Psalm 131:2 Surely I have composed and quieted my soul; like a weaned child rests against his mother, my soul is like a weaned child within me. It doesn’t seem to take much to get my soul disquieted. Sometimes it’s a combination of little things that causes more unrest (anxiety) than a ‘big’ thing. Why…
PRAY fervently and continually. That’s it. We tend to examine/evaluate our parenting in terms of success and failure. A much better scale is obedience/disobedience. Raising our kids is a stewardship and the goal is to be found trustworthy. 1 Cor. 4:1-5 So have as your Parent Focus: Be the best I can be in living…
1. Come with humility – if we had true humility, that would be motivation enough to pray. Humility is recognizing who God is and who you are in relationship to Him. Who is God? Acts 17:24-25 “The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does…
How many of you are like me? You pray for yourself and other people and things and when you don’t see anything happen you get discouraged and want to give up? Purpose for prayer is not so much to get things from God, but for us to know God. (A mentor I had long ago quoted…
Psalm 106:14-15 MSG They only cared about pleasing themselves in that desert, provoked God with their insistent demands. He gave them exactly what they asked for…but along with it they got an empty heart. What have you demanded and received, only to be left with an empty heart? Was it a certain relationship? Recognition? Accomplishment?…
“Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, and with fasting weeping and mourning; and rend your heart and not your garments.” Now return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness and relenting of evil. Joel 2:12-13 God, who…
Have you ever just sat quietly with the Lord not saying anything and just trying to center your thoughts on being aware of His Presence? (Is that even possible?) Psalm 62:5 My soul, wait in silence for God only, my hope is from Him. Does that seem like a waste of time… just sitting with…
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.” …
“He who believes in me…if you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.” John 14:12-14 What is the basis for answered prayer? Jesus! It’s not that we have done good things and avoided doing bad things. It’s not our spiritual offerings and sacrifices…religious activities. Ps. 51:16 It’s not our office/position/title as leaders…