The best bit of advice I ever received about how to pray was this: keep it simple, keep it real, keep it up. You’ve got to keep it simple so that the most natural thing in the world doesn’t become …
“God doesn’t want us to be shy with his gifts, but bold and loving and sensible.” —2 Timothy 1:5-7, The Message® Where It Began In the summer of 1975, tucked away in the front range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, …
Christianity Today called How to Pray “an instant spiritual classic.” Read the first chapter or click here to buy the book at your favorite retailer or navpress.com. This perennial top-selling title, A Praying Life, has been described as, “Honest, realistic, …
To engage in effective spiritual warfare, you need to know your enemy and your authority, but most of all, you need to know how to fight! Baptist pastor John Piper says that “the number one reason why prayer malfunctions in …
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I’m aware that talk of Satan, demons, fallen angels, and an apocalyptic battle between cosmic forces of light and darkness will sound ridiculous to some and like a plot from a second-rate Marvel comic to others. In the West, we …
To engage in effective spiritual warfare, you need to know your enemy and your authority, but most of all, you need to know how to fight! Baptist pastor John Piper says that “the number one reason why prayer malfunctions in …
Read more3 Questions to Ask When Confronting Conflict in Prayer
Our English word prayer derives from the Latin precarious. We pray because life is precarious. We pray because life is marvelous. We pray because we find ourselves at a loss for many things, but not for the simplest words like…
Praying for you need … today. Few people in modern times have demonstrated the power of petitionary prayer more powerfully and consistently than the nineteenth-century philanthropist and pastor George Müller, who started 117 schools, cared for 10,024 orphans, educated 120,000 …
[maxbutton id=”25″] According to sociological studies, what do Americans do on a daily basis more often than go to work? Pray.[i] Prayer is not only something that happens often in our lives; it’s also something that increases significantly as we …
by Paul E. Miller, author of A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World I wrote a book on prayer but, until 2008, I never thought about praying with my daughter every morning. Let me explain. My daughter Kim …