Gathered Around the Fire

Download QuickTime Player Abandonment...(Download mp3 Audio) "Experiencing The Depths of Jesus Christ" by Madame Jeanne Guyon At the outset of this book we discussed how to know the depths of Jesus Christ. Our beginning was quite simple. We looked first at praying the Scripture and then the simplicity of just beholding the Lord. After you have pursued this level of experience with the Lord for a considerable length of time, you then should be ready to go on to a deeper level of experience with Him and a deeper level of knowing Him. But in this deeper encounter with the Lord which we looked at in Chapter 4, you must move outside the realm of prayer alone; or, to state it more clearly, you must move away from just that one or two times a day you set apart for prayer with the Lord. At this point there must enter into your heart whole new attitudes toward your entire life. If you are to branch out beyond just a time of prayer each day, other parts of your life-and even your who...

Download QuickTime Player Periods of Dryness...(Download mp3 Audio) Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10 Mother Theresa Story taken from a devotional… CBS anchor, Dan Rather, found himself unprepared for a Television interview with Mother Theresa. Ron Mehl described the encounter this way: “All of Dan’s standard approaches were inadequate. And the little nun from Calcutta didn’t seem inclined to make his task easier. “When you pray,” asked Dan, “What do you say to God?” “I don’t say anything,” she replied. “I listen” Dan tried another tack. “Well okay… when God speaks to you, then, what does He say?” “He doesn’t say anything. He listens.” Dan looked bewildered. For an instant, he didn’t know what to say. “And if you don’t understand that” Mother Theresa added, I can’t explain it to you.” QUIET TIME MEANS JUST THAT... QUIET... TIME! It is in the place of silence that the Holy Spirit boils the trut...

Download QuickTime Player The Second Level...(Download mp3 Audio) I want to capture the heart of the person in this scripture. Turn to Chapter 10 of I Kings. 1 Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions. 2 She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind. 3 And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king that he could not explain to her. 4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, 5 the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more breath in her. There was no more spirit in her. I don’t even know if we can picture that kind of wealt...

Download QuickTime Player The Depths...(Download mp3 Audio) We have been talking this morning about King David wanting to build a house for God. God is saying, "I live in a tent not in things built by hands." Heaven is my throne the earth is my footstool, where is the house you will build for me. We all want to go out and build a house for God, but what He is saying in that Scripture is, "What house could you, build for me? Heaven is my throne and the whole of the earth is just my footstool, it is just my ottoman, what kind of a house are you going to build for me? If you built a house that covered the whole earth, all it would do is just house my feet. There is a movie from a few years back "FIELD OF DREAMS". Remember the movie the Field of Dreams, a farmer is haunted by a voice “ If you build it they will come”. He hears that voice several times before he REALLY believes it and begins to act “by faith to build.. Finally, this farmer begins to disc under his...