I felt certain I had already blogged on this, but I couldn't find it this morning. So if this is redundant, I apologize. But then again, some things bear rep...

For many of us who call ourselves Christians or followers of Jesus Christ, prayer is an afterthought. By that, I mean several different things: Prayer isn't ...

I was asking the Lord this morning what I should write on for my prayer blog today. A few minutes earlier I'd been praying for some friends who are undergoin...

This week two verses on prayer have captured my attention: Colossians 4:2 and James 5:16. Actually two words within those two verses kept coming to mind: ea...

I remember the time I first realized how much the Christmas story revolves around prayer. I hadn't seen it before. But once that came to my attention, I wond...

Yesterday I took time between each hour throughout the morning to do 5-10 minutes of exercise. A friend of mine invited me into this "Granny Exercise" group....

Last week I wrote about Psalm 139:23-24. In my daily Bible reading, those verses caught my attention as they do every time I read them. I prayed through them...

There are some Bible verses that ought to be prayed regularly because they seem to capture the essence of a God-seeker's heart cry. I read one of those verse...

Some have said that prayer is the mightiest force in the universe. I believe this—at least in my head. I've been praying for a long time, and will continue t...

I'm plugging away again at the attempt to memorize Romans. Currently I'm working on chapter 4. The nature of Abraham's faith catches my breath. What a mighty...

A friend sent me a book on prayer last week. I received it last Friday, the same day I'd written the prayer blog on Luke 18. I opened the book that night to ...

God keeps bringing me back to Luke 18. I read it again this morning. I need it. My prayer life needs it. It's one of Jesus' targeted teachings on prayer, in ...

Last week I wrote about praying for the world, using geography, the news, and missionary letters as prayer fodder. By doing this, we are integrating our soci...

We think we can do so many things on our own. In fact, we generally feel confident that we know how to do life; we can handle things. When life begins to unr...

If teaching your children the Bible is top priority because of the power of God's Word in their lives, then teaching your children to pray is a close second....

I received an email this week asking those on the email list to call for the firing of a certain person who had shown blatant discrimination and unjustified ...

One of the lies of the enemy, as I mentioned last week in the blog on prayer, is this feeling we often have that prayer is an attempt to twist God's arm. The...

There are many things I don't understand yet about prayer, but there are some things I'm learning. I'm coming to understand what prayer is not. Prayer is not...

Last words to close family and friends are important; they linger in our minds and affect us deeply. On the night before Jesus died, He spoke very intention...

The enemy of our souls, who is also the enemy of all that's good, the enemy of God, and the enemy of the human race, works hardest, I think, at keeping us fr...