Mission Trip Israel – Day 11, Sunday, May 27, 2007
We listened to David and Mike teach, prayed on top of the Temple Mount and then went to the Mount of Olives. The Garden of Gethsemane is pretty amazing because some of these olive trees were actually there when Jesus prayed amongst them. They don’t know exactly where He would have been, but there are […]
How Does Prosperity Play Out Practically in Our Lives?
It shouldn’t surprise us to see that God wants us to prosper in every way. As He does this, we have the ability and means to be helpful in the Kingdom and Family of God. It would be ridiculous to abandon our God-given talents in management or creative skills and let these lay dormant, when […]
Mission Trip Israel – Day 10: Saturday, May 26, 2007
Today, we enjoyed the Sabbath rest by having a picnic with a local congregation youth group. They were mostly teenagers, but some who were younger and others who were older attended. We were at a beautiful park that had a cliff down to the ocean, but we stayed up in the grass and shared a […]
How Does God Want to Prosper us Individually?
When God created Man, He created them in His Image and His Likeness. But this was designed to be a process, just as when you have a baby, he or she is born of you, with your image, and as he/she grows he takes on more and more of your likeness, but is not fully […]
Mission Trip Day 9: Friday Night, May 25, 2007
That night we went to a Shabbat service. The Pastor (some Messianic congregational leaders seem to use the title Pastor, others Rabbi) had just come back from a pastor’s conference in Sweden. He was on fire to share what God was doing throughout the world. He shared many stories that he had heard from pastors […]
Eternal Riches
Just as Jesus taught spiritual principles using the example of being responsible to multiply our wealth, He also taught us to watch out for spiritual traps – again using money as an example. In both cases, these principles apply to money and to other areas of life as well. In the story we related Friday, […]
Mission Trip Day 9: Friday, May 25, 2007
On this morning we gathered to worship with the discipleship group of Beit Immanuel. But instead of them praying for a country or people as they had every other day, they prayed for the arts. It’s an area that large sections of the Church have historically turned their backs on, which has left many whom […]
Prosperity is a Double-Edged Sword
Yesterday we discussed the fact that being rich or poor wasn’t as an issue in whom Jesus taught – that what matters to Him is the heart of the particular person. Let’s look at His interesting encounter with the rich, young ruler in Mark. 17As He was setting out on a journey, a man ran […]
Mission Trip Day 8: Thursday, May 24, 2007
My spiritual cleansing was interesting in that when I sat down to pray through it with David, I ended up going off course. The instructions were to pray against any evil that came to mind. I don’t know if I didn’t really have any evil attachment due to the masons or if maybe there was […]
Jesus’ Teaching About Prosperity
We will start with Jesus’ own teachings, then look more closely at the teachings of the Apostles and draw some conclusions concerning prosperity in the Kingdom of God and in the world. We will not study this topic exhaustively, but will try to get at the essence. In Jesus’ time on earth, He never evaded […]