Verse: "Love the Lord your God withh all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength" (Deut. 6:5).
Prayer: Lord, you are our God. We will love you as a family with all of our heart, soul, and strength.
Read more…Verse: "Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things" (Phil. 4:8).
Prayer: Holy God, make o
Read more…Verse: "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen" (Eph. 4:29).
Prayer: Precious Father, guard and guide the way we speak
Read more…Verse: "May those who hope in you not be disgraced because of me, O Lord Almighty; may those who seek you not be put to shame because of me, O God of Israel" (Ps. 69:6).
Prayer: Holy God, let our marriage always glorify and honor your name. Make y
Read more…Verse: "In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven" (Matt. 5:16).
Prayer: Lord God, make our marriage a bright light for you. Let the good works of our marriage bring praise
Read more…Below is an excerpt from chapter 5 "Praying for Spiritual Intimacy"
from "Pray Big for Your Marriage":
Verse: "Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral" (Heb. 13:4).
Prayer: Fatherm help us to honor your institution of marriage. Keep our marriage pure and free f
Read more…Verse: "Now, my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place: (2 Chron. 6:40).
Prayer: Mighty Lord, please anoint our home iwth your holy presence. Please hear and answer the prayers we offer here. Grant
Read more…I don't know about you but while I was being discipled, I never heard anything about my mentors going through a crisis of faith. Sometimes I think that believers go through crises of faith and perhaps fall away because they don't know how to get thr
Read more…My heart is breaking. Lately, I have been hearing about several situations in a church where marriages are splitting up and as the spouses go off to do something to further destroy their marriage, they are proclaiming that "The Holy Spirit is leadi
Read more…I was reading 1 Corinthians 2 this morning and found myself stopping to meditate on verse 16. I thought I'd share the question that came to mind and see what your thoughts are...
What does it mean to have the mind of Christ?
Read more…Has anyone else experienced periods of time where it seems like God sidelined you for a while to work on some things in your own life. And then when you felt called to get back in the game, you felt a sense of inadequacy or it seemed that there wer
Read more…1. Pray--For the children, for their biological families, for their foster parents, for Case workers, Counselors, and Judges. Pray for protection, for godly influences, for emotional, physical, & spiritual healing. Prayer can reach into places that
Read more…My husband is having surgery tomorrow morning at 8 am PST to reverse a colostomy. He had to have emergency surgery about two months ago due to a hole in his colon. This surgery is to put everything back in place again. Last time he had surgery, he
Read more…What do you think?...What makes one believer an Intercessor while some seem to have no interest in intercession? Is it a gift? A calling? A mark of spiritual maturity or obedience? How does a person move from self-centered prayer to being burdene
Read more…What comes to mind when you think of the term, "Evangelism?"
I think my first exposure to Evangelism was at a "tent meeting" where a preacher was preaching a "hell-fire and brimstone" message in which people were being converted through fear.
Lat
Read more…One of the best resources that I've seen on Resolving Conflict is a book by Ken Sande, "The Peace Maker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict" Baker Books (2004).
In his book, Ken elaborates on how the following principles can lead to
Read more…My husband is a Youth Pastor and one of the mission trips that we have done is through the SanFrancisco YWAM base.
We were sent into the Tenderloin District and the Haight/Ashberry area to minister to homeless, drug addicted, prostitutes, etc. For
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