prayer and fasting

January 31, 2025
intercession and prevailing prayer
Published by Emily Tomko at January 31, 2025
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Targeted Prayer: tips from a 93 year-old warrior saint

You're ready to see the citadels crumble around unbelieving loved ones, and the furnace fired up in the lukewarm. You're longing to see the supernatural override natural law "far as the curse is found." You hunger and thirst for righteousness and are no longer content to live in the deficit. This is the year the tide turns.
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December 27, 2024
L'Angelus
Published by Emily Tomko at December 27, 2024
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“The Right Arm of the Lord does valiantly”: remembering God’s faithful intervention

Do you keep a prayer journal? Even if you are not much of a writer, this is a good time to start. Jotting down a key scripture, a persistent thought, and an answered prayer from day to day are excellent means to remember how the Lord has faithfully guided your steps and led you to pray His transformative promises into being.
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February 10, 2024
Published by Emily Tomko at February 10, 2024
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The frightening truth about failing to pray

"Inattention to prayer actually gives place to the devil to advance his cause and evil." -Todd Smith, Unless We Pray An incident happened a couple years ago of which I only grasped its implications this week. It was July 2021. I had gone to a Wednesday night prayer meeting. There were only a few of us gathered, although our pastor was often reminding us as a congregation not to fall into "vacation mode" and lose spiritual focus, just because it was summer.
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December 12, 2022
He lives that death my die
Published by Emily Tomko at December 12, 2022
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A curious quickening and the freedom in dying

The Lord is infinitely good beyond the scope of our comprehension, even when the whole world is falling apart.  The grief and loss, if given to Him, He will not only share in with us, but He can redeem it to instigate in us a fire to see His word accomplish its purposes in tangible and expedient ways.
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October 14, 2021
scoffers, mockers, scorner
Published by Emily Tomko at October 14, 2021
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Living with expectation in a land of scoffers

What happens when you to choose persistent faith and devotion to God despite a culture of scoffers? Three individuals from scripture should inspire us to continue to expect God's greatest rewards!
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February 27, 2021
believe
Published by Emily Tomko at February 27, 2021
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“Don’t Stop Believing”

Can God speak through a 1980s pop song? A few years ago I was praying for my neighbor, who suffered debilitating migraines that commenced during her deployment to Saudi Arabia. […]
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January 10, 2020
Published by Emily Tomko at January 10, 2020
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When Heaven Stands On Tiptoe

Did you ever consider that your willingness to say “yes” to whatever The Lord is asking of you right now might change the very course of history? A woman asked […]
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November 30, 2019
fear of the Lord
Published by Emily Tomko at November 30, 2019
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Frighteningly dangerous: the church without the Fear of the Lord

The following is from a message given recently at church. It is part one of two.   I wonder how many of you feel as though you’ve spent as much […]
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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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