Live in the Power of the Holy Spirit
Dear Friends,
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is attending the candlelight service at church. We always closed the service by singing the hymn Silent Night and lighting candles.
It was a somber and also joyful moment as the light was shared person to person, symbolizing the light that has come into the world through the birth of Christ.
…Every follower of Jesus Christ has at least one spiritual gift.
These spiritual gifts are common ways the Holy Spirit has expressed His power and presence through born-again people.
Spiritual gifts are also tools that we, as human beings, need to work on God’s spiritual and supernatural building project— the Kingdom of God.
All of the spiritual gifts are necessary for the building of the Church of Jesus Christ.
…Through an interesting combination of miracles and Kingdom connections that have been made through PRMI’s mission outreach, God is providing top of the line facemasks to three of PRMI’s mission partners.
…You can learn to recognize moments of cooperation with the Holy Spirit. This is a skill that any follower of Christ can acquire and develop.
In the ministry of PRMI, we call those Kairos moments. These are moments when God wants to accomplish something in the world through us to advance His Kingdom.
Kairos moments are moments where we are invited by the Father to cooperate with the Holy Spirit.
…The Holy Spirit indwells within us to shapes our character into the image of Jesus Christ.
Scripture describes this work of the Holy Spirit with several powerful images.
…We serve a faithful, absolutely reliable God. I trust that as you read this, the Holy Spirit brings to your remembrance the goodness of our Father.
We can see how God is moving, mobilizing, and His Kingdom is moving, even in the midst of one of the most unpredictable seasons of modern history, in the middle of one of the most polarized times in American history.
…All believers are called to do the work of prayer and intercession.
Jesus instructed us to pray, “thy kingdom come” in the Lord’s prayer. Doing so is the work of intercession.
…Dear Friends,
It has been a while since I wrote an update and I want to bring you in on where we are with the PRMI Prayer House.
We can celebrate that:
How might we obey the Bible’s instruction to “keep in step with the Spirit” as found in Galatians 5:25?
When you became a disciple of Jesus Christ, you entered into the new reality of the Kingdom of God.
…What would have been a bustling week at the Community of the Cross instead was a jam-packed ONLINE week of growing in the Power of Prayer!
Things were different this year for Upward Challenge, as we held our annual youth camp ages 14-18. This included 12 lessons adapted for youth from the Dunamis Project: The Power of Prayer teaching materials.
…1 Timothy 2:1-4 commands us to pray for and give thanks for our government leaders and those in authority over us.
The blessing of obeying this commandment is, we can live a life of dignity and peace.
…Our world needs the healing ministry of Jesus Christ expressed through believers empowered by the Holy Spirit.
You can help get PRMI Dunamis materials on the healing ministry of Jesus adapted to issues of racial injustice and healing for use by churches, ministries, and people involved.
…“Would you pray now that God would heal my ankle so I won’t need surgery this week?”
The Nicaraguan Young Life leader surprised me with this request right after I finished teaching.
She explained how it was injured and damaged from a motorcycle accident. Just a few days from now, surgery was scheduled.
…No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
Hebrews 12:11 (NIV)
Father God, we are in anticipation of a time of great harvest.
We believe that you are getting ready to bring many people into your kingdom.
We are eager to see it happen, but realize that it first has to happen within ourselves.
…After many years of prayer, planning, and your generosity for the PRMI Prayer House, we are almost there.
It is getting closer to the day when it will be filled with prayer.
Check out this 3-minute video that shows how your generosity and prayer have helped the PRMI Prayer House take shape, from the clearing of the land to the status as of early July 2020.
…You may have had various experiences in group prayer. There is a way we can be more strategic with praying prayers of agreement alongside one another, in the presence of Jesus.
Sometimes, the individual prayers of a group seem to follow a spontaneous agenda that develops in a linear fashion.
…The work of prayer and intercession is central to the ministry of PRMI and includes the vision of the Prayer House at the Community of the Cross being an international hub for intercession.
…When our girls were babies or when still young, they would sometimes cry or call out in the middle of the night.
It wasn’t convenient; and – honest disclosure – usually my wife went in; she was equipped to feed them as babies, but also she had the ability to go right back asleep. I didn’t have that ability.
But I never heard her complain that the kids were a bother.
…Ecclesiastes wrote: “For everything, there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven… a time to heal… a time to love… a time to mourn… a time for war and a time for peace.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (NIV)
As I look back over the past four months, I am struck by how uncharted these times are and how challenging this season has been and continues to be.
At the same time, I’m thrilled with how many of you stepped up with your generosity and service and continue to advance the work of PRMI.
…The first Pentecost was a historical event in the life of the Church.
Pentecost was the day that the first disciples were baptized with the Holy Spirit.
Pentecost is the day in Acts Chapter 2 where the Holy Spirit “filled the whole house where they were sitting” (Acts 2:2).
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