Is Prayer Important? That’s a question we might ask ourselves occasionally. And the next question could be, “If prayer is important, to whom is it important?” The Word of God, the Bible, teaches that our prayers are important to God. The following verses are a few examples. In I Thessalonians 5:17 we are told to [...]
God’s Point of View I know from personal experience that developing and maintaining a meaningful prayer life with God can be difficult. Many things work against us. Our desire for a deep relationship with Him has to supersede the importance of other busyness. There is not one legitimate excuse that God will honor for not [...]
Power is explained in Webster’s dictionary as: strength, energy; the energy or ability to act effectively; the authority to act – to provide with a means of propulsion. Our galaxy is made up of planets of many different sizes circulating a powerful sun and doing it just as it should, day by day. Recently, scientists’ [...]
My struggle with prayer. “Arising from the ashes of discontent, my dormant spirit has stirred, it hungers and thirsts.” Thirty years ago I wrote those words as they came to me out of spiritual desperation. They expressed an emptiness and a longing of my heart. I journeyed the next twenty-seven years searching for God and [...]