This week Lynne Hammond did a Facebook Live about returning to Jesus as our first love. Have we replaced Him with even good things? She also talks about some warnings from the Word about replacing Him in our hearts with others things. It’s a timely word. She gives a charge to pray-ers and prays for you. Please take a few moments to watch.
…The Spirit Whom He has caused to dwell in us yearns over us and He yearns for the Spirit [to be welcome] with a jealous love. (James 4:5 Amp.)
It really shouldn’t surprise us that God responds in a special way when we desire not just His gifts, but His presence. After all, God (in all three of His expressions as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) is a person, and just as every person does, He enjoys being valued and prized. He yearns to be treasured and welcomed in our hearts. When we do what it takes to make Him welcome, wonderful things begin to happen.
What, exactly, does it take to make Him feel welcome?Continue reading
When we abide in Jesus, His Words come alive in our hearts. He quickens specific Words to us by the Holy Spirit. Sometimes He puts a particular verse on the inside of us. As we fellowship with Him over those Words, somehow He cooks them up and expands them inside us until they become an outflow of prayer. They become the perfect spiritual weapon for the prayer battle we are facing. They become the exact tool we need to accomplish what God wants us to do. Continue reading
Now more than ever, God is needing people to persevere in prayer. He wants you to courageously persevere like the widow Jesus described in Luke chapter 18 who prayed without fainting and refused to lose heart or give up. That widow didn’t have a loving, heavenly Father to turn to like we do when we pray. She was dealing with a wicked judge who neither feared God nor respected man, yet she kept coming to him and saying:
Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? (verses 3-8)Continue reading
Lynne Hammond's prayer life began in 1972 with a simple cry of her heart: "Help me, God! I want to be able to talk to you. Please, teach me to pray!” God’s answer that night jump-started Lynne's prayer life as well as her passion to inspire and lead others into a life of Spirit-led prayer. A teacher and an author, Lynne currently serves as the national prayer director for Daughters for Zion and the head of the prayer ministry at Living Word Christian Center, the church she and her husband founded in 1980. Under Lynne’s leadership, the prayer ministry at Living Word has become an internationally recognized model for developing effective pray-ers in the local church.
August 20–25, 2019
Upper Midwest Faith Explosion
Living Word Christian Center, Pastors Mac and Lynne Hammond
Brooklyn Park, MN
Schedule/Speakers:
Tuesday & Wednesday at 7 p.m. – Dr. Jerry Savelle
Thursday & Friday at 7 p.m. – Kenneth Copeland
Saturday at 5 p.m. – Dr. Jesse Duplantis
Sunday at 9 & 11 a.m. – Dr. Jesse Duplantis
For more information, call 763.315.7000.
September 13–14, 2019
Abiding Love
Foley, Alabama Speakers: Pastor Lynne Hammond and Pastor Gigi McBride
For more information and to register, visit AbidingLoveFoley.org or call 251-943-1615.
October 16–21, 2019
Autumn Assembly of Prayer, Dr. Billye Brim
Branson, MO Speakers: Dr. Billye Brim, Kenneth Copeland, Pastor Lynne Hammond, Chip Brim, Rani Levy, and others
For more information, visit billyebrim.org or call 417-336-4877.
