Prayer is essential to our relationship with the Lord. It is key to our spiritual growth and development. Prayer is worship, an outpouring of our thoughts and feelings to God and an intentional listening for His voice. When I started my walk with the Lord and began in earnest to develop a prayer life I encountered a couple of challenges. I was a mom with 4 littles under foot so by the time I found a few quiet minutes in the day to sit still and pray, one of two things would happen: I would fight falling asleep or my thoughts would be bombarded by my never ending to do…
Truths About Prayer
Prayer is foundational to our relationship with the Lord. It is simply a conversation with God to share our thoughts, needs, concerns, triumphs and joys and then listen for his response to us. Here are six truths about prayer to help you develop or strengthen your prayer life. GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS – “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7, NKJV GOD TEACHES WISDOM – “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.” James…
A Name to Be Thankful For
I will thank the LORD for his righteousness. I will sing about the name of the LORD Most High. Psalms 7:17 Recently, as I was reading my Bible, my attention was drawn to the way God was introducing Himself to people by using various names. The names He chose to introduce Himself were characteristic of both His nature and His activity in their lives at that moment. The story of Hagar in Genesis 16 particularly stood out to me. She was a slave of Abram and Sarai and pregnant with Abram’s child because they got impatient concerning God’s promise to give them a child of their own. Sarai had been…
You Ever Feel Stuck?
This morning I was nestled in my favorite spot- my prayer chair that sits in the corner by my living room window. I love communing with the Lord in this spot every morning and watching out the window as the world awakens. My window frames a beautiful picture every morning of the sun rising and casting its rays of light through the bank of trees in my front yard. However, today the picture looks different. It is largely overcast today and the dark gray clouds seem to be trying their best to choke out the sun. And the thing that really caught my attention was the clouds were rolling. Instead of…
