Prevailing Prayer

Prevailing Prayer

“Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard.” DANIEL 10:12 Daniel prevailed over Earth because he was of Heaven. Daniel prevailed over Darkness because he was of the Light. Daniel prevailed over Death because he had Life. Daniel was delivered from the lion’s den, and lived to continue his ministry of prayer. After such an ordeal we might expect him to go ahead and retire, to quietly settle down, and relax a little bit. Certainly he has earned a vacation. But shortly thereafter we find him battling in the spirit for twenty-one days while he waited for yet another answer to be delivered from Heaven. Can there be any doubt as to the outcome? Daniel does not stop. This is what it means to overcome. You can never coast, you can never let down your guard, you can never just let things slide for a day or two. Overcoming is not a once in awhile thing, it is an all-the-time thing. Settle that within yourself right now. Source: "The Irresistible Kingdom"  by Chip Brogden http://www.chipbrogden.com/books/the-irresistible-kingdom Like this? Share your comments: http://www.chipbrogden.com/august5 I am your brother,

Chip Brogden

Simple Church Network

Shalom,

Ini mungkin pertama kali kita saling menyapa sebagai teman dalam media Facebook ini. Sebagaimana anda tahu nama saya Dave Broos, kami sekeluarga melayani Tuhan. Visi dan misi kami adalah mengabarkan Kabar Baik, memuridkan dan mengutus setiap anak Tuhan untuk melaksanakan Amanat Agung. Pelayanan kami ini bernama Simple Church Network.

Simple Church Network merupakan kumpulan para murid Tuhan dan praktisi penanam gereja yang mengikuti model gereja mula-mula. Beberapa kerinduan kami:

·         Kerinduan kami adalah melihat semua keluarga anak Tuhan memulai pemuridan di rumahnya, menghasilkan murid-murid baru di rumah membawa dampak dalam komunitasnya, kotanya, bangsanya dan bangsa-bangsa lain.

·         Kerinduan kami adalah untuk bekerjasama dengan setiap anak Tuhan, komunitas atau jejaring simple church atau gereja rumah lainnya dan institusi gereja yang sudah ada  untuk dapat menjangkau suku terabaikan dan komunitas subkultur di perkotaan maupun pelayanan untuk memberkati kota melalui kegiatan sosial maupun hal lainnya yang diwahyukan Tuhan.

·         Kerinduan kami adalah menjadi katalisator dalam pergerakan pemuridan dan mempersiapkan setiap anak Tuhan untuk terlibat aktif menjadi saksi dan penanam gereja di lingkungannya (sekolah, kampus, kantor, pabrik, dll) sesuai Kisah Para Rasul 1:8.

·         Kerinduan kami adalah berjejaring dengan setiap anak Tuhan, gereja rumah maupun institusi gereja yang memiliki visi untuk menjangkau suku terabaikan dan komunitas subkultur perkotaan, kepedulian terhadap saudara atau gereja teraniaya, pelayanan bagi kaum papah, seperti para janda, anak yatim piatu, gelandangan dan pengungsi, pelayanan kemasyarakatan seperti pro life, ODA/HIV Aids, penanganan bencana alam, dll.

·         Kerinduan kami adalah memperlengkapi jejaring gereja rumah maupun institusi gereja kecil untuk dapat mencapai visi dan misi mereka. Kami bersedia membantu untuk memberikan pelatihan-pelatihan praktis (tujuan pelatihan agar setiap peserta menjadi pelaku dan bukan hanya pendengar), mengadakan proyek pelayanan kemanusiaan, mengutus tim kecil (short terms mission team) dan menjadi rekan dalam perjalanan pelayanan anda tanpa memandang organisasi maupun institusi sebab kita telah dipersatukan oleh Kristus sebagai tubuhNya. Kami sangat menghargai perbedaan dan keunikan setiap individu dan panggilan pelayanan masing-masing.

Alasan saya menulis surat ini karena saya rindu untuk membangun hubungan yang lebih luas dengan tubuh Kristus yang ada agar dampak gereja Tuhan dapat dirasakan dimana-mana. Setiap anak Tuhan maupun pelayanan atau gereja lokal memiliki keunikan masing-masing sebagai kepingan atau bagian dari tubuh Kristus sebab itu saya percaya akan sangat indah dan elok apabila kita bisa sama-sama berjejaring dan membantu satu dengan yang lainnya.

Saya mengamati aktivitas dari Facebook anda dan rindu apabila kita bisa berjejaring bersama. Membina hubungan untuk saling mengenal dan membantu dalam mencapai panggilan Tuhan yang telah IA berikan pada masing-masing kita.

Harapan saya melalui surat ini kita dapat sungguh-sungguh menjadi sahabat maupun saudara dalam tubuh Kristus. God bless.

Hormat saya,

Dave Broos 

Simple Church Network Indonesia tidak didanai atau berada di bawah kelompok denominasi apa pun. Persembahan kasih dari saudara-saudara seiman dalam tubuh Kristus memampukan Simple Church Network Indonesia memperlebar Kerajaan Tuhan melalui pemberitaan Injil, pemuridan, penanaman gereja dan memperlengkapi gereja Tuhan di perkotaan dan pedesaan untuk melaksanakan Amanat Agung Tuhan. Bila Anda tergerak untuk menyalurkan persembahan kasih seberapa pun, dapat menghubungi kami melalui inbox Facebook atau email kami (davebroos@yahoo.co.uk). God bless.

 

Rely On Me

Rely On Me

My child, perhaps you have felt in desperate need of healing or deliverance and you try your hardest to get it by fasting, praying, reading the Word, journaling, or even running to me in praise and worship.
However, nothing you do seems to work. No matter how hard you try, you are just not getting the breakthrough that you so desire. My love, I want you to remember this one important fact, I am your deliverer and healer.
It is not up to you to gain the healing or to find the power for deliverance. It is up to me to give it to you as you simply trust me and have faith in my power to come upon you and change you.
You do not have to strive and fight. I have already won this battle for you. It is time for you to let go of the works and rely on me, even when it feels like I will not come through for you. When you do this, you will see my power in your life, says the Lord.

Kept By Grace

Kept By Grace

“God is able to make all grace abound toward you.” 2 CORINTHIANS 9:8 God will not LEAD you where His grace cannot KEEP you. That is to say, when we undertake the work assigned to us by the Lord we will find the Life of the Lord is present to give us all the inner spiritual strength to see it through to completion. I am not saying everything will go smoothly and you will never have any self-doubt or fear. Far from it. But listen to what Paul says: “We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed” (2 Corinthians 4:8,9). His secret? “I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily” (Colossians 1:29). Not I, but Christ. This is the secret to the Christian life and it is the key to all fruitful spiritual work. Source: The Church in the Wilderness" by Chip Brogden http://www.chipbrogden.com/books/the-church-in-the-wilderness Like this? Share your comments: http://www.chipbrogden.com/august2 I am your brother,

Chip Brogden

A Heart Mom

A Heart Mom

My friend Annie has written a book chronicling her journey with her daughter’s congenital heart defect.  They were living in Iceland as missionaries when they experienced the twenty-week ultrasound that changed their lives.  Forced to move and find a new job, their family was thrust into a world of uncertainty and confusion.  Five months later, their daughter was born with half of a heart, even though many people had prayed for complete healing. Annie’s world was rocked with questions about God. Had He really heard? Was He really good? The following is a poem she wrote documenting some of her journey:

I am a heart mom.

I have felt, at a twenty-week ultrasound, floorboards cracking and giving way under my jumping, celebrating feet as the words Congratulations, it’s a girl were chased away all too quickly with There is something wrong with your baby’s heart.

I know the torment of wondering, wrestling, and combating a viscous voice that whispers, This is all your fault…

I know the pain of weeping in my husband’s arms after a baby shower, unsure if my baby would ever wear her new, pink clothes.

I am a heart mom.

I know the fear of labor pains in a cold room, deep groanings of the unknown drawing near.

I have given birth for an audience of more doctors, nurses, residents and fellows than I could count.

I have watched my baby–still wet and fresh–plucked from my arms and ushered to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit where she would be sustained.

I have sat in a NICU with brittle, four-pound lives, warm under heat lamps like delicate plants, praying over my baby.

I have guarded my heart, afraid to love something I wasn’t so sure I could keep.

I am a heart mom.

I have held a baby with cords and wires and A-lines and tubes and all the while held my breath and my heart so it wouldn’t scrape.

I have said goodbye to a daughter I just met so she could be delivered to a surgeon…in an attempt to make it whole.

I have endured waiting rooms painted white like faces bleached with fear.

A stomach so nervous it feels poisonous.

The shaking. The waiting. The surgery you can’t be there to control.

I am a heart mom.

I have felt the hand of a little life grab my finger and hold it…asking silently for me to lead her.

I have spent days that turn into nights on the seventh floor, all around me the Intensive Care Unit beeping and humming and pumping and upholding.

I have heard those sounds in my dreams.

I have sat in numb confusion while my baby lived…and the baby on the other side of the curtain didn’t.

I have questioned God and His goodness.

I have brought a baby home–so vulnerable and trusting–with a pulse-ox machine never far and CPR notes within arm’s reach.

I have sanitized people head to toe before letting them enter my home, missed Christmas parties, dinner parties, and birthday parties in fear of the germs in attendance.

I have nurtured a bruised baby with scars in vulnerable places.

I have awoken in the middle of the night to the frantic words, “I’m taking her to the Emergency Room.”

I have watched her heal and witnessed the miracle of recovery.

I have fed her her first bites of food.

Watched her take her first steps.

Say her first words.

I have leaned hard on God and He has proven Himself sturdy.

I have seen His grace.

I have tasted His love.

I am a heart mom.

And my world will never be the same.

To read the whole story of Annie’s journey as a heart mom or share it with someone you know facing a difficult diagnosis, check out her new book HERE. 

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God Moves Forward

God Moves Forward

“He must increase.” JOHN 3:30 God is not moving backward, but in the Son and through the Son, He moves steadily forward. Christ MUST increase. This is the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. Just as we cannot have gravity without having the law of gravity, so it is impossible to have the Life of the Lord but not have the Law of that Life. And the Law of Life is that Christ must increase. Source: "Lord of All"  by Chip Brogden http://www.chipbrogden.com/books/lord-of-all Like this? Share your comments: http://www.chipbrogden.com/august3 I am your brother,

Chip Brogden

Conquer the Land

Conquer the Land

My child, you have prayed and asked me for your Promised Land, and I have given it to you! It is a land of milk and honey, and of great blessing and favor. However, know that anything that is great value or worth, is worth fighting for.
So, I say to you today, go and conquer the land that I have given you. I will be with you and will give you every wisdom, every strength and weapon to defeat the giants in your land.
Do not be discouraged at the opposition, but know that I have already given you the victory. Do not look to the right or the left, but keep your gaze upon me and I will give you everything to defeat the enemy, and how to prosper and grow in the blessing and abundance in your Promised Land.
So prepare for battle, knowing that it is already won and go and conquer the land!