"description":"The key point of the Lord's Prayer is relationship, and Ed draws out how the various relationships are underscored, such as Father-child, holy God-sinner, King-subject, and so on. As the model prayer progresses, God gets bigger and bigger and man gets smaller and smaller. In prayer we pour out our hearts before the Lord, expressing our longings to see Him and to depend upon Him for everything.",
"scripture":"Genesis 6:5, Romans 12:1-2, Matt 6:24-34",
"topic":"Orientation",
"description":"This is a practical look at Disciplining the thought life. He goes on to say that If you sow a thought, you reap an action. If you sow an action you reap a habit. If you sow a habit you reap a lifestyle. If you sow a lifestyle you reap an eternity. This is an excellent message for anyone who is worrisome, anxious and has an undisciplined thought life.",
"scripture":"Genesis 6:5, Romans 12:1-2, Matt 6:24-34",
"topic":"Orientation",
"description":"This is a practical look at Disciplining the thought life. He goes on to say that If you sow a thought, you reap an action. If you sow an action you reap a habit. If you sow a habit you reap a lifestyle. If you sow a lifestyle you reap an eternity. This is an excellent message for anyone who is worrisome, anxious and has an undisciplined thought life.",
"scripture":"2 Corinthians 2:17, 1 Timothy 6:10, Matthew 6:24",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"Christianity is not about money, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s about people. Sadly modern Christendom has been overwhelmed with the salesman who sells Christ as ware and treats the holy things as a way to profit financially.150 It does not take much discernment for the worldly person to see the counterfeit preacher on TV who makes money look like their god.151 Yet, sadly, believers who are asleep spiritually, and have not been seeking the Lord, are given over to this delusion which is coming upon them in masses.152 False teachers abound and the saints are sleeping. There needs to be a clarion cry across all nations that God is not for sale and is against those who love money and equate righteousness with financial gain and profit.",
"scripture":"Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 4:1-11, Isaiah 40:30-31",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"One of the hidden jewels of the Church is godly discipline. There has been a great lack of teaching and encouragement in modern evangelicalism towards the godly disciplines of: Fasting, waiting on God, early rising, head coverings, prevailing prayer, systematic Bible reading, Bible memorization, kneeling in prayer, and many other godly traditions in Church history.",
"scripture":"Acts 4:23-24, Matthew 6:6, James 5:16",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"With many in the Church prayer is treated as the last thing we do before God. We use prayer to ask Him to fulfill\u00e2\u20ac\u201din many cases\u00e2\u20ac\u201dour own carnal plans. With thousands of books written on prayer many of us have still not placed prayer as the most important Christian activity we do, corporately619 or privately.620 We have special times for prayer once in a while, expecting that God should hear us and then go back to our normal lives without an intense reliance on God through prayer.",
"scripture":"Matthew 6:26, Matthew 5:13, Acts 8:26-29",
"topic":"Audio Books",
"description":"Another Christian Pastor Farshid Fathi has been detained in prison since December 2010. He was charged with possessing religious propaganda. The evidence presented by the regime was that Pastor Fathi had Bibles printed in Farsi, that he had unlawfully distributed Bibles, and that he possessed Christian literature. The regime argued that his Christian activities were equivalent to actions against national security. Pastor Fathi is presently serving a 6-year sentence in Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s notorious Evin prison. His crime is being a Christian and freely exercising his faith. Pastor Fathi has a wife Leila and two children, Rosana and Bardia. They suffer with him.",
"description":"If you long to experience God as a Father who is always ready to give good gifts to His children, listen to the testimony taken from the experiences of the Lutheran Evangelical Sisterhood whose home is on the little Land of Canaan in Darmstadt, Germany. Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
"description":"God\u2019s word, the Holy Scriptures, is also alive with helpful, practical and powerful directives for our lives. This meditation will share about some of these.",
"scripture":"Mark 4:1-8, Romans 14:17, Matthew 6:33",
"topic":"",
"description":"Dr. Thompson begins by equating the Kingdom of God with \u201cchange.\u201d He says that the Kingdom is not primarily a \"place\" but rather it is a transformation in what you are, inside and out. He discusses the parable of the sower, and the different types of ground. He covers very practical ways to tell how you are doing in Christ today. He ties the parable of the sower in with the fruit of the spirit. A very entertaining, informative and practical sermon.",
"description":"God lives and works today! But maybe you don\u2019t feel that way right now because He hasn\u2019t given you something you wanted or needed. This meditation has a helpful suggestion about what to do and why to do it.",
"description":"God lives and works today! But maybe you don't feel that way right now because He hasn't given you something you wanted . Today's meditation, by Basilea Schlink has a helpful suggestion about what to do.",
"description":"Like giving and praying, fasting also must be vertical, directed toward God and not to impress others. As with the other disciplines, God will reward what He sees, the motives of our heart. As giving provides an opportunity for us to measure our commitment to God, fasting gives us an opportunity to measure the degree to which we value the spiritual more than the physical aspects of our lives. It also demonstrates the sincerity of our prayers.",
"description":"God lives and works today! This statement can be true for us today, if we give God the chance to show His power. How do we do that? We can see the answer in this meditation as we take a glimpse into the life on the Land of Canaan.",
"description":"God lives and works today! This statement can be true for us today, if we give God the chance to show His power. How do we do that? We can see the answer in the following meditation as we take a glimpse into the life on the Land of Canaan.",
"description":"In true Vance Havner fashion, he cuts to the chase quickly and does not mince words. It is refreshing to hear this kind of preaching where the listener does not have to second guess what the preacher means. His passion for souls and his love for Jesus is evident in the choice of words used in delivering this sermon.",
"description":"This passage addresses anxiety, but at its core it is really teaching about values, or priorities. When we worry, we are showing what we value and how much we trust God to care for us. Every disciple of Jesus should have a \u00c2\u201cpriority target,\u00c2\u201d with a black circle in the center representing the rule of God over their hearts. Everything outside that center should be prioritized by the King of kings as He shows us what is right. Whatever we are tempted to worry about will be provided by our heavenly Father.",
"description":"Many helpful books have been written on the subject of prayer in response to the question, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How should I pray?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d However, we need look no further than God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Word for the most insightful and helpful direction. The Lord Jesus provides the answer to that question in His great Sermon on the Mount! Dr. K.P. Yohannan today encourages us to get on the journey of prayer!",
"description":"He taught us to pray, \"our Father\" and not \"my Father\". When you become a child of God you cannot say, \"I serve Him in my own way - you do your thing and I'll do mine\". Such a person is on the wrong track. When we are born again we become part of God's spiritual family. When Jesus' mother and brothers wanted to speak to Him while He was preaching, He replied \"who is my mother, and who are my brethren?\". Then He pointed to His disciples and said, \"whosoever will do the will of My Father in heaven, the same is my brother and sister and mother\". The spiritual family is much more important than the physical blood family. If your child is not in the will of God, you are far apart from him, while another child who serves God, even not your blood-family, is much closer to you.",
"description":"Pastor Pointer shares his burden to see the Church of Jesus Christ to pray for the Kingdom of God to come. To be a kingdom minded believer is to be a kingdom praying believer. And in reality is to be a kingdom believer in this earth, to live as Christ lived. He clearly shows that Christ becomes King in the believer to be a part of the Kingdom of God.",
"description":"September 17, 2006. In these days of darkness and uncertainty the call of God to His church is to pray and seek the face of Jesus. God is looking for individuals who will wait on Him until the Holy Spirit is poured out. God often allows afflictions as an act of His love to bring us to our knees and cause us to bend our heart to His submission. In the secret closet God wants o replenish us and give us His covenant of peace. In these last days God is going to pour out a spirit of prayer and supplications with a supernatural enablement to pray.",
"scripture":"Matthew 6:33, Matthew 24:13, Revelation 2:10",
"topic":"Seeking God",
"description":"The Bible doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t teach us to delay repentance but only speak of one thing, \"today is the day of salvation. Today when you hear His voice don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t harden your heart\" (Hebrews 3:15). So our Bridegroom has gone to prepare a place. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know the day His Father will tell Him to fetch His bride. Will He find you ready when His Father tells Him to fetch His bride? The Bible says He will come as a thief in the night. You do not know when a thief will come and so you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know when He would come. You must be prepared at all times.",
"description":"One of the reasons people have so many problems is that they do not have the right values. Disciples who have the right attitudes within them are living with the right values. That is why they can have a salt and light influence in the world; their priorities are based on eternity and not on earthly treasures.",
"description":"God's life can only be found in people who have time for Him! In the following meditation, we will be hearing what happened when a school-teacher made time for Jesus.",
"description":"God lives and works today! But His life can only be found in people who have time for Him! In this meditation we will be hearing what happened when a school-teacher made time for Jesus.",
"description":"Is not the life more than meat? Matthew 6:25\r\n\r\nTake my life and let it be\r\nConsecreated, Lord, to Thee\r\nTake my hands and let them move\r\nAt the impulse of Thy love\r\nAt the impulse of Thy love\r\n\r\nTake my feet and let them be\r\nSwift and beautiful for Thee\r\nTake my voice and let me sing\r\nAlways, only, for my King\r\nAlways, only, for my King\r\n\r\nTake my lips and let them be\r\nFilled with messages for Thee\r\nTake my silver and my gold\r\nNot a mite would I withhold\r\nNot a mite would I withhold\r\n\r\nTake my love, my God, I pour\r\nAt Thy feet, its treasure store\r\nTake myself and I will be\r\nEver, only, all for Thee\r\nEver, only, all for Thee",
"description":"It is essential that Christians spend time daily shut in with the Lord, giving him quality time. A praying woman who spends time regularly with the Lord has an orderly home. If there is chaos, and confusion, it is because of a lack of prayer, most of the time. This is a firm, but loving rebuke to those who do not pray as they know they are supposed to. Issues as to why the lack of prayer are addressed in a helpful way.",
"description":"This sermon is a call to believers to spend time in an meaningful habititul pracitice of praying in secret. This shutting yourself in with God [i]daily[\/i] is of vital importance, this message will convict and change your life through the Holy Spirit.",
"description":"Jesus has taught His disciples to consider the blessed attitudes that must be in their hearts, and He has taught them to apply those beatitudes in their relationships. Now in Matthew chapter 6, He urges His disciples to look in another direction\u00c2\u2014toward their relationship with God. They are to live their commitment as disciples by following certain spiritual, or vertical, disciplines and values.",
"description":"Jesus taught His disciples how to pray with a prayer we often call \u00c2\u201cThe Lord\u00c2\u2019s Prayer.\u00c2\u201d But this prayer really should be called \u00c2\u201cthe Disciples\u00c2\u2019 Prayer\u00c2\u201d because Jesus never prayed it Himself. He said this is how we should pray. Jesus tells us to pray in a place where we can shut the door and be alone, where there is no one to impress but God.",
"scripture":"Matthew 6:24, Luke 16:13, Matthew 6:33",
"topic":"Recession",
"description":"Zac Poonen shares during a time of recession that God is allowing this to test and see if we are serving mammon as a God. Why should it disturb us if Mammon is shaking? We should be content that the kingdom of God principles are the same in our day. Brother Zac talks about a Babylonian church system that does not serve Christ. A very important message in our times.",
"description":"April 2, 2006. God wants to change our thinking and impact our lives for the future. When we go through seasons of suffering, it is God\u2019s desire to bring us to a place of total dependency on His promises. As we surrender our life into His hands and say Lord I trust you to be faithful to me and set ourselves to respond in defense of the gospel, then the very afflictions will become a message of Christ\u2019s faithfulness. When you go through sufferings is your reaction preaching who Christ really is?",
"description":"Ed Miller answers the question, \"How can I get others to appropriate a full Christ?\" by watching what the priests did when God dried up the Jordan River. He illustrates the need for us to have faith, to stand upon Christ's finished work (the dry ground), and holding up Christ (the Ark of the Covenant). (This series of messages was delivered at the Del-Mar-Va Men's Retreat in March of 2001)",
"description":"God enjoys doing good things for His children, for those who trust Him and let Him be a Father to them. This meditation shares how one housewife experienced this. She dared to take God at His Word!",
"description":"October 17, 2010 - There is no deeper darkness than when sin and religion become friends. When we sit under the true preaching of God's Word and then embrace a lie, sin and religion become friends. It is that inner struggle that we all have to face from time to time when we come to a minimal understanding of the ways of God, and yet in our own heart we think we might know a better way than the one God has planned for us. There is incredible power in the deceptiveness of the human heart. God is calling us to be single focused and to agree with His truth so that our heart will not be veiled with the deceit of religion. When we turn, with all of our heart, to the Lord, the veil is lifted and our lives become a testimony of His goodness and power.",
"description":"Paul Washer delivers some very practical and godly guidances for prayer meetings. And exhorts on the subject of prayer and spirituality with God. This is a powerful short exhortation.",
"description":"Paul Washer delivers some very practical and godly guidances for prayer meetings. And exhorts on the subject of prayer and spirituality with God. This is a powerful short exhortation.",
"description":"Perhaps you, too, are burdened with worries, tormented by them day and night. Who among us would like to experience God\u2019s wonderful reality, especially with respect to the anxieties of life? Kanaan is the home of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, an international, interdenominational organization founded in 1947 within the framework of the German Evangelical (Protestant) Church. Website: www.kanaan.org",
