Key to Opening Our Hearts
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Unhealthy Christians—Healthy Christians
By Lewis Turner
Unhealthy Christians—Those who continually study God’s word but not personally connecting with others. They may be mentally sharp, but not relationally sharp.
Healthy Christians—those who stu
Read more…C.S. Lewis:
I pray because I can't help myself.
I pray because I'm helpless.
I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping.
It doesn't change God.
It changes me.
Read more…The time we are currently in, is a time full of great turmoil, so much so that some faint. This morning as I awake, I sensed the Lord encouraging me to pen this prayer. I trust it will also express your heart, and that it will be of encouragement t
Read more…Taking the Challenge
I share this being retired and reflecting on the challenges that I have gone through. Perhaps someone reading this may wonder what they might do in retirement--maybe my discussion here may challenge them into thinking of other
Read more…Phil takes us to the Lord's Prayer in John 17 to discover how Jesus prayed for his own needs but in a radically different way. "So that" praying has the potential of changing how we think when we pray in corporate and
Isa 25:9 NLT
This is our God! We trusted in Him, and He saved us! This is the LORD, in whom we trusted. Let us rejoice in the salvation He brings!
Heavenly Father, thank You for sending Your Beloved Holy Son to be born in a stable and to die on a c
Read more…WIth thanks to Featured Contributor Dr. Dan Crawford
for permission to post
"Blessing"
from his book "Praying through the Beatitudes"
BLESSED
A rumor had spread among the people that Jesus was returning to Galilee. It was whispered fro
Lord God,
You are the Beginning and the End.
You are the Creator and Controller of all times and seasons. You see the end from the beginning. This comforts us. Thank You.
We know that You will walk every step with us through the year. Thank You.
Ex
Read more…Lord God,
Looking back over the past year, I see Your faithfulness. You kept every promise.
Heb 10:23 AMP He who promised is reliable and trustworthy and faithful [to His word].
Day by day You carried Your children.
Ps 68:19 NLT For each day He carr
Read more…Heavenly Father,
Thank You for the food You provide every day.
In many places all over the world farmers are struggling with all kinds of difficult circumstances. Please bless them and their families and their hard work.
Where there is drought, pleas
Read more…Old Seed Coming to Life
Recently my wife was cleaning out our freezer, and gave me an item that I had put in the freezer 24-26 years ago. It was a group of seed-Asiatic Lily seeds that I had saved from some of my hybridizing of Asiatic Lilies which I
Ex 33:14
The LORD answered, "My presence will go [with you,] and I will give you peace." GWT
The LORD replied, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." NIV
The LORD replied, “I will personally go with you, Moses, and I will give you
Read more…Numbers 6:27 (which is the end of the Aaronic Blessing—and states its purpose), and John 17:26 (which is at the end of the prayer Jesus prayed in John) chapter 17)
Numbers 6:27 (KJV)
27 And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I wi
By Chuck Lawless on Nov 20, 2019 01:30 am
My experience is that even pastors and church leaders wrestle with the discipline of prayer. We know we should pray, but we battle with making prayer
Read more…We all have Prayer Lists.
Most write their own list. Some simply memorize or visualize who they pray for. Many follow the printed list in the Sunday bulletin. Apps send them to our smartphones.
The difficulty with Prayer Lists is not having enough pe
Read more…Good Words from Prayer Champions Eddie and Alice Smith
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Read more…Pray Beyond
Reimagine Prayer as Scripture-fed, Spirit-led, Wider-spread
By Phil Miglioratti
"The Bible was written to change our lives; not increase our knowledge.”
When I first heard this exhortation from esteemed seminary professor and author Howa
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