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Abandoned Devotion

Contending For More of God Through a Weekly Day of Prayer and Fasting – Part 3

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By Ryan Shaw
Ryan is the international lead facilitator of Student Volunteer Movement 2 (SVM2) and currently lives among the unreached.
What is the Purpose of Fasting?
What takes place when we fast? As we fast what is it that God wants us seeking His face for? What is the dynamic relationship between abstaining from food and spiritual [...]

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Contending For More of God Through a Weekly Day of Prayer and Fasting – Part 2

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By Ryan Shaw
Ryan is the international lead facilitator of Student Volunteer Movement 2 (SVM2) and currently lives among the unreached.

Necessity of Greater Spiritual Power
It does not take a rocket scientist to deduce that as the church of Jesus Christ today we need greater spiritual power.

with the truths of the Bible being questioned left and right [...]

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Contending For More of God Through a Weekly Day of Prayer and Fasting – Part 1

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By Ryan Shaw
Ryan is the international lead facilitator for Student Volunteer Movement 2 (SVM2) and currently lives among the unreached.
We are living in an extraordinary hour in the history of the church and the mission movement. The light of the love of Jesus is shining in many places in the earth. Many missiologists believe that [...]

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Not Just Another Book – Part 2

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By Kelly Shaw
Kelly is a member of the SVM2 international facilitation team and currently lives among the unreached.
Impact
What kinds of impact should we expect to see if we are examining the Scriptures with faith? Paul continues in 2 Timothy 3:16, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness [...]

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Not Just Another Book – Part 1

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By Kelly Shaw
Kelly is a member of the SVM2 international facilitation team and currently lives among the unreached.
Have you ever read a story that seemed completely foreign to you? In the newspaper, we read stories of people living in villages with little electricity or we read of the areas rocked by earthquakes and the massive [...]

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Triumphant Living – Part 1

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By JFK Mensah
JFK is a respected bible teacher and also serves Pioneers Africa doing mobilization while based in Accra, Ghana.
One of the greatest shocks in my Christian journey was the discovery that after I was happily born-again, water-baptized and baptized in the Holy Spirit, I found myself still tempted to lust after girls! I was [...]

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What Do We Mean By “Abandoned Devotion” to Jesus? – Part 2

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By Ryan Shaw
Ryan is the international lead facilitator of SVM2.
Last week we began with an introduction of what it means to live lives of “Abandoned Devotion” to Jesus. We are called to be people of love because we know that Christ first loved us. Operating out of this mentality of being loved and loving, we [...]

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