“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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” […]
“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 […]
“There is nothing more hopeful than the thought that things can be different, we can move mountains, and have some role in bringing that change about.”- John Eldredge “After a long time, the word of the LORD came to Elijah: ‘Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land.”- 1 […]
“Let’s go ahead and name the elephant in the room- some prayers work, and some prayers don’t.”- John Eldredge Moving Mountains: Praying with Passion, Confidence, and Authority is the latest book from author John Eldredge. John’s previous books are Wild at Heart, Fathered by God, and Beautiful Outlaw. In Chapter 1 (“Prayer That Works”) of […]
“When we can’t bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God’s catching every falling tear because He won’t let us fall apart.”- Ann Voskamp “You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.”- Psalm 56:8 […]
“Prayer redirects our hearts- we focus on the need instead of the fault.”- June Hunt “Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.”- Matthew 5:44 (NKJV) In Chapter 10 (“Breaking the Power of Your Pelter- Praying for […]
Today June Hunt discusses the prerequisites for restored relationships as part of the fourth stage of forgiveness. Stage Four: Find Oneness. In his book A Minute of Margin, author and physician Richard Swenson said: “It is not revenge that heals. It is not litigation, or time, or distance that heals. It is forgiveness and- when […]