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Day 19 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. (Luke 11:20) Jesus states that He cast out demons with the finger of God. In Matthew 12:28, His statement is phrased this way: “if I [...]
Day 18 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional In this manner, therefore, pray… ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’ (Matthew 6:9,10) Jesus wants to answer every single prayer that you and I pray. It is true. He also wants to satisfy the deepest longings of [...]
Day 17 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end… (Isaiah 9:7) The earth is shaking. Scripture confirms this to be so. I’m not necessarily making end-time references here. Wherever we chart on the Last Days roadmap, the obvious present reality is [...]
Right now, I am sitting at a Starbucks in Redding, CA, gearing up for a day of filming with Bill Johnson at Bethel Church. Over the next two days, we are recording a DVD-based curriculum series based on his teaching, Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind. We are approaching this project with great expectation, as [...]
Day 16 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional As the sun went down that evening, people throughout the village brought sick family members to Jesus. No matter what their diseases were, the touch of his hand healed every one. (Luke 4:40, NLT) Maybe after yesterday, you’re thinking—I don’t get it. The Bible tells [...]
Day 15 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional And demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, “You are the Christ,the Son of God!” (Luke 4:41) Christianity was never meant to be pure information—it’s really designed to be a show and tell experience. We’ve gotten the “tell” part down pretty good [...]
Day 14 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me… (Isaiah 61:1, NIV) After Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit, and then tempted by the devil in the wilderness, we read that “Jesus returned in the power of the [...]
Day 13 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him (Luke 3:22) Jesus was empowered by the Holy Spirit at His water baptism. Remember, He did nothing arbitrarily or randomly; everything unveiled the Father’s perfect, strategic plan. Jesus was not being baptized [...]
Day 12 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional Most assuredly, I say to you, hereafteryou shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man (John 1:51) This picture of Jesus shows us the availability and accessibility of the supernatural resources of heaven flowing to the [...]
Day 11 of the “What Child is This?” Advent Devotional And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us. (John 1:14, AMP) Jesus carried something in human flesh that, up until His coming, had not been done before. In the Old Testament, a physical structure [...]
