We’ve all heard the adage:
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
The idea is to make people self-reliant, so we don’t have to give them aid over and over again. It is a good principle, often used in the [...]
The role of intercession has always been critical in church history. Webster’s Dictionary describes intercession as “prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of another”. Pentecost was ushered in through prayer and intercession (Acts 2); Paul and Barnabas were also selected and sent off the same way, with fasting (Acts 13). Intercession is selfless [...]
I’d like to continue in the vein of the last post for a little longer. I have seen over many years in prayer and healing ministry the tendency of most people towards skepticism of the unseen. Let me explain. We have spent most of our time, education, and training in the physical, empirical [...]
It must be obvious to even the casual reader that I have more than a passing interest in the matter of divine healing. It occupies a lot of my waking thoughts and I’ve been involved in many different healing or related ministries over the years. One of the main things I’ve thought about is [...]
I shared a little while back one of the reasons we have a marked lack of healings in our churches. There are many actually, but I want to focus on one today that is significant at both the individual and corporate levels. I earlier said that healings are few because teaching and preaching [...]