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Invitation to Pray with SVHR June 18, 2024 & Newsletter

Hope for Healing Paul Richards wrote a book called 30 Days of Healing. Day 5 focuses on hope. He claims that God expects us to expect to be healed. He calls that expectation hope. Here is his argument: “In our modern culture, hoping for something is often synonymous with wishing for something, such as, ‘I …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR June 4, 2024 & Newsletter

Pulling in God’s Presence When a crisis comes into our lives, the best thing we can do is get into the presence of God. Crisis usually comes with chaos and it can feel counter-intuitive to stop in the midst of frenzy and get quiet with God. Yet getting into God’s presence is where we can …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR May 21, 2024 & Newsletter

Recognizing the Battle Lines of Illness Smith Wigglesworth identified the war that illness thrusts us into. Being ill forces us into a battle for life – at the very point where our energy levels are diminished from the “work” of helping our bodies fight the disease. Jesus labeled the devil a thief who comes to …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR May 7, 2024 & Newsletter

Borrowing Faith When we go through tough times, when the doctor’s report isn’t good, when the bank account gets low, or when relationships break, it’s time to link arms with a spiritual friend. We can determine to stand strong, buck up, and push own our emotions with the best. No one likes to be thought …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR April 16, 2024 & Newsletter

Life in the Word Many spiritual leaders read through the Bible consistently year after year. Sometimes it can take a year. Sometimes it takes two or three years to plow through the entire Bible. The good news is that It reads like a story much of the time. Smith Wigglesworth believed, “None of us can …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR April 2, 2024 & Newsletter

Happy Easter – One More Conversation When loved ones die unexpectedly, we usually review our last conversation with them. People that have arguments carry that last conversation with them for a long time, and usually wish they could have a “do-over.” Most people hope they told the person they loved them in that last conversation. …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR March 19, 2024 & Newsletter

Healing and Longsuffering Go Together “For to one is given…gifts of healings” (1 Corinthians 12:8-9). Smith Wigglesworth writes, “I like the term ‘gifts of healings.’ To have these gifts, I must bring myself into conformity with the mind and will of God. It would be impossible for you to have gifts of healings unless you …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR March 5, 2024 & Newsletter

Preparation for Healing Everyone wants to live in complete health. When we get ill, or receive a doctor’s diagnosis, we update our diet, our exercise program, our medicine routine, and our mental fortitude. Some people seek spiritual healing and prayer. If someone hasn’t prayed in a while, they usually seek someone else’s prayer and hope …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR February 20, 2024 & Newsletter

CLOSING THE BACK DOORS Many people struggle with insecurity, lack of confidence, shame, guilt, fear, and anxiety. The full list includes much more. These conditions can come from trauma, abandonment, embarrassment, extreme parental harshness, or being constantly criticized, bullied, teased, or called names. Oftentimes the root issue stems from rejection. Rejection can lead to physical …

Invitation to Pray with SVHR February 6, 2024 & Newsletter

CLOSING THE BACK DOORS 2024 has been identified as the Year of the Door. Opportunities and destiny lie before us. As we prepare to move forward, it is also a time of closing the back doors. The enemy has a sneaky way of returning through open back doors to re-instigate old action points or thinking …