Ten random series from the complete list of series.
Out of Print
Release #: 76-04-12-05-R
This cassette tape contained the following 2 messages by John Robert Stevens.
THE DAY OF THE ROARING LION
April 11, 1976 Sunday P.M. SoG.
This word is the clearest explanation of the present travail and violent prophetic proclamation. The Christ within us roars like a lion against His enemies. The Passover lamb is also the lion of the tribe of Judah. This tape explains what it’s all about.
Scriptures: | Isa. 42:1-16; (Rev. 5) |
Topics: | Manifestation of Christ; Travail; Manifestation of the Sons of God; Violence; Prophecy, Creative; Futility |
Series: | We Travail and Prevail: We Travail With Joy; Expository |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching, For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages |
SURPRISE ME, LORD!
April 11, 1976 Sunday P.M. Val.
The Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah while he was in prison to encourage him. The outlook was bleak but God challenged him to call upon Him and see mighty things happen. God purposes to do great and mighty things which we know not, which we have not heard before, which are beyond all that we ask or think.
Scriptures: | Jer. 32:1-3,6-7,17; 33:1-3,7-9; John 15:7; (I Cor. 2:9,12); (Psa. 23:5); (Heb. 11:6); (Eph. 3:20) |
Topics: | Prophetic Proclamation; Intercession; Expectancy; Promises, Possessing Them; Fulfillment; Faith, Creative |
Series: | We Travail and Prevail: We Travail With Joy; Expository |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching |
Out of Print
Release #: 76-04-12-03-R
This cassette tape contained the following 2 messages by John Robert Stevens.
WE’VE SOFTENED THE ROCK
April 10, 1976 Saturday A.M. Ana.
We will not always labor in travail, striving to appropriate what God says He has given us. We will not always struggle against bondage to futility and frustration, nor have to resist violently satanic delays and impasses. So we persevere for soon He will answer before we call. The destructive drag will end. (58 min.)
Scriptures: | Isa. 65:17-25; I Tim. 4:8-16 |
Topics: | Travail; Victory; Persistence; Awareness; (Provision); (Illusions); (Appropriation); (Warfare); (Judgment, Satan); (Intercession); (Exercise); (Focus); (Eating) |
Series: | We Travail and Prevail: We Travail With Joy; The Nephilim Now |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching, For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages |
OUR BANNER IN THE BATTLE
April 11, 1976 Sunday A.M. Ana.
The problem with all of God’s promises is that faith must be exercised to possess our possessions. We travail to bring forth what God declares to be ours. We possess the promises by the common, mutual exercise of faith. We support and strengthen. (58 min.)
Scriptures: | Exo. 17:8-16 |
Topics: | Promises, Possessing Them; Faith, Aggressive; Prophetic Proclamation; Character, Moses; Character, Joshua; (Battle); (Prevail); (Body of Christ, Body Ministry); (Travail); (Movement Motion); (Violence) |
Series: | We Travail and Prevail: We Travail With Joy |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching |
Out of Print
Release #: 76-04-12-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
April 11, 1976 Sunday A.M. Val.
The seven churches of Asia had amazing satanic assaults against them but the Word of God which they proclaimed was their victory. They overcame Satan not by prayers so much as by their testimony, prophetic proclamation of God’s Word. (40 min.)
Scriptures: | Acts 19:10-12,18-20; Rev. 2:7,11,17,26-29; Rev. 3:2,5-6,12-13,21-22; (Matt. 16:18) |
Topics: | Prophetic Proclamation; Appropriation; Faith, Creative; Illusions; Promises, Possessing Them; Overcoming |
Series: | We Travail and Prevail: We Travail With Joy |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching |
Out of Print
Release #: 76-04-07-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following 3 messages by John Robert Stevens.
THE BATTLE AND THE TRAVAIL
April 4, 1976 Sunday A.M. Ana.
The Scriptures offer us a choice in this hour of destiny. To the prepared remnant is the prerogative of walking in a new day. Others walk in the end time of the old day. The difference is day and night. (58 min.)
Scriptures: | I Thess. 5:1-9,16,17-23; Isa. 61:1-3 |
Topics: | Travail; Heaviness; Kingdom Age; Transition; (Joy); (Casualties); (Understanding); (Inflation) |
Series: | We Travail And Prevail: We Travail With Joy |
Rated: | Foundational Teaching |
HIS JOY FOR OUR HEAVINESS
April 2, 1976 Friday P.M. Val.
How timely the word is about our Lord’s joy made full or complete in us. With His joy we’re impervious to the dire battle and demonic heaviness. Following the message will be two apostolic exhortations relating to our possessing His joy. (58 min.)
Scriptures: | John 15:11; 16:24; 17:13; Rom. 14:17-18; II Cor. 6:10; (Acts 5:41); (Psa. 16:11) |
Topics: | Joy; (Heaviness); (Appropriation); (Faith, Aggressive); (Determination); (Circumstances); (Travail) |
Series: | We Travail And Prevail: We Travail With Joy |
Rated: | JRS Selected Messages |
POSSESSING HIS JOY (AN APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION)
March 31, 1976 Wednesday P.M. Val.
At every crisis hour a heaviness comes that is a direct manifestation of the enemy. In the midst of the heaviness the Lord’s joy is our strength, a jubilent joy that lifts and sustains in the midst of battle. This joy is not manufactured but imparted from the Lord, and we’ll have as much as we determine to appropriate. Let’s try the joy route! (58 min.)
Scriptures: | I Pet. 1:5-9 |
Topics: | Joy; Heaviness; Deliverance |
Series: | We Travail and Prevail: We Travail With Joy |
Out of Print
Release #: 76-04-06-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
April 4, 1976 Sunday P.M. Val.
Were the disciples in a travail sorrow until Christ was raised from the dead? Was His creation travailing for the sons to come to birth? Is the Holy Spirit within us travailing for sonship? Is the Lord travailing for our birth at the right hand of the Father? (52 min.)
Scriptures: | John 16:20-29,18; Rom. 8:19-28,32-34 |
Topics: | Travail; Intensity; Promises, Possessing Them; Sons of God; Joy; (Perseverance); (Warfare); (Body of Christ, Body Ministry); (Dedication) |
Series: | We Travail And Prevail: We Travail With Joy |
Rated: | For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 76-04-05-01-R
This cassette tape contained the following message by John Robert Stevens.
April 4, 1976 Sunday P.M. SoG.
Nothing is brought to birth without travail. God’s perfect provisions and plan for us is appropriated through the intensive travail. Travail brings what is ours in the spirit to be ours in the natural realm. The service was the most intense and moving prophet’s meeting to come in years. This service set the churches loose into a twenty-four hour a day intercession. (53 min.)
Scriptures: | Gal. 4:19-20,27; Rom. 8:18-23; (Isa. 66:9-10); (Isa. 37:3); (Heb. 7:25); (Isa. 53:21); (Isa. 54:1); (Heb. 10:14) |
Topics: | Travail; Intensity; Remnant; Sonship; Fear of Man; Passivity; (Body of Christ, Body Ministry); (Kingdom); (Religiosity, Religiousness); (Perfection) |
Series: | We Travail And Prevail: We Travail With Joy |
Rated: | For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages, Pivotal Messages |
Out of Print
Release #: 76-04-03-03-R
This cassette tape contained the following 4 messages by John Robert Stevens.
I BELIEVE–RELENTLESSLY
April 1, 1976 Thursday A.M. Val.
It is important that you give a wholehearted assent to the word that God gives you. Then you must put the word in action. Last you must persevere in that action without discouragement. Only our persistent and obedient moving on the word will bring us out victorious.
Scriptures: | Mark 14:32-42; (Luke 9:62); (Luke 17:32); (Heb. 12:4); (Gal. 6:9); (James 2:17); (I Pet. 1:7) |
Topics: | Faith, Expressed; Perseverance; Heaviness; (Predetermined Responses); (Discouragement); (Wavering) |
Series: | Persistent and Insistent,cross-reference; We Travail And Prevail: We Travail With Joy |
Rated: | For Mature Sons |
EXHORTATION: WE’RE WITHIN A STONE’S THROW OF OUR GOLIATH
April 3, 1976 Saturday P.M. SoG.
A renewed apostolic encouragement for all warriors: we’re within a stone’s throw of our Goliath. Don’t stop now!
Topics: | Persistence; Intercession; Awareness; Joy |
Rated: | For Mature Sons |
THE DAYS OF HEAVINESS AND WATCHINGS
April 1, 1976 Thursday P.M. SoG.
You believe and you walk through Gethsemane with Him. You become dedicated to every hour of travail. You press on in spite of the heaviness. You watch. After the travail comes the joy of the birth. (56 min.)
Scriptures: | Matt. 26:36-46; Mark 14:32-41; Luke 22:59-43; (I Thess. 5:6); (I Pet. 5:8); (II Cor. 6:5); (Heb. 12:2) |
Topics: | Intercession; Alertness; Heaviness; Travail; (Destiny); (Joy); (United States Government); (Shiloh) |
Series: | Persistent and Insistent, cross-reference; We Travail And Prevail: We Travail With Joy |
Rated: | For Mature Sons |
THE MUTUAL TRAVAIL OF THE FATHERS AND THE SONS
April 4, 1976 Sunday A.M. Val.
The sons come forth only with travail. The spiritual sons travail to see the fathers come forth. We are in agony to see the apostolic company come forth and the exhilarating joy on the new level has begun.
Scriptures: | I Thess. 5:3; Isa. 66:6-14; John 16:11; (Isa. 54:1) |
Topics: | Travail; Joy; Sons of God; Body of Christ; Body Ministry; Relationship, with the Lord; (Kingdom); (Authority) ; (Participation); (Anticipation); (Hunger) |
Series: | We Travail And Prevail: We Travail With Joy |
Rated: | For Mature Sons, JRS Selected Messages |
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