About 1,300 church leaders and Care Group leaders from three provinces gathered for the Mission Reach: Care Group Empowerment Seminar, a joint initiative of the Southwestern Philippine Union Conference and the Northeastern Mindanao Mission. The event served both as an orientation to the Southern Asia-Pacific Division’s quinquennial theme “Mission Reach” and as an empowerment … [Read more...] about Mission Reach: Care Group Empowerment Seminar Calls Leaders to Intentional Discipleship
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Examples of Prayer Life
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John 15:7 The patriarchs were men of prayer, and God did great things for them. When Jacob left his father's house for a strange land, he prayed in humble contrition, and in the night season the Lord answered him through vision. . . . The Lord comforted the lonely wanderer … [Read more...] about Examples of Prayer Life
Power in Prayer
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do. John 14:13 The petitions of a humble heart and contrite spirit he will not despise. The opening of our hearts to our heavenly Father, the acknowledgment of our entire dependence, the expression of our wants, the homage of grateful love--this is true prayer. Angels record every prayer that is earnest and sincere. We … [Read more...] about Power in Prayer
Pray Always
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. Luke 21:36 Remember that He was often in prayer, and His life was constantly sustained by fresh inspirations of the Holy Spirit. Let your thoughts, your inner life, be such that you will not be ashamed to meet its record … [Read more...] about Pray Always
Prayer Never Out of Place
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. Col. 4:2 There is no time or place in which it is inappropriate to offer up a petition to God. There is nothing that can prevent us from lifting up our hearts in the spirit of earnest prayer. In the crowds of the street, in the midst of a business engagement, we may send up a petition to God, and plead for divine … [Read more...] about Prayer Never Out of Place
