Years ago I was a part of a teaching team for a Women’s Ministry. At this particular time, we were doing a series on spiritual disciplines. My week was prayer and fasting. Prayer - YAH!!  Fasting - UGH!! And what made it worse was that God very clearly asked me - okay, he told me - to fast in order to teach on it. FOR SEVEN DAYS!!! Oh boy, did I fight him on this, but eventually, of course, he won. But I wasn’t happy. For the first three days I argued and complained the entir

John Wesley is best known as the founder of the Methodist Church. But, equally, if not more  important, he and his brother, Charles, helped launch the Great Spiritual Awakening in the mid-1800s. John started a House of Prayer called the Foundry where miracles unlimited were released, including his brother’s prolific hymn writing. John was also a man of prayer. He would get up at 4:00 am in the morning to intercede for four hours before starting his day. Later in life, he woul

They were held in captivity for 70 years. Until along comes King Cyrus the Great issuing a decree that they could return to their homeland. And about 50,000 Israelites took him up on this. And as they returned, they carried with them a history book called Chronicles. The author, possibly Ezra, was a remarkable, thoughtful man. He realized that most, if not all, Israelites had very little memory of their ancestry or history. So he wrote it down for them, starting with Adam and