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When You’re Not Good at Finding the Right Words

By Judi Collins | June 13, 2011

Out of the cold.  No warning.  Ka Bam. Your name has just been called: You will be closing the meeting in prayer!  Enormous pressure begins to build,   as the valve in your neck to closes off the blood flow to your brain making you dizzy.   But you start praying anyway and choke yourself through.  Immediately…

Charismatic Prayer – Resting in the Spirit

By Gary Garner | June 13, 2011

Throughout the Pentecostal and charismatic movements there are countless occurrences of people being “slain in the Spirit” or “resting in the Spirit” in which the person receiving prayer is overcome by God’s presence and they suddenly fall from a standing position to rest on the floor. Typically, most occurrences happen in a group setting such…

How to Pray with Others

By Bebe Nicholson | June 13, 2011

Praying with others can mean praying with one other person or a group of people.  While praying alone is our primary means of communicating with God, enlisting others to pray with us can strengthen our prayer life. We gain fresh perspectives and new insights from hearing others pray aloud about our concerns. We are also…

Soaking Prayer

By Susan Hardy | June 13, 2011

Soaking prayer is a form of meditation where participants get comfortable and simply soak in the presence of the Lord.  The purpose is not to bring requests but rather to let the love of God love permeate you. How to do this prayer practice: This prayer method was developed by John and Carol Arnott of…

Fasting and Prayer How To

By Denise Cantrell | June 13, 2011

Fasting and prayer go together.  Fasting is a means of prayer in which we give up food or some other daily activity of life for a set period of time in order to focus more clearly on God.  The Hebrew word tsum means a voluntary abstinence from food, which has also been translated as “deny…

Praying for Healing Using Physical and Spiritual Power

By Rev John Dritt | June 13, 2011

This method of healing prayer combines faith with physical skills in order to lay hands on a person to pray.   Those praying silently concentrate on allowing God’s healing power to flow through them and out through their hands into the person. How to do this prayer practice: 1.  Develop your desire and your faith. The…