Lessons reinforced by powerful testimonies of Global students


For three days I am teaching the 4 Keys to Hearing God's Voice at Global School of Supernatural Ministry.


This morning was the first day and they began with a dozen students coming up and giving one-minute testimonies of what God had done through them on the streets during the last week. They were powerful and we can all learn from them.



Here are some highlights.


They asked people if they had any pain they would like prayer for. When the response was “yes” they would find out the pain level, (1-10), and then pray for a couple of minutes and do an interview, Now what is the pain level? Often it took 2-4 prayer rounds of these short prayers and interviews before the person would report the pain was either gone or greatly reduced. Cool!


One person was gaining no forward movement so they asked him if there was someone he needed to forgive. There was, and he forgave the person and they prayed again, and his situation was greatly improved. Principle: Faith works by love, and his unforgiveness was blocking the flow of healing power. He released the person he was holding in judgment, and that set him free to experience a release of God’s healing power. Amen!


Others received words of knowledge for people and asked if they could share these words with the client, and upon receiving permission, shared them and experienced positive things occurring as a result.


Some clients were asked if they knew Jesus, and if they didn’t know Him as their personal Lord and Savior, they asked if anything was blocking them from receiving Jesus right now. When the response was “No, there is no reason for me not to receive Jesus now,” they would lead them in salvation prayer.


It was truly exciting to hear a dozen such 1-minute testimonies before I even started teaching.


This is the kind of stuff that our nation needs NOW! Let’s all be open to stepping out and asking folks these kinds of things. The world needs us to participate in this revival!


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https://billygraham.org/devotion/salvation-is-an-act-of-god/

September 16

Just Like Jesus
Bible in a Year:
Proverbs 25–26
2 Corinthians 9
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Today's Scripture & Insight:

Romans 12:1–2
In 2014, biologists captured a pair of orange pygmy seahorses in the Philippines. They took the marine creatures, along with a section of the orange coral sea fan they called home, to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Scientists wanted to know if the pygmy seahorses were born to match the color of their parents or their environment. When the pygmy seahorses gave birth to dull brown babies, scientists placed a purple coral sea fan into the tank. The babies, whose parents were orange, changed their color to match the purple sea fan. Due to their fragility by nature, their survival depends on their God-given ability to blend into their environment.

Blending-in is a useful defense mechanism in nature. However, God invites all people to receive salvation and stand out in the world by how we live. The apostle Paul urges believers in Jesus to honor God in every aspect of our lives, to worship Him by offering our bodies as a “living sacrifice” (Romans 12:1). Due to our fragility as human beings affected by sin, our spiritual health as believers depends on the Holy Spirit “renewing” our minds and empowering us to avoid conforming to “the pattern of this world” that rejects God and glorifies sin (v. 2).

Blending into this world means living in opposition to the Scriptures. However, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can look and love just like Jesus!

By: Xochitl Dixon

Reflect & Pray
How have you been blending into the world? How has God changed you?

Dear God, please make me more like Jesus each day. Amen.

Permanent Dwelling

September 16, 2023
by Pastor Chuck Swindoll
Scriptures: 1 Samuel 16:14–15
Now the Spirit of the LORD had left Saul, and the LORD sent a tormenting spirit that filled him with depression and fear. Some of Saul’s servants said to him, “A tormenting spirit from God is troubling you. (1 Samuel 16:14–15)

I think it's important that we notice that the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul before an evil spirit came. Christians read those words about "an evil spirit from God" and they fear that could happen today. I've heard evangelists use that as a tool to shock Christians. "You continue to walk in the flesh," they say, "and God will lift His Spirit from you, and you won't have God's presence within you as you once had." Then they'll quote this verse or the one in Judges 16 where Samson is in Delilah's lap, and it says, "He did not know that the LORD had departed from him." Or the one in Psalm 51:11 that says, "Do not take Your Holy Spirit from me." That's a fearful thought, that God could lift His Spirit from us and we'd be lost, having once been saved.

So let's go on record right now with a good dose of theology. Before the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost (Acts 2), the Spirit of God never permanently rested on any believer except David and John the Baptizer. Those are the only two. It was not uncommon for the Spirit of God to come for a temporary period of strengthening or insight or whatever was the need of the moment and then to depart, only to return again for another surge of the need of the moment, then to depart once again.

However, at Pentecost and from that time on, all the way through our present era, when the Spirit of God comes into the believing sinner at salvation, He never leaves. He comes and baptizes us into the body of Christ. That happens at salvation. We remain sealed by the Spirit from that time on. We're never exhorted to be baptized by the Spirit. We are baptized into the body of Christ, placed there by the Spirit, and sealed until the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30). That's the day we die. So He's there, and He never leaves. Furthermore, our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit in which the Spirit of God dwells. He permanently resides within us and will never, ever depart. So, rest easy, Christian friend. The Lord has come to stay.

Prayer - September 8, 2023
Rev. Bill Simmons, C.S.C.+

Lord Jesus, the angel assured the loyal and faithful Joseph that the mother-to-be and her child, placed in his loving care, are our salvation. We thank you for the gift of Your Son, of Our Blessed Mother and of Saint Joseph, her most chaste spouse. We ask only that we can share in some way the love, respect and faith of the Holy Family. This we ask through Christ our Lord. Amen.