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“There are millions of Christians and seekers in the marketplace who are hesitant to step out and express their faith. All many of them need is for someone to go first.

I just closed a Zoom meeting with one of my clients. He told me this short story. He recently took a promotion to the corporate office. Word had gotten around the new environment that he started his meetings with a prayer. Out of the blue, a co-worker asked if he could be a part of that prayer time as well.

I believe God is about to reveal His miracle-working power in a worldwide revival. The entire world is in a crisis of ungodly leadership and lies. It will take the power of God to break through this maze. A Holy Spirit revival on the streets would meet this need. So I pray for this worldwide outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The prophetic word below through Malachi provides support that this is what is on God's mind.

Rather than asking people, "Where do you go to church?" it would be more accurate for us to ask a person, "Where do you go to assemble?" The word translated "church" (ekklesia) in the New Testament never refers to a building. Instead, it refers to a called-out assembly of citizens in the town square, and more specifically it is applied to the called-out believers of our Lord Jesus Christ who are assembling. Acts 19:32, 39 and 41 are interesting verses which each contain ekklesia translated “assembly,” not church.

This excellent Charismatic approach to building a strong, healthy marriage brings the anointing of the Holy Spirit to strengthen one's marriage. I believe anyone who reads this book will come away with numerous steps they can take to make their marriage stronger.

Christians talk about revival all the time. They pray for it and conduct revival meetings, but what is it? I came across a great definition of revival, which sums it up best.

“Revival is God bringing His people back to spiritual health. Put another way. Revival is God bringing His people to a level of submission and faith where He can bless them the way He promised.[i]” “During a spiritual revival, God supernaturally transforms believers and nonbelievers in a church, locale, region, nation, or the world through sudden, intense enthusiasm for Christianity[ii]

The word “revival” is sometimes called awakening, outpouring, or renewal. These words all describe the same thing, God intervenes in normal church life and radically shakes it up. I have lived through two revivals, and in this blog, I will describe some insights I have extracted from those experiences.

Here is a link to a 90-minute video session where I participated in a panel that was answering questions about deliverance. I discovered that people in the group were using the phrase demon-possessed, which is an expression I quit using years ago. Here is the reason why.

I knew the "pastor" of my church was a shepherd, but I sure missed the verses where God specifically stated that governmental rulers were also ministers. Since I used to believe in a sacred/secular split, there was no way a politician could be a minister in God's eyes. If I wanted to go into full-time Christian service, it was never suggested to me that a political career would be full-time ministry. So let's discover exactly what God says about this.

Jessica asked God, “What do You want to show me through this verse: He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions (Psalm 107:20)?"