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…
Suffering: The Attention Getter?
I never imagined that I would be the one to land in the hospital with covid and yet this past September, that is exactly where I found myself. The doctors didn’t paint a pretty picture and seemed to be fairly concerned. I know my family was horribly worried about me and I understood why. Even as I was in the hospital, several people we knew were in hospitals across the US, fighting for their lives with this nasty virus. And a few of them lost the battle. Men and women of great faith, gone too soon. I’m not sure if it was naivety or faith or some combination of the…
Partners of Hope
Living in Oklahoma can be brutal in July and August. High humidity combined with temperatures hovering around the century mark, can be suffocating. That is why it is almost a ceremonial event flipping the page of my calendar from August to September. It makes me happy. It’s funny how a turn of the page can instantly change my mood even though the conditions are the same. The reality is it’s supposed to hit a high of 100 degrees today, and let’s not even talk about the heat index. But it doesn’t matter to me. At some point today I’ll find my way to a pumpkin spice latte to celebrate the…
