Posted in Prayer on October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
“Our heavens and hells are so few inches apart”. I am fragile. I can waver between experiencing the fullness of the kingdom of God and being enveloped in the darkness that comes from disobedience and fear.
Yet all throughout Prayer is my anchor! Prayer is being with Jesus. I am learning to respond with my [...]
Posted in Prayer, artistic devotionals on September 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Prayer is doxology, praise, thanksgiving, confession, supplication and intercession to God. “When I prayed I was new,” wrote a great theologian of Christian antiquity, “but when I stopped praying I became old.” Prayer is the way to renewal and spiritual life. Prayer is aliveness to God. Prayer is strength, refreshment, and joy. Through the grace [...]
Posted in Prayer, Quotes on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
“Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray.” - Robert Murray McCheyne
“The evangelization of the world depends first of all upon a revival of prayer. Deeper than the need for [...]
Posted in Prayer on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Why should I spend an hour in prayer when I do nothing during that time but think about people I am angry with, people who are angry with me, books I should read and books I should write, and thousands of other silly things that happen to grab my mind for a moment?The answer is: [...]
Posted in Prayer on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Why, O Lord, is it so hard for me to keep my heart directed toward you? Why do the many little things I want to do, and the many people I know, keep crowding into my mind, even during the hours that I am totally free to be with you and you alone? Why does [...]
Posted in Prayer on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
- Prayer is like breath in my lungs
- Prayer is an act of obedience.
- Prayer is the foundation of my continuing relationship with GOD.
- Prayer has allowed an intimate relationship to develop and mature.
- Prayer makes me more sensitive to my FATHER’s wishes.
- Prayer gives me the ability to bless others in a manner [...]
Posted in Prayer on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
When uttered on sincere lips, “I’m praying for you” can be as frightening a thought as it is encouraging. Someone is standing at the throne of God with your name on their heart. It introduces an entirely new set of concerns: Are they praying for me the way I’m praying for myself? Are they asking [...]
Posted in Prayer on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Master, they say that when I seem
To be in speech with you,
Since you make no replies, it’s all a dream
—One talker aping two.
They are half right, but not as they
Imagine; rather, I
Seek in myself the things I meant to say,
And lo! The wells are dry.
Then, seeing me empty, you forsake
The Listener’s role, and through
My dead [...]
Posted in Prayer on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (John 4:23,24)
This is one of the earliest recorded teachings of Jesus [...]
Posted in Prayer, rabbi on September 12, 2007 | No Comments »
And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceasesd, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord teach us to pray (Luke 11:1)
“Lord teach us to pray”, is what we need to be taught. It is fellowship with the unseen and most Holy One. The powers of [...]
