharist, though that’s a good form of communion too. The word “communion” simply means sharing something in intimate fellowship/friendship. The kind of communion I am talking about is the internal relationship [...]
Série de Prière: Meditation
Posted in Prayer Room Life, The Word, Theology, tagged 7 Thunders, Bible, Biblical, catholic, catholicism, Christianity, IHOP, IHOP-KC, Jesus, Kirk Bennett, Madame Guyon, meditation, prayer, prayer room, prayer series, quiet, saint, waiting, Worship with the Word on September 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What is it?
While Eastern meditation attempts to empty the mind, this kind of meditation is an attempt to consume it with God. Biblical meditation is setting yourself before the Lord to receive revelation from His Word. The purpose is to receive more of the knowledge of God. Proverbs 2:1-5 says how to get the knowledge [...]
Persistent Prayer
Posted in Life, Prayer Room Life, Theology, tagged Bible, Christ, Christianity, faith, faithfulness, favoritism, fellowship, friend at midnight, humility, illustration, Jesus, John, kingdom, knowledge of God, Lord's prayer, Luke, meditation, parable, persistence, prayer, Sermon on the Mount, shepherd, The Word, Theology on September 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I want to continue the thought I started in my God of Secrets post about Luke 11. I don’t know how most people interpret the parable of the friend at midnight, but for me, it is one of the most significant passages in the Bible about prayer.
“And [Jesus] said to them, “Which of you shall [...]
Somebody’s in Love with Me
Posted in Prayer Room Life, Theology, tagged boredom, bridal paradigm, Bride of Christ, Christianity, cross, God, IHOP, Jeremiah, Jesus, Moses, prayer, Theology, Zephaniah on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I first went to IHOP, I thought prayer was boring. When I did pray, I would draw out my little prayer list so that it took a half hour and then go on with my day. I can’t pinpoint the exact time, but when I began to hear the people around me talk about [...]
To Pray and Not Lose Heart
Posted in Life, Prayer Room Life, Theology, tagged apostle, apostolic, backsliding, bitterness, Christian, eternity, heaven, hell, Jesus, judgment, offense, Paul, Philippians, resentment, testimony, The Word on July 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There is one thing that I desire the Lord to say about me on Judgment Day (well, there’s a lot of things, but this is the one that trumps all the others): that I was faithful to Him.
I have known many people who walked with the Lord for a time and then decided to walk [...]
