Mysterious Ways
Six Types of Heaven Sent Visions
Have you experienced something you couldn’t explain? An image that warned you of impending danger? A voice that brought you comfort when you needed it most? You may have experienced a prophetic vision. According to preacher and writer Dr. James W. Goll, there are 12 types of prophetic visions in the Bible. As Dr. Goll says, “Prophetic visions are not just for prophets.” They’re signs and messages from God we still experience today. Here are six of types of them:
2 min |
August/September 2020
Mysterious Ways
A Shared Glimpse
JEFF OLSEN: The accident happened while we were driving back to our home in Bountiful, Utah, from a visit to relatives in the southern part of the state. My wife, Tamara, was asleep beside me. Our seven-year-old son, Spencer, was in the back seat, playing with his toys. Our toddler, Griffin, slept in his car seat. The road stretched out ahead, and my eyes grew heavy. It felt as if I’d blinked for just a second.
10 min |
August/September 2020
Mysterious Ways
A Letter to My Granddaughter, on Her Graduation Day
My Dear Granddaughter, Congratulations on your high school graduation. I wanted to get you something special for the occasion. I came across the enclosed hand-painted feather in a gift shop on a recent trip to Arizona. It felt like the right gift because it also comes with a story. One I haven’t told you before. It’s about your biological mother—my daughter, Missy.
4 min |
August/September 2020
Heartfulness eMagazine
THE HEARTFUL STRATEGIST - PART 5
In the earlier articles of this series, RAVI VENKATESAN introduced the Heartful Strategist framework. He covered how consciousness is limited by certain vicious cycles of negative emotions. He also looked at examples of shifts that can be made to allow consciousness to expand through broadening our perspective and “thinking” for the benefit of broader and broader circles of influence. In this article he explores tendencies and thought patterns, and how specific practices can help with shifting these. As background, you can read parts 3 and 4 of this series again.
3 min |
July 2020
Heartfulness eMagazine
SURRENDERING TO WHOM?
DR ICHAK K. ADIZES challenges us all to learn to listen to what feels right and wrong in the heart. He encourages us to find God’s will within ourselves.
3 min |
July 2020
Heartfulness eMagazine
The Heart Is Where We Experience Connection
MIRABAI BUSH is the author of Working with Mindfulness, co-creator of Google’s “Search Inside Yourself” program, co-founder of the Centre for Contemplative Mind and Society and a founding board member of the Seva Foundation. Some of her other literary works include Contemplation Nation, Contemplative Practices in Higher Education and Walking Each Other Home, co-authored with Ram Dass. Here she speaks with PURNIMA RAMAKRISHNAN as part of the GLOW Webinar series, on her journey and evolution during the last 50 years, and on the role of her teacher in that transformation.
10+ min |
July 2020
Heartfulness eMagazine
Sleep Over It
HARI VENKATESAN takes the approach of self-compassion towards self-improvement and managing emotions. Here he shares some tips from his own experience.
3 min |
July 2020
Heartfulness eMagazine
The Fountain Within - An Art Essay
NARENDRA KINI manages to integrate his work as a successful Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur with being an artist, a poet and seeker of higher truth through meditative practices. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Global Touchpoints, and here he talks of how he finds his inspiration for creativity and art.
4 min |
July 2020
Heartfulness eMagazine
Part 2 - Transforming Awareness: Being a Life Coach
In October 2019, PETER J. REDING spoke with VICTOR KANNAN about being a pioneer in the field of professional Life Coaching. In part 2, they speak about the importance of sacred space, inner connection, and revitalizing the sacred in secular spaces through awareness.
10+ min |
July 2020
Heartfulness eMagazine
Raising CONSCIOUSNESS - PART 2
In April 2020, BRUCE LIPTON spoke with UDAY KUMAR about the transition our planet is going through right now, and what we need to do to raise our consciousness to the next level. In part 2, he goes into more detail about epigenetics, consciousness, and how we remain preprogrammed until we evolve our consciousness through meditation. It is our programs more than anything external that hack our attention.
10+ min |
July 2020
Heartfulness eMagazine
One Human Family - IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES
All around the world, we are in lockdown in a bid to slow down the spread of the COVID-19 virus. And we are coming to terms with this collective experience. In this article, RUBY CARMEN shares some insights, inspirations and suggestions for coping well in this extraordinary time.
3 min |
July 2020
Heartfulness eMagazine
A User's Guide to Living - Part 7 - COMMUNITY
DAAJI continues his series on everyday living, introducing the sixth universal principle of the User’s Guide, which is to know everyone as our brethren and treat them as such. As a starting point, this sixth principle helps us to overcome prejudice, and develop mutual love and respect with all beings. As we take it further, it unfolds into a state of unity and oneness that is a reflection of the original Source.
10 min |
July 2020
White Wing Messenger
STEPPING FORWARD TO SERVE
Serving humanity is the mission and core value adopted by the Great Commission (GC) COGOP in Rongai-Tuala, Kenya, since its beginning. Our mandate is to reach out and share the love and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ with a lost and hurting world. The GCCOGOP is always looking for opportunities to fulfill this mandate.
2 min |
July 2020
White Wing Messenger
Little is much When God is In It
DRAPER VIRGINIA COGOP
2 min |
July 2020
White Wing Messenger
KIDS CAN SERVE
God has long been in the business of using young people for the glory of His kingdom. In Genesis chapter 37, we read how He used Joseph. Only a youth, with fantastic dreams, God’s hand was upon Joseph.
3 min |
July 2020
White Wing Messenger
It Echoes Up the Holler
Terry Newsom and Mitchell Cathey are co-pastors of Cumberland Furnace COGOP in Dickson County, Tennessee. Because of their reputation as larger-than-life mountain movers, State Overseer E.C. McKinley has dubbed these Western Highland Rim ministers the “Cumberland Furnace Boys.” District presbyter Mike Burton asked them to co-pastor the church after faithful COGOP trailblazer, Pastor Buna Lampley (who had mentored them), went to glory.
2 min |
July 2020
White Wing Messenger
THE GRACE OF GIVING
Apostle Peter writes, “We are being built up a spiritual house” (see 1 Peter 2:5 NKJV). In this “spiritual house,” systems and structure, while important, must well up from the essentials of deep intimate relationships with God and one another. Systems and structures should serve the church, not the church serving the systems and structures. In some cases, we have endeavored to develop a global financial system to produce a healthy global function of biblical stewardship. The essential relationships must precede the critical systems and structures for the spiritual health of the church at all levels of ministry to be fruitful.
3 min |
July 2020
White Wing Messenger
GLOBAL MISSIONS
As the news reports of the growing pandemic began to escalate in early March, we were moved to action here in Global Missions Ministries.
3 min |
July 2020
White Wing Messenger
ALIVE and WELL
For more than a century, Church of God of Prophecy pastors have prepared to step into a pulpit and address their congregations face-to-face one or more times a week. They prepared with Scripture references, three or four main points, and some had a funny story or two.
10+ min |
July 2020
White Wing Messenger
CONSIDER YOUR SERVE
Kathryn Creasy Executive Director of Leadership Development and Discipleship
3 min |
July 2020
Mensajero Ala Blanca
TENGO QUE HACER ALGO PARA ayudarle
Todo comenzó como una introducción a su nuevo campo misionero.
7 min |
Julio/Agosto de 2020
Mensajero Ala Blanca
LAS IGLESIAS SALUDABLES SON IGLESIAS DADIVOSAS
Por lo general cuando pienso en la dádiva viene a mi mente también esta analogía: ¿Cómo puede Dios bendecirnos si nuestras manos están apretadas, aferradas a todo lo que poseemos? La respuesta es que no puede bendecirnos. No obstante, si nuestras manos están abiertas, si damos libremente de lo que tenemos, entonces también están abiertas para recibir lo que viene de Dios.
5 min |
Julio/Agosto de 2020
Mensajero Ala Blanca
Tres fundamento - del discipulado para grupos pequenos
Por medio de Su ministerio, enseñanza e influencia, Jesús alcanzó a miles de personas; pero la mayor parte de Su tiempo la dedicó trabajando solamente con doce.
5 min |
Julio/Agosto de 2020
Mensajero Ala Blanca
RECIBA SU ALIENTO
El aliento de Dios da vida. Estamos aquí porque Dios sopló en nosotros aliento de vida. Ezequiel nos habla del encuentro espiritual o visión que experimentó en el capítulo 37. El Espíritu del Señor lo llevó a un valle que estaba lleno de huesos secos y le preguntó: “Hijo de hombre, ¿vivirán estos huesos?” El profeta respondió: “Señor Jehová, tú lo sabes”.
5 min |
Julio/Agosto de 2020
Mensajero Ala Blanca
LA INVITACION
En Lucas 14 encontramos a Jesús compartiendo la historia de un hombre que preparaba una gran fiesta.
5 min |
Julio/Agosto de 2020
Mensajero Ala Blanca
Elgran llamado
Nunca olvidaré las primeras imágenes que vi de Guatemala cuando íbamos descendiendo. Me encontraba en un avión pequeño lleno de pasajeros que salió de Miami y debajo de mí estaba la Ciudad de Guatemala.
6 min |
Julio/Agosto de 2020
Mensajero Ala Blanca
El discipulado: Un mandato olvidado
Cuando pienso en mi crianza de niño, recuerdo algunas órdenes específicas que mis padres me dieron que estaban relacionadas a ciertas lecciones que querían que yo aprendiera.
3 min |
Julio/Agosto de 2020
Mensajero Ala Blanca
Discipulos bacedores de discipulos
Antes de ascender al cielo, Jesús les dio la gran comisión a Sus discípulos.
8 min |
Julio/Agosto de 2020
Mensajero Ala Blanca
Cómo influenciar a las personas influyentes
LA PARTICIPACIÓN DE LOS ABUELOS
4 min |
Julio/Agosto de 2020
Mensajero Ala Blanca
Alguien vino a buscarme
La pastora Marcey Brannon dirige la Iglesia de Dios de la Profecía en Crab Orchard, Tenesí. Crab Orchard tiene un legado sólido en las misiones —domésticas y foráneas. Recientemente tuve la oportunidad de entrevistar a la pastora Brannon y hablar sobre las muchas maneras en que su iglesia está alcanzando a su comunidad local. Además de los ministerios que tiene, esta iglesia recauda miles de dólares anualmente para las misiones a través de ventas de garaje; distribuyen cajas de comida durante los días festivos; bendicen a las familias de bajos ingresos con regalos de Navidad; y una vez al mes sirven en un refugio local para los desamparados.
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