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The great Puritan preacher, Matthew Henry, wrote,

“When God intends great mercy for His people, the first thing He does is set them a-praying.”

(Selected Prayer Quotes, Mike Bennett, 8/5/04-10/1/08)

I have hope for our land because I am seeing more and more people beginning to pray.  Some are praying for revival.  Some of them are beginning to see the necessity of repentance if our prayers are to be heard.  Some don’t yet know enough of God’s truth to know to pray for revival, they are just praying that God will help us in America and do something to change the direction in which our nation is headed.  Some know the Lord so well that they are crying out to Him in very specific prayers, the particular revelations of which would amaze most of us if we knew just how specifically God is leading them in prayer.  I am so grateful for all who are praying for us, be they a citizen here or a citizen elsewhere.  I recently heard a group of South Koreans praying for us with such appreciation for America and such intensity in their cry for Revival and Transformation for us that I was brought to tears.  I knew God was listening intently to their praying.

A major prayer movement has been sparked by Franklin Graham’s Decision America Tour.  He plans to travel to each state capitol before Continue reading →

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Is it possible to live in this present world the way God created us to live?  Did God forgive our sin when we were born again just so we could “go to heaven when we die”?  Did Jesus come to earth to live as God’s Son, or as the Son of Man?  He most definitely was God’s Son—and yet He was unmistakably a man.  He had to eat, rest, and sleep just like all other men.  He laughed and wept just as all humans have since the dawn of creation.  He had to manage money and relate to relatives.  Yet the peace and confidence with which He did it all was amazing.  It was as if He wasn’t weighted down as others were.  He talked about His Father and His Spirit in such a familiar way that They seemed close, not far off in an unreachable heaven.  His followers would later come to recognize this uniqueness as the very fulfillment of what God intended man to be all along.  In short, they would come to know they had seen God’s presence living in a human body (2 Corinthians 5:19).

But as Jesus brought God near to man He revealed differences in our thinking and God’s thinking. Though He taught a great deal about money, it never seemed to occupy the center of His thoughts the way it does most human beings.  At times Continue reading →