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You Are One Prayer Away from a New Life

It sounds unbelievable until it happens. You pray the impossible prayer. Because you are at the edge of what your heart can handle. You are at the edge of what ...

Prayers for Teachers, Students, and Schools: FREE Downloads

In this article, you will learn: 3 ways to to pray for teachers, students, and schools consistently, including how to have a prayer walk in your child’s school and pray ...

You Can Trust God When You Don’t Understand

Breathe Deep and Know:   The way of God may not always make sense to you, but you can trust Him without fear. At the root of my fear is ...

Faith Makes Us Right in God’s Sight

Romans 3:22–24, 27–28 In this passage of Romans, Paul very clearly stated that we are made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ. This assertion was a massive shift ...

Pray for Teachers!

Editor’s note: Summer will be here before we know it! Let’s pray for teachers! We are so grateful for them and they need our supportive prayers as they round out ...

10 Verses to Pray for Your Daughter

I have always wanted to be a prayer warrior. I remember hearing stories of the power of prayer from missionaries that would come to our church growing up, or testimonies ...

The Prayer God Always Answers

I know a great deal about the mercy of God because I have firsthand experience with the Judge himself. I have stood in the line that leads into His courtroom ...

Time Alone with Jesus

Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. — Luke 5:16 Often when I am under stress and pressure, I feel one of my greatest needs is to get a ...

Prayer Combats Worry

Editor’s Note: In 1964, Margaret Fishback Powers wrote poem called, “Footprints”. It’s become a well-known and widely loved poem that has reminded those who read it and re-read it that ...

Compelled to Pray

Compelled by Problems in Our World Daniel’s prayer pulsates with this type of emotional conviction. His life for sixty-seven years had been difficult at best. As an old man, he ...

The Only Love That Never Fails

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you by His love; He will ...

God Will Help You Get Through Grief

We don’t discuss graveyards to brighten our day. Cemeteries aren’t typically known for their inspiration. But an exception was found in a graveyard near Bethany. And that one exception is ...

Whose Agenda is Our Concern Anyway?

The first petition in the Lord’s Prayer is that God’s name be hallowed. The second petition, “Your Kingdom come,” builds on the first by showing us how God’s name is ...

Jehoshaphat, Isaiah, and Job: Prayers for a Time Such As This

For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You. — 2 Chronicles ...

Yielding to God in Prayer

God invites us to pray in such a way that it scares what is scared within us. If you are not praying the type of prayers that scare you, they ...

Prayers for Fear and Anxiety

Editor’s note: Fear and anxiety are at an all-time high the world over. We pray that you find these prayers comforting, exhorting, and hopeful! * Son of God, who subdued ...

Free Resources

Free Bible Study through the Gospel of John with Megan Fate Marshman!

Free Bible Study through the Gospel of John with Megan Fate Marshman!

What if Jesus' words-I Am-are exactly the answers your heart is craving?

Join the OBS and get access to 8 study videos and other Bible study resources - all free when you sign up! Study starts 6/2