Prayer: True to scripture and thus honoring to God, Motivated by love w/o condemnation, Freeing, uplifting, encouraging – not bondage and legalism, Receptive minds and hearts eager to do Your will. INTRODUCTION: This is THE one subject just about everyone finds interesting and quite possibly the area that we tend to protect…
Jesus is about to ‘be lifted up’ (for all to see – shame, the greatest unfairness/injustice, as though powerless – He who had ALL authority and power) for the sins of the whole world…and He knows it. He says, “Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour?’”…
Prov. 3:6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. “…and He will make your paths straight.” I’ve always wondered what this meant. Recently I recognized that pride is my bent, the direction of…
It’s difficult but critical to discern what I truly believe and will stand/act upon and what I feel. It seems like for so many people faith and truth are determined by feeling; ‘it can’t be true if it doesn’t feel true’. What an unreliable, easily manipulated determinant. 1 Peter 1:25 …but the word of the…
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?…
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant…
Matthew 8:16-17 When evening came, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed; and He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were ill. This was to fulfill what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet: “HE HIMSELF TOOK OUR INFIRMITIES AND CARRIED AWAY OUR DISEASES.” (ref. Isa. 53:4) I’ve always thought…
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…