By Bill Banks Many today have been taught that the only way to receive healing is to have personal faith for your specific healing. We must, it is implied, somehow “work up” or develop enough personal faith in order to be healed, and then we will experience God’s move on our body. The implication is that our personal faith is the determining factor, and it will in some manner acquire our healing. There is good news, however,...
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By Evangelist Ophelia Hunt At eight years old, I went to live with my grandparents in Mullins, South Carolina. My grandmother’s name was Rachel, and she was a woman full of love. It seemed as though God chose her to be that special, spirit-filled woman for the world to love, to those that knew her. I remember being burned; my grandmother called me over to her, and she began to mumble some words to herself. A few minutes later,...
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By Stephen Arterburn & Jack Felton Most of us began our journey into faith with trusting hearts. Yet incidents of abuse, media accounts of perverted religion, personal disappointments, loss, betrayal and even unrealistic expectations of God can cause us to develop a warped or damaged view of faith. Too often, what began as an authentic relationship with God deteriorates into a defective faith with an incomplete or poisoned view...
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By Bob Sorge Grow in the kind of faith that never stops contending for breakthrough. When Jesus gave us the prayer, “Get justice for me from my adversary,” (Luke 18:3), He equipped us with the most powerful prayer possible. Explore Jesus’s parable of the persistent widow and discover answers to some of the most perplexing questions about prayer: • Why is the cry for justice so empowering and strategic? • Can I know...
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By Ron and Glenda Pettey Heaven is Real is a short, very readable book that Pettey has written in collaboration with his wife Glenda. In the Foreword, Wanda Pridgeon, the wife of a Baptist minister, says that when she “heard about Ron’s out-of-body experience” she was “prepared to dismiss it as someone’s vivid imagination or wild dream,” but when she heard Ron speak of his experiences, she found she...
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