Cover Your Shepherd
You can pray for me at every stop light!” shouted Pastor Tim from the back of the room. I was leading a prayer conference in a Chicago-area church, and I had been sharing how I often used a long traffic …
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4 Ways to Teach Thanks
In the Old Testament, a thank offering represented an act of thanksgiving for answered prayer and blessings given. It expressed a voluntary desire on the part of the offerer(s) to thank God. Usually, thank offerings were given in gratitude for …
Praying for God’s Agenda
I attended a weekly prayer meeting that was billed as a time to seek God for the church. I was really looking forward to it. Imagine a gathering to focus on asking God to move within a local body, to …
Walking & Talking with God in 2019
If we were enjoying a cup of coffee and talking about 2019 “hopes and dreams,” it’s likely you would include something like “growing my prayer life”—abiding with Jesus, interceding for others, seeing God’s hand move! Through the years, I’ve met …
Prayer: From Duty to Delight
The school bus pulls heavily away from our house, and I turn from the door. Through the house I go, switching off lights and turning down the radio that plays constantly to the menagerie in my son’s room. Then I pull …
Fasting From Sleep: God’s Call in the Night
Sleep is precious, and the experts tell us that we don’t get enough of it. That’s why in the past when woke up during the night for whatever reason, I’d do everything within my power to get back to sleep …
How Do True Sons and Daughters Pray for their enemies?
Tender & TOUGH by Cynthia Hyle Bezek I’ll never forget the first time I prayed—I mean really prayed—for an enemy. It felt like I was dying. In fact, I refer to that late night spiritual battle so many years ago …
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The Power of Arrow Prayers
“Sometimes I feel like a failure as an intercessor–I never seem to have time to pray for as long as I need to.” You’ve probably felt like this at some point; I know I have. In fact, of the many …
Lord, Teach Us To Pray
“Lord, teach us to pray” was first whispered by one of Jesus’ disciples (Lk. 11:1). The disciples had just caught Jesus praying, and they looked on in utter admiration. They had never seen anyone pray like this before. Sure, they …
Not in the Mood to Pray?
Nineteenth century British preacher Charles Spurgeon said: “We should pray when we are in a praying mood, for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity. We should pray when we are not in a praying mood, for …