Did you ever wish that your elderly parents would grow in their Christian faith rather than still behaving mostly as they did when you were in high school? It has been my experience that many of us have that wish. I find myself often telling counselees who struggle with their parents, “They probably won’t ever […]
Breakfast with Jesus
I love listening to Dr. Wilder’s J.I.M. Talk CDs. One particular talk from #28 blessed me so much that I condensed and paraphrased some of it enough to share part of it here. This message shows us how Jesus healed Peter’s bad memory, giving us a Biblical example for Immanuel Prayer healing. After the denials […]
A Slurp of Living Water
The last few years I have been on a passionate mission to help others learn to listen to Jesus during prayer as well as talking to Him, and to learn to turn to Him all day long as a lifestyle. The other day I woke up with a mental picture of something I thought would […]
An Easy Way to Journal and Interact with Jesus
Our Joy Starts Here/Atlanta conference gave us many practical tips (From Joy Starts Here Conference 2015). The following was one of my favorites, taken from the book Joyful Journey: Listening to Immanuel. If you want to check out the book, click on the title. I have modified the journal exercise a little to make it […]
Experiencing Immanuel
For the last few years I’ve been learning how to practice the Presence of Jesus and also I’ve been teaching others this wonderful way to pray and live. In my small groups we do Immanuel Prayer at each meeting, asking Jesus to show us where He is in the room and asking Him what He […]
I Am With You Either Way
What do you do when you get worried? What do you do when you get bad news—or anticipate sad news? We who know the Lord Jesus know the answer to those questions: we turn to Him. Sometimes we turn to Him quickly and other times not so fast. For the last few years I have […]