DEEP Prayer Book Discipleship Course · Dr. Steve Foss

Chapters 13-16

The Sword, The Language, The Waters, The Force

Concept Review Test · 30 Questions · 50 Points · Dr. Steve Foss

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Chapter 13 - Divinely Energized End-Time Prayer: the Greek grammar of Ephesians 6:17-18 - taking the sword BY MEANS OF prayer; rhema as a fresh, Spirit-quickened word; testimonies of power over nature, death, and governmental forces; waiting to hear before praying.
Chapter 14 - The Prayer Language: Steve's baptism in the Holy Spirit and first tongues; the "two groups, same sound" miracle at Pentecost; Paul's actual correction in 1 Corinthians 14; praying in tongues opening understanding; Psalm 2's pattern of asking for what is already the Son's by eternal right.
Chapter 15 - The Sound of Many Waters: the San Diego parking lot testimony; the biblical distinction between worship and praise; high praise paired with the rhema sword as spiritual warfare; Jehoshaphat sending worshipers ahead of the army; the Bride's voice matching the Bridegroom's in Revelation 19.
Chapter 16 - Taking It by Force: holy violence versus self-willed striving; the Gethsemane pattern of agonia and ektenos; removing doubt and unbelief before healing comes; spectators, participants, and generators; David's breakthrough in the cave of Adullam before his circumstances changed.

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Part A

Multiple Choice - 20 Questions · 2 pts each · 40 pts

Chapter 13 - Divinely Energized End-Time Prayer

Question 1

Ephesians 6:17-18 is often read as two separate commands: take the sword of the Spirit, and also pray always. According to Chapter 13's look at the Greek grammar, what is Paul actually saying?

A. Paul is giving one instruction, not two: take the sword of the Spirit BY MEANS OF all prayer and supplication in the Spirit - prayer in the Spirit is the means by which the Word becomes a sword in the believer's hand at all. B. The semicolon in English translations proves these are two entirely unrelated commands with no grammatical connection. C. The passage applies only to public worship gatherings and has no bearing on private, individual prayer. D. Paul is describing two alternative options believers may choose between, take the sword or pray, not both together.

Question 2

Chapter 13 distinguishes the Greek word rhema, used for "word" in Ephesians 6:17, from the general written body of Scripture. What does rhema actually mean, according to the chapter?

A. A liturgical prayer recited from memory during a worship service. B. A fresh, living, Spirit-quickened word made alive and powerful in the moment God gives it - not the full written body of Scripture in the abstract. C. A New Testament letter written specifically by the Apostle Paul. D. Any verse selected in advance through personal study and memorization.

Question 3

During Kenya's national crisis, Steve shifted mid-sermon into nearly two hours of travailing prayer, declaring Psalm 33:10-12 over the nation. According to Chapter 13, what happened next, and what does this illustrate?

A. The riots continued as planned, showing that regional and governmental forces are unaffected by prayer. B. Odinga negotiated a political settlement with opposing parties before calling off the riots. C. Without any negotiation or political concession, Odinga simply called off the riots, and all of Kenya was at peace the next day - illustrating power over regional and governmental forces released through a rhema word combined with Spirit-empowered prayer. D. The prayer meeting had no discernible effect on the political situation in Kenya.

Question 4

Steve says that as he has grown older, this Divinely Energized Prayer anointing has increased in frequency in his life. According to Chapter 13, to what does he attribute this increase?

A. An elevated spiritual status or special calling not available to ordinary believers. B. Having memorized a larger volume of Scripture over the decades than when he was younger. C. Access granted specifically because of his years of public ministry experience and reputation. D. Becoming far more willing to wait before God and hear before he prays, rather than any elevated status.

Question 5

When Steve prayed for a legally brain-dead man one-on-one, a scripture rose up in him with unexplainable force, and the prayer carried unusual authority - unlike the earlier group prayer, which Steve says was not especially strong. According to Chapter 13, what does this contrast suggest about how the rhema word operates?

A. A fresh rhema word, given in the moment by the Spirit, carries an authority that a routine or generic group prayer does not automatically carry, regardless of how many people are praying. B. Group prayer is always less effective than individual prayer, according to the chapter, regardless of circumstances. C. The outcome had nothing to do with the words prayed and depended entirely on the number of people present in the room. D. Prayers only carry authority when they are recited from a previously memorized script of Scripture verses.

Chapter 14 - The Prayer Language

Question 6

At Pentecost, devout Jews from every nation heard the disciples speaking in their own language, while others, likely not devout, heard only babbling and mocked them as drunk. According to Chapter 14, what does this "two groups, same sound" detail reveal?

A. The disciples were speaking multiple literal known languages simultaneously, which everyone present understood equally. B. The text describes a supernatural act of interpretation on the receiving end - two groups heard the very same sound completely differently, showing that the miracle was as much about supernatural hearing as about the tongues themselves. C. The mocking group was simply wrong about what they heard, and their experience should be dismissed as irrelevant to interpreting the passage. D. This detail proves that tongues at Pentecost were identical to the ordered use of tongues Paul later addressed in Corinth.

Question 7

Paul said he spoke in tongues more than the entire Corinthian church combined, yet also said he would rather speak five understood words in church than ten thousand in a tongue. According to Chapter 14, what was Paul actually addressing with this statement?

A. A blanket command forbidding all use of tongues in any church setting whatsoever. B. A rule limiting tongues exclusively to ordained church leaders during formal services. C. The Corinthians' disorderly practice of standing to speak in tongues publicly with no interpretation, drawing attention to themselves with nothing understandable communicated to the gathered church. D. A permanent theological conclusion that tongues had ceased to be a legitimate gift after the apostolic era.

Question 8

Steve says that when he prays in tongues while seeking understanding about a situation, something specific begins to happen. According to Chapter 14, what does he describe?

A. The tongues simply stop, since seeking understanding and praying in tongues cannot occur at the same time. B. Nothing changes; praying in tongues has no connection to gaining understanding about a situation. C. He receives understanding only after he stops praying in tongues entirely and returns to natural reasoning alone. D. Insight begins to flow - the channel closed to natural reasoning opens to Spirit-empowered revelation, in keeping with Paul's statement that he would pray and sing both with the spirit and with the understanding.

Question 9

Psalm 2:7-8 shows the Father inviting the Son to ask for the nations, even though they already belonged to Him by eternal right (Eph. 1:4, Dan. 7:14). According to Chapter 14, what does this pattern reveal about the relationship between God's sovereign will and prayer?

A. Even something already settled as God's sovereign will can still require the asking of prayer to be received - the Father reveals, the believer asks, and the Spirit manifests it, which is part of what happens when believers pray in tongues. B. Since the nations already belonged to the Son by eternal right, no prayer or asking was ever actually necessary. C. This pattern applied only to Jesus personally and has no application to how ordinary believers pray today. D. God's sovereign will and human prayer are entirely unrelated categories with no meaningful connection.

Question 10

Over the decades, Steve has developed four distinctly different prayer languages - a regular one, one for deep intercession for another person, one for spiritual warfare, and a rare one for the most intensive intercession over nations. According to Chapter 14, what does this development show about the prayer language?

A. A believer should expect to receive all four distinct prayer languages immediately at the moment of their baptism in the Holy Spirit. B. The prayer language is alive - it deepens and differentiates over time as the Holy Spirit tailors it to the territory being engaged, rather than remaining static and unchanging. C. Having multiple prayer languages is a sign of unusual spiritual giftedness reserved only for ministers and missionaries. D. The variation Steve describes is purely psychological, with no actual spiritual significance or connection to the Holy Spirit.

Chapter 15 - The Sound of Many Waters

Question 11

Twenty-five teenagers with no sound system, only a pickup truck and two acoustic guitars, worshiped in a parking lot known for a fifteen-hundred-car cruise - and a backslidden young man later said he could hear nothing but their worship despite the competing car stereos. According to Chapter 15, what does this incident suggest?

A. The young man's account was likely exaggerated and should not be taken as a reliable description of what actually happened. B. The cruise eventually grew larger and more established as a direct result of the group's worship that night. C. The actual source of the spiritual power at work was not natural resources like sound equipment, but something supernatural in the worship itself - within three weeks, the three-year-old cruise that police had never been able to break up spontaneously dissolved and never returned. D. The event demonstrates that public worship in secular settings is generally ineffective and should be reserved for church buildings.

Question 12

According to Chapter 15, the common idea that praise is fast songs and worship is slow songs is imprecise. What definitions does the chapter offer instead?

A. Worship and praise are identical terms with no meaningful distinction between them at all. B. Worship refers only to corporate church settings, while praise refers only to private individual devotion. C. Worship is determined entirely by musical tempo, while praise is determined by volume alone. D. Worship literally means to be laid prostrate before God, an attitude of humility and surrender; praise is that same worship physically expressed - singing, shouting, dancing, clapping, kneeling, or being still.

Question 13

Chapter 15 pairs Psalm 149's description of the high praises of God in the mouth with a two-edged sword in the hand, connecting this to Hebrews 4:12's description of God's word as living and sharper than any two-edged sword. According to the chapter, what is the combined effect of these two things together?

A. Combined, high praise and the rhema word of God bind the demonic principalities holding authority over regions and peoples - a spiritual weapon, not merely an accompaniment to worship services. B. The combination has purely symbolic meaning with no actual spiritual effect in the present day. C. This combination applies only to ancient Israel's military campaigns and has no application to spiritual warfare today. D. The two-edged sword in Psalm 149 refers to a literal physical weapon Israelite worshipers carried into battle.

Question 14

In 2 Chronicles 20, Jehoshaphat received the rhema word, "the battle is not yours, but God's," and then sent worshipers ahead of the army before any conventional weapon was drawn. According to Chapter 15, what does this illustrate about the role of worship in confronting a crisis?

A. Worship functioned merely as a morale-boosting activity with no actual bearing on the outcome of the battle. B. As the worshipers began to sing and praise, the Lord Himself set ambushes against the invading armies, and they were defeated before Israel drew a single conventional weapon - worship led as strategy, not mere accompaniment. C. Jehoshaphat sent the worshipers only after the battle had already been won by conventional military means. D. The armies of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir were entirely unaffected by the worship and had to be defeated through Israel's own combat skill.

Question 15

Revelation 19:6-7 describes the voice of a great multitude, "as the sound of many waters," at the marriage of the Lamb, using the very same description given of the Bridegroom's own voice in Revelation 1:15. According to Chapter 15, what does this shared description reveal about the Bride?

A. The description is coincidental and carries no theological significance connecting the Bride's voice to the Bridegroom's. B. The Bride's voice is described this way only in a purely future, disembodied sense with no relevance to believers' present worship. C. The Bride no longer merely imitates Jesus by that point - she sounds like Him; the grand peak of redemptive history is a people so filled with His Spirit that their prayers, praise, and lives sound exactly like heaven sounds. D. This description applies only to angelic beings present at the wedding feast, not to redeemed human believers.

Chapter 16 - Taking It by Force

Question 16

The AMPC renders Matthew 11:12 as violent men seizing the kingdom "as a precious prize - sought with most ardent zeal and intense exertion." According to Chapter 16, what is this holy violence, and what is one of the enemy's deepest lies about it?

A. It is self-willed striving and emotional ranting, which the chapter presents as the ideal model for approaching God in prayer. B. It applies only to formally ordained ministers, with ordinary believers exempt from this kind of pursuit. C. It is purely a historical description with no ongoing relevance to how believers should pray today. D. It is wholehearted pressing into what the Father has already willed, not self-willed striving - and one of the enemy's deepest lies is that intensity in prayer is less spiritual than passivity, when Hebrews 11:6 says God rewards those who diligently, earnestly, wholeheartedly seek Him.

Question 17

In Gethsemane, Jesus prayed with agonia (maximum, concentrated spiritual exertion) and ektenos (stretched to the maximum), experiencing hematidrosis - blood mixing with sweat under extreme pressure. According to Chapter 16, what does this scene actually depict?

A. Holy violence directed toward heaven, with vehement cries and tears, as the same Jesus who taught the Upper Room now pressed through agony until the Father's will was sealed - not a picture of calm serenity. B. A calm, quiet, and essentially peaceful moment of routine evening prayer before Jesus went to sleep. C. A purely symbolic account with no real physiological basis, since hematidrosis is not an actual medical phenomenon. D. An isolated event with no connection to the intensity believers are called to bring to their own prayer lives.

Question 18

A prayer group prayed a tentative, conditional prayer over a girl's swollen neck, quietly planning for failure, before Steve said, "Move aside!" and commanded her healed. Later, a similar tentative prayer for a man's crushed back was interrupted the same way. According to Chapter 16, what principle do these two stories illustrate?

A. Tentative, conditional prayers are always more effective than direct commands, since they leave room for God's sovereign timing. B. Sometimes the doubt and unbelief present in a tentative, conditional prayer has to be removed from the room before healing can come - the same pattern Jesus modeled at Jairus's house, putting the unbelieving mourners out before raising the girl. C. Healing in both cases occurred entirely independently of anyone's prayer or words spoken over the situation. D. Only ordained ministers with decades of experience are authorized to pray with this kind of direct authority.

Question 19

After forty years of ministry, Steve identifies three categories of believers in prayer: spectators, participants, and generators. According to Chapter 16, what distinguishes a generator, and how does David's time in the cave of Adullam illustrate this?

A. Generators are simply the most naturally talented or gifted believers in a room, a status determined at birth. B. Generators wait for the atmosphere to already be charged before engaging, exactly like participants do. C. Generators press in regardless of conditions, refusing to accept the atmosphere as fixed; David darash'd (sought diligently) the Lord in the cave, and his internal breakthrough came first, before the four hundred distressed men around him became his mighty men. D. Generators are identified in the chapter as exclusively those who hold official pastoral positions within a church.

Question 20

Jeremiah 29:13 promises, "You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart." According to Chapter 16, what does the chapter identify as the greatest lie keeping believers from breakthrough?

A. Outright atheism or denial of God's existence, which the chapter identifies as the primary obstacle to breakthrough. B. A lack of formal theological education among ordinary believers seeking a deeper prayer life. C. The belief that healing and miracles ceased after the apostolic era and are no longer available today. D. Passivity dressed as contentment - the idea that where a believer currently is spiritually is probably sufficient - not atheism, which the chapter names as the deeper danger.

Part B

True or False - 10 Statements · 1 pt each · 10 pts

Lessons 13 & 14 - Secrets & Revelation

Chapters 13 & 14 - The Sword & The Language

1. According to Chapter 13, Ephesians 6:17-18 gives two separate, unrelated commands: take the sword of the Spirit, and also pray always, with no grammatical connection between them.

TRUE FALSE

2. According to Chapter 13, rhema refers to a fresh, Spirit-quickened word made alive in a specific moment, distinct from the general written body of Scripture.

TRUE FALSE

3. According to Chapter 14, Steve had no prior expectation or explanation of what tongues would be before he began speaking in an unknown language during his own baptism in the Holy Spirit.

TRUE FALSE

4. According to Chapter 14, the text of Acts 2 says that every single person present at Pentecost, without exception, understood the disciples' words clearly in their own language.

TRUE FALSE

5. According to Chapter 15, the chapter treats worship and praise as exactly the same thing, with the common distinction between fast and slow songs being essentially accurate.

TRUE FALSE

Chapters 15 & 16 - The Waters & The Force

6. According to Chapter 15, in 2 Chronicles 20, Jehoshaphat sent worshipers out ahead of the army, and the Lord set ambushes against the invading armies before Israel drew a single conventional weapon.

TRUE FALSE

7. According to Chapter 16, holy violence in prayer is best understood as self-willed striving or emotional ranting, which the chapter presents as the model believers should imitate.

TRUE FALSE

8. According to Chapter 16, hematidrosis, the phenomenon of blood mixing with sweat under extreme pressure, is presented as a real, documented medical phenomenon that occurred to Jesus in Gethsemane.

TRUE FALSE

9. According to Chapter 16, David waited passively in the cave of Adullam for his circumstances to change before he ever sought the Lord.

TRUE FALSE

10. According to Chapter 16, the chapter identifies passivity dressed as contentment, not atheism, as the greatest lie keeping believers from breakthrough.

TRUE FALSE

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Part A - Multiple Choice (20 questions × 2 pts)

Part B - True or False (10 questions × 1 pt)

Total

"Take the sword by means of prayer. Speak in the Spirit without ceasing. Let the high praises of God be in your mouth. And take the kingdom by force - with everything you have."

- Dr. Steve Foss, Chapters 13-16 · Ephesians 6:17-18 · Matthew 11:12

Chapters 13-16

The Sword, The Language, The Waters, The Force

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