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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches > Pentecostal Churches
What happens when prophets are wrong?
In 2020, many Christians claiming to be prophets said that God told them that Donald Trump would be re-elected as president, which did not happen. What happens when prophets get it wrong? Are there consequences for misleading God's people?
In recent years, gross misjudgments among Charismatic Christians claiming to speak for God and moral failures within Evangelicalism have resulted in a crisis of belief. In Prophetic Integrity, bestselling author and speaker, R.T. Kendall gives a warning to those speaking in God's name and offers a way forward in trusting God despite the failures of the church.
Includes:
- Personal accounts of visions and supernatural experiences
- Good, bad, and ugly examples of modern-day prophecy
- Seven levels of prophetic gifting
- Examples of false teachings within open theism
- Relevant Bible verses and meaningful quotes
- Thought-provoking questions
- A call for honesty, vulnerability, and repentance
Prophetic Integrity is a book for those who believe that God still speaks today but have serious questions about those within the church that identify as prophets.
Many Jesus followers are sleepwalking through their Christian lives. They wear a smile, attend church gatherings, and try their best to make it through, but they don’t really expect answered prayers, breakthroughs, or a miraculous change in their situations. Why? Disappointment and disillusionment. The Bible calls this “hope deferred.” What we hoped for did not happen, and we are left with hopes and dreams that are dead.
But remember: we serve the God of resurrection life and revival!
Robert Henderson is the bestselling author of the Courts of Heaven series, and in this latest book he challenges you to pray for miracle reversals in every situation that seems hopeless. Resurrection thunders as a verdict from the Courts of Heaven, for it is God alone who gives life to the dead.
This powerful new book will show you how to:
- Discover the Seven Secrets to seeing dead things revived in your life
- Identify the spirit of sabotage in your life - and cancel its influence
- Make Lazarus Decrees over those situations that Jesus wants to resurrect and revive
- Dismantle the spirit of death—and stop it from impacting every area of your life
- Receive stirring biblical examples of resurrection power released into impossible situations
- Break off the pain of disappointment and position yourself for answered prayer
Resurrection is not a one-time event; it should be the default setting of the Christian life. We are filled with Jesus’ resurrection life and power! We have been commissioned by the resurrected Jesus to see His supernatural miracle power reverse any plan of the enemy that has sought to steal, kill, and destroy.
Joseph W. Williams examines the changing healing practices of
pentecostals in the United States over the past 100 years, from the
early believers, who rejected mainstream medicine and overtly
spiritualized disease, to the later generations of pentecostals and
their charismatic successors, who dramatically altered the healing
paradigms they inherited. Williams shows that over the course of
the twentieth century, pentecostal denunciations of the medical
profession often gave way to ''natural'' healing methods associated
with scientific medicine, natural substances, and even psychology.
By 2000, figures such as the pentecostal preacher T. D. Jakes
appeared on the Dr. Phil Show, other healers marketed their books
at mainstream retailers such as Wal-Mart, and some developed
lucrative nutritional products that sold online and in health food
stores across the nation. Exploring the interconnections,
resonances, and continued points of tension between adherents and
some of their fiercest rivals, Spirit Cure chronicling adherents'
embrace of competitors' healing practices and illuminates
pentecostals' dramatic transition from a despised minority to major
players in the world of American evangelicalism and mainstream
American culture.
The growth of Christianity in the global South is one of the most
important religious stories of the last decade. In no branch of
Christianity has that growth been more rapid than Pentecostalism.
There are over 100 million Pentecostals in Africa, and Pentecostal
practices infuse Catholic, Anglican, and Independent churches. In
the traditional Catholic stronghold of Latin America,
Pentecostalism now vies with Catholicism for the soul of the
continent. And the largest Pentecostsal church in the world, with
over 800,000 members, is in Seoul. In To the Ends of the Earth,
Allan Anderson offers a historical and theological examination of
the growth of global Pentecostalism. Examining such issues as
revivalism, healing, gender, worship, and globalization, Anderson
seeks to show how the growth of global Pentecostalism is changing
the face of Christianity as a whole.
Divine healing is the essential marker of the global phenomenon of
Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. But although we know that
healing is central in these movements, we know surprisingly little
about how divine healing beliefs and practices reflect the
interplay of local and global patterns of cultural development. The
essays in this collection seek to discover what is the same and
what is different about such beliefs and practices in diverse
contexts, trace formal and informal lines of cultural influence
across geographic and national boundaries, and ask how healing both
reflects and contributes to larger processes of globalization. The
collection will not only flesh out a picture of how and why
spiritual healing is practiced in diverse cultural contexts and how
healing practices reflect and shape the transnational spread of
Christianity; it will also provide insight into the nature of
globalization. The authors will attend to a wide range of issues,
including the theological rationales for divine healing; the
symbolic objects and ritual enactments employed; the cultural
controversies surrounding these practices; the relationship between
Christian healing and local or indigenous healing traditions;
whether an emphasis on financial prosperity is always present; and
the extent to which Pentecostal and charismatic churches are
networked and the role of healing in such networks. All the essays
are new to this volume.
Operating in the Courts of Heaven has become an international bestseller that has supernaturally transformed lives all over the world. It’s not another prayer strategy; it’s a blueprint for engaging a spiritual dimension called the Courts of Heaven. Robert Henderson Biblically teaches believers how to come before the Court and present their cases of unanswered prayers or delayed breakthroughs to the Righteous Judge.
In this new and updated edition featuring brand new material, Robert presents fresh Biblical insights and a systematic framework that shows all believers how to enter the Courts of Heaven. In addition, Robert answers common questions about the Courts and reveals how this place in the spirit is available to all believers through Jesus’ blood.
Discover how to:
- Engage the three dimensions of prayer, experiencing God as Father, Friend and Judge
- Shift from “battlefield” to “courtroom” prayer
- Apply the verdict of Jesus’ finished work on the cross
- Understand how Christians can remove generational curses
- Recognize your accuser and overrule his cases against you
- Access and unlock your book of destiny
- Enter and operate in the court of Heaven by faith
God’s passion is to answer your prayers. When you learn how to operate in the court of Heaven, you can undo the spiritual legalities that stand in the way of your answered prayer. Get ready for miraculous results!
Pentecostal forms of Christianity have now taken a dynamic role in
contemporary Christianity, often at the vanguard of new movements
and spiritual vitality among Christians in the late modern world.
The many movements which constitute global Pentecostalism share in
common an intense commitment to the Bible and life in the Spirit.
Over the past several decades, Pentecostal biblical scholarship has
played an important role in resourcing Pentecostal theologies.
These elements come together in this volume in which leading
Pentecostal biblical scholars from around the world account for the
appearance of the divine Spirit, putting forth a defining work from
a seminal generation of scholars. Contributors are: J. Ayodeji
Adewuya, Kenneth J. Archer, Melissa Archer, Emma M. Austin, Holly
Beers, Michael L. Brown, Blaine Charette, Jacob Cherian, Roger D.
Cotton, Daniel K. Darko, Finny Philip, Roji Thomas George,
Jacqueline Grey, Alicia R. Jackson, Wonsuk Ma, Lee Roy Martin,
Robert P. Menzies, Brian Neil Peterson, Rebecca Skaggs, Joe Thomas,
John Christopher Thomas, Robby Waddell, Rick Wadholm, Nimi
Wariboko, Cynthia Long Westfall.
"Concrete, accessible, actionable help in the most important
challenge of human living."--JOHN ORTBERG, founder, BecomeNew.Me
Having spent years of his life studying the Holy Spirit, renowned
theologian and acclaimed author Jack Levison shares the seven
secrets to a fuller, deeper and more powerful relationship with the
Spirit. Packed with biblical insights, practical strategies,
focused prayers, Scripture meditations and rich reflections, each
short, energizing chapter will fuel your spiritual growth,
empowering you to · break out of the familiar · experience your
own personal Pentecost · cultivate healthy habits that strengthen
the Spirit-filled life · connect with the heart of the Spirit A
season of breakthrough awaits you. Here is your guide to
embracing the Spirit-filled life--and discovering the Helper
who fills you up, pours you out and transforms the world through
you. "Jack Levison opens secrets of the Spirit-filled life from
across the pages of Scripture and gives us seven pathways for
living the Spirit-filled life. What a gift!"--AMOS YONG, professor,
theology and mission, Fuller Seminary "What a terrific guide for
living the Spirit-filled life! I highly recommend this book."--ADAM
HAMILTON, senior pastor, United Methodist Church of the
Resurrection, Leawood, Kansas; author, Luke: Jesus and the
Outsiders, Outcasts, and Outlaws
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