27 February “These who have turned the world upside down have come here too.” (Acts 17:6) At Pentecost, after the resurrection of Jesus, the disciples received the promised Holy Spirit with physical manifestations and power. The disciples were so empowered they turned the world upside down with their evangelism. Are...
28 February “Submit yourselves then to God.” (James 4:7a) We may say we believe in God but are unable to trust Him when we do not receive what we want or are faced with unexpected challenges. Are we willing to give up attitudes of worldly self-reliance? Are we willing to...
A PRAYER FOR WEEK 926 February “I will lead my blind people by roads they have never travelled. I will turn their darkness into light and make rough country smooth before them. These are my promises and I will keep them without fail.” (Isaiah 42:16) Please pray for others as...
25 February “The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and make you remember all that I have told you.” (John 14:26) This was the promise of Jesus to His disciples then and to us now. The Holy Spirit was sent...
24 February “But it was to us that God revealed these things by his Spirit. For his Spirit searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets.” (1 Corinthians 2:10) Wow! It is wonderful to be recipients of God’s love and deep secrets. We do not go around searching for...
23 February “Pray in the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Jude 1:20) Praying without the presence and power of the Holy Spirit is like a flat-keyed recital, or setting out to drive to a destination by just turning on the car’s ignition of the car and doing nothing else. Prayer...
22 February “Run up and down every street in Jerusalem,” says the LORD. “Look high and low; search throughout the city! If you can find even one just and honest person, I will not destroy the city.” (Jeremiah 5:1 NLT) Just one person? Yes, one person who is just and...
21 February “Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting or eternal) God.” (Genesis 21:33) God has no beginning and no end. In fact, He is the beginning and the end, the Alpha and Omega, the God who was,...
20 February ”From now on the name of the city will be YAHWEH-SHAMMAH: ‘GOD-IS-THERE.’” (Ezekiel 48:35 MSG) Whenever Israel turned away from God’s holy standards, God’s presence departed from the people, the temple and the city. So it is in our present day, that when we take our eyes off...
19 FebruaryA PRAYER FOR WEEK 8 “Jesus asked, what is the Kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it with? It is like a mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden; and it grew and became a large tree, and the birds of the air...