Archive for the 'Nations in Revival' Category
September 2nd, 2009 by Laura Woodworth
Do you have faith? A confident expectation in your spirit-man of who God is and what His will is? In Mark 7, Jesus encountered the Syro-Phoenician woman. She was desperate for her daughter to be set free… and she knew that Jesus could do it!
She was dogged in her faith, tenaciously pressing the issue with Jesus. I have a feeling He was enjoying the moment when she responded well to his statement, “Let the children be filled first, fot it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.”
She passed the test of tenacity and faith when she pressed him. “Yes, Lord, yet even the little dogs under the table eat from the children’s crumbs.”
There’s a LOT of implication in these verses, but keeping it simple, this gentile woman’s faith pleased Jesus. He couldn’t shake her off her belief that Jesus could and would heal her daughter. His response, “For this saying go your way; the demon has gone out of your daughter.” Her wise intuition of what He was all about brought the result - the freeing of her daughter.
Have a little tenacity in your heart today for whatever you are asking God for. Know who He is and what He desires to do and grab hold. He will respond to your faith!
-Laura Woodworth
August 31st, 2009 by Laura Woodworth
Alan and I spent some time with new-found friends from Bolivia yesterday and we discussed the spiritual oppression sometimes encountered from country to country, or from one area to another. If you’re a person with any spiritual sense you will know exactly what I mean!
They particularly felt the spiritual warfare when they traveled from Bolivia to Argentina for a time of ministry.
Jesus encountered this when He went to the Gaderenes. (Mark 5) He set the demon-possessed free… and the people begged Him to leave them alone!
Jesus crossed back over the sea and encountered mulititudes who thronged about Him, with two notable miracles described (Jairus’ daughter and the woman with the issue of blood).But, when He went to his own country… Jesus met with unbelief again.
When He met with that unbelief, it’s important to note what He did. In the Gaderenes, He told the freed man to tell others what God had done for him - setting the stage for the gospel to be received in days ahead.
In His own country, Jesus began to TEACH. He healed who He could… and then went in a circuit teaching. What do you think He taught? I’m guessing He laid a foundation of faith. We know that those who were first offended at His presence became instrumental in the growth of the church after Christ’s death (James, the brother of Jesus, Mary his mother, etc.)
If you’re facing an area of oppression, you’ve got several options. (Disgust at fruitlessness is not one of them, unless it stirs you to action!) Pray always with the weapons God has given you…. and then determine if perhaps its time to teach. - Laura Woodworth
August 29th, 2009 by Laura Woodworth
Do you have a mandate from God on your life? Has He told you to “get into the boat and cross over to the other side?” (See Mark 4)
The disciples were obeying the Lord when they ended up in the midst of a dangerous storm. This was after a full day of parables on…. FAITH. Faith that bears fruit, faith that grows, faith that shines out. And now they’re full of thoughts that they’re going to perish while accepting God’s mandate to “cross over.”
Did they not understand the authority that comes with the mandate? Couldn’t THEY just as easily have spoken to the wind and waves and calmed the storm?
If God’s spoken a word to you, the only way you’re going to carry it out - without it turning into some humanistic “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” kind of thing - is to have faith that bears fruit and a firm belief that if the Father has spoken, He has also given the equipping and authority to get the job done.
Today - believe again - and cross over to the other side. - Laura Woodworth
August 28th, 2009 by Laura Woodworth
Do you have a word from God? Are you wondering where to go from here?
The disciples had a word “let us go over to the other side.” Yet when trouble came, they faltered and feared. Jesus had to personally rebuke the storm and then rebuked the disciples for lack of faith. If Jesus said it, you can act on it. You can tell the storms to cease and the winds to be quiet… and you can get where He said to go.
If you’re struggling with the will of God, take the word He’s given you and begin to act on it. Don’t wait until conditions are perfect… move toward that will of God right now. Kind of the old adage - every little bit helps.
It’s really all a matter of faith… so much faith that you actually do something about it. My encouragement is to believe and act. - Laura Woodworth
August 26th, 2009 by Laura Woodworth
Too often people get wrapped up in the question “What is the will of God for my life?” Many times we get paralyzed by indecision, uncertainties, unmarked paths in front of us.
So what is the will of God for your life? Plain and simple, to be an ambassador for HIm in the earth. If you’re representing Him well in what you’re doing, then you are in the will of God!
Too often we try to pigeonhole our lives for a tidy “now I know” type of feeling. We enjoy a false sense of security in that little space… because now you’ve got it conquered - you’re content - you’ve got your bearings…
But faith is not seeing all the roadmarks in front of you or having a map in your hands. The challenge of faith is in the listening, the hearing, the obeying what the Spirit of the Lord is saying.
Phillip had no pigeonhole. If he had, he would never have jumped up into the chariot with the Ethiopian eunuch, nor been carried away by the Spirit to other places!
Break out of your pigeonhole mentality and experience the adventure of the will of God. Let your heart live! - Laura Woodworth
August 25th, 2009 by Laura Woodworth
“Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.” Psalm 127:1
We still build, we still watch… but ultimately we look to the Lord for everything!
Never become confused and fall into a Calvinistic view of life - that is, a wrong understanding of God’s sovereignty. Yes, God is soverign. And He has sovereignly chosen to work through men.
If you’re going through a difficult time, #1 make sure the Lord is on your side (or rather, that you’re on His!) and then work - watch - pray.
-Laura Woodworth
July 31st, 2009 by Laura Woodworth
Cada iglesia, cada pastor, cada persona y cada nacíon pueden tener un reavivamiento. Es posible… y es necesario para la gente de Dios a sobrevivir en este mundo.
Tú puedes experimentar un reavivamiento en tu vida, pero tienes que orar acordando a la voluntad de Dios. Tienes que orar acordando a la palabra de Dios. No acordando tu voluntad y tus pensamientos; sino por la voluntad de Dios que es expresando en su palabra.
Y, tienes que orar en fe, con una expectiva que Dios va a responder.
Dios responde a fe… no al miedo o la necesidad. El responde a la fe de su gente.
Esta es el principio a recibir un reavivimiento.
-Laura Woodworth
Experimenta una reavivimiento desde World Revival Church en Kansas City, con los pastores Steve y Kathy Gray!
July 30th, 2009 by Laura Woodworth
¡Bienvenidos al mundo hispaño!
Quiero invitarles a experimentar este reavivamiento desde World Revival Church en Kansas City, Missouri.
Díos está haciendo cosas maravillas en medio de nosotros y cada servicio experimentamos milagros, sanidades, y grandes cambiados de vidas espirituales.
Nos gustamos visitantes hambrientes, humildes, y enseñables por el Espiritú de Díos. Estas personas son listos para recibir la poderosa presencia de Díos… ¡esas van experimentar una vida nuéva!
Ven a World Revival Church desde Kansas City con los pastores Steve y Kathy Gray.
¡Va cambiar su vida para siempre!
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-Laura Woodworth
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