City of God Prayer Group Teachings

Thank you to the members of the prayer group who have taken their time and effort to pass along the Blessings they have received. Our hope is that these teachings will help enrich your faith journey!  

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Upcoming Teaching:

None scheduled at this time

Past Teachings:

• February 4, 2015:
  

• October 15, 2014:

• August 21, 2013:  Intercession by Kinday Toto

• June 19, 2013:
  

• May 15, 2013:

• January 23, 2013:

Moving a Mountain with the Touch of Jesus
Don't think you can move a mountain? What is expectant faith and what does it take to have it?

• December 19, 2012:

Going Deeper in Prayer   A National Tragedy  Contemplative Prayer

"Going Deeper in Prayer Mission" by Damian Stayne and Father Francis Martin. Contemplative Prayer (Colossians 4:2) says: Devote yourselves to prayer. Jesus gave two commandments about love. Every prayer that is not contextually in the two commandments is not prayer. We come to prayer to love and be loved. Continuous prayer (1 Thessalonians 5:17) says to pray unceasingly. How can we do that today? Praying with scriptures. St. Jerome says ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ. God loves to teach us through His Word. Listen as you pray so He can talk to you.

• September 19 & 26, 2012:

Part I, Sept. 19 & Part II, Sept. 26

We are created to praise, love, and reverence God, and to work out our salvation. The Rules for Discernment, as developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola, are an aid to enter the breadth and depth of our life so we may be open to experience the loving presence of Our Lord in heartfelt prayer. 

• August 2012:

Recap of the 45th Anniversary of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference in Philadelphia
Let Us Pray with One Heart Together with Mary in the Upper Room!

• July 18, 2012:

Fr. Bramlage Activate Healing Conference
Fr. Bramlage and Fr. Wilder have felt called by God to respond to John Paul II's vision concerning the New Evangelization, especially among the poor. They have been touched by the Holy Spirit to share the Good News of God's love through the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit.

• June 20, 2012:

Growing in Holiness
What happens when we read the Word of God? How can we grow in holiness? How do we enter into the love of God and the divine dialogue?

• May 17, 2012:

A Time to Advance
Does our mindset influence our behavior? A Time to Advance discusses three types of behavior; Barbarian, Greek and Hebrew and how they influence our behavior.

• April 18, 2012:

A Thousand Generations

"He remembers forever his covenant, the word he commanded for a thousand generations,” (Psalm 105:8) How has God stayed faithful to His covenant?   

• March 21 & 28, 2012:

Kingdom Living
“Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when He ceased, one of his disciples said to Him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.’” (Luke 11:1) Why pray the Lord's Prayer as a basis of a prayer life?

• January 18, 2012:

Mozambique
"I Went Hoping And Praying For A Spiritual Heart Transplant.” Has it ever occurred to you what it would be like to live in one of the poorest countries in the world? Come along and walk with me as we take a closer look at those conditions first hand and see what the powerful LOVE of Jesus Christ can do to change lives.

• October 26, 2011:

Damian Stayne's Charism School

Damian’s desire is to equip Catholics to be able to impact their spheres of influence. The focus was on prophecy, word of knowledge, faith and deliverance.

• September 21, 2011:

Prophecy

(From an 1828 edition of Webster’s dictionary) Prophecy: a foretelling; prediction; a declaration of something to come.  As God only knows future events with certainty, no being but God, or some person informed by Him, can utter a real prophecy.  The prophecies recorded in scripture, when fulfilled, afford most convincing evidence of the divine origin of the Scriptures, as those who uttered the prophecies could not have foreknown the events predicted without supernatural instruction.  

• June 1, 2011:

Intercession On The Hoof

We have a problem! I don’t know how to pray BUT the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. Intercession on the hoof is prayer outside of our prayer closet.