Tag: revival

God Is Always Listening – Even When We Don’t Think So

Randolph Jason

God Is Always Listening – Even When We Don’t Think So by Randolph Jason for Gospel News Network Sunday evening I was going over everything on the website and checking twitter and was surprised at the number of “Notifications” I had received over the weekend. They were more than triple the typical volume. The one notice I received was from Bill Stack, Pastor of Salem Full Gospel Church in Salem, Missouri. When we published Church Offerings – Essence of Collapse we didn’t expect an immediate response, but we sure received…

READ MORE

‘We’re Not Spirit-Filled Enough’: Why Today’s Church Needs an Extreme Makeover

Randolph Jason

‘We’re Not Spirit-Filled Enough’: Why Today’s Church Needs an Extreme Makeover by JOHN BURTON for Charisma News Even today’s most Spirit-filled churches must embrace radical reformation. Listen to a short podcast as I describe the 2 Chronicles church model, a revelation-driven, prophetic model, that must come to the church, and fast. Then, read this article. It’s time for revolution. Today’s Spirit-Filled Church Experience Like most of you, I have quite a memory bank full of church experiences, many of them phenomenal, many of them poor, but most of them quite…

READ MORE

Why the Church Must Invite God Back Into His Own House

Randolph Jason

Why the Church Must Invite God Back Into His Own House by DOUG STRINGER for Charisma News Note: This is part 1 of a two-part series. In Mark 11, we find a story about Jesus that is somewhat perplexing. But with a bit of background, we discover it’s actually a lesson for us in bringing God back in the church! On the next day when they had returned from Bethany, He was hungry. Seeing from afar a fig tree with leaves, He went to see if perhaps He might find…

READ MORE

Why Seeker-Sensitive Ministries Are So Foolish

Randolph Jason

Why Seeker-Sensitive Ministries Are So Foolish by JOHN BURTON for Charisma News A move of God in Jesse, West Virginia has left many wondering—how could any pastor promote seeker sensitive ministry? This is what revival looks like. Surrendered hearts, holy fire, relentless worship. Intercession. Chains broken, healing happening, persistent people who are hungry for more. Firebrands. Revivalists. Reformers. Revolutionaries. Pursuing the face of God and His heart. Different states, different intercessors, all coming together with one voice: a cry for the fire of God and revival to hit this land…

READ MORE

Listen Up! Practical Help for Lousy Listeners

Randolph Jason

Listen Up! Practical Help for Lousy Listeners by Deepak Reju  for The Gospel Coalition Are you a bad listener? What would your spouse or best friend or children say about you? People tend to think much more highly of themselves than they actually deserve. So what would you say: Are you a good or bad listener? There are several practices and traits that can derail good listening. Impatience leads to shoddy listening. An impatient listener is not able to appreciate or be fully engaged in her present circumstances. She is not willing…

READ MORE

This Spirit-Led Prayer Will Help You Break the Chains of Your Past

Randolph Jason

This Spirit-Led Prayer Will Help You Break the Chains of Your Past by LINDA EVANS SHEPHERD for Charisma News I was once told not to drag my past into my future. But, wait, isn’t my past part of who I am today? And while there are plenty of things from my past I wouldn’t care to repeat, including hard times and heartaches, there were also wonderful times and even joy. Yet I can see there are emotional weights I should stop dragging around, including worries, problems, burdens, failure, regrets, shame,…

READ MORE

Healings, Jesus Encounters and More: Prepare for the 2020 Evangelism Explosion

Randolph Jason

Healings, Jesus Encounters and More: Prepare for the 2020 Evangelism Explosion by LEILANI HAYWOOD for Charisma News Pentecostal Christians around the country are gearing up for an international evangelism explosion next year through GO 2020, a special edition of Global Outreach Day. “From the East Coast to the West Coast, Assemblies of God is excited about GO 2020,” said Joe Oden, Assemblies of God National Coordinator for GO2020 and liaison for the Pentecostal Charismatic Churches of North America (PCCNA). PCCNA represents 40 million Christians in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.…

READ MORE

Jesus Gave Me What Boozing and Brawling Couldn’t

Randolph Jason

Jesus Gave Me What Boozing and Brawling Couldn’t by ALLEN LANGHAM for Christianity Today My journey from the criminal underworld to the foot of the cross. Six years ago—lost, broken, alone, and suicidal—I was the empty shell of a once-promising rugby player, shuffling around an exercise yard in a London prison. I was a man of extreme violence who had done seven stretches behind bars. One morning around that time, I watched a flock of birds take off from a ledge outside my cell. Right then, I knew God was…

READ MORE

Yes, the Doomsday Predictions Feel Real, But …

Randolph Jason

Yes, the Doomsday Predictions Feel Real, But … by DOUG STRINGER for Charisma News God has not forgotten you! He is standing over His Word, ready to bring it to pass in your life. Even when your present circumstances look bleak, God’s thoughts toward you are of good and not evil, to give you a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11). Near the end of 2011, many analysts started making predictions for the coming season. Most of the predictions had a doomsday feel to them, both on the national and…

READ MORE

3 Questions for Discerning Your Calling

Randolph Jason

3 Questions for Discerning Your Calling by JORDAN RAYNOR for Relevant Magazine If our work is ever going to be more than a job, we must ask good questions. The renowned British novelist Dorothy Sayers once said that, “Work is not, primarily, a thing one does to live, but the thing one lives to do. It is, or it should be, the full expression of the worker’s faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental and bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.” It’s…

READ MORE