2.An act of communion with God, a god, or another object of worship, such as in devotion, confession, praise, or thanksgiving:One evening a week, the family would join together in prayer. 3.A specially worded form used to address God, a god, or another object of worship. ...
With the SPIRIT of CHRIST’s enabling power, as a king, I rule my own spirit, possess the ability to conquer Satan, and am privileged to work with You in prayer, as well as cooperate with You in judging the world. CHRIST, You give me access to You, enabling me to enter into the ...
That love is reproduced in the Christian fellowship, “for God has poured his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.” (Romans 5.5) It is this divine inpouring of love that provides a spiritual and theological sub-structure to Christian prayer and practice. Love for the sake of the ...
Dear Lord, it is my will to surrender to you everything that I am and everything that I’m striving to be. I open the deepest recesses of my heart and invite Your Holy Spirit to dwell inside of me. I offer you my life, heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit. I surrender to you ...
I have been hurt. I have been wounded. I have been mistreated and attacked.You’re not too happy about what you have had to suffer.No, not at all.You have been quite unhappy about how you have been mistreated.That’s right.You are holding on to some anger and bitterness toward those...
They might pray, fast, or try to make changes, but sometimes it only seems to get worse. That’s because this kind of sadness isn’t just mental—it’s spiritual. The Bible calls it the “spirit of heaviness.” “To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty ...
whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers." There is "I thank my God," and "I make mention of you always in my prayers." This was not written with a special eye to the percept of our text; it was ...
In the chaos and static of our inner and outer lives – the brewing anger, fear, shame, anguish, sorrow, and the constant push to produce or accomplish – we struggle to meet these deep desires of our hearts. Our perception of reality is obscured and distorted. St John of the Cross use...
Present, prevailing, conspicuous and mastering prayer has always brought God to be present. The real and obvious test of a genuine work of God is the prevalence of the spirit of prayer. God's mightiest forces surcharge and impregnate a movement when prayer's mightiest forces are there. God'...
Please heal my son’s heart. Relieve him of the guilt he has carried for these six years since his mother’s death. Guilt that gnaws at him because of his childish words, spoken in anger and never made right. Please help him to forgive himself for allowing time to make it too late ...