“The revelation of the Son of Man like lightning is outside of our grasp to control, but our availability to pray and not lose heart IS IN OUR GRASP.”
Tag: prayer
How We Got Here
“It will be in prayer WE BEGIN to love the lost, and IT WILL BEGIN in prayer where we cry out as a church for those we love to be found.”
The Lord Remembers
“How often do we pray with this being the first impression on our minds without expressing it: LORD, DO YOU REMEMBER ME?”
Under Conviction
“I was desperate to experience the goodness of God in the churches I pastored. They prayed for me. I entered that lunch date desperate. I left that restaurant under conviction.”
Can I Be Sure?
Luke 1: 5-25 A five-year-old daughter looked at a calendar and asked, “How many be-good days ’til Christmas?” She made promises undoubtedly to be good in those days leading to Christmas. In these three Sundays leading to Christmas, I’ll share messages about three of the characters in the birth story of Jesus. God made promises…
We All Have a Way to Go
Luke 18: 9-14 Mark Twain said many years ago, “I don’t know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed except the answer to prayer.” A kindergarten class went to the fire station for a tour and some instruction in fire safety. The firefighter was explaining what to do in case of a…
Nothing Else Matters
Luke 15: 1-10 A little boy needed $100 for a school field trip, so his mother told him to ask God for it. He prayed for two weeks, but nothing turned up. So, he decided to ask God for the money in a letter. At the post office, the postmaster opened the letter to God…
When We Learn to Pray
Luke 11: 1-13 Jesus prayed and that prompted his disciples to ask him to teach them to pray. They asked him to teach them. A retired minister made it a practice to visit the parish school one day each week. The fourth graders were learning about the states, so when he dropped in on the…
Better Than We Could
James 5: 13-16 In trouble? Pray Happy? Sing songs of praise. Sick? Call the elders of the church to pray and anoint with oil. Your condition or emotions call for a response. Keeping your condition or emotions to yourself is not natural for a Christian. Waiting for and expecting things to change on their own…
But I Wait in Patience
My posts over the last year have all been sermon manuscripts. Way back when I was told to write (Write this down for the next generation. . . Write so the story can be told in Zion, so God’s praise will be sung. . . – Psalm 102 in The Message), there was an intentionality…
Psalm 102 in The Message 