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Most believers know about fasting, but few really understand the wonderful benefits that come when we fast with purpose and direction. Fasting for Spiritual Breakthrough gives the why of fasting, rather than just the how. Towns avoids a glut of techniques and schedules; instead he provides a probing look at Isaiah 58, often called "the fasting passage," and introduces nine biblical fasts—each designed for a specific physical and spiritual outcome.

Since the Day of Pentecost, seasons of revival and awakening have brought refreshing to the spiritually dry, life to the spiritually dead, and miraculous encounters with the Holy Spirit. In this timely and prophetic volume, two best-selling generals of the faith, Dr. Elmer Towns and Dr. Neil T. Anderson, offer collective wisdom, insight, and strategy on how you can experience and release a river of Holy Spirit outpouring into your world!

People fast for many reasons: to break an addiction, to seek God for healing, to discover the answer to a lingering problem, and some fast for revival. But the greatest reason to fast is to get to know God intimately and to feed on the bread of life. This book is not an instruction manual on the methods of fasting or on how to pray. Rather, Dr. Elmer Towns describes the spirit of fasting that leads to an intimate knowing of Jesus Christ.

This audiobook is perfect for anyone seeking a comprehensive yet compact synopsis of the greatest book ever written. Each short chapter is a user-friendly guide to a specific Biblical book. Highlighting important words, key verses, and primary themes, this vital resource brings simple clarity to complex ideas. Also includes related prayers to help you dialog with God about your study.

Dr. Elmer Towns, vice president of Liberty University, college and seminary professor, dean of the School of Religion, is also the author of numerous popular and scholarly works. He is the recipient of the coveted Gold Medallion Award awarded by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association for the Book of the Year, The Names of the Holy Spirit. He and Ruth, his wife of 56 years, have three children and ten grandchildren.

Praying the Proverbs takes writings of wisdom literature from the Bible, and turns them into personal prayers that edify believers with its wise sayings on character, integrity, and love.

God uses people to help others; can he use you? Can God use you to make a difference in the lives of your children? Do you know what to pray and how to pray? First, you must pray for them because intercession touches the heart of God.

People face terrible situations every day. Praying the Book of Job walks you through these very difficult times to the genuine abundant life God planned especially for you. Could you endure losing everyone you love and everything you own? Could you tolerate your "friends" throwing insults and accusations at you while your body was painfully wasting away?

“REVIVE US AGAIN!” IN WAVE AFTER WAVE, epoch after epoch, God has come to enflame the hearts of believers and to bring new life to countless men, women, and children. God-sent revivals display a glorious diversity of methods, milieus, and models. Drs. Elmer Towns and Douglas Porter collaborated to write this fast-moving series of accounts and determined their order of One through Ten after asking seventeen Christians prominent in their fields of study and outreach: “Which revival epochs are the greatest of all time?” This book will both inform your mind about the living history of ...

This book does not to tell you how to get answers to your prayers. There are thousands of books like that. This a radically different book because it approaches prayer from God's perspective. Prayer is a relationship with God. When you understand how God answers prayer, then you realize prayer is all about trusting your heavenly father, trusting him to answer what is best for you, how it's best for you, and when it's best for you.

From Flawed to Called: Embracing Your Imperfection to Empower Your Faith Do you ever worry that your flaws prevent God from working through you? Are these imperfections causing you to doubt your ability to fulfill your destiny? Throughout the Bible, God used imperfect people to see His will be done. Prolific author and Bible teacher Elmer Towns illuminates the extraordinary journeys of biblical figures whose imperfections God used to weave the tapestry of His redemptive plan. Through these stories, you will be encouraged that God’s power is made perfect in our weakness. This ...

Hello . . . My name is Jesus. There are many ways to learn about Me. You can study how I lived, or My miracles, or My sermons, or the way I talk to people. You can see My full deity in the things I said, and you can also see my full humanity in the gospels.But I want to tell you about all My names, offices, titles, and pic¬tures of Me in scripture. Each one gives a glimpse of who I am and what I do. When you put all of them together, you begin to grasp who I, the Son of God, am.Why are there so many names about Me? Because I am God. My many names reflect My many qualities, even then there ...

Ten of the Largest Church Ministries Aggressively Touching the World is about the innovative ways these leaders plant churches and the unique strategies they utilize to teach and disciple their people. It also explores the multifaceted methods they use to reach people for Jesus. These methods are based on eternal Biblical principles that never change, even when culture changes. This is your invitation to harvest wisdom and insight from some of the most respected, cutting-edge, and unique church leaders alive today!

Discover Jesus through His names! Written in the first person, this unique book invites you into a special encounter with the Savior through His many names in Scripture. Each daily entry reveals a new biblical name for Jesus. With each reading, you will expand your knowledge of His work, deepen your understanding of His character, and be drawn closer to His heart. Throughout the Bible, Jesus is referred to in over 700 different names, including titles, symbols, figures of speech, types, and metaphors. Why so many? Because the work of Christ is both vast and significant. Discover how He is ...

Centuries ago the Apostle Paul expressed an intense desire to know Jesus Christ in a deeply personal, fulfilling manner. “That I may know him,” he wrote (Philippians 3:10). Today, Christians the world over share that same sentiment. The Names of Jesus gives you an inspiring and practical study of the names of Jesus so that you can really know Him – as your Lord, Friend, Provider, Intercessor, coming King, and much more. Expect your relationship with Christ to deepen and grow stronger as you read this book.

Elmer Towns is considered one of the leading authorities in Church Growth and Sunday School Outreach. Annually his research lists the largest and fastest growing churches in America. His “cutting edge research” has led to church growth and evangelism. One observer noted that the writing of Dr. Towns has resulted in more people being reached and enrolled in Sunday School than any other person in this half of our century. In Winning the Winnable Dr. Towns brings to focus a bright new day in evangelism – Friendship Evangelism. This book is imperative to evangelism because today’s ...

What’s In A Name? You can tell a lot about a man by what others call him: father, husband, brother, leader. In the same way, you can learn much about God by understanding what He was called in the Old Testament El Shaddai, Elohim, Adonai, El Gibbor, and Jehovak Melek are just a few of the over 80 names that people in the Old Testament used to call upon God in different situations. In times of need or times of praise, they used specific names for God that focused on a certain characteristic of His, or on a promise that He made. Today, as we learn God’s names and what they mean, we can ...

Church Growth: The State of the Art is a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the latest trends in church growth. Featuring twenty-two articles written by fifteen pastors and church leaders, this book offers valuable information about how you can expand your church’s outreach and spiritual growth. From computers to evangelism, lay ministries, organic growth, church planting, consultation, social networks, the power of faith, and the work of the Holy Spirit, Church Growth: The State of the Art aims at one goal: quality ministry that gets results.

THE OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR AND THE END OF THE AGE The Old Time Gospel Hour is a one hour television program which originates from the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia. This color telecast of the Sunday morning service of this church comprises the largest television network in the world. Dr. Jerry Falwell is Speaker for The Old Time Gospel Hour as well as Pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church. It seems that God has raised up several broadcasters on television and radio who are preaching the gospel “to every creature” in these days. Further, there is more preaching and ...

Only the apostle Paul could write the words the early churches and you need to hear. You'll discover so much more about God's love and grace through Praying the Scriptures as you discover that prayer involves more than intellect.