King Solomon knew that if He prayed according to God’s will, the Lord would answer…Solomon prayed for wisdom to better love and serve God’s people. Yahweh honored that prayer because it was motivated by love for both Himself and others. The Lord made Solomon the wisest King on earth. ...
Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction. —John of the Cross 256 What is success? It is being able to go to bed each ni...
In our Scripture writing group, we are a winding up the life of Joshua who was a mighty man of God in every way. He was Moses’ personal aide and accompanied him on the mountain to speak with the Lord. He was one of the twelve spies who visited Canaan – and one of the two who ...
The answer is because it took forty years for them to trust God. I believe we would all like to think that we would not have had to wander forty years in the desert to learn these lessons if we had been there. Unfortunately, speaking for myself, I know that’s not the case. It t...
Loni knelt and paused for a moment, considering all that was in his heart and then he prayed, solemnly. He know this was not the time for the formal, ritual prayer of the Mosque. But for honest, humble conversation. “Dear God, if you can hear me from here, we need your help. Our...
Trails titled“YWAM—Wants Every YWAMer to Practice Contemplative Prayer!”YWAM has been a big promoter of contemplative prayer andemergent missiologyfor several years. A “natural” outcome of contemplative/emergent spirituality is a change in spiritual outlook that takes onecumenism—with all faiths...
placed man there to tend to it. He gave him one clear command and then gifted him a fitting helper. God had thought of everything and was lavish in His giving. But in what seems like no time at all, a test of that truth would birth a curse. Had God truly thought of everything?
Though they were spiritual endeavors, she nevertheless had to grapple with the distance between the grandeur of her hopes and the limits of her personal reach. When she turned to Christ in prayer and Scripture as she wrestled with this, she learned several things that we can all benefit from...
edible food upon which water falls becomes unclean, and any drink that may be drunk from it becomes unclean.35And everything on whicha partofany suchcarcass falls shall be unclean;whether it isan oven or cooking stove, it shall be broken down;fortheyareunclean, and shall be unclean to you...
become slower and slower at almost everything. Despite this, I believe I will keep sending mail for as long as I’m able to pick up a pen and write well enough to put a legible address on the envelope. And I’ll always be pleased to find personal, handwritten mail in my postal box...