Thanks to our founding fathers, and thanks to many of the political leaders who have followed them through the last 250 years - - greatly influenced by the voice of the church (when it chose to speak into contemporary culture and society) we Americans still have the privilege of voting and our votes on the most part still count.

Six principles - four about how God sees and feels and is involved with life in the womb; the last two about how He wants to use us to help protect and fight for the life He has created in the womb.

If Jesus Christ, who was full of “grace and truth” (see John 1:14), said to the Father as prophesied by the prophet David in Psalm 40:8, “I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart” - then perhaps we should not be so quick to write off the Law, though obviously again we are not to be under it or attempting in any way to obtain favor with God by it.

"... at various points in my life and ministry in the last 50 years I have had believers speak in negative ways about the Law - seemingly saying not only are we no longer under it but also no longer in need of it."

Money, riches and wealth come in handy in the caring for our families and the expansion of God’s kingdom on earth. But there are some powerful and sinister forces behind it, and many have underestimated these forces at great detriment to their own souls and the intended destiny of their families.

You cannot separate the power and person of the Holy Spirit with revival and awakening. One of the greatest fruits or results of revival is that men finally learn to give up any reliance upon the flesh – seeking only to rely on the power of the Holy Spirit to see God’s kingdom come and His will be done.

These warnings should be soberly heeded by all of us. But Jesus never avoided rich people. Rather he often engaged them and one of the first examples is His choosing to heal the slave, (who was sick and near death), of the Roman Centurion as recorded in Luke 7:1-10. In fact Jesus highly commended the Centurion’s faith as greater than anyone’s in Israel (vs. 9).

While God is pleased when His people gather to pray and while God is pleased to work in response to people praying together, we do have an enemy and he certainly does not sit idle. Any of you who have sought to be faithful in corporate prayer surely know that in the hours or minutes leading up to a time of prayer all hell sometimes breaks loose in an effort to distract or dissuade us from praying.

My intention with this post, which I intend to add to as time goes on, is to show you the impact subsequent experiences with/fillings of the Holy Spirit had on some of the more well known non charismatic/non Pentecostal ministers that have impacted my life and probably yours - - so that you and I will never get complacent or self sufficient in our pursuit of and need of more fullness of the Holy Spirit

One reason they were able to be of one mind is because Jesus had specifically told them what they were to wait on. He had promised them what would be theirs if they would wait. And that "what" is much needed power and an experience with the Holy Spirit that would infuse them with that power called being “baptized with the Holy Spirit” (see Luke 3:16, Acts 1:5).