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Invitation to Pray with SVHR Feb 4, 2025 & Newsletter

How to get Peace in our Lives Lots of people come to the Healing Rooms with stress and anxiety over very real issues. The goal is to reach peace. Peace comes with the confidence that God is with us in our situation, and with God, we can get through anything. Some people ask for the …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR Jan 21, 2025 & Newsletter

Fasting Chaos Some people do a Dry January, refraining from drinking any alcohol, for health reasons. Some people do a cleansing fast of some kind to reset the body. Some people do a twenty-one day fast for spiritual reasons. This might include abstaining from certain foods, or limiting cell phone usage, or even media. It’s …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR Jan 7, 2025 & Newsletter

Our Goals, God’s Goals According to Columbia University, half of Americans make New Year’s resolutions. 25% of people keep these resolutions for 3 days, and less than 10% accomplish their goals. Other studies say that 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail. What are God’s goals for us? God’s goals are for His children to succeed …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR Dec 17, 2024 & Newsletter

Light and Miracles Growing up, Jesus didn’t celebrate Christmas. He celebrated the Feast of Dedication (see John 10:22-23), now known as Hanukkah. Hanukkah is about a small band of Jewish rebels, lead by the Maccabee family, that recaptured the temple in Jerusalem from the much larger Greek army. Part of the story tells about how …

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 …