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The act of consecration

By Dave Henning / May 6, 2016

“The act of consecration is . . . the first step before God’s protection and provision can flow.”- John Eldredge John Eldredge begins Chapter 8 (Consecration- Bringing Things Under the Rule of Jesus”) of Moving Mountains by describing  a scene from the movie We Were Soldiers.  Sixty men spill out of eight Bell “Huey” helicopters […]

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I chose you- Jesus

By Dave Henning / May 5, 2016

“You did not choose me, but I chose you.”- John 15:16 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.”- John 6:44 “You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,” said the Lion.- C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair In Chapter 7 (“Removing One […]

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Proclaiming, invoking, and enforcing

By Dave Henning / May 4, 2016

“The Prayer of Intervention involves a flow of ‘proclaiming, invoking, and enforcing.’ “- John Eldredge John Eldredge concludes Chapter 6 of Moving Mountains by emphasizing that the believers praying for Peter’s release from  prison were  “proclaiming the truth, invoking the kingdom, enforcing the kingdom.”- just as Jesus had taught them to do.  Yet, when Peter […]

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The Prayer of Intervention

By Dave Henning / May 3, 2016

In Chapter 6 (“The Prayer of Intervention”) of Moving Mountains, John Eldredge references Acts 12- James Killed and Peter Imprisoned.  After King Herod Agrippa had the apostle James (the brother of John) put to death by the sword, King Herod had Peter imprisoned- intending to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.  Acts […]

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Rule and reign

By Dave Henning / May 1, 2016

“God . . . is growing us up; we too must learn to rule and reign.”- John Eldredge John Eldredge concludes Chapter 5 of Moving Mountains by reminding us that Jesus, the Lord of angel armies, is now in the throes of bringing His enemies under His feet- along with angelic and human forces.  For […]

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Our present life

By Dave Henning / April 30, 2016

“Our present life feels like a real fight as if there was something pretty wild in the universe which we needed to redeem.”-William James In Chapter 5 (“Bold Authority”) of Moving Mountains, John Eldredge comments on words that get tacked onto the end of many prayers, yet seem to lack little of their original punch-“In […]

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I have called you friends

By Dave Henning / April 29, 2016

“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.  You are my friends, if you do what I command.  I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business.  Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father […]

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The Spirit of sonship

By Dave Henning / April 28, 2016

“For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship.  And by him we cry,’Abba, Father.’ “- Romans 8:15 John Eldredge continues Chapter 4 of Moving Mountains with the assertion that nothing reveals your true beliefs like how you pray.  John adds that […]

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Effective prayer

By Dave Henning / April 27, 2016

“Effective prayer is far more a partnership with God than it is begging him to do something.”- John Eldredge “Taking five loaves and two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves (emphasis added).”- Mark 6:41 “So they took away the stone [from Lazarus’ tomb].  Then Jesus looked up and […]

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The Cry of the Heart

By Dave Henning / April 26, 2016

“Some prayers just happen; they are ‘the Cry of the Heart.’  No training is needed when it comes to this type of prayer.”- John Eldredge In Chapter 3 (“The Cry of the Heart”) of Moving Mountains, John Eldredge tells of the time he and a buddy were on their way home from a fishing trip […]

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The story you find yourself in

By Dave Henning / April 25, 2016

“Look- you may not like the story you find yourself in, but your displeasure doesn’t make it go away.”- John Eldredge John Eldredge concludes Chapter 2 of Moving Mountains with his discussion of the second (of two) assumptions essential to prayer. 2.  We are at war.  John notes that King Herod’s “massacre of the innocents” […]

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We are all underway

By Dave Henning / April 24, 2016

“We are all underway and we are not all in the same place.”- John Eldredge “Until we reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.”- Ephesians 4:13 In Chapter 2 (“Third Graders at Normandy”) of Moving […]

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