It's the last day before we leave and drive the 3000 miles home. The finances are short and the road is long. We are awaiting a cheque that will pay for the road trip. As the deadline for leaving quickly approaches the anxiety levels rise. You know what I mean because...
Holistic Praying
"Lord, teach us to pray; Lord teach me to pray." How many times have you or I echoed those words spoken by Jesus' disciples so many years ago? Yet the heart-felt desire of those words never seems to go away. Not only teach me how to pray but how to pray more...
Persistent Encourager
I have been labelled a nag, especially by my children. I like to think of myself as a "persistent encourager". They see it differently. I try to deflect the label by saying that I learned from the best. My mother was a "persistent encourager". Their only response is,...
Too Soon To Quit
It's too hard. I'm too tired. I've tried and it just doesn't work. No matter what I do it always ends the same way. Why bother anymore? I'm sure that God is too busy to listen to my prayers. These sound familiar? They do to me, mainly because I have used them myself...
Prayer For Government
"Let every soul be subject to the governing authority. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God ... therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience sake" (Romans 13:1,5) Frankly, I...
Stand Fast In Prayer
"Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines had gathered together into a troop where there was a piece of ground full of lentils. Then the people fled from the Philistines. But he stationed himself in the middle of the field, defended it, and killed the...
Too Busy Not To Pray
There is a saying in management that if you want a job done quickly and efficiently, find a busy person to do it. Or as Henry Ford states, "Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them". Busy people do not try to skirt...
Praying With Results
I am a pragmatist when it comes to the topic of prayer. As I have sought to get a better handle on the workings of prayer, I have wrestled with its very ideas and theories for many years . I have listened and read widely as others theorize, spiritualize, rationalize,...
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Please know that I love to speak with my Father and to bring others before Him in prayer. I have this unfailing belief that He both hears and answers the prayers of His children.
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