If you are striving daily to give God your heart and mind and are sensitive to sin in your thought life, I’d call you Godly. Lord God, Your Word says that You bless the home of the righteous but Your curse is on the house of the wicked (Prov. 3:33). Lord, please help me cleanseContinue reading “I’d Call You Godly”
Category Archives: Prayer
What We All Long For
Every human being longs for unfailing love. Lavish love. Focused love. Radical love. Love we can count on. Lord, I believe that Your feelings toward me are consistent with Your feelings toward Your people, Israel, for You are the same yesterday, today, and forever. Therefore I believe You bless the praying of Your words toContinue reading “What We All Long For”
No Quick Fix
We’re all looking for a quick fix, but God is after lasting change. He leads us to a lifestyle of Christianity. Lord, I desire to become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then I will no longer be an infant, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown hereContinue reading “No Quick Fix”
Much Like Yesterday
God delights in your attentions even when you practice them much like you did yesterday. Christ Jesus, You said, “The work of God is this: to believe the one he has sent” (John 6:29). That is what You want from me more than anything in the world. You said that those who believe You areContinue reading “Much Like Yesterday”
Show the Wonder
If our hearts are humble and right before God, we can hand over to him all the conflicts and foes that rise up against us. Lord, my God, show the wonder of Your great love, You who save by Your right hand those who take refuge in You from their foes. Keep me as theContinue reading “Show the Wonder”
He Does Let Go
All our lives God retains the strong feelings toward us that infants evoke in their parents. He never has to let us go. O Lord, You have searched me and You know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; You perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and myContinue reading “He Does Let Go”
When My Knees Shake
My knees shake. I have no idea what my child is doing in her rebellion. The silent phone stares back at me. My rattled nerves wait for it to jangle. At the same time, I dread to pick up the receiver to hear bad news. What is that saying: “No news is good news”? IContinue reading “When My Knees Shake”
Elevator of Emotion
My child held so much potential. He excelled in school with a grade point average far above his classmates. Athleticism oozed from his muscular body. Musically, he was spoken of as a child prodigy. My mother’s heart held those dreams for my child. But somewhere, somehow, he strayed off the track of success. My childContinue reading “Elevator of Emotion”
Not By the Skin of Your Teeth
You were never meant to go through life by the skin of your teeth but to flourish in the love and acceptance of almighty God. No matter what I once was, I have been washed, I have been sanctified, and I have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by theContinue reading “Not By the Skin of Your Teeth”
Prayer is Activism
As our nation reels from George Floyd’s death, many in the church feel compelled to do something. Responses have run the gamut from listening, learning, and lamenting to posting black squares on Instagram, donating, marching, and more. Yet in our rush to engage, many of us have neglected the most potent form of activism at our disposal:Continue reading “Prayer is Activism”
