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 Below you will find a list of teaching articles from John Crowder written in 2005. These writings cover a broad number of topics, so you may want to take your time and bookmark these pages. We pray you are tremendously filled with God's Presence as you enjoy the site. To read articles from other archived years, simply follow the links to the left.
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John Crowder, 11/17/2008 |
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 | | The Bride in Fullness - Part 3 | | There is a process of self-discovery which is not at all a discovery of self, but a journey of discovering the Christ within. It is a process of owning the beauty He has placed upon us – the beauty of absolution – so that we completely become that which
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 | | The Bride in Fullness - Part 2 | | Let me first say that the goal of all ministry to the church is to prepare the bride, like the king’s eunuch in the book of Esther. The Lord wants his ministers to be spiritual eunuchs, who have no desire to draw the bride’s affections to themselves.
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 | | The Bride in Fullness - Part 1 | | Recently, I was looking at the full moon shining brightly over the bay where we live, when the Lord began speaking to me about His bride. He said simply, “I want My church to shine in her fullness.
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 | | Authority in Intimacy | | Out of the place of intimacy, the believer is given all authority to crush the head of the serpent and live the life of an overcomer. Ever since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, God’s universal plan has been to restore mankind to a place of
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 | | Divine Interception | | In recent weeks we have discussed the strategic dance of divine intimacy, as the Lover of our souls will often hide from us, only to be revealed in the very next instant. This repetitive transition between hiddenness and manifestation is a consistent
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 | | God in Hiding | | We must understand that a vital strategy in the Lover’s pursuit of His beloved, is to withdraw from her. We are engaged in a dance, in which the Lover is made manifest to us, just long enough to capture our attention before fleeing back again into
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 | | Catching the Little Foxes | | The compromises that slip in and spoil our vineyard – which spoil the place of intimacy where we bear fruit – these are the things we must root out. We cannot let the wine be ruined. We cannot be negligent with this vineyard. It must be kept sealed away
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 | | From Vision to Activation | | Until love is awakened, our spirits slumber. Although we begin to envision a lifestyle of reckless abandon for God – that is all we have at first – a vision. A thing is dreamt about before it is realized. Conceptualized, before it comes into being.
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 | | God of Wildness | | The intrinsic element of desire must necessarily be at the core of our being to pursue God in the manner He prescribes. Love cannot be formulated. There is an element of deep, reckless longing that must burn beneath the exterior forms of our worship
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 | | Manifest Refreshing | | Secret prayer releases signs and wonders – power in the natural realm. Look at any notable miracle worker throughout church history and you will see a resume of hours upon hours of one-on-one time with the Lord
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 | | Lingering | | I am really drunk as I am writing this right now, but I will do my best. This week, we are going under the apple tree. And as I entered that realm to pull out some bit of revelation to share, the hand of the Lord was again heavy upon me
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 | | Maintaining a House of Intimacy | | Amid the initial intoxication of holy love, there is a call to the necessary consistency and diligence it takes to maintain this relationship. The Christian life can truly be a continuous string of ecstasies and supernatural experience
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 | | Mutual Adoration | | As we venture deeper into the Song of Solomon, we should not take for granted the graphic nature of holy sensuality that is expressed in the passages we will encounter. The most subtle shadows and intimate innuendos are given to awaken our spiritual
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 | | Dark Yet Lovely | | Take me with you – let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers. We rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. How right they are to adore you!
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 | | A Life Poured Out | | Jesus, the “anointed one,” the smeared one, is saturated with the fragrant oil of God. He emanates the presence of God in a way that permeates the atmosphere. There is a virtual aura of manifest glory
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 | | From Whorehouse to Holy Place | | In this week’s study we will venture along deeper pathways, moving on from “the elementary principles of Christ … not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God.”
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 | | Developing a Passion for Purity | | In our pursuit of intimacy with the Lord, we have been tackling the necessary subjects of sin and purity in recent weeks, as well as the cultivation of wisdom. The very reason the Lord places emphasis on these issues in scripture
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 | | Let's Put Some Sin Back in the Gospel | | The law was made to convict us. And the kindness of God then enters to lead us to repentance. You’ve got to have both. The law doesn't save us, but it serves as a school master, pointing us to the Lord
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 | | Living Flame of Ancient Wisdom | | St. John of the Cross once wrote, “In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.” We have recently discussed how the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom – and furthermore, how the love of God is truly the fulfillment of wisdom
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 | | Embracing the Holy Terror | | Many people cannot seem to embrace the paradox of the fear of the Lord and the love of the Lord. This is why many seek to water down the definition of fear as being “reverent awe” or simply “respect” for God. But John, the love apostle, who is called the
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 | | Mature Love | | Right living is a litmus test of true faith in Christ. But our “law abiding” comes only as a byproduct of holy love, not as a means of attaining it. As we draw close to the heart of God, we have a burning desire to put away every sin
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 | | Love and Righteousness | | We could talk about intimacy with God until we are blue in the face, yet deceive ourselves without having the practical steps of obedience that it should produce in our lives. This is love for God: to obey His commands. And His commands are not burdensome
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 | | The Keyroom of Heaven | | I had been traveling in the spirit through several heavenly places in this encounter, when suddenly I was looking over a hill in some remote wilderness. I was rising higher and higher, but could still not see what was below the hill at the bottom
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