Podcasts (Page 20)

Intercession in the Spirit of Love

Subscribe: RSS

Paul refers to his own intercessory prayers and seeks for a similar service on his own behalf from those to whom he writes. Intercession is based upon the tendency of the heart filled by love and deep sympathetic sense of relations to others.

Apostle Paul’s examples:

(Rom. 1:9); The Spirit’s interceding
Rom.8:27); Paul’s prayer for his race,
(Rom.10:1); request for prayers
(Rom.15:30); help that he found from the prayer of his friends
(2 Cor. 1:11); Prayer for the Corinthian church
(2 Cor. 13:7); (Eph. 1:16-23; 3:14- 21); (Eph. 6:18; Phil. 1:3-11,19; Col. 1:3,9; 4:3; 1 Thess. 1:2; 5:23,25; 2 Thess. 1:2); all men and for kings and those in authority
(1 Tim. 2:1-2); prayer for Timothy
(2 Tim. 1:3); Philemon verse 4; offered for the sick by the elders of the church (Jam. 5:14-18); also, (Heb. 13:18-21; 1 Jn. 5: 14 ff).

Jesus has already won the war

Podcast: Download

Subscribe: RSS

We imitate His ministry.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart,” (Heb. 4:12).

Jesus used the Word of God when He needed the Power of God. We use the Word of God to tap into the power of God! Jesus was a doer of the Word.

“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers’ only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed,” (Jam. 1:21-25).

“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,” (Eph. 1:17). Paul shows the power relationship between the believer and Jesus’ exalted position of authority.

Elisha and the Double Portion of the Spirit of God

Podcast: Download

Subscribe: RSS

Elisha followed the older man closely that day, refusing suggestions that he stays behind. At the end, the old prophet turned to the young man and said, “Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from you.” Elisha said, “I pray you, let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.”

Elisha was asking that the anointing and power of God that rested upon Elijah come upon him, but in a double measure. Elijah replied: “You have asked a hard thing. Nevertheless, if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be done for you; but if not, it shall not be so.” It came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. Elisha saw and cried, ” My father, my father! The Chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof! And He saw him no more . . . ” The condition has been fulfilled.

Symbols and Fetishes used in Occult Healing

Podcast: Download

Subscribe: RSS

African masks, shields, statues, etc are used in Occult Healing. Mask, frequently with an elaborate costume as well, is a way of concealing and submerging your own personality and identifying yourselves with a spirit or other supernatural character in dance or drama. African jujus, (shaped like snakes, hands, figures, and other things are also used. Here are a few other items that are used:

Statues of foreign gods; Buddha, fertility; Crystal stones, peeping stones; Black stones
Hindu statues of gods and goddesses, snake beetles, etc.
Egyptian symbols, art and jewelry

Catholic idols

Statues and articles of images of Jesus, Mary, Joseph, saints, Rosary beads, metals dedicated to saints and holy people, relics (pieces of bone or objects from dead saints). “In almost all countries then, we meet with something in the nature of prayer counters or rosary beads. “. . . including sculpture of ancient Nineveh, mentioned by Layard, of two-winged females praying before a sacred tree, each holding a rosary. For centuries, among the Mohammedan, a bead string consisting of 33, 66, or 99 beads has been used for counting the names of Allah. Marco Polo, in the thirteenth century, was surprised to find the King of Malabar using a rosary of precious stones to count his prayers. St. Francis Xavier and his companion were equally astonished to see that rosaries were universally familiar to the Buddhists of Japan.