THE HOLY SPIRIT

 AMAZING POWER FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE

BY SUSAN ROHRER

Strange but true—despite the availability of computers, I continued to hang onto my familiar typewriter into the early 1990s. It seems silly now, but I convinced myself that I didn’t need the hi-tech tools so many of my colleagues were using. Fact was: I was computer phobic. I was afraid of what I didn’t understand, fearful that I’d never learn how to use one. Finally, my boss plunked a computer on my desk. He asked me to start using this power tool, promising it would increase my productivity for him. Resisting progress was no longer an option. He left me alone with that thing. Gulp! I didn’t even know how to turn it on.

That’s pretty much how it goes for a lot of us when it comes to the supernatural manifestations of the Spirit. That’s how it went for me. Even after reading all about the power gifts in the Bible, I didn’t trust God to distribute them to me as He willed, despite their potential for increasing my effectiveness in serving Him. After all, I was just a spiritual babe and babies need milk, right? Power gifts were for the mature. They seemed way too meaty for spiritual nobodies like me. Surprise! Just like my boss with that computer, God gifted me with the power tools I feared most, some while I was still in spiritual infancy.

Why did I write this book? I found out that I was not alone in initially fearing what was rarely, if ever, taught in traditional settings. Sure, there was plenty of talk (even arm-twisting) about the importance of using what seem to be our natural gifts in service, but what exactly were those enigmatic spiritual gifts, and did they go beyond things like musical or administrative abilities to the kind of spectacular wonders that characterized the earthly

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A multiple award-winning writer, producer, and director specializing in redemptive fare in the entertainment industry, Susan Rohrer’s credits include: God’s Trombones; Another Life; Emmy winner Never Say Goodbye; Terrible Things My Mother Told Me; The Emancipation of Lizzie Stern; No Earthly Reason; Mother’s Day; Sweet Valley High; Book of Days; Another Pretty Face; If I Die Before I Wake; as well as Film Advisory Board & Christopher Award winner ABOUT SARAH.

Rohrer is also the author of ” IS GOD SAYING HE’S THE ONE?”

FROM BERNIE LUTCHMAN, BMIC VICE PRESIDENT:

Men, do you realize the average Christian prays less than three minutes PER day, IF AT ALL! It is even worse when divided between the Genders. If you look at most Prayer Ministries, the majority are run by or staffed with women!  In Luke 18:1, JESUS said this to His Disciples: “One day Jesus told His disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up“Those disciples were MEN and women. Yet somehow, somewhere, we men think it is the duty of our wives and mothers to pray…and then we agree with them…when God Himself  give US – His Disciple, a directive.

Hollywood influences every aspect of our lives, whether we know it or not. I have recently become involved in praying for this industry which affects your children and mine. Do I agree with what comes out of there even 10% of the time? No! Do I condemn them? Not anymore – Jesus will take care of unrepentant sinners. Should you and I pray for them? YES! I asked my friend and sister in Christ- KAREN COVELL – Director of the Hollywood Prayer Network, to write this for our site to invite MORE MEN – you and I – who are serious about taking our Land back for Jesus – to come and be a part of this and PRAY FOR the Christian Remnant who are part of the Entertainment Industry in California. Here is her EXCLUSIVE appeal to Business Men in Christ and ALL Men to JOIN in OUR MOVEMENT!!!

FROM KAREN COVELL, DIRECTOR – HOLLYWOOD PRAYER NETWORK, HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA:

As the mother of two boys and as a Producer in the film industry, which is primarily run by men, I have a heart to pray for male Christian leaders to rise up in America.  I have been praying for Godly, committed, male leaders of integrity to rise up specifically in the Hollywood Entertainment Industry for almost 30 years.  And I won’t give up.

I do this because I believe that God has called men to be the spiritual leaders in our homes and in society.  It’s a huge task to take on and many Christian men are hesitant to embrace the challenge.  But when they do, it’s beautiful and eternally significant in many ways.  However, so many don’t step up to the plate that our country is lacking in Christian male leadership, thus the downfall of marriage, families, immoral media and the rise in men incarcerated in our culture.

I believe it all starts with prayer.  Historically prayer has been a more tangible practice for women than for men.  I believe that encouraging men to pray will start building stronger male leadership, husbands, dads and friends and media.  And my passion is to encourage more men to pray for the leaders, decision-makers and creative professionals in Hollywood – an industry dominated by men but not prayed for by men.

My challenge to men is to ask them to commit to pray for one male entertainment industry professional once a day or even once a week, and ask God to use both of you to make an eternal impact on culture and on one another’s hearts and lives. I run the Hollywood Prayer Network and we pray for the people who are impacting the world through media.  We set up prayer partnerships where a pray-er commits to pray for an Industry professional – one on one.  And we need men!  We have men who are either currently Christian leaders in Hollywood, or potential leaders, who are waiting for a male intercessor to pray for them, their work and their ministry in the world’s most influential mission field.

Would you men consider committing to this small task of praying for just one more person?  We have seen how our prayer partnerships change lives and are changing culture.  And we need more men.

For more information feel free to contact me at karen@hpnemail.org or check out the details of the Hollywood Prayer Network “I to I” Prayer Partnerships at:

http://www.hollywoodprayernetwork.org/new/I-to-I

Karen Covell, TV Producer

Founding Director, Hollywood Prayer Network  (323)462-8486 ext. 117