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Invitation to Pray with SVHR Dec 3, 2024 & Newsletter

The Blessing Cycle Welcome to the Christmas Season. Christmas celebrates a birthday and birthdays are about reflecting on the past year and the year forward. In our hyper commercialized Christmas cycle, it might be time to ask how to intentionally create some blessing cycles that put Christ front and center.  Pray first. Most of the …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR Nov 19, 2024 & Newsletter

The Sacrifice of Thanksgiving “Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!      For His mercy endures forever.” – Psalm 107:1 Thanksgiving holiday festivities have arrived. Grocery stores are selling turkeys, stuffing mixes, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pies. Under the trees, fallen leaves gather in mounds of red, gold, and brown piles. Inside the …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR Nov 5, 2024 & Newsletter

NOVEMBER 5 IS ALSO VOTING DAY. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO PRAY AND VOTE.————————————————– Turn Toward God One of the privileges of being a Christian is walking in restored relationship with God. Being human, we live in a world where we make mistakes, do/say things we wish we could take back, and sometimes mess up big. …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR Oct 15, 2024 & Newsletter

The Physicality of Worship One of the main reasons we worship is to shift our focus from ourselves to God. What we focus on, we empower. We may walk into a church service not feeling “in the mood” to worship. However, when we join in, the physical acts of worship start to get us moving …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR Oct 1, 2024 & Newsletter

The Making of a Miracle Dutch Sheets gave a sermon at Oasis Church in Ohio on September 4, 2024. He talked about the Suddenlies of God. He highlighted scriptures from Revelation and talked about the golden bowls of incense which are the prayers of the saints from the perspective of heaven. Let us look at …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR Sept 17, 2024 & Newsletter

A Better Way to Receive If you are trying to catch a baseball, the worst thing you can do is look down at yourself when the ball is coming your way. That’s a good recipe for a bloody nose! The best way to catch it is to focus on the person who is throwing the ball. That …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR Sept 3, 2024 & Newsletter

Worship Before and After When we don’t feel good, we usually don’t feel like singing. Sometimes we don’t feel like even going outside. It is an extra effort to get up, get ready, and go through the day. And yet, one of the keys to healing is to worship God. Not when we feel better …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR Aug 20, 2024 & Newsletter

They Say We Say Recently at church, a woman on the worship team shared her story that the doctors said she would never hear again out of one of her ears. This would impact her job and her passion. She immediately pushed back by saying, “That’s what the medical world says. But I know my …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR Aug 6, 2024 & Newsletter

Irritations are our Stepping Stones Have you ever prayed for some kind of promotion in the natural, or the spiritual realm, when some type of issue or challenge comes up in another area of life that we really don’t want to deal with? At first the project at home that needs our immediate attention might …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR July 16, 2024 & Newsletter

Trust What You Hear from God Hearing from God comes in many different ways. Ultimately, God connects with everyone personally. It is through these personal connection moments that we know (deep inside) a truth that resonates with us. From these truths, we can move forward in trusting what God tells us about our lives, our …