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I have an index card taped to the wall in my prayer closet with three short prayers written on it. These prayers came to me in a time of prayer, and I felt them so sincerely in the moment that I wrote them down and
When I began, Kay Arthur and Precept Ministries crossed my path. I learned her method of studying the bible. It is a rigorous and methodical method of study. In the beginning my quiet time was my life line. I poured hours into reading, studying, meditating
My brother has a prayer that came straight from God during his prayer time. He has prayed some form of that prayer over and over and over again. It is a beautiful prayer of surrender. My friend Barbara has a prayer that came to her in
In my last blog I talked about this scripture from 1 Corinthians: “For this reason the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that they may interpret what they say. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is
“Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit,
Intercessors are the type A administrative assistants of God, right? They have lists upon lists and pray day and night without a breath of silence, right? Actually, the best intercessory times I’ve personally seen, never had a list at all. They weren’t conducted like a business
What a person eats becomes a part of them, therefore in many religious teachings what is unclean or unholy, when ingested, has the ability to make the whole person unholy. What a person touches, who they associate with, day in and day out, has the
In a discussion with the disciples Jesus says, “Because of the hardness of your hearts Moses permitted divorce, but from the beginning, it was not so.” So, In the Law, divorce is allowed, but it breaks God’s heart when the only end to conflict is
I was raised in church. Ever since I was a teenager, if you’d asked me what the gospel is, I’d have given you an accurate recitation of protestant doctrine about “salvation by faith in Christ alone, not based on any works I do or don’t
In an earlier blog I said, “Prayer is how we approach God.” Well, what you believe about God often determines how you approach. People tend to think that prayer is asking God for things. And to be fair in the old Shakespearean English “I
