I pray for revival every day. Pray for revival among God’s people. 2 Chronicles 7:14 (ESV) if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. The…
“A lot of fairly mature believers think God is like a genie in a bottle. Let’s ask for something and. poof, it’s going to happen. And if it doesn’t, then somehow He didn’t hear us or we did or said something wrong. God does have a plan; we need to get attuned to it, not…
Are you (any hint of) bitter? “All bitterness is ultimately toward God.” (since at the very least, God who is sovereign allowed ‘it’.) Ephesians 4:30-31 (NASB) Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God… Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Bitterness…
Psalm 130:3-4 If you, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand. But there is forgiveness with You that You may be feared. (Note: The fear of God results from forgiveness and it draws us to Him.) The reason people do not follow Jesus is that they lack a fear of God. Psalm 36:1-2…
Ephesians 6:18 …praying at all times in the Spirit… The things we most ‘naturally’ pray come out of our human nature. As a child of God, I am given a new nature; it’s the ‘Jesus in me’ nature. (2 Cor. 5:17) But I find it takes practice and intentionality to pray as that new person….
Prov. 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight, but The Lord weighs the motives. “Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of years, but by obedience. It is easy to have the attitudes of religion, but it is the motive of the heart we have to watch.” …
When prayers go ‘unanswered’, the answer may have been “No.” or “Wait.” (The tree of life in the Garden was good fruit enabling us to live forever but we mercifully must wait for heaven to eat it.) But is it possible that ‘unanswered’ could simply mean I didn’t get what I wanted when I wanted…
Not too long ago I confessed to the Lord discouragement and lethargy in prayer and asked why? The Psalmist struggled with this from time to time. Psalm 42:5a Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why have you become disturbed within me? What came to mind? Little faith due to a divided focus…
Key verses: Hebrews 12:1-2 (NASB) Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of…
..we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Cor. 5:7 I think this is true of every person in some way. The real question is who/what is your faith in? Many times people are trusting in good luck, fate, themselves, someone else – depending on the situation. What is the object of your faith? Is it…