Spring of Hope

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   Surprised by Prayer A few years ago, a story came in the news about two churches in a small Oklahoma town.  There was a distillery with a liquor shop within a distance of less than one mile from the churches. Members of both churches complained that the distillery was giving the community a bad image. And to make matters worse the owner of the distillery was an outspoken atheist. The church people had tried unsuccessfully for years to shut down the distillery. Finally they decided to hold a joint Saturday all night prayer. There was a horrible thunderstorm during their prayer meeting. A lightning hit the distillery and burned it to the ground. The insurance refused claims from the distillery owner saying that the fire was an act of God and that was exclusion in the policy. The distillery owner was furious and he sued

Buy my book   " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   The Holy Spirit On the day of Pentecost, when the believers were gathered in one place, the Holy Spirit came with a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. (Acts 2:1-4).   When it comes to the Holy Spirit, the picture many people have is a group of Pentecostal people gathered together and make a lot of noise and utter words or speech-like sounds, often thought to be some languages.  The Holy Spirit is not just a powerful wind that make people weeping, shouting, dancing, shaking and speaking in tongues. The Holy Spirit can come like a wind that came o