Praying With Authority

Praying With Authority Martin Boardman

In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my Name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my Name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete – John 16:23-24 (NIV). When we see…
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Letting God Speak Martin Boardman

One night, shortly after we moved to our new house, I was driving home in the fog out in the country. I was going on what  were then unfamiliar roads. And in the dark, I was not always aware of exactly where I was with the fog. Fortunately, I had  put my new address into…
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Why Pray? Martin Boardman

Conversation, Communication and Gaining the Father’s Heart What exactly is prayer, and how does it fit into the work which the Lord calls us to do? At its heart, prayer (tefillah) is not just a form of communication, but instead is its highest expression. It is a conversation  with our Heavenly Father in the Name…
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Prayer Changes Things Martin Boardman

In my last article, “Stephen – Full of the Ruach HaKodesh,” we examined from Acts chapter 6 the calling of Stephen, our first Shammashim (Deacon), where the Emissaries (Twelve Apostles) recognized the need for the care of widows so that they might continue in the ministry of prayer and the Word. In their selection of…
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Stephen – Full of the Ruach HaKodesh

In Acts 6 we get a glimpse into the multicultural tensions within the early Messianic community in Jerusalem. There were two subsets of the Jewish community, those with a Hellenistic (Greek) cultural background and those with a Hebrew background. No doubt there were many similarities between these two groups, but there were also differences, which…
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