Dear Friend of Mike Livengood Ministries,
Thank you for your support in three important ways. First thank you for your financial support. Fund raising is not the only purpose of this letter, but it is one purpose. Some of you have been financial supporters for 30 years. Wow! Your support has made it possible for us to minister “on the road” since 1984. I wish it were possible to sit down with you personally to say “thank you!” I would also love to sit down with you and ask you to consider financial support. We are not certain of the location of ministry in the next several months. We are scheduled to be in New Zealand through August. September will find us in Fiji and Ireland. October and November currently are scheduled for the States. We have been invited to return to the Philippines for further ministry there. Other potential ministry in Europe beckons.
The second purpose of this letter is to raise prayer support. Candidly, the level of spiritual battle in the mind continues to increase. If I have ever felt the need for prayer support it is the time we are in. A part of that prayer need is to gain understanding of God’s direction for future ministry. We have been in transition for much of the last two years. The effects of the Outpouring at Terre Haute continues. Early on I shared with the Pastor of Cross Tabernacle that I was aware our role was going to change as the Outpouring increased. We would become one voice among many. Something similar also occurred at Hope Centre in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. While we continue to be in relationship with both churches that relationship is changing and will continue to change. Your prayer support is important to us. Speaking of prayer Linda and I do a weekly live-stream prayer meeting.. The purpose is two fold. It is to pray and it is to model how to pray Scripture. We would love to have you join us. https://www.pscp.tv/lindamikliven
note: Traveling and ministry may change the date or time. Thursday EST 10:00 pm (Chicago, IL) Friday 2:00 pm (New Zealand)
The third purpose of this letter is to be a means of raising friends. We are taking advantage of Facebook for addtional ministry. Currently I write a weekly blog on eternal punishment. I also post weekly targeting spiritual leaders. On yet another day I post simple “sermon” outlines. Then each week I'm reading live a chapter from a book I have written. As I sit here writing the first draft of this letter Linda is editing more videos to be put on our YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/doorkeepers Here you will find over 50 videos of various ministry such as preaching, personal revival testimonies, interesting clips on prayer, and the reading of the Wow Factor. I invite you to check these things out. But this letter is still our primary way of staying in touch with friends of this ministry. I want to encourage you. I am also encouraged by you.
For those who can become involved financially support can be sent via check to Mike Livengood Ministries, PO Box 1455, Danville, IL 61834-1455 or by Pay pal at www.paypal.com. For Pay pal donors our email address is mikliven@aol.com.
Here is a neat testimony we recently received. “I was baptized in the Holy Spirit in February 2007 at one of your visits to Living Hope Church in Merrillville, IN … Next to my salvation date, that was the second best day of my life and I still retell the experience in order to ignite the fire in others!”
ITINERARY
May 25-1 Week of Vacation
June 3 Porirua, New Zealand Heaven’s Gate
June 10 open
June 13 Wellington, New Zealand Abundant Life Centre
June 15-21 Week of Vacation
June 22-24 Hawera, New Zealand Assembly of God
July 1 Wellington, New Zealand Abundant Life Centre
July 5-8 Dunedin, New Zealand Abundant Life Church
Yours for Revival
Michael
THE HOLY HOUR CONCEPT
The concept of spending one hour a day in private prayer revolutionized my life as a young preacher. It was the grace of God that positioned me to receive teaching that would provide the basis for life and ministry. I was raised in the home of a wonderful couple. HB and Anita Livengood were passionate followers of Jesus Christ who raised me, their eldest child, in an environment I will be forever grateful for.
I surrendered my life to Jesus as a boy of eight years of age. I often say that I was the best friend of every evangelist who came to our church because I answered almost every salvation altar call. I do not regret that. I felt a call to preach at Kids Camp when I was eleven and about fifteen months later received the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
I preached my first sermon shortly after that in children’s church and by the time I was seventeen I was preaching regularly. After graduating from North Central University my wife and I took our first pastorate in western Illinois. I have often said I prayed well on the Saturday night’s before preaching on Sunday. I knew that was not enough. My fathered modeled a prayer life. It was not unusual to see him on his knees at the couch talking to the Lord. Still I struggled with prayer.
During this time I intended a “Change the World School of Prayer” sponsored by World Literature Crusade (now called Every Home for Christ). Our video speaker was Dick Eastman. The material he shared became the foundation of my prayer life.
He challenged me from Matthew 26:40 to commit to one hour a day to prayer. The passage reads, “And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?” Dick proposed a very simple question, “if the Lord asked those disciples to give Him one hour per day to pray, is it not possible He would ask us to give Him the same?” It did become a word from the Lord for me so in 1977 I made a commitment to spend at least one hour every day in prayer. It has been the foundation of my life and ministry.
I also discovered the hour allowed me to really move into a spirit of prayer. I found it was not easy to do that in just a few minutes. Additionally setting aside an hour also helped my discipline. But, what exactly was I taught that changed my life? For the next several issues I will seek to answer that question.
Thank you for your support in three important ways. First thank you for your financial support. Fund raising is not the only purpose of this letter, but it is one purpose. Some of you have been financial supporters for 30 years. Wow! Your support has made it possible for us to minister “on the road” since 1984. I wish it were possible to sit down with you personally to say “thank you!” I would also love to sit down with you and ask you to consider financial support. We are not certain of the location of ministry in the next several months. We are scheduled to be in New Zealand through August. September will find us in Fiji and Ireland. October and November currently are scheduled for the States. We have been invited to return to the Philippines for further ministry there. Other potential ministry in Europe beckons.
The second purpose of this letter is to raise prayer support. Candidly, the level of spiritual battle in the mind continues to increase. If I have ever felt the need for prayer support it is the time we are in. A part of that prayer need is to gain understanding of God’s direction for future ministry. We have been in transition for much of the last two years. The effects of the Outpouring at Terre Haute continues. Early on I shared with the Pastor of Cross Tabernacle that I was aware our role was going to change as the Outpouring increased. We would become one voice among many. Something similar also occurred at Hope Centre in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. While we continue to be in relationship with both churches that relationship is changing and will continue to change. Your prayer support is important to us. Speaking of prayer Linda and I do a weekly live-stream prayer meeting.. The purpose is two fold. It is to pray and it is to model how to pray Scripture. We would love to have you join us. https://www.pscp.tv/lindamikliven
note: Traveling and ministry may change the date or time. Thursday EST 10:00 pm (Chicago, IL) Friday 2:00 pm (New Zealand)
The third purpose of this letter is to be a means of raising friends. We are taking advantage of Facebook for addtional ministry. Currently I write a weekly blog on eternal punishment. I also post weekly targeting spiritual leaders. On yet another day I post simple “sermon” outlines. Then each week I'm reading live a chapter from a book I have written. As I sit here writing the first draft of this letter Linda is editing more videos to be put on our YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/doorkeepers Here you will find over 50 videos of various ministry such as preaching, personal revival testimonies, interesting clips on prayer, and the reading of the Wow Factor. I invite you to check these things out. But this letter is still our primary way of staying in touch with friends of this ministry. I want to encourage you. I am also encouraged by you.
For those who can become involved financially support can be sent via check to Mike Livengood Ministries, PO Box 1455, Danville, IL 61834-1455 or by Pay pal at www.paypal.com. For Pay pal donors our email address is mikliven@aol.com.
Here is a neat testimony we recently received. “I was baptized in the Holy Spirit in February 2007 at one of your visits to Living Hope Church in Merrillville, IN … Next to my salvation date, that was the second best day of my life and I still retell the experience in order to ignite the fire in others!”
ITINERARY
May 25-1 Week of Vacation
June 3 Porirua, New Zealand Heaven’s Gate
June 10 open
June 13 Wellington, New Zealand Abundant Life Centre
June 15-21 Week of Vacation
June 22-24 Hawera, New Zealand Assembly of God
July 1 Wellington, New Zealand Abundant Life Centre
July 5-8 Dunedin, New Zealand Abundant Life Church
Yours for Revival
Michael
THE HOLY HOUR CONCEPT
The concept of spending one hour a day in private prayer revolutionized my life as a young preacher. It was the grace of God that positioned me to receive teaching that would provide the basis for life and ministry. I was raised in the home of a wonderful couple. HB and Anita Livengood were passionate followers of Jesus Christ who raised me, their eldest child, in an environment I will be forever grateful for.
I surrendered my life to Jesus as a boy of eight years of age. I often say that I was the best friend of every evangelist who came to our church because I answered almost every salvation altar call. I do not regret that. I felt a call to preach at Kids Camp when I was eleven and about fifteen months later received the baptism in the Holy Spirit.
I preached my first sermon shortly after that in children’s church and by the time I was seventeen I was preaching regularly. After graduating from North Central University my wife and I took our first pastorate in western Illinois. I have often said I prayed well on the Saturday night’s before preaching on Sunday. I knew that was not enough. My fathered modeled a prayer life. It was not unusual to see him on his knees at the couch talking to the Lord. Still I struggled with prayer.
During this time I intended a “Change the World School of Prayer” sponsored by World Literature Crusade (now called Every Home for Christ). Our video speaker was Dick Eastman. The material he shared became the foundation of my prayer life.
He challenged me from Matthew 26:40 to commit to one hour a day to prayer. The passage reads, “And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?” Dick proposed a very simple question, “if the Lord asked those disciples to give Him one hour per day to pray, is it not possible He would ask us to give Him the same?” It did become a word from the Lord for me so in 1977 I made a commitment to spend at least one hour every day in prayer. It has been the foundation of my life and ministry.
I also discovered the hour allowed me to really move into a spirit of prayer. I found it was not easy to do that in just a few minutes. Additionally setting aside an hour also helped my discipline. But, what exactly was I taught that changed my life? For the next several issues I will seek to answer that question.