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How do you truly transform your trouble-laden community? Is it outreach? Evangelism? Activism? Discipleship programs? Our small but growing community is rich with discipleship programs in town for marriages and for young people, counseling services of various kinds, a clothing and food bank. But it is persistent daily prayer that is the centrifuge of all of it.

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When I was dealing with a troubling affliction, I imagined the lighthearted ways I would celebrate once I was free of this thing. But I sensed the Lord saying, "Since My word says that you're already healed by My stripes, start celebrating now."

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"If sickness is the will of God for His children, then it is sin for them even to desire to be well, to say nothing of spending thousands of dollars to defeat His purpose. . . [and] if sickness is the will of God, then every physician is a lawbreaker, every trained nurse is defying the Almighty, and every hospital is a house of rebellion."

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"After being sufficiently enlightened [by God's word] our attitude toward sickness should be the same as our attitude toward sin. Our purpose to have our body healed should be as definite as our purpose to have our soul healed." F. F. Bosworth, Christ the Healer

225,000 written testimonies of physical healing coming in via mail (if in ministry for 50 years) would equal 4,500+ testimonies per year that people took the time to send, and more than 12 testimonies every single day.

This was the legacy of Fred Francis Bosworth, or F.F. Bosworth as he was known. Moreover, he saw over one million individuals come to Christ in his lifetime.

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What would you ask for if the Lord told you to come to Him with a wishlist of all that you wanted? What would top your requests?

I sensed God putting this before me recently. It was a staggering thought. Was it simply hopeful thinking on my own part?

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You're ready to see the citadels crumble around unbelieving loved ones, and the furnace fired up in the lukewarm. You're longing to see the supernatural override natural law "far as the curse is found." You hunger and thirst for righteousness and are no longer content to live in the deficit.

This is the year the tide turns.

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Did you ever hear the Lord speak to you and then second guess what you heard because circumstances didn’t change?

In the final two months of 2020, and indeed as long as a decade ago, the Lord spoke specific words to me that I am only now seeing come to pass. I share this as an encouragement, remembering how difficult it was to walk through circumstances that did not match what He said.

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Do you keep a prayer journal? Even if you are not much of a writer, this is a good time to start. Jotting down a key scripture, a persistent thought, and an answered prayer from day to day are excellent means to remember how the Lord has faithfully guided your steps and led you to pray His transformative promises into being.

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In 1932, Hitler gave his personal assurance to prominent pastor and veteran WWI Naval Chaplain Martin Niemöller that he would keep his hands off the church and never institute a pogrom against the Jews.

But in order to conform German culture to his schemes, Hitler needed to compromise the church. Thus accelerated the church struggle, in which German Christians abandoned whole segments of the bible that did not fit Nazi objectives, and the Confessing Church found itself increasingly at odds with Nazi ideology.

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"We have all eternity to celebrate the victories, but only a few hours before sundown to win them," said Amy Carmichael. Every member of the human race will appear before one of two thrones at the end of the age. In this final post on the Judgments of God, we reflect on this important reality that is sometimes shadowy in the mind of the Christian.

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