Do you remember the birthdays where you sat behind the glowing candles staring at the delicious treat in front of you? The last words before you blew out the candles were a chorus of “make a wish”. We would scrunch up our little faces with all our might and close our eyes, hoping and praying …
Effective Prayer Life
How To Discover Your Calling Through God’s Will To have a calling means that you need to have a caller. Without anyone calling you to something how can you have a calling? For Christians, it is God who is calling us to something. But what exactly is he calling us to do? In this article, …
“And 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.” Romans 8:26 “Come on! We need to get this done!” I snapped. My youngest son had spaced out watching …
You’ve seen the movie “War Room,” right? When it came out several years ago, I made up my mind about developing a prayer strategy. I bought the books, we did not just one of the DVD studies at my church, but two. I was all in. But here’s the thing: it didn’t matter how hard …
First, let me say, “You can pray if you can talk or think.” Not getting started on prayer may happen if people are asking the question, “Why?” Many people think there’s some big formula for praying. Others think prayer is not necessary because God already knows what we need. Some feel the need to pray …
“I cry to You for help and You do not answer me; I stand, and You only look at me.” Job 30:20 What do you do when you need an answer from God, but he is silent? There are times when we can’t get by with only our gut instincts. Knowing clearly what the Lord …
We are living in uncertain times in our world. Uncertainty will naturally cause us to experience anxiety and fear. As Christians we know that God’s Word tells us to fear not. You may have even heard that the words “fear not” are in Scripture as many as 365 times. While I do not find those …
Do you have a heart that wants to pray but sometimes you don’t know what to pray? Do you find that sometimes you are feeling overwhelmed or so anxious that you don’t even know how to start praying? Or, at times, you find a quiet place, sit intending to pray but you find it hard …
Not just prayer, but effective prayer is an integral part of every Christian’s life. Constantly talking to God every day draws us closer to him and strengthens our relationship with him. A prayer-less Christian is a powerless Christian, we need to be vigilant so that we can defeat the devil and his plans (1 Pet …
Do you remember what a blessing to witness the arrival of each of our children? After months of anticipation, the moment arrives when the doctor hands you a bundle of joy. The feeling is like no other feeling in the world. At that moment, they are perfect in every way. I don’t think words can …