“We soon learn in our prayer lives DETERMINATION AND STEADFASTNESS are as much of our prayer lives as our focus and language.”
Category: faith
God Cares (Comes Down)
“Do you know what it is when only God can help?”
Who Has Authority?
“When we want God to hear our pleas for our flesh and blood enemies to be destroyed by divine action, it ought to make sense for us now that God is not likely to answer such pleas.”
God’s Great Big Things
“These stories stir in us a passion to draw near to God and trust his will to truly be best for all of us, and God’s will is most dramatically seen and given to us in the words and life of Jesus Christ.”
Believe
“Where was Thomas when his friends were together behind locked doors? They were behind locked doors out of fear, fear of those who never came. BUT JESUS CAME.”
He Stirred Our Faith
” Jesus enters OUR LIVES AND OUR CIRCUMSTANCES triumphant over any enemy and affliction of spirit, soul or body. He enters today our conditions of depression or misery AS OUR VICTOR.”
Lost Track of Us
” Isaiah proclaimed when you wait on the Lord you’ll find strength emotionally, spiritually or physically. A fulfillment of this was in Jesus. Simon’s mother-in-law may have felt hidden from and disregarded by the Lord, but Jesus took her by the hand and the fever left her.”
Grown Accustomed
Haggai 1: 3-6, 12 Maybe you’ve grown accustomed to how things are right now. You’ve come to grips on how life is, and you dare not hope for anything better. Maybe any effort to change things might throw your circumstances into chaos. Maybe you are content, grown accustomed to your life. I wrote in my…
But Peter Wasn’t Afraid
Peter’s doubt became more dominant in the moment than Peter’s faith in Jesus. The strong wind and battering waves became more real than Jesus. The physical realities of gravity and weight, wind and water, became more real than their Lord defying all physical realities and telling Peter to “Come out to me.”
I’m Staying Home
Matthew 10: 27-39 Maybe because of this text of scripture or that I was at Annual Conference this week, this illustration seems appropriate. Jesus was walking along one day when he came upon a man crying, and he said, “My friend, what’s wrong?” The man replied, “I’m blind. Can you help me?” Jesus healed the…
Psalm 102 in The Message 