Prayer

Prayer Thought: More Strength than Samson and Lou Ferrigno Combined I was 13 years old, in 8th grade, and shorter than I am even now if you can believe it. The year was 1993 and Christian shirts and sweatshirts with quips such as, “I asked God, ‘How much do You love me? Then He stretched out His arms and died’” were very popular. My favorite sweatshirt I owned at the time was pretty controversial but probably not for the reason you might be thinking. You see, it was a white sweatshirt that looked like it had a huge bodybuilder on

Prayer Thought: Say Something “Say something, I’m giving up on you. I’ll be the one, if you want me to. Anywhere, I would’ve followed you. Say something, I’m giving up on you. And I am feeling so small. It was over my head. I know nothing at all. And I will stumble and fall. I’m still learning to love. Just starting to crawl. Say something, I’m giving up on you. I’m sorry that I couldn’t get to you. Anywhere, I would’ve followed you. Say something, I’m giving up on you. And I will swallow my pride. You’re the one that

Prayer Thought: Praying the Church Back to a Renewed Missions Focus “If you have never had any distractions you don’t know how to pray.” -Thomas Merton One of the single greatest gifts given by our Heavenly Father besides salvation is that we have been chosen by Him to pray. At no other time in this life are we able to be more intimate with the Father in when praying in His presence. That being said, the church needs to be THE people who take prayer seriously.  Unfortunately, due to our ever-increasingly distracted culture, God’s people have lost sight of the

Prayer Thought: The Force of Your Prayers “We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.” -Andrew Murray Have you ever thought about the potency there is in Kingdom prayer? What about the power of prayer? God, in His infinite wisdom has shown us HOW to pray? It’s actually one of the main questions the disciples asked Jesus to teach them…how to pray. Do we truly believe that the God of the Universe has ‘entrusted us with

Prayer Thought: The Legalism Trap- A Missionary Case Study I was talking to a missionary couple the other day, who we are going to call J.D. and Marissa, and asked how they were doing in ministry and their church plant. They exchanged some niceties and typical greetings with me. But then I pressed a bit further about their personal perspective on how things were going. Both of them, in turn, admitted to how burnt out they felt, how exhausted they were from all of the expectations placed on them by their senders and the unrealistic expectations they put on themselves.