Christian Prayer Blog and Book Recommendations

This Throne Room Prayer Changes Everything

What’s the one prayer that is spoken every day, every hour, every minute, even now?It’s a simple but potent prayer tucked into the book of Revelation.The beloved disciple, John, finds ...

You Don’t Need Seminary to Understand Scripture

I know prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes people. But if you don’t have somebody visible that you can pray with, somebody that you can call and tell ...

Living the Blessing

We get it that many people today are spiritually homeless when it comes to a church or doing much with their faith. But the Blessing is all about getting to ...

A Minister of Comfort

He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. — 2 Corinthians 1:4 NLTYou’ve heard repeatedly that God causes all the circumstances of your life to ...

How Are You Praying for Our Leaders?

Since our nation’s very first days, God’s greatest movements in our midst have been fashioned and sustained by prayer, from the signing of our earliest documents, to our triumphs over ...

Three Powerful Prayers from Historical Figures

Editor’s note: It’s been said that prayer is the world’s greatest wireless connection. A freely accessible conversation with God? What an act of mercy on His part. Humanity has been ...

5 Prayers for a New Year

For all that is unknown about a new year, one thing you can know for sure is that new days are on their way. Whether you are the one who ...

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 ...

Rhythms of Renewal: Get Quiet

CREATE SPACE AND LISTEN Without great solitude, no serious work is possible. ~ Pablo PicassoGrowing up, I always considered myself an extrovert. I never declined an invitation or opportunity to ...

Prayer in the Pursuit of God

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

Guideposts for Thanksgiving

The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride. — Ecclesiastes 7:8 NIVI want to completely declutter the basement before Thanksgiving,” my wife, ...

Holiness Over Freedom

When we decide to follow Jesus, life is no longer about our liberties. It is about our responsibilities to Him. It is not about our cans. It is about our ...

5 Gratitude Devotions You Just Might Need This Week

Editor’s note: What a week we’re about to embark on! We thought you could use a few quick devotions to get your mornings started. Despite the chaos surrounding us right ...

Into the Mystery

Everything is possible for you. —Mark 14:36In the garden of Gethsemane Jesus addresses His prayers tenderly to “Abba, Father” but also reverently to the One for whom “everything is possible” ...

The Long Walk Between Offered and Answered Prayer

You are walking, not on the path between Georgia and Maine. No, you are walking on a road even steeper and longer — the path between offered prayer and answered ...

The One-Minute Pause

We live in a crazy-making world. So much stimulation rushes at us with such unrelenting fury, we are overstimulated most of the time. Things that nourish us — a lingering ...

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