The call in Scripture for our 'reverence' or fear of God is more frequent than the call to 'love God.' Without the fear of God, we are blinded by our own shadow, seeing little difference between mortals and the immortal. The more we reverence God, the higher self-worth and self-esteem rise without becoming self-centered, or being blinded by pride and arrogance. Nobility emerges. We see ourselves as God's children, reflecting His image.

Fear of God: Reconsidering Our Perspective of God with Spiritual Awakening in View

Small, P. Douglas

Religion & Spirituality

Alive Publications

The lack of answers to our prayers is not because God no longer answers or does not want to help. It is often an issue on our side-hindrances to prayer, blockages in our own heart. Prayer is effective. But it demands changes in us.

The Great Exchange: Why Your Prayer Requested May Not Be Getting Answers

"Prayer is not about words and requests," says Doug Small in Entertaining God and Influencing Cities. "It is not even the first and foremost about intercession. That will come. Prayer is about hosting God in a world from which He has been excluded. In prayer, you declare that God is not only welcome, but He is invited… you host Him in your heart and your home, the church and your corporation." Prayer says, "God, please don't pass me by! Please let a little water be brought that I might wash your feet! How can I care for Your needs, God?" Prayer is entertaining God, hosting His presence in a world that is increasingly hostile to Him. Entertaining God invites Him to reveal His secrets to us as His mysteries are unwrapped in riddles that slowly unravel over time. Their meanings become clearer as days and years go by. He uncovers spirits that lurk behind men and movements. These encounters with God in prayer open up treasures of knowledge we would never know were it not for the initiative of the Spirit.

Entertaining God and Influencing Cities

Intercession: The Uncomfortable Strategic Middle

P. Douglas Small

Five Prayer Principles - Prayer is perplexing. It should be purifying. It should stretch and alter our perspectives. It demands persistence. It is arguably, one of the most powerful things a Christian can do.

5 Basic Principles of Prayer

This handbook is a collection of substantive reflections on prayer. Contributors include global and national leaders, as well as Church of God authors, leaders and intercessors. The completed set includes 4 volumes: Volume II Personal and Family Prayer; Volume III The Pastor and the Congregation; Volume IV Intercessory Prayer and Missions to be released in 2016. The chapters are sprinkled with prayer quotes, and interjected with prayer vignettes. Each chapter is introduced with an historic note or prayer story. The book is contemporary, relevant, addressing cutting edge issues contextualizing prayer, prophetic and priestly intercession, spiritual mapping, unreached peoples and prayer, a history of prayer including a special focus on the family and prayer, fathers and prayer. Each chapter of the book opens with a wonderful Window Through Time a story of our history including the call to prayer that led to the mysterious release of Herman Lauster from the Nazi Prison Camp; pioneer stories of such legendary figures as J. W. Buckalew and Paul H. Walker, the stories of prayer and our early Church of God history; profiles of praying leaders and churches; testimonies of God's intervention. It is a relevant book, one that will help you build a strong foundation for the future, without forgetting the past.

The Praying Church Handbook―Volume I: Foundations

Culpepper, Raymond

Arrington, French

This manuscript was previously published in 1990 by Alive Ministries as a Bible conference guide. This version includes significant revisions. You will find the principles here dynamic. This is not your typical tabernacle book. "The tabernacle," Small says "is a template for prayer and worship, a kind of roadmap into God's presence, a call for balance in prayer and worship." There is an old saying that testifies to the relationship between the Testaments: "The New is in the Old concealed; and the Old is in the New revealed." When the New Testament writers penned their histories and letters, they referenced the Law, the Prophets, and the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament. The New Testament is rooted in the Old Testament. It is hardly understood without it. Paul says to the Romans that the things "written before were written for our learning" (Romans 15:4, NKJV). In the first letter to Corinth, he calls the events of the Old Testament "examples… written for our admonition" (10:6, 11). The Law and the Tabernacle, both given at the same time and on the same mountain, are a "schoolmaster" to bring us to Christ (Galatians 3:24). Jesus reminds us, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill it" (Matthew 5:17). The Old was a shadow of the things to come. It is in the New revealed.

Principles of Worship: The Study of the Tabernacle of Moses

Recognized as being unique, like no other guide quite like it. Don't know the practical steps to get a prayer ministry going in your church? Want to jump start your current prayer efforts? This manual provides a plan for prayer implementation. Sections include: Getting started with a prayer ministry; First year prayer activities; Personal and family prayer; The church and prayer; The prayer room or center and prayer groups; Intercession; Prayer evangelism; Prayer around the world; Resource section with handouts and prayer experiences. As a loose-leaf notebook format, it allows leaders to quickly copy teaching and training materials for use in the church at-large, or with a specific sub-set that is being trained.

The Praying Church Resource Guide

This handbook is a collection of substantive reflections on prayer. Contributors include global and national leaders, as well as Church of God authors, leaders and intercessors. The completed set includes 4 volumes: Volume I―Foundations; Volume III―The Pastor and the Congregation; Volume IV―Intercessory Prayer and Missions to be released in 2016. The chapters are sprinkled with prayer quotes, and interjected with prayer vignettes. Each chapter is introduced with an historic note or prayer story. The book is contemporary, relevant, addressing cutting edge issues―contextualizing prayer, prophetic and priestly intercession, spiritual mapping, unreached peoples and prayer, a history of prayer including a special focus on the family and prayer, fathers and prayer. Volume II includes topics such as: Prayer―the Key to Intimacy with God; Humility and Prayer; Living in the Presence of God; The Bible as a Prayer Book; Creating a Personal Prayer Room; Prayer and Fasting; History of the Family Altar; Power of a Father's Faith; Praying for the Salvation of your Children; The Missional Family. It is a relevant book, one that will help you build a strong foundation for the future, without forgetting the past.

The Praying Church Handbook―Volume II―Personal: Personal and Family Prayer

Williams, Mark

Garzarella, Joann

Launching Community Prayer Movements

Stories of people who concluded that their community would not change unless someone stepped forward to lead such change. Includes ideas to fan the flames of the prayer council movement.

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