by Tim Cameron | May 12, 2017 | Holy Spirit
The word was spreading quickly about this Jesus and later that night the whole town came to where He was. Yes, the whole town of Capernaum (population estimated to be between 1000, and 1,500 people at the time) gathered at the doorstep, bringing the sick and demon-possessed and clamoring for Jesus (Mark 1:32-34).
Can you picture the scene? Can you see yourself there? Imagine the sense of anticipation, the stirring of the people, the talk, and the electricity in the air. This was a dramatically taxing, emotionally draining, and physically demanding day for Christ the man.
What did Jesus do the next morning? Did He get caught up on His much-needed sleep? Perhaps take a late breakfast?
No. He began a pattern that is referenced many times by the Gospels. In fact, as Luke observed, “Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed” (Luke 5:16, NIV).
Tim Cameron
The morning prayer determines the day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
by Tim Cameron | Apr 25, 2017 | Holy Spirit
The only thing that saves us.
We can only keep ourselves in the love of God by building up ourselves on our most holy faith and by Holy Spirit praying, and by nothing else. If we try to fight God’s battles in our own moral, resisting power, we shall fail, and fail miserably, but if we use the spiritual weapons of implicitly trusting God and maintaining a simple relationship to Jesus Christ by praying in the Holy Spirit, we shall never fail.
Oswald Chambers
The Holy Spirit and Prayer
Paul more than once reminds his convert that the chief characteristic of his preaching was the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit.
There is no manifestation of the Holy Spirit when both the speaking (from the pastor) and the hearing (from the parishioner) are both mainly the working of human understanding and feeling.
Andrew Murray
by Tim Cameron | Apr 23, 2017 | andrew murray
“The hour cometh and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in the spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24).
The True Worshippers
The Father seeks worshippers. True worship is that which is in spirit and truth. One of our first lessons in the school of prayer must be to understand what it is to pray in spirit and in truth and to know how we can attain it.
Among Christians, one still finds the three classes of worshippers. Some in their ignorance hardly know what they’re asking for. The pray earnestly, but receive little. There are others having a correct knowledge who try to pray with all their minds and hearts. They often pray most earnestly and yet do not attain the full blessedness of worship in spirit and truth. It is into the third class we must ask our Lord Jesus to take us. He must teach us how to worship in spirit and truth. This alone is spiritual worship; this makes us the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. In prayer, everything will depend on our understanding and practicing worship in spirit and truth.
by Tim Cameron | Mar 30, 2017 | Holy Spirit
You won’t be disappointed!
by Tim Cameron | Mar 8, 2017 | Holy Spirit
To the man or woman who is acquainted with God and who knows how to pray, there is nothing remarkable in the answers that come. They are sure of being heard since they ask in accordance with what they know to be the mind and will of God.
Through the gateway of prayer, we find our way into the Father’s presence. We see His face, and we know that all is well, since His hand is at the helm of events, and “even the winds and the sea obey Him” (Matt. 8:27). When we live in fellowship with Him, we come with confidence into His presence, asking in full confidence of receiving and meeting with the justification of our faith. (See Hebrews 4:16)
E. M. Bounds
by Tim Cameron | Mar 1, 2017 | Holy Spirit
The Place of Solitude in Your Spiritual
Part 1 of 2
Solitude is the foundational discipline of the spiritual life; it is time set aside to give God our full and undivided attention. In solitude we withdraw from our lives in the company of others and pull back from our many distractions in order to give God complete access to our souls. Devoid of the normal interruptions, silence deepens the experience of solitude. It enables us to withdraw not only from the noise and distraction of the external world, but also the “noise” of the inner compulsions that drive us. In solitude and silence, we become quiet enough to hear a voice that is not our own. This Voice we most need to hear.
Ruth Barton
