Mission Trip Israel – Day 12, Monday, May 28, 2007
I woke up early to pray on the roof of Beit Immanuel. It’s beautiful up there to look across the city from the top of this four-story building. I knew we would be praying for direction on which way to go that day and I just felt hungry to have more alone time with Him […]
Guide to “The Seed” Topics and Questions
Kingdom Calling can help to equip you to grow as a steward and in your calling. We’ve been focusing on issues of stewardship recently and are about to dive into a series of posts aimed at helping you better understand God’s calling in your own life. He made you absolutely uniquely (Eph 4:7, 1Cor 12:4-6) […]
Mission Trip Israel – Day 11, Sunday, May 27, 2007
We listened to David and Mike teach, prayed on top of the Temple Mount and then went to the Mount of Olives. The Garden of Gethsemane is pretty amazing because some of these olive trees were actually there when Jesus prayed amongst them. They don’t know exactly where He would have been, but there are […]
How Does Prosperity Play Out Practically in Our Lives?
It shouldn’t surprise us to see that God wants us to prosper in every way. As He does this, we have the ability and means to be helpful in the Kingdom and Family of God. It would be ridiculous to abandon our God-given talents in management or creative skills and let these lay dormant, when […]
Mission Trip Israel – Day 10: Saturday, May 26, 2007
Today, we enjoyed the Sabbath rest by having a picnic with a local congregation youth group. They were mostly teenagers, but some who were younger and others who were older attended. We were at a beautiful park that had a cliff down to the ocean, but we stayed up in the grass and shared a […]
How Does God Want to Prosper us Individually?
When God created Man, He created them in His Image and His Likeness. But this was designed to be a process, just as when you have a baby, he or she is born of you, with your image, and as he/she grows he takes on more and more of your likeness, but is not fully […]
Mission Trip Day 9: Friday Night, May 25, 2007
That night we went to a Shabbat service. The Pastor (some Messianic congregational leaders seem to use the title Pastor, others Rabbi) had just come back from a pastor’s conference in Sweden. He was on fire to share what God was doing throughout the world. He shared many stories that he had heard from pastors […]
Eternal Riches
Just as Jesus taught spiritual principles using the example of being responsible to multiply our wealth, He also taught us to watch out for spiritual traps – again using money as an example. In both cases, these principles apply to money and to other areas of life as well. In the story we related Friday, […]
Mission Trip Day 9: Friday, May 25, 2007
On this morning we gathered to worship with the discipleship group of Beit Immanuel. But instead of them praying for a country or people as they had every other day, they prayed for the arts. It’s an area that large sections of the Church have historically turned their backs on, which has left many whom […]
Prosperity is a Double-Edged Sword
Yesterday we discussed the fact that being rich or poor wasn’t as an issue in whom Jesus taught – that what matters to Him is the heart of the particular person. Let’s look at His interesting encounter with the rich, young ruler in Mark. 17As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran […]