Birthday:
April 28
Birthday:
April 28
Online Retreat - August 3,2024, 4 pm Kenya Time
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Verse of the Day: 2 Corinthians 10:3-4
For though we walk in the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but might in God for pulling down strongholds.”
Praying Hands Albrecht Durer
Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
Son of the Father, in truth and love. I rejoiced that I found thy children walking in truth, …
The Praying Together Class which was on Pray.network has been updated/revised and is now posted on Wheatlandministries.blogspot.com.
It is an excellent training, encouraing people to pray together.
Now, dear children, continue to live in fellowship with Christ
so that when he returns, you will be full of courage
and not shrink back from him in shame.
1 John 2:28 NLT
Be captivated in your heart.
Lovingly obey Me, and I will get…
Children and Prayer Class update
The Children and Prayer class blog presented by Wheatland Ministries has been updated. This was necessary because some of the links no longer worked, and other technical “updates” to the blog were made in the past by Google.
The Blog should work well now. If you have visited it in the past, please…
Add diligence to divine promises, employ effort exercising faith
to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy),
and in exercising virtue develop knowledge (intelligence),
and in exercising your knowledge develop self-control,
exercising self-control develop endurance (patience),
exercising…
To this were you called—it is inseparable from your vocation.
Christ suffered for you, leaving you His personal example,
so that you should follow on in His footsteps.
1 Peter 2:21 THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE
In a chaotic world, cultivate a calm…
Articles and News from My 18 Years as Prayer Coordinator
"But he (Jesus) would withdraw to desolate places and pray" (Luke 5:16 ESV).
Jesus prayed. Nineteen times the Gospels record instances where Jesus prayed.…
Turn Around
By Rick Ezell
"Repent therefore and return, that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord" (Acts 3:19 NASB).
How often have you stopped at a gas station to ask for direction only to have the attendant say,…
The Power of Prayer
By Rick Ezell
"So I prayed to the God of heaven . . ." (Neh. 2:4 HCSB).
When…
Praise God for Blessings and Burdens By Rick Ezell “Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord all my life. I will sing praise to my God as long as I live” (Psalm 146:1-2 NIV). There is an emphatic ring as the Psalmist’s soul or his inner being praises the God of the universe. The Psalmist told his readers to praise God and he told his readers that he praised God. He practiced what he preached. It was his way of saying I will praise God as long as I live or for the…
Read more…Prayer as a Vocation By Rick Ezell “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed” (Mark 1:35 NIV). Glenn Hinson, professor of church history and spirituality, tells about taking a church-history class to the Abbey Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky. Their host was Thomas Merton, a Trappist Catholic monk who wrote more than sixty books on spirituality. To Hinson’s horror, one of his students asked why someone…
Read more…The Prayer Force By Rick Ezell Prayer is the indispensable and vital function of a believer. No aspect of our Christian life is more essential and crucial to our personal growth and health, and the church’s growth and health, than spending time with God. We are never taller than when we are on our knees. We are never stronger than when we are confessing our weaknesses. We are never bolder in public than when we are quiet before God in private. Prayer brings God to us. Prayer reminds us that…
Read more…Prayer Brings God To Us Rick Ezell “Come near to God and he will come near to you” (James 4:8 NIV). Prayer reminds us that we need God more than he needs us. Prayer brings God to us. The essence of prayer is to join God, not God joining us. St. Augustine, the early church father and theologian, described prayer as like a man in a hapless boat who throws a rope at a rock. The rock provides the needed security and stability and life for the helpless man. When the rock is lassoed it’s not the…
Read more…Prayer Works Rick Ezell “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us” 1 John 5:14 NIV. Does prayer really work? Actually this is a bad question. Prayer is not a utilitarian practice aimed at achieving an accomplishment. Neither is prayer an exercise in which a person gets exactly what he asks for if he takes great care to state the request properly. Prayer is not merely communicating words with God, but communion with God…
Read more…Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers by Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove InterVarsity Press, 2008 Reviewed by Rick Ezell Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do (p. 11). Prayer is less about what we say and more about being with the one we love (p. 11). Prayer and action can go together; in fact they must. Otherwise we have little more than a bunch of inactive believers or worn-out…
Read more…Transforming Prayer by Daniel Henderson Reviewed by Rick Ezell Prayer is more about God than about us. Daniel Henderson in Transforming Prayer drives home this point with clarity, wit, and candor. While he confesses that he is not a natural prayer guy, Henderson reveals how he had to relearn prayer after growing dissatisfied with his early prayer life. His dissatisfaction led him to a life-changing prayer strategy he calls worship-based prayer. This approach seeks the face of God before the…
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