Recently George Verwer who founded the missionary agency “Operation Mobilization” passed away. This agency works in most countries and has more than 3000 missionaries and has many boats that visit countries with the gospel. His story is an inspiration. He received Jesus when he was 16 years old. He immediately distributed 1000 Gospels of John […]
Eph 4:11-16 (see below) teaches that Jesus has specifically given the Church the five-fold ministries of apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher to build up and equip the body to work as it should, with each person fulfilling their God-given role and linked to the rest of the body (4:11-12). This will result powerfully in […]
The wind of the Holy Spirit is blowing. Asbury College experienced weeks of 24-7 worship, prayer and confession led by Generation Z students. Now other places in the USA are experiencing the same thing. I have experienced and taken part in genuine revival in three continents: Pensacola, USA in 1997, Brazil 1999-2004 and in the […]
On February 8, the Asbury Revival started. But is it a true revival like those in the Bible? 1. How did it start? It started after a preach by Zach Meerkreebs ar a normal Chapel 10 am service on “Love in action” and he finished with a challenging prayer: “But Holy Spirit if you […]
We are called to be holy because God is holy. Duncan Campbell, the famous revivalist, said: “A God-sent Revival must ever be related to holiness” That is without a return to holiness there cannot be a God-sent revival. So what is holiness and how can I be holy like God? 1. Holiness in Hebrew Holiness […]
Today many church leaders or leaders of ministries online boast that they are apostles and gain influence through this. But how can we tell the true apostle from the FALSE? The first thing is to become familiar with the characteristics of the true apostle: See my article APOSTOLIC MINISTRY: 7 CHARACTERISTICS OF APOSTLES Workers at […]
It is essential to raise up apostles because they enable churches to be founded well, are able to pioneer and God uses them to transform nations. The Great Awakening Example I have studied the 18th Century Great Awakening, the greatest revival since the 12 Apostles, for many years and my biggest question has been why […]
The German Count Zinzendorf one day saw a painting, “Ecce Homo”, with Christ on the cross and the words below: “I gave my life for you; what will you do for me?” He was greatly impacted. So in 1722, he gave shelter on his estate to a group of 300 believers who had fled persecution […]
Zwingli was the Swiss Reformer in the 16th Century. He lived an extraordinary life. What made him different that we can learn from? 1.His sheer hunger to know the Word of God In 1516, aged 32, Zwingli bought himself a copy of Erasmus’ Greek NT and for the next few years he studied it. In […]