If a person goes away to pray and continues in prayer all the night because the burden of the Lord was upon him, then that one has made progress. In addition to the spontaneous times of prayer that may last many hours and perhaps all the night, maturing believers should have planned and programmed nights of prayer.

A tithe is 10%. An offering is whatever you give in addition to the 10%. If you belong to a local church, and do not give your tithes, you are bringing a curse upon yourself. When God wages war on your economy, then you are in trouble.

A person has backslidden in the discipline of fasting if he manifests the following characteristics:

A spiritual retreat is a time when one withdraws from people and from all else, in order to be lost in God, listen to Him, hear Him, make a plan to obey Him and do something with Him that is best done in seclusion.

What must be the leader’s relationship to the world? The Lord Jesus insisted that the disciples were to be in the world but they were not to be of the world. That cannot be altered. The leader must physically be in the world, but the leader’s heart must be separated from the world.

There are certain laws that guide the spiritual art of confession. We state them here in order to guide the people of God.

What type of a person does God use? Some people think that God can use anybody and others think that God can use only those people who have co-operated the most with Him. What type of a person can God use?