Ingredients of Effective Kingdom Ministry
If you add each of the ingredients from God’s way instead of the world’s way (Luke 9), you have the recipe for effective kingdom ministry.
Develop Closer Relationships Between Fathers and Children (Insights in Prophets)
To release God’s healing for closer heart relationships between fathers and children, surrender your heart to teach whole Bible so you create desire for instruction, unified marriage, purified people, hate oppression, give financially to God’s kingdom and expect God to write a scroll of remembrance. Surrender Your Heart to Show God’s GreatnessMalachi told Israel…
Choose Spiritual Leaders Who Practice and Teach God’s Word (Insights in Prophets)
The following describe how to choose spiritual leaders who practice and teach God’s word:1. Follow God’s Word to form an intimate relationship with Him as you surrender and confess your sins daily to God2. Experience God’s glory as you pray together to bear fruit-bearing disciples that heal people in all nations through the Holy Spirit3. Follow…
How To Get Others Right With God (Insights in Law)
Because leaders don’t surrender to God, people under their care lead ungodly lives. Lev. 9 is a call to leaders to spend much time in the presence of God confessing their sin and praying that others get right with God. This passage teaches how to get others right with God. On the eighth day,…
Make Christ Your All (Insights in Law)
Dr. Yu, a Chinese martyr wrote, “The Father wants us to be filled only with His Christ. Will you let Him deal so thoroughly in His love, until you are consumed with Him, having to continually depend upon Him, instead of anything of yourself? For God to take you deeper into Himself, He must expose…
Draw Close to God in a Fresh, Pure and Authentic Way (Insights in Law)
Greater than 400 years ago, St. Ignatius Loyola encouraged prayerful reflection on the events of the day to detect God’s presence and discern His direction for anyone through the Daily Examen: 1. Become aware of God’s presence by looking back at the events of day through partnering with the Holy Spirit. 2. Review the day…
Watch What God Does When You Are Reconciled to Him (Insights in Law)
Human strategies cut us off from the greatest blessings that only come from God. Watch what God does when you are reconciled to Him and grow in your personal relationship with God through the power of the Holy Spirit. God spoke from the tent of meeting that any man should bring a male animal…
Resist Being Squeezed into the World’s Mold (Insights in NT)
In John 18, you learned how to speak God’s word openly as His disciple and fulfill your destiny by persevering in the midst of betrayal, endure persecution, resist temptation toward comfort, embrace your role as Christ’s disciple, take up your cross and seek God’s kingdom by bearing witness to the truth. John 19 teaches the core…
Trusting in the Tangible Instead of God (Insights in Prophets)
It’s so easy to place our trust in something tangible like wealth, beauty, strength and talent instead of God and His promises. The challenge of living by faith is we can’t see God’s kingdom at work in the natural. We pin our hopes on human resources or pursue our pleasure by relying on them. It…
Defeating the Idol of Success (Insights in Law)
Each of us often get focused on work and activity without spending sufficient time in prayer and relaxation. It could be our business or even ministry work that have worthy goals. Most of the goals of the modern church can be accomplished without God. All we need is people, money and a common objective. Achieving…
Wait Before Work (Insights in Law)
A Fuller Seminary survey of 1050 Reformed and Evangelical pastors in 2005-06 showed only 26% of pastors regularly had personal devotions and felt they were adequately fed spirituality. We get the idea that the model of success is to make something happen with programs and work hard to make people happy. Henri Nouwen said the…
Joy of Surrender (Insights in Law)
I remember getting frustrated with dating. Once I surrendered that area to God, I met Karen and she became my wife. We recently celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary. God may want you to surrender an area of your life–job, family member, interest, hobby, ministry, possession or strong conviction–so He can have full access and allow…