Personal, family and group or corporate prayer is surely one of our highest callings as believers. And thus is one of our greatest challenges. In light of that struggle, I submit these quotes for our encouragement and stimulation. May we believers in every city and every nation truly become "a house/people of prayer".

These notes are one of the studies I do with pre-marital couples. The question I like to ask them is this: Why is the longest passage in the Bible about marriage in the book of Ephesians? Here’s the answer in a nutshell:

Have you ever noticed how many times Jesus commands us to ask in the gospels? It’s as if He is sitting on the edge of His heavenly seat, chomping at the bit to act, to intervene, to invade the kingdom of darkness with His glorious light- – if and when His people will ask Him in faith to do so

The ministry of teaching and preaching in the church and out in the world can hardly be over emphasized. But how we do it and why we do it and what our ultimate goals are in doing it must be regularly re-evaluated and asssessed in light of Scripture.

God says in Proverbs 8, “..by Me kings reign…”Prov. 8:12-16. Sadly many of the government rulers on the earth have yet to realize this. Thus the church must pray for her "...kings and all who are in authority..." (I Tim. 2:1,2), so that they can come to this realization and so that we can "...lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity."

This outline including quotes and scriptures was the start to a sermon series I did a number of years ago on worship. May we all increasingly be the kind of people who "worship Him in spirit and in truth

The explosive growth and expansion of the early church as recorded in the Book of Acts is integrally connected to the signs, wonders and miracles that the apostles and others did by the filling and anointing of the Holy Spirit. May this study help us all be more useable in His hands to see these door openers operative in our day.

The intricate details of Jesus’s healing ministry were not recorded to fill up space. Because we can “walk in the same manner as He walked” (I John 2:6), every detail should be of great importance to us. This study is given for that purpose.

My objectives in these studies: 1. Is to give you an overview of the subject of healing so that you can see how prevalent a theme it is in the scriptures. 2. So that you can avoid some of the errors and extremes that have cropped up in some healing ministries. 3. So that you can study these passages yourselves and develop your own convictions about what the Bible teaches and what God would have you do about what He has revealed in His word.

Just as there is no "junior Holy Spirit", which means you do not have to reach a certain age before you can begin to relate to the Holy Spirit in all His fullness, so there is no age sensitive Satan. In other words, he does not wait until we are an adult to seek to destroy us. He begins immediately with his sinister and cruel schemes.