These coming weeks we are getting into a crystallization-study of the books of Daniel and Zechariah, and this week particularly we will focus on an amazing topic, The Rule of the Heavens, the Economy of God, and the Excellent Christ as the Precious and Preeminent One in God’s Move. Wow! I am prepared to be […]
A Proper Church is a Praying Church: We Need to First of All Pray!
This week we are getting into the matter of a praying church in the unique stream of God’s work. We are living at the end of this age, and our ministry as the church is to pray so that we may inflict damage and loss on Satan’s kingdom and we may bring in God’s kingdom. […]
God’s Move Depends upon Our Moving: the Church must Match Christ in His Move
![God's Move Depends upon Our Moving: the Church must Match Christ in His Move [In the picture: The wheels following the living creatures indicates that the move of God’s work depends upon our moving (Ezek. 1:19; cf. Eccl. 11:4).]](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/wheels-follow-living-creatures-move-gods-work-depends-on-our-moving.jpg?fit=300%2C199&ssl=1)
In Ezekiel 1:19-20 we see that there are four living creatures, each one having a great and high wheel, and wherever the creatures went, the wheels went also. The creatures followed the Spirit, the wheels went with the creatures, and the Spirit was in the wheels – so mysterious, yet so real in our daily […]
Real Prayers are the Holy Spirit Within Man Expressing God’s Desire Through Man
![Real Prayers are the Holy Spirit Within Man Expressing God's Desire Through Man [In the picture: We need to be one with the Lord to pray for the move of the great wheel of the divine economy. ]](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/one-with-the-lord-pray-for-the-move-of-great-wheel-divine-economy.jpg?fit=300%2C194&ssl=1)
Concerning the matter of prayer we all need to admit that we don’t really know how to pray and what to pray as is fitting – we don’t know how to pray in such a way that we touch God’s desire and move His hand. This is our weakness (Rom. 8:26-27), and the Spirit with […]
Exercising to Pray Unceasingly by Calling on the Lord and Talking to Him
![Exercising to Pray Unceasingly by Calling on the Lord and Talking to Him [In the picture: Eph. 6:18]](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/eph6-18-prayer-petition-praying-all-time-in-spirit.jpg?fit=300%2C199&ssl=1)
The Lord Jesus tells us in Matt. 26:41, Watch and pray – the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Paul continues the Lord’s speaking on this matter and strengthens it by saying, Praying at every time in spirit, and, Persevering in prayer (Col. 4:2; Eph. 6:18). For us to watch in prayer implies […]
Watch and Pray: Being on the Alert for the Maintaining of Our Prayer Life
![Watch and Pray: Being on the Alert for the Maintaining of Our Prayer Life [In the picture: Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak (Matt. 26:41)]](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/matt26-41-watch-pray-not-enter-temptation1.jpg?fit=300%2C215&ssl=1)
There must be something about prayer that we need to watch with persistence in it, since both the Lord Jesus and Paul charges us to do so. At the end of Colossians and Ephesians, Paul encourages us to persevere in prayer and pray at every time in spirit – watching unto this in all perseverance (Eph. 6:18)! […]
Enjoying the Benefits of Daily Persevering in Prayer with the Lord
![Through prayer we set our mind on the things which are above, where Christ is (Col. 3:2). The best way to wet our mind on the things in the heavens is through prayer. [In the picture: Whether or not our prayer is answered is secondary. The primary thing is that grace flows like a river from the throne and into our being.]](https://i0.wp.com/www.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/primary-thing-grace-flows-like-a-river.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1)
Persevering in prayer has many benefits, enriching both our spiritual life and our relationship with the Lord and with the Body of Christ. If we mean business with the Lord and make a vow before Him concerning our prayer life, and then we daily practice to have set times of prayer in which prayer is […]