R. Loren Sandford
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5 Essential Elements to Clean Up the Prophetic Mess
If you’re at all like me, you’ve grown frustrated and discouraged at the flood of unfulfilled prophetic words spoken and published in recent years. For the sake of God’s people and the world, we must do better than this! Here are five elements essential to prophetic accuracy and integrity. Let’s repair the damage before too …
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Are You Falling Prey to This Dangerous Game From the Enemy?
I posted this paragraph on Facebook, exactly a year ago and a friend reposted it recently. “I’ll make this simple. I believe we are witnessing the beginning of the breakdown of the two-party system and that we have entered a period of growing instability in our nation and the world. No matter where you position …
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The Church Holds the Key to Ending Rampant Violence—But Will We Step Out?
Once hatred has been sown, once respectful constructive dialog can no longer happen between opposing groups, violence becomes inevitable. Scripture says that sin, when full-grown, brings forth death (see James 1:15). As a result, violence now escalates in our land and in the world at large. It’s not all Islamic radicals, either. It’s workplace violence, …
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Your Strongest Weapon Against Demonic Religious Intolerance
On a mission trip to Eastern Europe, we ministered in a city in south central Ukraine. This being a major metro area of about a million people, the church there appointed us a driver to chauffeur us around. Thus we met a former Soviet army colonel I’ll call Sergei, with the intimidating appearance of the …
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The Surest Way to Overcome Life’s Harsh Disappointments
Disappointment often stems from failure to realize who and what we really are in the Lord. Failing to comprehend this leads in turn to loss of a sense of purpose. Closely related to hope, purpose gives us a reason for pressing forward in life. How many of us would go to work every day if …
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Are You Really in Love With Jesus—Or Have You Bought Into This Deception?
What kind of Christians are we? That’s a question we must answer as pressures mount in the world around us and as we feel them in our homes and daily lives. What, really, did we sign on for? As I reached my 18th year, the Jesus movement came into full flower. Hundreds of thousands of …
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This Could Be Why It Feels Your Prayers Are Bouncing off the Ceiling
Aren’t you tired of the methods of prayer we’ve been taught that promise to bear fruit, as if we had to get the words just right for God to move? Have you found that words don’t have all the power you were told they did? Doesn’t trying to figure out what God needs to hear …
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These 2 Common Types of Worshippers Quickly Quench the Spirit
The first calling and task of the church and its people is to worship God. How do we worship in spirit and truth? Some say that if we believe the right things about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, then somehow that makes us worshippers in spirit and truth. The answer, however, lies not in …
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Cultivating the Culture of the Kingdom in This Sticky Area of Your Life
God’s righteousness, His character and His perfection have always been covenant-based. His covenant of commitment to us cannot be broken. As I seek to reflect that element of His kingdom and character in my own life, I must ask whether my relationships are in good shape. Why am I in them? Is it for me? …
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God’s Key Redemption in Your Season of Barrenness
As a pastor, I listen to the hearts of the saints. I hear their hurts, aches, pains, disappointments and fears—and I feel them as my own. These days, from too many people, I hear and feel erosion of hope, much of which comes as a result of delayed promises. God hears and feels this as …
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Demolishing the Performance Trap That’s Drowning Your Peace
When we look at the differences between slavery (the way God views it) and friendship, we see the reason that Jesus longs to call us “friends”—and why we tend to miss the incredible importance of this altogether: “You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. I no longer call you servants, for …
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Destroying the Lie That Plunges You Into Depression
By the time I reached adulthood, I had become convinced that God couldn’t bless me because I had all the wrong feelings. Because I suffered from depression and couldn’t feel all those positive, joyful emotions no matter how hard I tried, and because I could not generate an emotion of expectation that God would do …
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4 Characteristics of Lighthouse Churches
A lighthouse church is presence-based, not dependent upon the show, the slick presentation or any particular formula or program. Focused on seeking and experiencing the presence of God, worship in a lighthouse church is no “in and out in an hour” affair, but lasts as long as it takes to open people up to the …
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How We Must Love to Overcome Our Bitter Image
The night of November 28, I had a powerful dream. In my dream, President Obama was in town in what seemed to be a large shopping mall to make an announcement about the deaths resulting from a terrorist attack. As they attempted to film him, he kept breaking down and weeping, overcome with grief and …
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The Micaiah Problem: Who Speaks the Truth?
In my travels and online, I am encountering increasing numbers of people disillusioned with the prophetic movement. There have been too many prophecies unfulfilled, dates set and missed, catastrophic events that never happened, promises that didn’t unfold, moral failings on the part of some prophetic leaders and a growing number biblical imbalances. All of this …
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