The greatness of His power to create and design and form and mold and make and build and arrange defies the limits of our imagination. And since He created everything, there is nothing beyond His powe...
The focus of that week was learning how to listen to the voice of God in what was dubbed My Quiet Time with God. You have to admire the camp leaders’ intent, but let’s be honest. Most pre-adolescents...
We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself. —OSWALD CHAMBERS1
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We never pause long enough to listen to our dreams, so we don’t have to be responsible for them . . . If we don’t wish or dream, we aren’t disappointed. If we aren’t disappointed, we can tolerate our...
Your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him (Matthew 6:8). Then why should we ask? The point of prayer is not to get answers from God, but to have perfect and complete oneness wit...
One of the best books I’ve read in years is Second Calling: Finding Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life. Author Dale Hanson Bourke addresses this matter of our hectic lifestyles: If I turn u...
Not long ago we heard about a group of students visiting the Eighth Air Force Museum in Savannah, Georgia. The docent leading their tour, a P-47 veteran from WWII, was asked, Did you serve in World Wa...
Good news is we don’t have to suffer alone. We don’t have to carry the burdens of our messy lives alone. God is there for us. He wants to be the Comforter in Chief for the worst that life on this eart...
Merely by making that faith choice to follow Him, each one of us have the astounding opportunity to become a vessel of His love to the world around us.
Look at what Colossians 1:16-17 has to say on this attribute of God’s character. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or...
Life without prayer is like watching TV on an ancient twelve-inch black-and-white TV set. The picture is snowy and distorted, and no matter how much aluminum foil you wrap around those rabbit ears, yo...
Reached for her hand then dropped his voice. It
In Blue Like Jazz author Donald Miller addresses this subject from a startling perspective. I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting...
If He is the vine and we are the branches, the only way we’ll survive is for us to be connected to Him: to dwell with Him or to remain in a relationship with Him. Otherwise we shrivel up like those us...
We convince ourselves that a few minutes warming the pew now and then, listening to someone else pray is somehow sufficient. As if by showing up and tipping our spiritual hat to God, we’re covered. Ne...
We’re all guilty of getting caught up in the world we live in and demoting God to the back of the bus. Or, like Briana’s character in Chapter 6, we grant Jesus access into only certain parts of our li...
Giddy? Moi? How did I go from near despair—threatening to walk away from my faith in God forever—to giddy? I realized there could be only one explanation: God. He made good on His promise to love me,...
Do not have your concert first and tune your instruments afterward. Begin the day with God. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him. —James Hudson Ta...
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. What kind of fool ignores invitations like that? The
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