You have to get past the miraculous son of Zechariah to get inside. The tall, gaunt figure looks down on you from his hollow eyes as you enter St. John’s Abbey Church in Collegeville, Mn. Lean, muscular, and Spirit-haunted, the Baptizer brandishes a cross and is scary as all get o...
I heard “Be in” Be in my presence and love. Be in the presence of the Holy Spirit and see the ways it wants to move and is moving. Then I saw how it all starts with being. After I am in the presence of Jesus and the Holy Spirit I can then be myself, I will know how an...
) He just wants us to come to Him and like a child to his father, talk to Him. That’s the way all the saints in the Bible prayed. It’s the way Jesus prayed. It’s the way Paul prayed. It’s
4:2-6 No duties can be done aright, unless we persevere in fervent prayer, and watch therein with thanksgiving. The people are to pray particularly for their ministers. Believers are exhorted to right conduct towards unbelievers. Be careful in all converse with them, to do them good, and ...
Luke 11 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition 11 Then He was praying in a certain place; and when He stopped, one of His disciples said to Him, Lord, teach us to pray, [just] as John taught his disciples. 2 And He said to them, When you pray, say: Our Father Who is in heaven, ...
Audio Bible ContextThanksgiving and Prayer…8and who also informed us of your love in the Spirit. 9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,...
Thus the circle is complete. This is what it means to 'pray in the Spirit'. The second essential is FAITH. God expects us to trust Him. We dishonour Him by unbelief - because unbelief implies that God is less considerate towards us than earthly fathers are towards their children. ...
In the Bible, God has shown us a lot of His names by simply telling us what they are outright–names like “I am the Lord” or “I am God Almighty.” But when we read these verses in which God just outright tells us His name, that’s only one kind of name. Those are the self...
in this sacred moment of your infinitely precious life is all you will ever need. With you and “the hanged God” in these days in love and prayer. Loretta F. Ross In the past year I have lived deeply into two books. I returned over and over to taste and savor their wisdom, as th...
The first time the Lord “unlocked His word to me” was in the middle of the night at a moment of desperation. I had no one to talk to, nowhere to run, no place to go, so I hit my knees and opened my Bible. “Lord, if You’re truly there I need You to speak to me now ...