What Miracle Are You Missing?
In this Christmas season, let’s be those who live with active patience, lifting our eyes and steadying our hearts so we can be faithful with our hands. Through grace we can see every mundane responsibility, such as the upkeep of a stable, as meaningful to the purposes of God.
There’s a Reason Jesus Told Us to Pray This
Fresh or familiar pain is never enjoyable, but we mustn’t forget that pain is good as long as it’s necessary. It locates what is hurt so it can be healed. Don’t deny the pain but do defy it through your daily surrender.
Three Things That Lead to the Miraculous in Your Life
What is God asking you to acknowledge, to bless, to break? Have you cursed what’s in your hands rather than blessing it and offering it to God?
How Many Times Should You Pray?
Sin does its best work in the dark. It fractures, separates, distorts, dealing in deception and delusion. Sin is powerful but it doesn’t stand a chance against the light. When brought into the light, its holes are exposed, and those holes become portals, if you will, for us to receive God’s redemptive holiness, a wholeness only made possible by grace. Within the light, even sin must bow its knee, surrendering to God’s plans to redeem, restore, and transform.
Is There Something You Need to Bring Into the Light?
Sin does its best work in the dark. It fractures, separates, distorts, dealing in deception and delusion. Sin is powerful but it doesn’t stand a chance against the light. When brought into the light, its holes are exposed, and those holes become portals, if you will, for us to receive God’s redemptive holiness, a wholeness only made possible by grace. Within the light, even sin must bow its knee, surrendering to God’s plans to redeem, restore, and transform.
Your Weekly Prayer Guide: How to See the Power of Prayer
Have you ever noticed that thanksgiving has a buoyancy to it? When you’re around people who practice costly gratitude, life feels lighter, even when it’s heavy.
Weekly Prayer Guide: How the Meek Inherit the Earth
There is hope, though. According to the proverb, while anxiety might weigh us down, just a single good word can reverse its effects, offering us courage in exchange for despair.
A Good Word for When Life Weighs You Down
There is hope, though. According to the proverb, while anxiety might weigh us down, just a single good word can reverse its effects, offering us courage in exchange for despair.
I’ve Found it’s Nearly Impossible to Pray When…
There’s a moment in Psalm 5 where David tells us to “be agitated (angry), and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts . . . and be silent.” As a poet and lyricist, David isn’t suggesting we abandon messy words but he knows a pondering posture eventually leads to powerful words of praise.
How to Find Faith When It’s Difficult to Pray
I want to challenge you this week to feed on God’s faithfulness. The Hebrew word for “feed” could also be translated graze or drive to pasture, so ask Jesus to shepherd you into the fields of His faithfulness. Ask for eyes to see and receive what you haven’t known before. Ask for the strength to dwell and enjoy.