True deliverance is not the change from this condition to that condition but the movement from slavery to freedom and it is signaled by the unfettered worship of the delivered.
Divine deliverance is the strategic intervention of the Holy Spirit working through human agents for the sake of the freedom and flourishing of people who are oppressed and bound.
I see prayer primarily as reverse delegation; a way of asking God to solve problems I either can’t solve or in which i don’t want to get overly involved.
Sometimes, maybe more often than not, the most sanctified prayers are the most unfiltered, unsanctimonious prayers.
Sometimes, maybe more often than not, the most sanctified prayers are the most unfiltered, unsanctimonious prayers.
Listen Now! June 21, 2018 Exodus 3:11-14; 4:1-3, 10-13 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” 12 And God said,
Listen Now! June 20, 2018 Exodus 3:4-10 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” 5
Listen Now! June 19, 2018 Exodus 2:23-25 23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery
The great and yet unrealized gift of Pentecost and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is God does not dwell in temples built by human hands, but in his blood bought image bearers—the Body of Christ.
Prayer will either be our navigational operating system or the window dressing of an otherwise nominal faith.
Prayer creates a dynamic context for revelation in real time.
It’s not about placing our hope in the answer to our prayers, but the wholesale, full-scale abandonment of our lives to the One who is himself the answer—come what may.
