Christian Prayer Blog and Book Recommendations

Hannah prayed and said: “My heart rejoices in the LORD… I rejoice in Your salvation.” — 1 Samuel 2:1When have you really wanted something? We all know what it feels ...

In order to move forward in something new and different, we need to renew our minds. To do that, our minds need a new connection.Repentance can feel like a heavy ...

As you move forward embracing all the unexpected adventures God has for you, I invite you to pray the following prayer. Pray it in faith, boldly, courageously, and with a ...

Hope Is an Act of DefianceI don’t know where your hope is struggling. Maybe your beleaguered hope is for… A loved one to be saved A child to come home ...

Editor’s Note: Laura Story’s life upended when her husband Martin was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The struggle that followed was very real and very hard, but it was in ...

Worship the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful songsKnow that the Lord is God It is He who made us, and we are His;We are His people, the ...

This, then, is how you should pray. — Matthew 6:9Most of us won’t remember the first conversation we had with our horses, but it had to have started with some ...

Why Should We Pray?God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking. — Catherine MarshallDo not be ...

Rest in Me, My child.Give your mind a break from planning and trying to anticipate what will happen. Pray continually, asking My Spirit to take charge of the details of ...

Planted, Plugged In, and PreparedA while back I saw a 60 Minutes special on a free diver named William Trubridge, who goes to extreme depths in the ocean on a ...

“This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.” – John 9:3The primary purpose of prayer is not to change circumstances; the primary purpose of prayer ...

God’s PromiseWhen a believing person prays, great things happen. — James 5:16 NCVI accompanied Denalyn on some errand running recently. We stopped at a store called OfficeMax so she could ...

Desperate people pray. They pray without thinking about it; they pray even if they are not sure who they’re praying to or if anyone out there is listening at all. ...

I was rewinding an old VHS tape to show Christian and his friends some footage from our trip to Scotland when he was two years old. “This is taking forever,” ...

When I was in college, I listened to a lot of sermons by Louie Giglio. He led a citywide Bible study in Atlanta for many years, and I also heard ...

PrayThis is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. — 1 John 5:14 NIVI’ve had a long (and ...