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...and by His stripes we are healed. (Is. 53:5)

Figurative or Fulfilled?

“Yet many followers of Jesus Christ are satisfied with the simple promise of going to heaven instead of seeing that their destiny is to press in for encounters with the face of God and live in the corresponding increase of favor. They are satisfied with figurative promises, not fulfillment. To some people, this may seem…
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All kinds of “sickness” and all kinds of “disease”

It’s really funny… you read the Word 100 times and on the 101th time, something will pop out at you and it’s like the Lord saying, “HEY! Pay attention to this!” Matthew 10:1 says, And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out,…
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If we stop at the cross

Two thoughts from a book I just finished reading: If we stop at the cross, we are merely dead – clean of sin, yes, but still dead, and so is whatever we pray for. Re-creation is the true end of prayer. God must speak His Son’s resurrection life into all that breathes and every thing…
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Faith and Benefits

It’s been said by more than a few folks that I’m “Word of Faith”. Well, I am, but I’m not. I am to the extent that WoF lines up with the Bible (the core teachings certainly do) and I’m not to the limits of the “out-there” teachings that some WoF folks have. WoF is often…
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heartcry for revival

Make my heart and my life… fresh kindling for Your fire… I woke up this morning literally crying out to God for revival in my heart… for the awesome mighty radical power of God to sweep over this whole region and transform it… Revival both is and is not a sovereign move of God. Yes…
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