The Enabler: Carl’s Ministry Blog

We generally assume this coming of the Kingdom has to do with something that happens in the future. But what if we look for places where it has already happened? Some years ago now George Otis, Jr. started looking for cities where the Kingdom has come. He (the last time I talked with him) […]

The year was 1970, and I was engaged to Sandy. We stumbled into a bookstore at a Baptist seminary in Louisville, KY and found an interesting record. The record was a collection of folk songs by the Montfort Mission. They had taken Peter, Paul, and Mary songs and written new lyrics, then cut their first […]

Part II: The Strategy
Jesus told many stories (parables) about the Kingdom and the coming of the Kingdom. A really good devotional is to do a search in a concordance on Kingdom of Heaven in the Gospels and then read all the passages that are returned.
The strategy of seeing this Kingdom today involves two components: one […]

Discern God’s vision. The prayer warrior is like a watchman, seeing in the distance what is coming. To others he appears as a prophet, foretelling the future. In reality, he has already seen the future. See the story in 2 Sam. 18:24-26.

Pray strategically into the vision. Since the warrior has already seen what is going […]

Church leaders and pastors: Join a free online conference sponsored by Mission America with Lee Strobel and Mark Mittelbergto explore the book and movie. The conference is on April 20 at 1 pm PDT.
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Rachael Scdoris became the first legally blind person to complete the brutal Alaskan Iditarod Sled Dog Race dog race today. Rachael completed the 1100 miles over wilderness terrian with temperatures to -52 degress F and winds to 60 miles an hour in approcimately 12 days. Her first attempt was in 2005, but could not […]

Carl wishes all our readers and subscribers a very Merry Christmas and blessings during the coming Neew Year.

Reply to : What is important for God to Answer Prayer?
Here are eight things we found that enabled God to anwer her prayer. You should be able to find Bible verses for each:

She was abiding in the Lord (See John 15:7 NKJ)

She was persistent

She was humble.

She was passionate.

She prayed strategically.

She had multiple prayer […]

For our Portland Readers:
Please join us for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie - Portland “Sneak Peek” on September 29, 2005 at 1:30pm in the Johnson Chapel at the Western Seminary (located at 5511 SE Hawthorne Blvd, on the West side of Mt. Tabor in SE Portland). […]

As Hurricane Rita bears down on the Texas/Louisiana coast, pray for all of those involved. From the Presidental Prayer Team, here are the prayer requests from their email:

Pray for the evacuees. Massive traffic jams have clogged highways outside Houston and Texas coastal cities.

Pray that the New Orleans levees will hold. The Army Corps of […]