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Prayer & the Name

Prayer is the breath of the soul and the place where God is met. These essays concern contemplation, intercession, the inner kingdom and the Name of Jesus.

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10 essays

Prayer & the Name27 min read

Discipline in the Contemplation of God

There is a peculiar difficulty that attends the Christian life, one that rarely announces itself but is nonetheless the deciding factor between a soul that endures and a soul that collapses under pressure: the…

Prayer & the Name18 min read

God: The Fountainhead of Creation

Many believers pray without ever being changed by prayer. A congregation can sit under decades of preaching about the cross and remain strangers to the transformation the cross was meant to accomplish. What is…

Prayer & the Name24 min read

Importunate Prayer, Divine Persistence, and the Transformation of the Human Soul

There are two paths available to every human soul confronted with adversity. The first is fainting, the path of despondency, of giving way under pressure, of concluding that the weight of one's circumstances exceeds…

Prayer & the Name19 min read

The High Priest & Throne of Grace

The congregation of the saints is not a sociological phenomenon or the habitual gathering of like-minded individuals. It is the fundamental liturgical synaxis , the primary and essential place where the presence of the…

Prayer & the Name16 min read

The Instrumentality of Prayer in the Soul’s Communion with the Eternal God

To walk the path of prayer is not merely to perform a religious exercise or to seek psychological relief. It is to engage in a profound reclamation of one's very identity. The foundation for…

Prayer & the Name15 min read

Prayers, Intercessions & Prophetic Revelations of the Future of South Africa

Anyone who studies theology seriously must eventually reckon with the relationship between the absolute sovereignty of the Creator and the intercessory agency of the creature. This is not a paradox of competing wills; it…

Prayer & the Name10 min read

The Inner Kingdom: Divine Communion Through the Invocation of the Name of Jesus Christ

The modern Christian is often confronted with a false choice between an intellectual, creedal faith and a hunger for tangible encounter with God. That dichotomy is false. There is a path to profound spirituality…

Prayer & the Name12 min read

The War for the Word, Pursuit of the Inner Kingdom & Invocation of the Name of Jesus

The Christian life is an internal spiritual war. It is not waged for the believer's person, but for the Word of God sown within the heart. This conflict is inescapable, a direct consequence of…

Prayer & the Name16 min read

The Theology of the Name of Jesus Christ

In an era marked by pervasive spiritual lethargy and an insidious materialism that has taken root within the Christian soul, a profound theological recovery of the power and meaning of the name of Jesus…

Prayer & the Name13 min read

Seeking The Treasure, Sanctuary & Kingdom Within

In these latter days, the soul of man has become a frantic and exhausted traveler. He looks for God everywhere but the one place He has promised to be found. He looks in the…