Pioneering Prayer explores pioneering methods of prayer and intercession to build prayers with the most significant impact. It explains how to reach the most people possible to provide exponential growth in outcomes through prayer. Intercessors of all levels will find valuable information within. Throughout, references are made to the early American pioneers, including those who traveled the Oregon Trail. Many of the pioneers were devout Christians dedicated to prayer and spreading the gospel. Their lives and works set excellent examples for us to follow.
This new edition of Hays innovative book on prayer provides a unique interpretation of the biblical command to pray always--a call to pray creatively, at all times, and in every circumstance.
'Carefully edited, this beautiful little volume is a rare gem . . . highly recommended for anyone seeking new inspiration in prayer.' - The Reader Between 1924 and 1938, Evelyn Underhill compiled two personal prayer books for use when conducting spiritual retreats at Pleshey (the retreat house for the diocese of Chelmsford). The prayers were carefully selected and include quotes from a variety of theologians and writers in Christian spirituality, as well as her own very rich, metaphorical and theologically deep prayers. These collections are now available for the first time.
Pioneering ministry sounds like something you do, something active, even something driven. However, prayer and contemplation are at its heart, paying attention to God, to the world and to oneself - a kind of being that goes hand in hand with doing. Pioneering requires a spirituality that will fuel a life lived beyond the borders of the church. In this collection, a range of practitioners explore the inner and outer dimensions of pioneering spirituality. Offering many proven and innovative ideas, they explore what resources, fuels and sustains a life of pioneering mission. What is the spirituality in the UK's wider culture and how do we connect with it appropriately? How might spiritual treasures such as the Eucharist, prayer, pilgrimage, spiritual direction and community rhythms of life be expressed to those with whom pioneers share life? And how might communities of disciples grow and be formed in this pioneering spirituality?
It’s been said that prayer is the vocabulary of faith. This book offers a wealth of resources from forgotten places to help us create a new vocabulary for worship and prayer, one that is located amidst the poor and the major issues of violence and destruction around the world today. It is a collection of prayers, songs, rituals, rites of healing, Eucharistic and baptismal prayers, meditations and art from four continents: Asia-Pacific Islands, Africa, Americas, and Europe. Liturgies from Below is the culmination of a project organized by the Council for World Mission (CWM) during 2018-2019. Approximately 100 people from four continents worked with CWM, collaborating to create indigenous prayers and liturgies expressing their own contexts, for sharing with their communities and the rest of the world. The project was called “Re-Imagining Worship as Acts of Defiance and Alternatives in the Context of Empire”. The author and others spent weeks living in each of four communities for several weeks/months, getting to know the people, and then facilitating the people’s own creation of prayers and liturgies. The author, other scholars, pastors, artists, activists and students all came from radically different ethnicities, races, sexualities, churches and Christian theologies. The people in each location were poor, living in very challenging communities, living in oppressive and seemingly hopeless situations. After some time, they wrote prayers and stories of their experience trying to live the Christian faith in utterly abandoned places. What we have here is an immensely rich and varied collection of liturgical sources from various communities dealing with issues of violence, immigration/refugees, drugs, land grabbing, war on the poor, attack on women, militarization, climate change, and so on.
Prospering and having wealth are two different things. Prospering is making financial progress but, wealth is a state. God can make a man prosper but, being wealthy is your choice, based on your money skill. There are people who are rich but, have made themselves poor because, they do not desire to be wealthy, while there are also people who are poor but, have made themselves rich because of their desire to be wealthy. If I were to give a man a thousand dollars every day for the rest of his life, he now has a continuous income, so, he can be said to be prospering. But, if he desires to be wealthy and learns to accumulate this income, invest it and reinvest, he may become wealthy. However, if he decides to spend it as it comes, he will always have money but, he might not have it in such a way that can be defined as wealth. A man is said to be wealthy when he has a continuous, automated, accumulating, and re-circulating cash inflow backed by great assets. To accumulate wealth, you must: know about money, how to generate it, and how to multiply it. Money has to be generated, managed, and multiplied, to create wealth. Wealth, therefore, depends on the volume of money made, the volume of money working for you, and the volume of money generated from your investments. This book will thus, be focused on wealth accumulation through the principles of making, managing, multiplying, and ministering money.
Do you want to prosper? Do you want to enjoy financial prosperity? Do you know that God can make you rich? Do you want to know how? The journey into financial prosperity begins with the understanding that God wants you to prosper. The doubt many believers exhibit about the concept of prosperity can be traced to a lack of this foundational understanding. This is why many believers wallow in poverty with the assumption that it may be God’s will for them. The focus of this book will therefore be to expose the origin and source of poverty, God’s original mind about your prosperity, and how God prospers a man. Also, the way God prospers a man is different from the way of the world, an understanding of how God prospers a man is thus, necessary to walk in the God-kind of prosperity. Therefore, dedicate quality time to read and meditate on this book because it contains all-around truth about financial prosperity.
It is not possible to successfully undertake lay ministry without the anointing. Sadly, many lay ministers do not prioritize or give proper place to the anointing and this is why many of them seem to struggle. To successfully carry out lay ministry whether in the area of teaching the word, soul-winning, and pastoral care, or even in carrying out administrative duties, the lay minister needs the anointing. Thus, understanding the anointing, how to function in it, and develop it, is necessary for every minister. In this book, I will show you what the anointing is, how it functions, and how to develop it for optimal results in lay ministry.
God wants you to prosper and it is He who gives the power to get wealth. So, if God gives the power to get wealth as the scripture above shows then, he must have principles that we can seek to understand and engage to get wealth. Unlike the natural ways of acquiring wealth, God's principles are built on His integrity hence, they are unchanging and cannot fail. The people of this world practice only the natural principles but, these principles can work today and fail tomorrow depending on the economic situation. This explains why someone may be so rich today and become so poor and helpless tomorrow. The recent crash of Wall Street and the more recent devaluation of some global currencies are pure examples of how fickle and unstable the natural principles of wealth are. We therefore cannot rely on natural ways of getting wealth alone, we need to understand supernatural principles and how they work. Our primary focus in this book would be on how you can prosper by seeking the kingdom of God and his righteousness and how to prosper by the covenant of prosperity.
As the charismatic movement penetrated the Protestant churches and then impacted the Catholic Church, great hopes for Christian unity were aroused among many. These hopes peaked with the great Kansas City conference of 1977 and the "Pentecost over Europe" gathering in Strasbourg, France, in 1982. After these high points, the Renewal's unity dynamic weakened at the same time as the ecumenical movement was losing momentum. Dr. Hocken argues that the charismatic movement was always a grace for unity, and that this can be seen from how it began and spread. Its deep orientation to unity finds its foundation in the "end-times" significance of baptism in the Spirit poured out on Christians from so many traditions that reinforces the "one hope" for the coming of the Lord. Many developments of the last twenty years indicate that the time is now ripe for an ecumenism of the Spirit within which the charismatic impulses of the Holy Spirit can purify and deepen the wider movement for Christian unity. Growing reconciliation between Evangelicals and Catholics suddenly seems less utopian as Pope Francis shows the servant face of a humbler Catholic Church.
