I wrote this post last week, in the middle of my vacation, due to an unexpected turn of events that occurred. I didn't post it at the time for various reasons, but I saved it to post when I returned in hopes that it would encourage someone who needed it. [Click title to read more.]
Tag: prayer
Blessed Be The Familiar, The Ordinary, and the Unremarkable
What you do might seem ordinary to you, and yet be remarkable to others. God wants to use the familiar in your life. [Click title to read more.]
When Prayer Is An Excuse For Inaction
Pray, yes. Pray first. Pray always. Prayer matters. But be aware that you may very well be the answer to the prayer that you're praying. While you're asking God to send assistance, the Lord of the Universe might very well be looking at you, waiting for you to respond. [Click title to read more.]
Don’t Deify The Process. Deify God.
The amount of time and energy we put into something says a lot about where our hearts are, and where they ought to be. [Click title to read more.]
God Works In The Quiet And The Dark
What I want you to know is that God is working when you don't think He is working. When you think He's stopped working. Long after you have resigned yourself to a "no," God is quietly, patiently, lovingly working. [Click title to read more.]
Solving The Group Prayer Problem
In the interest of encouraging others to participate in "group prayer," then, or in hopes of making it easier for believers to pray around or with other believers when they feel the need, here are some tips on solving the group prayer dilemma. [Click title to read more.]
Praying For Certainties
Prayer illustrates the heart of a particular Christian tension: the gap between what God can do, and what we as believers think or know God will do. But as believers, we need to learn how to pray for certainties. [Click title to read more.]
Making An Intentional Church Family
The church - and with it, the idea of the church family - has changed. Hugely. And one of the things that has changed - has perhaps been lost - is that church-wide feeling of connectedness. [Click title to read more.]
Make It Hard To Say No To God
Here's the thing: ignoring God is easier when it's a passive act. When we just sort of let it slide, when we never committed to speaking with Him in any concrete way to start, there's no moment of confrontation or decision where we must utter the truth: that we choose to ignore Him. [Click title to read more.]
How To Improve Your Intercessory Prayer Life
Too often, intercessory prayer becomes a task I do: a dropping-off of names and incidents into God's great skybox. As a result, intercessory prayer at times becomes rote and exists at odds with the intimate, reflective rest of my spiritual life. This is my advice on how to remedy that. [Click title to read more.]
Samaritan's Song 