This past Sunday I was led to purchase an old book, written in 1902 about a pastor in Barnstaple, UK, who served there well over 70 years until he passed in his 90's. His name, Robert Cleaver Chapman. He was an Apostle of LOVE. "He became legendary in his own time for his gracious ways, his patience, his kindness, his balanced judgment, his ability to reconcile people in conflict, his absolute fidelity to Scriptures   his loving pastoral care." He knew that the Word faithfully and prayerfully preached transforms people! He said, "My business is to love others, not to seek that others shall love me." When people got mad and withdrew from him he pursued them, doing everything he could to be at peace with them. He called them "brethren dearly loved and longed for" (from Phil 4:1). He considered that their consciences were not guided by the Word of God, and that their consciences led them to refuse his fellowship and to deprive him of theirs. Rob...

Like John the Baptist was called as a messenger to prepare the way for the Lord, to go before Him and "to make ready a people prepared for the Lord," there is a call today to all His messengers: Make straight the way for the Lord! Build it up, prepare the highway! Remove the stones and stumbling blocks out of the way of My people! Many of God's people feel an urgency right now, a shift of seasons, and some say even a new era has begun. A fresh call has been given for us to "come away with Him" and deepen our relationship with Him in this hour. In this call, as always, there is a seed of salvation for those who've never known Him or those who've backslidden to return. But it goes even beyond this purpose. The call is also for current believers to be ready and prepared for what God wants to do next in His church and the world. The messengers are to call the church to get ready.  Prepare yourselves. But as His messengers, are we preparing the people to rece...

Today I sensed the Lord impress upon me the need to encourage the body of Christ to recover the 'ancient path' of praying dangerous prayers: Dangerous prayers are the antidote for an evil heart of unbelief! Dangerous prayers are those that seek to breakthrough places the enemy presently holds! Dangerous prayers reach to lay hold of everything that Christ has laid hold of us for! Dangerous prayers take into account who our God is, and not the problems that face us! Dangerous prayers do not ask fear for permission to pray, they pray in the face of fear regardless of what it says! Dangerous prayers believe God is good even when circumstances are bad! Dangerous prayers believe what God says about you, more than what you feel about you! Dangerous prayers find the hill worth dying on and dies on it. Dangerous prayers glorify God and the finished work of Christ! Dangerous prayers never stop hoping! Tho he slay me, I will hope in him. Dangerous prayers please God. For without fa...

Adonai, Lord, and Master of all, He is preeminent over everything, great and small. He is three in one, Father, Holy Spirit, and Son, El Shaddai the breast-plated All Sufficient One. The God who created heaven and earth and all that’s in it, He is Elohim, who carved out the cosmos and divided it into years, days, and minutes. Clothed in strength and majesty, His name is Jehovah Nissi, The Lord our Banner, in Him, we have the victory. He binds up the wounds of the broken-hearted and wipes away their tears, He is Jehovah Rapha, the One who heals. The righteous is never forsaken nor His seed begging for bread, He is Jehovah Jireh, my provider, who prepares a table for me and anoints my head. He is ever present and everywhere, He is Jehovah Shammah, My God who is always there. Baal Perazim, repairer of the breach that does unusual deeds, He is the God who lifts up a standard, against my enemies. Jehovah Raah, He is my Shepherd who meets all my needs, as I walk through the s...

A powerful, short prayer for stepping into a new season: Lord, let no unbelief or doubt remain from the past. New me, renew me through and through. Let no doubt or unbelief remain behind my words. Let my words be amplified by faith, power, and trust.  I break all ties and agreements of the past that are not from You, and I step into the new. Grant me the courage, grace, and strength to walk in new things and leave behind familiar things that are of no value in this new season. —Randy Wirtz, prophetic intercessor, Washington State Visit the  FTPN home page . Return to the  word archive home page . Sign up to receive  Source Fire News  e-newsletter   twice a week from FTPN. Visit the  FTPN YouTube Channel .  Visit the  FTPN Rumble Channel .