This message is one that could well revolutionize your prayer life! Listen and discover that God’s ability to answer our prayers goes exceeding, abundantly beyond all that we ask or think. It begins by you changing your negative, unattractive image of God.

Once we come together with other believers in committed relationship, functioning in our place in the body, we see that we must be suitably equipped to be effective. Spiritual gifts are given by God to be our equipment and they follow logically as part of our calling.

If we wish to find God’s plan for our lives, we eventually realize that, as individuals, we are incomplete. We must become a committed member in the Body of Christ in order to function in accordance with God’s purpose. Joined with other members, we can work together to fulfill God’s plan.

In finding God’s plan for your life, the first step is being born again in Christ. The second step is presenting your body to God as a living sacrifice. Then, when those steps are taken, God begins to renew your mind—to change the whole way you think. His will is unfolded in three successive phases: it is good, then acceptable, and finally perfect.

The Bible is so practical, so down-to-earth. So, when we’re looking to find out what God’s plan for our life is, where does the application start? It starts with our body. God asks that we present this body of ours to Him as a living sacrifice.

Perhaps you’ve never understood that God has a plan for your life. Or you may have an inner awareness that God has a claim on your life and a task for you to fulfill but you don’t know how to discover what it is. So you feel frustrated and unfulfilled. Derek presents practical steps to discover God’s plan for your life.

Today, Derek talks about our response to the nation of Israel…the part we as individuals play as end-time prophecy unfolds. One of our major responsibilities as believers is to pray for Israel and Jerusalem. Derek pointed out this is the only way to for peace to be established in the world.

Today’s fruit of the Spirit Derek is speaking about is the fruit of gentleness. The word in the original Greek can equally well be translated as meekness. Some versions use one word, some the other. We need to bear in mind that gentleness includes meekness and meekness includes gentleness. But meekness is not weakness, as many people think. But, the exact opposite is the true: meekness is the demonstration of strength.

God’s principles are always the same. He is going to re-gather Israel based on a covenant. The covenant will establish a new relationship of God to Israel as a husband. And it will bring Israel into a direct personal relationship with God where no mediator is needed.

Today we look at the process of restoration for Israel. We see how biblical prophecy not only predicts the re-gathering of Israel, but it also gives very accurate pictures of how that re-gathering will be accomplished. What a tremendous teaching.