Over more than forty years of ministry I have prayed for hundreds of sick folks. Some got healed. Those are the ones I like to talk about. But, on the other hand, there is the majority that did not get healed. I have struggled with this as I have preached faith and healing as part of what was purchased for us through Jesus. The struggle has intensified with incurable illness in my own body. What about all these people? Did they not have faith? Was their faith insufficient to bring about healing? And what about me? I have seen wonderful miracles that defied any human explanation. More than once I have seen a death sentence passed by a doctor reversed through prayer and faith in the name of Jesus. I have faith. Why am I not healed? As I was driving the other day, the radio was playing Dr. Erwin Lutzer, pastor of Moody Church. A question from a listener, similar to my struggle, was answered by Dr. Lutzer. Without detracting from anything Christ has done, or anything He has purchased for us, Dr. Lutzer gave an answer that satisfied me. I have come to realize that Christ has conquered sin, sickness, death, hell and the grave. It’s all a part of my inheritance. I have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit as the guarantee of the full inheritance. I just haven’t received all of my inheritance in this life. But whether or not it comes in this life or not, it will come! I have His Spirit’s guarantee.I just thought I’d share that with someone who may be feeling discouraged today________________
We need to get back to our first love.
Because you preach the gospel (saving grace, to the lost).
Then you teach the tenants of that faith to the converts, believers, and saints.
Revival we need, yes.
But as a minister and pastor what I see is that most people (enjoying) the move of the Spirit are those not experiencing Him personally at home.
– I call it hyper/super-spirituality.
It is almost like they come to church and revival to get their spiritual (fix).
Matthew 28:19-20
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
I am fully pentecostal. There has to be a BALANCE, a balance that only comes through proper understanding and execution.
Do a word study and Bible search on the words
Teach and
Preach.
Mark 16:15-16
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Blessings
My dear sister I will add your area to my prayer list my heart is so burdened for a visitation from the lord please pray for us here in the Rochester.ny area I just went thru 4 days of such a heavy anointing that the Lord led me to just worship and rest I have never in my like ever had such a visitation now I can press in to the holy place we all be lifting you all up in prayer with many Tears God. Bless and pray for us
My dear sister I will add your area to my prayer list my heart is so burdened for a visitation from the lord please pray for us here in the Rochester.ny area I just went thru 4 days of such a heavy anointing that the Lord led me to just worship and rest I have never in my like ever had such a visitation now I can press in to the holy place we all be lifting you all up in prayer with many Tears God. Bless and pray for us
There are three Greek words generally translated ‘preach’ in the New Testament. There are exceptions. The KJV Acts 20 uses the word ‘preach’ from which we get ‘dialogue’.
Usually,in the New Testament the word ‘preach’ in the Bible refers to proclaiming the Gospel, and typically it is used of evangelism, proclaiming the Gospel to those who haven’t believed it yet.
A lot of Pentecostals use the word ‘preach’ to refer to a kind of loud excited style of speaking, and ‘teach’ to refer to a calmer style of speaking. But that isn’t a distinction we can get from the Bible.
When Paul says that God has chosen the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe, he is writing about the fact that people get saved when they heard the Gospel proclaimed and then believe it. He is not saying that Christians can be saved in the end if they go hear someone talk loud behind a pulpit every week for the rest of their lives.
In Pentecostal churches, and also some Baptist churches and various other types, there is a tradition of the ‘preacher’ preaching in a loud, fast, sometimes nearly hyperventilating tone of voice. He is excited and has a certain rhythm to his speech. There are variations on this. One type of ‘preaching’ has extra syllables thrown in. “And UH, let me tell yUH tonight uh…..”
The Bible doesn’t teach that we have to use that type of speech. If someone can teach or exhort well doing that, that’s okay I guess. But we should realize just how weird it is to either the unchurched or people who grew up in different kinds of churches. The way some preachers talk is just so unnatural that it may be a distraction from what they are trying to say.
We should also note that the Bible doesn’t give a lot of details on what to do in church beyond one long chapter in I Corinthians. This chapter doesn’t even mention pastors, or elders for that matter. It does mention prophets speaking and also that ‘ye may all prophesy.’ In this chapter Paul deals with meetings where ‘every one of you’ has a psalm, doctrine, tongue, revelation, or interpetation. The ‘commandments of the Lord’ he gives for church meetings assume a meeting inwhich many believers use their gifts.
A lot of us have the way we have always done church so engrained in us that we assume that Paul is saying to add these things to the traditional Protestant pulpit-pew-sermon type church meeting. And a lot of Christians just basically ignore the passage or don’t study I Corinthians 14 much. Or it doesn’t occur to them that we should be looking to the Bible for what to do in church. Tradition can be a powerful thing.
I grew up in the Church of God and didn’t leave my home church until I got married. I remember long revivals and long church services. I am noe 70 and I thank God every day for my legacy of the church. Got married and had three children who were all raised in the church. My husband was a minister of Music and we worked together for 47 years until hr died. I live in Arkansas and am a member of the Assembly of God. It is a very good church,, and there have been lots of prayers answered. We had a wonderful revival last year. Our pastor is a man of God. We will pray for North Dakota. If you can’t attend church tune in to Jimmy Swaggert on S