The next story took place after we had returned from New Zealand. We had a friend who asked Karen and I to come help him with some spiritual problems he was having. He was seeing demons in his house and asked us to come and cleanse the property. There was an oppressive presence in the house as we prayed around the rooms. We really sensed the open door was in our friend. So we asked if we could take him [...] Read more »
How Not to Teach Greek to a 3 Year Old
It’s summer hear in the Northern hemisphere and most of us agree…it’s about time. Where I’m at we had a month of rain in 3 days so it was comical the moment the clouds broke everyone in suburbia who had garbage pick up the next day was out cutting grass. I had to duck in as a thunderstorm passed but I’m got to say I’ve never seen the lawn look so good. I forget we never watered the grass in [...] Read more »
How to Wait for Vision
By Len Buttner ( Eagle Ascend Ministries, Auckland, New Zealand) This is the Fourth guest blog by Len Buttner on Vision. You can read Defining Your Vision, What is God’s Vision for Your Life, and Preparing for Vision . Be sure to check out Eagle Ascend Ministries www.eagleascend.com Whenever we get impatient for the fulfillment of the vision God gave us, let us remember. Habakkuk 2:3 – ”But these things I plan won’t happen right away, slowly, steadily, surely the time approaches when [...] Read more »
PREPARING FOR VISION
By Len Buttner (Auckland, New Zealand) This is the Third guest blog by Len Buttner on Vision. You can read Defining Your Vision and What is God’s Vision for Your Life , and be sure to check out www.eagleascend.com Nobody wants to get to the end of life and realize, “I’ve wasted my life; “I’ve missed God’s purpose for my life” • Vision can be defined as a divinely given picture of what could be and should be. Vision is the God-given [...] Read more »
WHAT IS GOD’S VISION FOR YOUR LIFE?
By Len Buttner (Auckland, New Zealand) This is the second guest blog by Len Buttner on Vision. You can read Defining Your Vision if you like this post, and be sure to check out www.eagleascend.com What is God’s Vision for your life? • That I may know Him more and more! “This is the way to have eternal life – to know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the One You sent to earth” (John 17:3, NLT). Jesus [...] Read more »
DEFINING YOUR VISION
By Len Buttner (Auckland, New Zealand) We met Len in New Zealand and really came to appreciate his ministry. I’m so blessed to have him as a guest blogger for a series of posts on Vision. Have you ever found yourself struggling to bring focus to your life, or perhaps you find yourself feeling completely unfulfilled and unhappy – even though you have what others would regard as a “perfect life”? It would seem like no matter what differences we [...] Read more »
TEN WAYS TO FULFIL A VISION FROM GOD – 6 – 10
By Rodney W. Francis (Founder/Director: “The Gospel Faith Messenger” Ministry,” Paraparaumu, New Zealand) We’re continuing this guest post from Rodney Francis on Paul’s Macedonian call and what it means for us to fulfil a vision that’s from God. Be sure to check out his site. He’s doing amazing work all around the world. All around us there are people who are hurting. There are people who are defeated. There are people who are discouraged, sad, lonely and/or depressed. There are [...] Read more »
TEN WAYS TO FULFIL A VISION FROM GOD – 1-5
By Rodney W. Francis (Founder/Director: “The Gospel Faith Messenger” Ministry,” Paraparaumu, New Zealand) Rodney is a great friend and encourager for me. I was so blessed when he agreed to do a couple of guest posts on my blog. I use his advice for defining a vision and know you’ll enjoy it as well. Check out http://www.gospel.org.nz for more of his resources. I would like to share with you ten different things the Apostle Paul did in order to fulfil [...] Read more »
Why I Need to Keep in Step with the Spirit
Why I Need to Keep in Step with the Spirit It started with a dream. I don’t often dream, or I should say I don’t often think God is speaking to me through the dreams I dream. This one was different. It was one that made me sit up and take notice. I dreamed I was riding a war horse. It was jet black with a ruddy mane. It was galloping down the field along the stretch of road I [...] Read more »
Seek Peace and Pursue it – Day 11
Truth: You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you,all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Isaiah 26:3 (New Living Translation) Thought: When we were in New Zealand, everyone was so laid-back compared with what we were used to in North America. When you signaled to change lanes on a busy motorway, people would actually give way to you. It was astounding. Few were in a hurry. “No worries” is the standard reply. No one seemed busy… unless [...] Read more »
The Road Less Traveled
I wanted to get shots with my video camera that I could turn into video backgrounds once PowerPoint catches up to Keynote. So we began a new hobby in New Zealand – Waterfall hunting. Basically it would go like this, someone would tell us of a waterfall just off the beaten path, or we would see a picture and ask around until someone knew where it was. We’d have a name and directions that made sense to people who had [...] Read more »
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