In our most recent previous posts, we provided you with some tips and truths about prayer. We’d like to take the conversation a little deeper and will be answering several questions about the practice of prayer in the next few articles. I think the best place to start is with the question: What exactly is prayer? When people are asked this question, a common response is “talking to God”. Even the Mirriam-Webster Dictionary defines it as: “an address (such as a petition) to God or a god in word or thought”. While these might be technically accurate answers, they are also incomplete ones. Prayer is so much more. Prayer…
Six Tips for Effective Prayer
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 Woman Who Rises is One Who Sees, Episode 3
Free Download: She Sees Outline Psalms 46:10 says, be still and know that I am God. It sounds so simple, yet in today’s busy world it can be quite challenging to take the time to be still. Join Cherry and I at the table this week as we discuss the spiritual discipline of contemplation. Slowing in order to take the time to notice, reflect, and respond leads us into a deeper awareness of God’s constant presence with us. It also puts us in a posture to be shaped and molded into His likeness. This week Cherry shares with us the benefits and the keys to experiencing God in a more…
