“Do not be selfish in prayer by praying only for yourself. Pray for others too and stand a better chance of having your own prayers answered.” “I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.”- Samuel Rutherf...
Dr. Whitney:God wants us to pray for the same reason you want your newborn to cry—it’s a sign of life. Just as the spirit of life in a baby causes it to cry, so the Spirit of life in child of God causes him to cry, “Abba! Father!” (Rom. 8:15;Gal. 4:6). God also...
Seek and you will find what you are really seeking for! When we stand at the judgment seat of Christ, we will stand stripped of all our outward veneer. There we shall be seen no longer as actors but as we really are. That's why the Bible says that we have to be careful how we ...
In the timeless land of a child’s summer, I headed out each day, banging my feet against uneven sidewalk, where tree roots heaved and broke concrete into toe traps for children and the elderly. I caught my toes on furniture, had them run over with tricycles, wheel barrows and stomped ...
Only through the Spirit can we know for sure what is expedient. Scriptural Examples of Praying Amiss In the Bible Luke records a classic example given by Jesus of two very different prayers: “Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The ...
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and p...
We both. The two parties directly referred to in this letter were Israel and others. Christ made the two groups one. He made one new humanity out of the two. Both now have access to the Father, through the Spirit. There are no divisions in the renewed humanity. Jew and Gentile, men ...