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Zac Poonen

(Finding God's Will) 4. Guidance through external means

Zac PoonenThe Holy Spirit speaks to our spirits through the following external means also, when we are seeking His guidance:- (i) The teaching of the Bible. (ii) The witness of circumstances. (iii) The advice of other believers. If we have ascertained the will of God accurately, the witness of the Holy Spirit... Read More
Zac Poonen

(New Wine In New Wineskins) 9. Sanctification and fellowship

Zac PoonenThe word 'fellowship' is a new covenant word. The fellowship spoken of in the new covenant is patterned after the fellowship that Jesus and the Father had with each other during Jesus' earthly days. Jesus' prayer was that the fellowship among His disciples would be of the same order. Under the old c... Read More
Zac Poonen

(Practical Discipleship) 4. Discipleship And Church Matters

Zac PoonenA disciple of Jesus can never be a loner. He will always live in fellowship with other disciples in a local church. Jesus said that the primary mark of His disciples would be "love for one another" (John 13:35). This is possible only when the disciple is related to other disciples. So there cannot b... Read More
Zac Poonen

(The Full Gospel) 10. Standing In The Gap Before The Lord

Zac PoonenThe Lord says, "I searched for a man among them who should build up the wall and STAND IN THE GAP BEFORE ME for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none." (Ezekiel 22:30). God tells Ezekiel in this chapter why the Israelites had gone into captivity to Babylon (verse 15). Jerusalem ha... Read More
Zac Poonen

God's Guidance Through Circumstances Of Life

Zac PoonenGod is the God of Providence. He can control our circumstances and thereby indicate His will. He allows certain things to befall us, either to confirm the guidance we have received through the witness of the Spirit, or to stop us from taking a wrong step. As George Muller has said, "The stops of a g... Read More
Zac Poonen

Here am I – Send me

Zac PoonenIn Chapter 6 of Isaiah, Isaiah had a vision of both the throne and the altar here. Then the Lord asks, "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?" (Isaiah 6:8). Isaiah replies, "Here am I. Send me." We need to see both the throne and the altar constantly. We need to be struck down to the dust first wit... Read More
Denis Lyle

Spiritual fruit

Reading: Ephesians 2:11-22 16. IS THE BIBLE ENOUGH OR DO WE NEED MORE The words, "God told me", has become the anthem of the Charismatic movement. Strange private prophecies are proclaimed by all kinds of people who evidently believe God speaks to them. Probably the most infamous of all is Oral Robe... Read More
Gary R. Kane

TRUE PROPHETS

PROPHETS. Prophets were men in the church who spoke under the direct impulse of the Holy Spirit and whose main motivation and concern were with the spiritual life and purity of the church. Under the new covenant they were raised up and empowered by the Holy Spirit to bring a message from God to His ... Read More
Harry Ironside

Baptism: What Saith The Scripture?

Harry IronsideIntroductory So much has been said and written on this subject, so various and conflicting have been the opinions expressed, so widely divergent are the meanings even, given by scholars to the very word baptism, that one naturally hesitates to write on such a theme. But a verse in the only Book that... Read More
Harry Ironside

Is the Church of The Acts the Body of Christ?

Harry IronsideHERE is perhaps nothing about which the ultradispensationalists are more certain, according to their own expressions, than that the book of the Acts covers a transitional period, coming in between the age of the law and the present age in which the dispensation of the mystery has been revealed. They... Read More

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