At first glance, the personal prayer practices of patients may not appear relevant to health care professionals. However, we believe our findings can be useful for clinical practice because praying can be regarded as a strategy to cope and to connect with a higher source providing meaning and ho...
And this is as true of our personal struggles with the devil as was the case when we went forth to attempt to cast out devils. To be much on our knees in private communion with God is the only surety that we shall have Him with us either in our personal struggles, or in our ...
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The content and concerns of the prayers are rooted in daily life, the personal struggles with sin and circumstance, and expressing the emotional intimacy and psychological experience of the individual, rather than reciting the more objective generalities with their restraints on personal detail, which ...
My personal encouragement for you today is this: No matter how long it takes to pray, no matter how difficult it is to pray, praying to God is the most important thing you can do in your day. It should be the #1 priority above everything else you have to do. ...
Lifting our eyes to God has a divine way of lifting our eyes above the storm, redirecting our gaze to the good around us, and refilling our hearts with a joy that can easily be lost in the struggles of life. Subscribe Keri Eichberger Author of Win Over Worry ...
In the end, Shriver holds hope. And I do, too. Hope has been my focus word for many years. Hope, centered in my faith, has carried me through some especially difficult times. We’ve all had them—the struggles that stretch and challenge us. I hope you’ve never felt alone in diffic...
and what he shuts no one can open. God wants us to trust him implicitly. If you can open the door all by yourself, then you don’t need God’s help. It is time to learn to depend on God’s favor to open doors for us and not on our efforts, lines or personal swag. Are there...
Man must pray to God if love for God is to exist. Faith and hope, aid patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, ...
I’m starting with this suggestion because it makes me feel a little squirmy.But experience has taught me that my prayers are more authentic when I speak from a place of humility and personal repentance. Many of the great prayers of the Bible are of confession, either for an individual or...