There are some common ways that the enemy tries to discourage prayer and worship, whether it is accusations against existing prayer ministries or unbiblical mindsets that hinder believers from entering into the life of prayer and worship that God has for them. Thankfully, the truth of God’s word is a battering ram to these lies. […]
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Phrases like “presence-centered community” or “culture of prayer” or “prioritize God’s presence” mean different things to different people. Is a presence-centered community one where God is doing miracles, healing bodies and releasing his power as people lay hands on each other? Are we prioritizing God’s presence because we do 45 minutes of worship on Sunday
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In 2009, I helped organize a series of united youth gatherings in our city. I had a handful of youth pastor friends, and we agreed to bring together students monthly for worship, rotating among each other’s church buildings for 5-6 months. We called the meetings “Dwell” based on Psalm 133 where God says it is
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In our journey of growing as a worshiper and lover of God, some of us experience a shift in our hearts from the desire to experience God’s presence to the desire to host God’s presence. Those I call “presence pioneers” are those who have begun to have this growing longing for an abiding presence of
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Think about it… The Moravians in Herrnhut sustained a corporate 24/7 prayer watch that lasted over 100 years in the 1700s with only 48 volunteers (two per hour) from a town of 300-400. Almost every town in America has more than four hundred Christians in it. Most cities have a single church with over four
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If we’re not careful, we will associate participation in the global prayer movement only with those who are called to be prayer missionaries. However, that is not the case. Jesus said His house — the Church — would be a house of prayer (Matthew 21:13). Extravagant worship and prayer is not a calling for specific people, it is the central activity of the end-time Church. We are all made to worship, pray and minister to God as our first ministry.
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Worship transforms us – from glory to glory. We all worship something, and we inevitably become like the object of our worship. Psychologist Jordan B Peterson has recognized that the “instinct” to worship is part of the natural injunction to imitate that which we find most valuable. That which we judge to be most beautiful,
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Some scholars and theologians are beginning to embrace the idea that the “relational presence of God” could be the thread that ties every book of the Bible together into a cohesive whole. J. Scott Duvall and J. Daniel Hays argue for this idea comprehensively in God’s Relational Presence: The Cohesive Center of Biblical Theology.
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The book of Psalms is essentially the songbook of David’s Tabernacle. The book of I Chronicles gives us insight into the story and structure of the tabernacle of David, but the Psalms give us insight into the heart of the tabernacle of David. Some believe that many of the psalms from David and Asaph were
When we launched the Boiler Room in Greenville, NC back in 2009, we were seeking God’s heart for our city and region. Over the years, we began to discover some of the prophetic promises that God had spoken over the place where we lived. One of these words given by Derek Prince provoked us deeply.
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