Recently, while once again facing financial discouragement and temptation to fear for the future, I read Luke 12.

Since 1999 I have been attending a monthly community prayer meeting which draws about 700-800 people from all over the Chicago area.

Most of us are familiar with the story of blind Bartimaeus. We’ve heard messages from preachers or read books pointing to his healing as an example of someone who cast aside his old identity (his beggar’s cloak) to receive a great life-changing miracle by faith.

“Leisure”—is that a “bad word” in your spiritual dictionary? Does that word conjure up the guilty suspicion that leisure is a self-centered activity and highly unspiritual? I recently rediscovered the spiritual value of leisure.

We began last month digging deeper into Zechariah, chapter 4. Zechariah was given a vision during an angelic visitation. He saw a huge menorah with golden oil lamps.

Here we are again, at the head of a new secular calendar year. To begin our new year of prayer, I would like to share some important prophecies that have been spoken over Sid and Messianic Vision in the past several months.

I feel impressed to write to you about Zechariah chapter four. This chapter centers on a vision given to Zechariah during an angel’s visit.

As I write this article, it is just a few weeks after the US November elections. Something happened in this election that was “tangibly supernatural.”

“In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.

I always find treasures, new and old, as I read the Psalms. Recently, I was reading Psalm 19. As I got to the passage between verses 7 and 10, I began seeing reflections of the Lord Yeshua