Last week I shared about the importance of not being passive in our exercise of faith.

I did mention to you that faith requires a target: it requires hope. Hebrews 11:1 says that faith is substance of things “hoped for.” Faith needs to connect with our hope in order to bring what we are hoping for into the present where we live.

While there are many ideas about what Hell might be like, Bill Wiese has actually been there. He has written a book about his experience entitled 23 Minutes In Hell.

Bill Prankard, a pastor in Ottawa, Ontario, has walked in supernatural manifestations of God’s healing power for more than 30 years.

This week on the Christian calendar is sometimes called “Holy Week,” because this week we commemorate the events between Palm Sunday and Resurrection Sunday—especially the crucifixion and resurrection of the Lord.

This week we end our look at contemplative prayer. We have talked about some practical things along the way—kind of the “how-to’s.” But now I want to give you a little more encouragement to pursue this kind of prayer yourself.

Pastor Bill Prankard has walked in a supernatural healing ministry for more than 30 years. Bill believes that God will use any who make themselves available, and who begin to know the Holy Spirit as a person, not just a doctrine.

There is no faith for healing until deception is out of the way, as faith works for both positive and the negative. Negative faith works against you, while positive faith works for you. You will get exactly what you have faith to believe. “For as he thinks in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7).

Last week we saw Mary of Bethany, our model for the heart of contemplative prayer, committing an extravagant act of repentance and worship, just a few days before Yeshua would undergo His sufferings for the sins of the world.

God’s Word acts as a solvent-solution, by dissolving the mountain when the Word is spoken over it. Yet, by confession you speak God’s Word only, and never consider the lying symptom.

Let’s return this week to our study of contemplative prayer. We had been looking at the reviving of Lazarus in chapter 11 of John.