Religion: Prayer

Prayer

Written by Timothy Edwards

Prayer

What has repparttar Lord been saying to me? As I begin to write and formulate this article, I am faced with repparttar 126848 inevitable question. What is repparttar 126849 Lord saying to you. In answer to this question, it is easy to fall into repparttar 126850 trap of presenting a sermon on a topic that is on my heart and has been for repparttar 126851 preceding week. Instead, I am going to attempt to answer this thought with a more informal response.

The Lord has shown me that His people were first known as :’The Ones who called upon repparttar 126852 Lord’. In Genesis 4:26 :"And as for Seth, to him also a son was born and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on repparttar 126853 name of repparttar 126854 Lord."

In Jeremiah 33:3 we read :"Call to me and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know".

God wants us to call upon Him. In repparttar 126855 Book of Acts we read about how repparttar 126856 apostles were all in one accord, in one place. They (the apostles) had a habit of meeting and praying daily, in one place in one accord, and thats when repparttar 126857 building started to move, thats when repparttar 126858 Holy Spirit descended upon them! Praise God! You see even repparttar 126859 Apostles who had walked with Jesus, talked with Jesus, ate with Jesus, had to come together in one accord in prayer, before repparttar 126860 Holy Spirit moved. This really ministered to me. I have seen what happens when a Church gathers in one accord, in one place in prayer. Mountain moving faith manifests, people get saved, sick get healed, and repparttar 126861 Holy Spirit starts to move.

If we as a church would come together in one accord, we too can expect God to show up. Are you ready for repparttar 126862 supernatural? The biggest handicap that repparttar 126863 Body of Christ faces today is division amongst ourselves. Christ will return for a united body of believers irrespective of doctrinal beliefs and differences. We find in Acts that repparttar 126864 disciples were in one accord , praying daily for a period of ten days. The preacher (Peter) did not have any fancy gimmicks, audio visual systems or even any training (as far as we know) in oratory presentation. What he did have was repparttar 126865 anointing of repparttar 126866 Holy Spirit. We read in Acts 2:41 that three thousand were added to their number.

The Archippus Admonition

Written by Nancy Twigg

Colossians 4:17 has always been a curious verse to me. Paul has just finished his letter to repparttar

church in Colosse. Among repparttar 126847

greetings that are customary at repparttar 126848

end of his letters, he throws in what almost appears to be an afterthought: “Tell Archippus: ‘See to it that you complete repparttar 126849

work you have received in repparttar 126850

Lord.’”

The Bible doesn’t tell us much about Archippus. The only other time he is mentioned is in repparttar 126851 book of Philemon where Paul refers to him as a fellow solider. I cannot help but wonder who he was and what kind of work he received from repparttar 126852 Lord. And why did Paul feel compelled to tell him to be sure to finish it?

Bear with me for a moment while I speculate. If Archippus had a special gifting from God, there were probably those around him who did not understand that gifting or were jealous of his ministry. Maybe Paul felt it was important to remind him to hang in there even if his faithfulness did not make him repparttar 126853 most popular guy around.

Another possibility is that Paul knew Archippus had a special gift but was not using it to repparttar 126854 fullest because of insecurities or self-doubt. By writing this message in a letter to repparttar 126855 whole church, Paul may have wanted to bolster Archippus’ confidence by publicly affirming his belief that Archippus was capable of living up to his calling.

Or maybe neither of these was true. Maybe Archippus was already doing very well in his ministry and Paul just wanted to encourage him to press on to greater heights. As an evangelist with an active ministry himself, Paul probably knew how easy it was to lose sight of repparttar 126856 big picture.

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