Advance the Kingdom of God through Spirit Empowered Ministry

The Moses Work and the Joshua Work

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Prayer is vital for the fulfillment of vision. But so, too, is human action that works to enact the vision.

The participation of God brought down by prayer is like rain falling on an unsown field; the field has to be sown and cultivated to bring forth fruit.

Christians constantly err in this matter. They either emphasize works so much that they neglect prayer, or they put so much emphasis on prayer that they fail to labor for the vision.

In either case, vision does not move toward fulfillment and our prayers do not shape the future.

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Log House Matching Gift Update – July 19

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Thank you for participating in this adventure with God!

On July 9th, long time supporters of PRMI offered a matching gift to raise the money needed to finish the Log House. They have pledged to match every dollar given between July 9 and August 10, up to $50,000.

We announced this to our Board and to you via email newsletter last week.

Through the early morning of July 19, $24,435 has been given.

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What the Log House needs now – Construction Update #7

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Here is one of those urgent times – a Kairos moment — when some things must happen now if a Kingdom work is to be fulfilled in the future.

We need your help in praying in enough financial gifts to complete the renovation of the Log House at the Community of the Cross by of August 2019.

A generous donor has offered a $50,000 matching gift if we raise $50,000 by August 10, 2019 for the Log House.

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Baptized with or filled with the Holy Spirit?

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Forty days after Easter we celebrate Ascension Day, the day when Jesus returned in glory to His Father.

Just before leaving His disciples on that day, Jesus promised that He would send the Holy Spirit to empower them to be His witnesses (Acts 1:4,5,8). 

Ten days later on Pentecost, this promise was fulfilled.

The Holy Spirit was poured out and the disciples were baptized with the Spirit.

Do you need to pray to be “Baptized with the Holy Spirit”? 

Or do you need to pray to be “Filled with the Holy Spirit?”

Or are you just fine the way you are?  

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Planning the Ground Breaking for the Prayer House

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There are many dimensions to building the Prayer House at the Community of the Cross.

First, there is the spiritual reality – which is doing the work of prayer and receiving guidance from the Holy Spirit. This is PRMI’s area!

Second, there is shaping the physical reality – the site work, water, expanding the road, and then actually building the Prayer House itself.

I was intensely aware of the Holy Spirit moving on us together to accomplish this at a meeting held at the Community of the Cross on August 22, 2018.

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How to discern your calling – lessons from my own life

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Have you ever had the awareness of God calling you into following Jesus, somehow, somewhere, but you are not really sure what it was or how you were going to get there?

It is the common experience of Christians the world over to feel nudges or leadings from the Holy Spirit into following Him.

This leading may come as a childhood dream. I used to have daydreams of being a missionary in China or following Livingstone into the jungles of Africa.

Or it may come in midlife when our children grow up and leave the nest.

Many of us find a great restlessness in our souls of “Lord what is next? What do you want me to do with my life?” That restlessness may be the beginnings of a call. …

Receive the Empowerment of the Holy Spirit

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How can you be filled with the Holy Spirit for empowered ministry?  If you a disciple of Jesus Christ, you have the Holy Spirit already dwelling within you.

But how do you step into the empowering work of the Holy Spirit (one of the four basic works of the Holy Spirit)?

In Dunamis Project #1, Gateways to Empowered Ministry, you learn about who the Holy Spirit is, what the Holy Spirit does, and what does it mean to be filled with the Holy Spirit.  In this video,  Earl Rutledge shares some of the principles of how we prepare ourselves to receive the empowering work of the Holy Spirit.

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The Meaning of Pentecost

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Often Pentecost is viewed as the birthday of the Church, but this is a looking back to what God has done rather than a looking forward to the staggering possibilities of what He is going to do.

I believe God has given the Church the season of Pentecost to call us to seek new vision from the Father for advancing the Kingdom of God and to receive anew from the Holy Spirit the spiritual gifts, power and authority needed for us to be Jesus’s effective witnesses.

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The Cost of the Global Work of Prayer

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The work of prayer takes place through the guidance and empowerment of the Holy Spirit who is the director of the global prayer movement which is advancing the kingdom of God.   The cost of His leadership has been covered fully on the Cross.

There are hundreds of people within PRMI whom the Lord has called, anointed, is equipping and connecting together for this work.

For many this prayer work is a costly investment of time, and in some cases finances, as they seek to grow in this work and take part in special equipping events and initiatives. …