If you are burdened to pray for a service member or his/her family who is deployed, what would you say? Consider that far more important than their physical safety is their walk with God. Make that the focus of your prayer, most of the time. [Note: I use the masculine gender because my husband is [...]
Filed under: Military Life, Prayer
Our Psalm 119 project has been going slower than I expected. Another different expectation is that we’ve spent more time talking about prayer than necessarily going through the verses. I asked them if they thought King David was praying when he said things like “I delight in your word.” He wasn’t asking for something. Why [...]
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One of the really awesome things about God is that He doesn’t expect us to know it all. I have been contemplating this week the ministry of the Holy Spirit when we see a problem, but don’t know what to do about it. We pray. We do pray, don’t we? Yes, but sometimes we don’t [...]
For awhile I’ve wondered whether it is makes sense to allow my children to pray at mealtimes. We do ask them to pray, and sometimes they volunteer. I’m certain that I’ve avoided having them pray when they’ve been naughty (although I wonder if that’s more recognizing the priority of my own need to pray). But [...]
When do you pray for your children’s future? Do you have a disciplined regular time? Do you pray for them when they obey, are unselfish and kind? singulair I find I pray when they’re being bad and I’m wondering what the future may hold for them. I’m not disciplined about praying for my children like [...]
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When I was little, I listened with wonder and a little confusion over stories of grown-ups who prayed so often they wore down their wood floors next to their beds and built callouses on their knees. I admired all-night prayer meetings, but I didn’t understand how people could pray so long. I felt wonder because [...]
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At the beginning of the year, our pastor challenged our church to memorize the book of Philippians, one week at a time. That’s two verses a week, which most of the time I think I can manage, especially seeing as how many verses are so familiar. This week I’ve been learning this: And this I [...]
Psalm 78:4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. While we shouldn’t display empty ritual for the purpose of showing our children how spiritual we are, there is a sense where it [...]
Why do we pray for our food? I was reading the Lord’s prayer this morning and asked this question of my children. Here is what I told them: We tell God thank you for our food because Jesus tells us to pray each day (“this day” “daily bread”) for our needs. And I’m reminding myself [...]
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(in light of the previous post) Today, several times we talked about God seeing everything. When I prayed for breakfast, I told God thank you that he could see us eating breakfast. Later, as we were driving home from the grocery store, I asked David if God could see us in our van, and he [...]
Filed under: Discipleship, Introspection, Prayer
