A LOOK AT END TIME PROPHECY THROUGH THE EYES OF AN UNWORTHY SERVANT

APRIL 30, 2018 How to Pray in the Holy Spirit Article by  Jason Meyer Pastor, Minneapolis, Minnesota I spent five years immersing myself in the sermons of Martyn Lloyd-Jones. It was truly a transformative season in my life. What was the biggest takeaway? The answer may surprise you. He taught me how to pray. “We must come face to face with our tendency to try to pray on our own.” Tweet Share on Facebook Those who really knew Lloyd-Jones will not find that answer surprising at all. His wife once said, “No one will ever understand my husband until they realize that he is first of all a man of prayer and then an evangelist” (Bethan Lloyd-Jones). In particular, Lloyd-Jones, as a man of prayer, taught me how to pray in the Holy Spirit. My hunger for learning how to pray in the Spirit came from a perplexing problem. I read  Ephesians 6:18 , “praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.” This text really bothered me because I ...

Daily Dig for April 30 Kahlil Gibran Jesus was not a bird with broken wings. He was a raging tempest who broke all crooked wings. He feared not his persecutors nor his enemies. Free and brave and daring he was. He defied all despots and oppressors. He saw the contagious pustules and amputated them. He muted Evil and he crushed Falsehood and he choked Treachery. Source:  Bread and Wine

DEVOTION FOR MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2018 Colossians 3:1–17 FORGIVE AS THE LORD FORGAVE YOU The gospel song, “He’s Alive,” popularized by the Gaither Vocal Band, dramatizes the moment when Peter found forgiveness. Suddenly the air was filled with a strange and sweet perfume, Light that came from everywhere drove shadows from the room, Jesus stood before me with his arms held open wide, And I fell down on my knees and clung to him and cried. . . . Guilt and my confusion disappeared in sweet release, and every fear I’d ever had just melted into peace. The chorus exclaims, He’s alive and I’m forgiven, Heaven’s gates are open wide. We have been forgiven, and that realization is life-changing! In our passage today, Paul explains, “For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God” (v. 3). While we may not be dead physically, we are dead to sin and have been given new life in Christ. We are no longer controlled by our sinful nature, and we need t...