Category: Prayer

Praying to a Big God Read Psalm 63:1-8 “O God you are my God, I seek you.” Does God want to know every detail of our lives? In two weeks I begin teaching a course called, Living Prayer. I use the book, The Workbook of Living Prayer, by Maxie Dunnam. Many years ago, as a… Continue reading PRAYING TO A BIG GOD

Prayer as Relationship by Judith Lawrence Prayer has so many different layers and parts to it that each time one dips into it one discovers new wonders and dimensions of wonders. St Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans chapter 5 verse 11, We can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God… Continue reading PRAYER AS RELATIONSHIP

The Journey of Prayer by Janice Keats Is there anything that prevents our prayers from being answered? If it’s faith then what happened to our faith? The devil may have a stronghold on God’s people, much like the days of Pharaoh in the Old Testament. He held God’s people captive and forced them to intense… Continue reading THE JOURNEY OF PRAYER

Humidity, Hearts and The Holy Spirit – My thoughts from Poland Trip 2010 Thoughts, feelings, memories ramble around in my brain. I look over my pictures taken on this trip and review all that happened. How do I put this on paper? How can I express how God worked in and through everyone during our… Continue reading HUMIDITY, HEARTS AND THE HOLY SPIRIT

Coming Home I thought I had better write this before I leave in case I am still in jet lag and shock on my return and forget to post something about my mission to Poland. I return on August 3 and this post is for August 6. One thing I thought about as I got… Continue reading COMING HOME

Lord, Teach our Children by Violet Nesdoly (First published as “a prayer meditation” August 18, 2009) About a year ago our son had a scary fall from a roof, 20 feet down onto concrete. You can probably imagine the frantic prayers a parent prays at times like this. In fact, the hours of the first… Continue reading LORD, TEACH OUR CHILDREN

Conversations with God By T. L. Wiens When I first accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour, I found my prayer life to be a lot of talking on my part and walking away before taking the time to listen. Over the years, I’ve changed that and now enjoy conversations with God. It was during… Continue reading CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD

Today’s guest blogger is Janice Keats. God Understands Our Prayer Needs Scripture: Psalm 91 It may be difficult to release all the burdens that weigh heavily upon us. We know where to turn in times of distress and we know we can trust God but sometimes life can be very upsetting and still bring unbearable… Continue reading GOD UNDERSTANDS OUR PRAYER NEEDS

Today our guest blogger is Judith Lawrence. Judith takes us deeper in our spiritual journey as we think about minute by minute communion with God. Contemplatives Without Cloisters Lately, I’ve come across a number of references in spiritual books about ordinary people being contemplatives without cloisters, or mystics without monasteries. These people live their lives… Continue reading CONTEMPLATIVES WITHOUT CLOISTERS

Today we have yet another template to help us pray. Grace Fox has kindly given us permission to reprint her article from Women Alive called Communicating With God. Communicating with God How would you define prayer?  Pick the answer that most closely represents your thoughts.  Prayer is- a liturgical formality to be endured in church… Continue reading COMMUNICATING WITH GOD