Home>>Scripture Prayers>> Praying For The Nations All nations around the world are included in this prayer. Or you can pray for an individual nation such as "the nation of ___." I had never really thought about praying for the nations, until I became a prayer leader. But this is a ...
If you have a reverend or father as they do in the Catholic church, then you can use those words instead of pastorPraying for Pastor's Family - It's important to pray for their family as well as the pastor, because if the enemy can't get to the pastor, he'll focus on his family...
However, while a correct posture for prayer is not mentioned in Scripture, to whom we pray is. Some people pray to Jesus. I’ve heard some people pray to the Holy Spirit. These are not necessarily incorrect ways of praying. God still hears them and there are certain prayers and requests ...
but the God of scripture declares that he guides the affairs of man. The pagan ruler Cyrus of Persia was called “my anointed,” though we don’t know that he understood who the God of Israel was (Isaiah 45:1). But God used him to ...
Wesley had a profound interest in cultivating the spiritual life as well as feeding the hungry, serving the poor, and visiting the imprisoned. He wrote the sermon, "The Scripture Way of Salvation" as well as The Primitive Physick , a book of medical remedies to improve physical health. He...
When I was a pastor in Southern California, we had a family in our congregation from Lebanon -- wonderful people and wonderful hosts. I learned much about Middle Eastern hospitality from them. When I would visit the family, they would invite me in and go to the kitchen to prepare for me...
In fact, does Psalm 1:1 not say, "Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly"? Surely, then why on earth would I want to sit down every week, listening to teachings that are far divorced from scripture, within organizations that were not even meant to be in exi...
“Ah, at last a fit companion! Bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh,” Adam exults. Though not recorded in the scripture, I figure Adam then wiggled all over just like my dog, Elijah. The best-friends-forever have been inseparable – wrestling, play fighting, swimming, fetching, and ...
Pete Souza / The White House A Lutheran pastor in Newtown, Conn., has apologized after being reprimanded for participating in an interfaith vigil following the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Rev. Rob Morris, pastor of Christ the King Lutheran Church, prayed at t...
Love’s way, which is described extensively in scripture, is accessible, freely available to everyone, and is being offered to us moment by moment. And in Love’s way is where I long to dwell all the time. I fail over and over. When that happens I am like a child lost in a dark...