Why are some prayers not answered? Someone once shared with me how his prayers seemed to rise no higher than the ceiling of his house. He felt God had forsaken him. Do you sometimes feel like that? Well, there are a number of reasons why our prayers may seem at best,...
"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have what we asked of him." (1 John 5:14,15) Every teaspoon of water is packed full...
Bonnie and Clyde were two fur-persons who had allowed me to cohabitate with them for over 8 years. They were the best of friends, they both entertained me and we had a good life. Then one day - a routine trip to the vet - we learned that Clyde had liver cancer. Liver...
"As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning." (Exodus 17:11) This is one of my favorite Old Testament stories. I can just picture Moses, as old as he was, straining to keep his arms...
"If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you." John 15:7 After serving in our first church for twelve years, God moved us to Eastern North Carolina to serve in a small church in a farming community. We found it...
"Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." (Mark 11:24 NIV) Bright and early, I awakened, knowing something wasn't quite right. It was Monday morning. Not a typical Monday for Floridians but almost...
"And He gave them their requests, but sent leanness to their souls.” (Psalm 106:15) As Pastor Charles Stanley says, the greater profit of prayer is not that we can gain something, but that we can relate to the One who supplies all our needs. Contemporaries of...
Matthew 6:5-6 In this series, we will look closer at each verse of the The Lord's Prayer to see beyond the familiarity of the words and into Jesus' heart in the matter. Jesus intended this to be a guideline to take us deeper into our prayer life, and not a stumbling...
“The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available (dynamic in its working).” (James 5:16 AMP) Prayer is communicating with God, talking to Him and listening to Him. Prayer brings us into God’s presence. He wants to have...
"Listen to my voice in the morning, Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly." (Psalm 5:3, NLT ) [1] "The next morning Jesus awoke long before daybreak and went out alone into the wilderness to pray." (Mark 1:35 NLT) What do Jesus and...