March 27th, 2009 by Laura Woodworth
Are you a missionary on the field who is losing your zeal, your vision? Experienced too many failures, too much lack of fruit, too many betrayals?
I encourage you to spend time in the book of Jeremiah. By the time you finish the 52nd chapter, you will have been strongly reminded that God does rule the nations! They are in His hands.
He is the Lord Almighty, the Creator, the King, the Portion of Jacob, the Maker of all things. He is our true Pastor, the hope of Israel’s fathers. The Redeemer.
He has and He will open His arsenal to accomplish His work. (Jeremiah 50:25)
–And the glory of the Lord WILL cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. All nations will come to the brightness of His appearing and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
So - lift up your head, allow the Lord to speak to you and be obedient to His voice. He is the one who called you and He will enable. We will see global revival. - Laura Woodworth
Visit www.worldrevivalchurch.com and be revived.
March 16th, 2009 by Laura Woodworth
What is cross cultural ministry? Most people lump cross cultural ministry into “missions” and then leave the work of this ministry to “missionaries.”
Although missions very much involves crossing cultural boundaries in big ways, you don’t have to go far in this day to bring the gospel to the nations.
Cross your street and you’re probably crossing a cultural boundary. The Asian neighbor who speaks broken English or the black man (or white! depending) with a different culture and worldview than what you grew up with - these are all examples of backyard cross cultural ministry that must and should be happening.
You may be the witness God placed in an international student’s life to grab hold of a faith in Jesus Christ and take a revelation of God home to an area you may never be able to enter.
Missions still has its place in the world - but your involvement in cross cultural ministry is absolutely vital to the task of seeing nations worshiping God. -Laura Woodworth
December 27th, 2008 by Laura Woodworth
Missions - or any kind of ministry - can be challenging and rewarding. It can also lead to burn out if you’re not experiencing God’s presence in powerful ways.
The bible says that we are changed from glory to glory. So what happens if you’re not experiencing God’s glory? Obviously, change is not happening… and after a while, the zeal goes, the fire leaves, and you’re left with the day to day grind of life.
Every little problem becomes a mountain of frustration and your heart grows colder and harder with each passing day.
Although any type of ministry can be tiring and difficult at times, there should be joy in the work and increasing strength in the war of it.
You must get in the place of God’s glory. Glory can happen in those quiet times with Him… and should be happening in the corporate settings as well.
Please, if you’re feeling dry and losing your vision for your mission, connect to the revival at World Revival Church. It’s easy through streaming video and even through Daystar as they air these services live every Friday. If possible, make plans to visit Kansas City and experience God’s glory firsthand.
We need good missionaries. And good missionaries need God’s glory. -Laura Woodworth
P.S. If you think I sound like a commercial for World Revival Church, then you’ll have to understand how many hundreds - possibly thousands - of pastors and leaders have been touched and dramatically changed through this revival. God is doing something special here - especially for ministries. Trust me… YOU NEED TO EXPERIENCE THIS REVIVAL.
Let’s touch the nations with POWER!
December 23rd, 2008 by Laura Woodworth
Okay, so you’re out on the road and traveling to only-God-knows-where and places-where-only-diehard-missionaries would go, with 3 kids and another on the way.
You’re in a hotel room with 2 beds.
What would you do?
Here’s my first all time favorite tip for survival when you’re going places for God with your family.
Strip the top sheet and line your sweet little willing vessels sideways on that mattress. Cover them with their favorite blanket and you’re ready to turn out the lights.
Works best on a double bed. Can be done on a single, but only if you angle them correctly.
You think I’m joking? Ask my kids!
Wherever you go, make sure you go out REVIVED, with the powerful presence of God in your family and flowing through your lives. The last thing the nations need is more dead, dry religion.
Visit World Revival Church for revival in your life and ministry. Don’t leave home without it!
December 11th, 2008 by Laura Woodworth
Got a heart for global revival? OR planning on going on a short-term mission or long-term stay in another country? If you want to minister effectively, then learning the language of your targeted people group is essential!
BUT FIRST let me premise this by saying that it is possible to minister through an interpreter or to even pray in your mother tongue and see the Holy Spirit move in power. This is a spiritual thing, and God is not limited in what He can do! I’ve seen this time and again, here in revival, whether in our services at World Revival Church or on ministry trips to other nations.
If you’ve got the power and presence of God flowing in your life, that will pour out through you and lives will be transformed, despite language barriers.
However, if you’re going to be somewhere for an extended amount of time, then you really will want to learn the language. You’ll be able to build relationships and minister more effectively if you can grasp the language of the people you are living among.
And that’s my first tip in overcoming language barriers in cross-cultural ministry… live among the people. God has sent you to them… don’t isolate yourself into a little America, but learn the culture, learn the ways of the people.
That’s the best and first way to tackle language learning and scale the language wall. More on language learning to come… Laura Woodworth
December 8th, 2008 by Laura Woodworth
The religion-shaking book, My Absurd Religion, by Steve Gray is breaking ground in the nations. It is getting into the hands of people who are tired of powerless religion and ready for a real encounter with the living God.
Just this past weekend, Martin drove 1,700 miles from Quebec, Canada to Kansas City to experience the revival at World Revival Church led by Pastor Steve and Kathy Gray. She had read My Absurd Religion and knew she had to be in these services where she could REALLY experience the presence of God.
Dramatically touched, Martin is on her way back to Canada carrying the fire of God for her nation. Nations are hungry for God! This wife and mother of five seems an unlikely candidate to ignite revival in a nation, but God will use whoever is willing!
Do you know someone who needs to read My Absurd Religion? People are hungrier than you think… they just hide it well. If you want to see revival in the nations (the U.S. included) then I encourage you to use the tool of My Absurd Religion and get it into the hands of the hungry. Order online at MyAbsurdReligion.com.
Believing for GLOBAL REVIVAL - Laura Woodworth
November 29th, 2008 by Laura Woodworth
Speaking of all hell breaking loose (see previous post on prayer)… the terrorist attacks in Mumbia, the takeover in Congo, and in our own good old U.S - a Walmart employee trampled to death by Black Friday shoppers. Okay, maybe the shopping thing seems trivial with the other larger scale happenings in the world, but all these simply point to the fact that we need global revival.
We need to see nations getting in touch with the living God, and Christians fearless in their faith raising a standard in the nations that pushes back the darkness of humanity.
Where are you at? Are you living the typical American passive Christianity (sorry!) or are you living a life of righteousness and connection to your God that everything you do or say or pray pushes back darkness and advances the Kingdom of God? I believe that if we live our lives right before God, then every breath we breathe lets the enemy know - in no uncertain terms - that Jesus is Lord, that Christ MUST reign.
If you’re truly connected to Your God, then your life will count in this great battle. If you’re disconnected, I encourage you to do everything you can to reestablish your life with God.
Daystar Television Network is going to be airing the services at World Revival Church every Friday at December. They have preempted regular programming because of the high value they have put on sharing this revival with the world. I suggest you put a greater value on your relationship with God in these times of turmoil and get yourself to revival. Make the trip to Kansas City and start taking an active part in what God is doing in the earth. Get revived… and start bringing revival to your world… and the nations. - Laura Woodworth
November 25th, 2008 by Laura Woodworth
In many nations, terror is breaking forth, violence is trying to overtake governments, Christians are being persecuted. So how do you pray in the midst of “hell on earth”?
I’m praying for Mexico, a country that is being overrun by a very violent drug cartel. Using fear, intimidation and violence these drug runners are literally attempting to overthrow the police force and take on President Calderon’s military. It would be easy to focus on this evil - or the evils you may be facing as a minister or missionary in the nations. But we must remember that God is not out to have a perfect world - at least not right now. That is not His focus, and it shouldn’t be yours either.
God is wanting to have a people willing give their lives to Him and to His Kingdom. People that choose to live holy lives for Him in this unholy world. People who are doing everything they can to bring forth the things of God’s Kingdom into this earth. Christ must reign… and it begins by Him reigning in the people called by His name.
YES, we will fight for righteousness and justice. We will use every weapon available to us to overthrow the wickedness in this world and maintain the victory that Jesus won at the cross. But our focus must be to present God with a radiant bride, washed in the blood of her Saviour and to see that bride cover the earth with God’s glory as the waters cover the earth.
If all hell is breaking loose around you, keep your focus, maintain your priorities, and then your warfare prayers against that darkness will be powerful and effective and you will see darkness dissipate through the lives of people ablaze with the very presence of God.
Global revival is on it’s way. Lift your eyes up and see our Mighty God, Yahweh Sabaot, Lord of Hosts. Overcome darkness with His light in your eyes. - Laura Woodworth
November 21st, 2008 by Laura Woodworth
Did you know the Kingdom of God is advancing… with you or without you? It’s scriptural, and God will find a man to work through! If you’re desperate for God yourself, and desperate to see global revival, then you must grab hold of the Kingdom and get it in your life.
How do you know if you’ve got the Kingdom? Matthew 11, Jesus told John’s disciples to go tell John what they say through His ministry… signs of the Kingdom at hand! If you’re not seeing signs of God activity in your life, then you had probably better stir yourself to a greater revelation of who God is (Creator, Savior, Redeemer!) - and who you are (greatly in need of Him!) and GET DESPERATE. Break out of your religious self that holds you back and DO SOMETHING to get the Living God in your life.
The nations will come to the brightness of His rising, as the bible says. Will that brightness be in you?
Praying for the nations - Laura Woodworth
P.S. Pastor Steve Gray just preached this sermon, “Forcefully Advancing the Kingdom” on Friday, November 14th during the Revival Conference at World Revival Church. You can watch this sermon on streaming video archive by clicking here. Get yourself equipped and heart-ready to take revival to the nations!
November 17th, 2008 by Laura Woodworth
What do you want to see in the nations? What are you envisioning? If you’re working for and praying for vibrant churches filled with people of life and hope and POWER… THEN YOU’D BETTER BE THAT YOURSELF!
We just finished a revival conference at World Revival Church in Kansas City, with pastors joining us from all over the country and Canada as well. One of the pastors from Canada mentioned that he was seeing signs in his church suggesting that they were on the brink of revival. He knew that he needed to have revival personally to be able to lead his church in revival, and that’s why he came to WRC. He experienced the presence of God like he had never before… and got to sit under experienced leaders in revival - Pastors Steve and Kathy Gray and their leadership team. That pastor went home equipped to lead his congregation into revival.
If you’re serious about seeing the nations in revival - global evangelization coupled with global revival - then I suggest you quit talking about revival… and come and experience it for yourself. If revival is happening in Kansas City (which it is) then you would be stupid (sorry!! but true) to not visit and glean from what God is doing here. Quit the talk and get in your car or on a plane and come experience what you’ve been praying and talking about.
As another pastor commented from this past weekend’s services, “This is unbelievable. You have to come here. You’ve got to get here before the whole world finds out and you can’t get in the place.”
LIves are being dramatically impacted by God’s presence here. This is what we need to take to the nations or to your church in the good old USA. Watch this video (Revival at World Revival Church in Kansas City) and start envisioning the POWERFUL presence of God in YOU and in your ministry.
- Laura Woodworth (Alan and I will be here to welcome you when you visit World Revival Church! Hope to see some of our friends - SOON! This is what we left our home church of 17 years and many dear friends for… we KNEW that we needed to live in this AND be mentored in this so that we could live effective lives. It was a hard move, but we believe that what one friend said is so true, “You’re not leaving us - you’re LEADING.” Please follow the lead, friends, and come experience this revival with us.
