Last Sunday we sang a hymn which included these lyrics: Christ, who once came to bring on your redeeming wing healing and sight, health to the sick in mind, sight with illusions blind: now to all humankind let there be light. The same Jesus who brought healing when He was walking on the earth is still bringing healing through the Holy Spirit who He left on the earth. It was Jesus’ promise that the Holy Spirit would bring the believers power to do what He had done and mo

Cornelius was a Gentile who came to believe in Jesus. It is recorded that the Holy Spirit fell on everybody who was with Cornelius as Peter began to preach the gospel (Acts 11:15). (Acts 10:45). Peter and the Jews who were with him were surprised that God poured out the Holy Spirit on the Gentiles in the same way that he and his fellow Jews had received the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:4,11:17). In Acts we are told that the Holy Spirit also was given to people when a spirit-filled per

Are you facing a hopeless situation? King Jehoshaphat of Judah was facing an impossible battle against nations that were plotting to wipe his kingdom out. He did 4 things. 1. He got everyone in the kingdom to fast – to stop eating and be totally focussed on the urgency of the situation and to seek God. 2. He prayed in front of all the people that God was the one who could deliver them from sword, judgment, pestilence or famine (2 Chron. 20:9). 3. He told the pe