Category: Prayer

  • “Up into the mountains to pray”

    During this down time as we deal with the Coronavirus, I have been watching some of Ken Burns extended series on our National Parks.  Watching it I have been struck with a couple thoughts: Just about every single person that was influential in setting up our parks or was an early visitor to our parks…

  • “When God hath not spoken”

    “When God hath not spoken”

    We are too quick to exclaim that “God told me to…” or “The Lord led me…”.   The Word of God warns us about proclaiming that God hath spoken when He has not. Ezekiel 22:28 28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God,…

  • Treating Prayer like a good luck charm

    Treating Prayer like a good luck charm

    I believe all too often Christians are putting more faith in the fact that they prayed than faith in the God who answers prayer.  There is a big difference that we dare not overlook. I remember my grandmother throwing salt over her shoulder if the salt shaker fell over and I remember her knocking on…

  • That I may know Him (Lesson 3)

    Philippians 3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; My prayer for my congregation, my family and myself is that we may know Jesus Christ in a personal way.  We spend much time learning ABOUT Jesus.  We learn about His…

  • E M Bounds on Prayer

    Prayer is the channel through which all good flows to men.  Prayer is a privilege, a sacred, princely privilege.  Prayer is a duty, an obligation most binding and most imperative, which should hold us to it.  But prayer is more than a privilege, more than a duty.  It is the appointed condition of getting God’s…