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Chasing the Wild Goose of the Holy Spirit: In Praise of Retreats

Anita Mathias — Thu, 15 May 2014 21:28:59 +0000

Is God more present in one place than another?Does it make sense to leave the comfort and familiarity of your daily surroundings to seek God in places—retreat centres or pilgrimage spots– “where prayer has been made valid,” in T. S. Eliot’s phrase? Where God was rumoured to have shown up in the past, or to […]

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In Which I Have Never Been Instantly Healed, But Have Always Been Healed

Anita Mathias — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:55:51 +0000

I have never witnessed a verified physical healing. Never spoken to anyone who had experienced one themselves, following prayer. And I have never experienced an instantaneous physical or emotional healing as someone prayed for me. However, I have never yet NOT been at least partially healed of anything […]

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On a Double Portion of the Anointing, and a Secret History with the Lord

Anita Mathias — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 08:44:31 +0000

When Elijah was about to be taken up to heaven, he asks his acolyte Elisha, “What can I do for you?” And Elisha, with simple and ambitious faith, asks “Let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” (2 Kings 2:9). And so he does. For the asking, so to say. For the asking took faith, which […]

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In Which All Our Faith is Patchy, But Even That is Potent

Anita Mathias — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 15:39:28 +0000

My eighteen-year old daughter, Zoe, is at the School of Ministry at Catch the Fire, Toronto. She and the other School of Ministry students ministered at the same Catch the Fire conference as John Arnott and Heidi Baker. They were told to pray boldly, that everyone gets to play, that everyone was equal before God. […]

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Listening to Isabel Allum in London. Chasing the Wild Goose of the Holy Spirit. Part II

Anita Mathias — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:08:00 +0000

For most of my adult life, I’ve been guided by this thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Why go to drink from other men’s wells, when you can stay home, and be in touch with the internal ocean.”So I avoid listening to speakers on the importance of reading the Bible, of loving your spouse or kids, […]

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