Holy Spirit power in prayer

December 28, 2025
prayer and intercession, combat prayer
Published by Emily Tomko at December 28, 2025
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Three powerful prayer habits

Need some powerful prayer tools to transform your family, the nation, and yourself? Far from some rote religious acts, these are tactical strategies for seeing the Lord transform loved ones and even nations.
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July 28, 2025
Prayer, intercession, Holy Spirit Prayer, healing and deliverance, prayer furnace
Published by Emily Tomko at July 28, 2025
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A community transformed through prayer

How do you truly transform your trouble-laden community? Is it outreach? Evangelism? Activism? Discipleship programs? Our small but growing community is rich with discipleship programs in town for marriages and for young people, counseling services of various kinds, a clothing and food bank. But it is persistent daily prayer that is the centrifuge of all of it.
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November 10, 2024
sword of the Spirit, spoken word, confession, profession, judge righteously
Published by Emily Tomko at November 10, 2024
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Judging: a forbidden sin or the Christian’s divine duty?

So you see for the Christian it is not enough simply to live in quiet integrity. Fervent, aggressive prayer against the enemy in the knowledge of how Christ through Calvary whipped him and his nobles for our sake - that is, foremost that we might see Christ's kingdom manifest here on earth (Matthew 6:10) and destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8), is the daily duty of every serious disciple of Christ. But even that is not enough. Scripture makes it clear that the Lord requires His faithful ones to open their mouths in the public square and speak truth.
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March 28, 2024
praying in tongues, praying in the Spirit, Holy Spirit prayer, travail
Published by Emily Tomko at March 28, 2024
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How praying in the Spirit changed a tense situation

Please pray!" came the quick whisper through the phone. "Pray in the Spirit, would you? And I'll be praying here." A friend of mine is staff for a political representative. I was just wrapping up morning devotions with my children when she called to tell me that the meet-and-greet the rep was hosting had been overwhelmed by constituents from the opposing party, and that they'd come loaded for bear.
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November 21, 2018
Perseverance, persistence, prayer, contend, promised land, Matthew 15, Mark 7
Published by Emily Tomko at November 21, 2018
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“But He Did Not Answer Her a Word”: Lessons from the Syrophoenician Woman

Had the Gentile woman with the demonized daughter (described in Matthew 15 and Mark 7) been raised in the American church, I picture her encounter with Jesus going much differently. […]
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October 22, 2017
Samson, Judges 16, authority, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, church's authority
Published by Emily Tomko at October 22, 2017
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“Lift up your heads, O gates, that the King of glory may come in!”

For the last twelve months the Lord has highlighted, impressed upon me, and essentially flooded my consciousness with the word “gates.” Everywhere in scripture I keep seeing it pop up. […]
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