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 I don’t see much happening by way of ‘my ministry’, should I go somewhere else, some place where God is working, and the harvest is plentiful? Possibly. God could be initiating a restlessness in preparation for a move. Keep talking to God about it and staying open. What came to my mind when I…
Have you experienced a time when you were particularly impressed that you heard a promise from God for a particular need/request…. and then it didn’t happen? What does faith say then? I think of Job (13:15) after losing his children, possessions, and health, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.” Or the 3 Hebrews…
“Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.” – Oswald Chambers Do you tend to rush out in the morning to tackle the things that are important and must be done, without taking time to pray? Remember the battle between the Children of Israel and the Amalekites in Exodus 17? …
II Cor. 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight Walking by faith is the constant, everyday challenge of my Christian life. Pain, loss, suffering, confusion, feeling poor and poorly, weakness, being overwhelmed, helplessness, etc., all remind me of who I am and how much I need Jesus. (John 15:5 … apart from Me,…
“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those little prayers were destined to affect, and all the consequences of those prayers down through the centuries, we would be so paralyzed with awe at the power of prayer that we would be…
Wouldn’t it have been amazing to pray out loud with Jesus? How would you pray? What would you ask for? The disciples got to do that at certain times when they were within earshot. We get to do it all the time since the God-head actually lives in us. Maybe feeling a little inadequate and…
Now He was telling them…that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart. Luke 18:1 When I read that I am immediately convicted to pray for many of my ‘impossible requests’. These are people I know who are so broken and stuck in their own ways and situations that seem so…
It is a BIG mistake to think God is not listening or doesn’t care when we pray and don’t ‘see’ results. And yet isn’t that what I’m doing when I get discouraged with the lack of results and lose motivation to pray? I was talking (complaining?) to God about that and then opened up the…