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Ministry Ethics: Referencing Psychology with Care

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Ministry Ethics: Referencing Psychology with Care

Guidelines for Ministers Who Teach About Emotional and Mental Healing

1. Stay Within Your Scope of Competence

Speak confidently about the Word, pastoral experience, and Spirit-led insight — but recognize when a topic crosses into professional territory.

“I’m not a licensed counselor, but here’s the spiritual side of what we’re talking about.”

This humble clarity protects both minister and listener. Continue reading “Ministry Ethics: Referencing Psychology with Care” →

Gifts: Treasures of Your Heart Revealed

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The Treasures Revealed

1 Corinthians 14:25 (NKJV)

“And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.”

When the Spirit of God truly moves among His people, hearts cannot remain hidden. The light of His presence reaches into the unseen corners of a person’s soul and gently exposes what lies within—whether pain that needs healing, sin that needs cleansing, or sincerity that needs affirmation.

Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 14:25 describe a moment when prophetic truth pierces the heart. The “secrets” (krypta) of a person’s inner life are made “manifest” (phaneráō). It’s not public humiliation—it’s holy illumination. In that light, the person realizes that God knows them completely. Nothing is hidden from His gaze, yet nothing is beyond His grace. Continue reading “Gifts: Treasures of Your Heart Revealed” →

Longevity: Guarding Life with Words

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Guarding Life with Your Words

“Whoever desires life and loves many days, that he may see good,
Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.
Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.”
(Psalm 34:12–14 NKJV)

The psalmist gives us a simple but powerful formula for a long and good life: right speech, right actions, and a heart that pursues peace. Words are seeds, and the atmosphere we create with them either strengthens or shortens our days. Continue reading “Longevity: Guarding Life with Words” →

George Muller: Hearing God

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Hearing God
By George Muller

To ascertain the Lord’s will, we ought to use scriptural means: Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word. I say, by His Spirit through His word. For if we should think that His Spirit led us to do so and so, because certain facts are so and so, and yet His word is opposed to the step which we are going to take, we
should be deceiving ourselves.

For instance: A brother in business thinks he ought to leave the house in which he lives, because it is not in a good situation. He wishes to know the Lord’s mind, as he says, and prays about the matter. After a few days, unexpectedly, a house is offered to him without Continue reading “George Muller: Hearing God” →

Don’t be Flippant

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📌The Weight of His Words

Jeremiah 23:36-40

“For every man’s word will be his oracle, for you have perverted the words of the living God, the LORD of hosts, our God.” — Jeremiah 23:36

There is a trembling that comes upon the soul who realizes that God’s words carry eternal weight. In Jeremiah’s day, prophets and priests were saying, “The oracle of the Lord!” as if it were a slogan. They used the phrase to appear spiritual, to gain influence, or to justify their own thoughts. The Lord called it what it was — a perversion of His living Word. Continue reading “Don’t be Flippant” →

Gifts Upon & Within

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The Gift Within and the Gift Upon

Scripture Focus:

“But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.”

— 1 Corinthians 12:7

“The anointing which you have received from Him abides in you.”

— 1 John 2:27

Teaching: The Two Dimensions of the Spirit’s Power

The Holy Spirit operates in two distinct but harmonious ways in the life of a believer: within and upon.

The Spirit within is the indwelling presence of God given for your personal growth, strength, and fellowship. Jesus said it would be “a well of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14). That inner anointing teaches you, comforts you, and empowers you to live in health and peace every day.

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Alcohol and the Christian Witness

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🍷 Alcohol, Wine, and the Christian Witness

A Word for the Latter Rain Generation

Every generation faces questions that test its convictions, and this is one of them: Can a Christian drink alcohol — even a little?

The body of Christ has wrestled with this question for centuries, and opinions range from total abstinence to cautious moderation. But the real question for those of us walking in the Latter Rain season is not simply Can I? — it’s Should I?

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Teach Them To Pray

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“I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.” — Charles Spurgeon🕊️ 

1. Prayer births what preaching declares.

Preaching proclaims God’s Word; prayer prevails with God’s heart.

A sermon without prayer may inspire for a moment, but a prayerful person births something eternal.

Spurgeon understood that one man who truly knows how to reach heaven can move God to raise up ten preachers full of the Spirit.

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