by Elijah Challenge | Mar 29, 2018 | Articles/Teaching, Teachings, Training
What Jesus taught his disciples in the gospels regarding preaching the kingdom of God is not negated by the Holy Spirit who descended at Pentecost. Rather, the Holy Spirit enabled the disciples to preach the gospel with greater boldness and fruitfulness. How did Jesus...
by Elijah Challenge | Mar 26, 2018 | Articles/Teaching, Teachings, Training
. Matthew 24:4 Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah [or literally, I am anointed],’ and will deceive many. This is now being fulfilled in the Church today. Many today claim to be “anointed”...
by Elijah Challenge | Mar 22, 2018 | Articles/Teaching, Teachings, Training
Prayer is generally defined as speaking to God in heaven above—the Almighty God who has all authority in heaven and on earth. We pray to God because we do not have the authority to do what we want, and therefore beseech Him to help us through prayer. In light of...
by Elijah Challenge | Mar 22, 2018 | Articles/Teaching, Teachings, Training
In September 2000 I was in Pakistan on my very first visit there. I stayed with a believer named “Brother Wallace,” his wife, and two teenage daughters, “Michelle” and “Margot.” Our host was Pastor Samuel who had arranged for...
by Elijah Challenge | Mar 21, 2018 | Articles/Teaching, Teachings, Training
If we indeed desire to hasten the Day of the Lord (2 Peter 3:12), we should prioritize the Great Commission. So much work remains to be done in terms of preaching the gospel to all nations—billions have never heard the gospel even once—yet the time remaining is so...
by Elijah Challenge | Mar 6, 2018 | Articles/Teaching, Teachings, Training
Spiritual complacency results in dead religion which will lead to the majority in the nation turning away from the Holy God. Perversions of various kinds will be accepted by the culture—as is now taking place in America and the West—and become mainstream even within...