Prayer

“I just know it’s God’s will.” Have you ever heard that phrase used as a spiritualized version of “I want this”?

My prayers are often too small. Maybe yours are too. I need the second petition of the Lord’s Prayer to cosmically expand my prayer focus.

To pray rightly we must know why we exist. The four words of the first petition of the Lord’s Prayer raise several important questions.

Meditation has long been considered a part of the Christian life, but how?

Is there a right way to begin a prayer? To ask it differently, is there a proper way to think about God when we pray?

Prayer is the heart’s sincere and grateful reflex to God’s lavish grace. Three questions can help us learn from Jesus the basics of biblical prayer.

It has been said that prayer is the spiritual breath of the Christian. If that’s so, why are so many of us suffocating ourselves?

Maybe at one point in your life you thought that everything that could go wrong had gone wrong. And you’ve called out to God, but he doesn’t seem to be there.

I rarely dealt with or named my emotions—at least not the “negative” ones. They had to be killed, banished, ignored, and stuffed. I learned this from both Christian circles (like the counselor above) and my own fears. I didn’t want others to see my emotions.

The body of Christ is like an enormous rope team, making its way towards Zion’s heavenly peak, and prayer is the rope that binds us together.

As I share our plans, I’ve found two words to be incredibly helpful: “Lord willing.” Here are three reasons I think you should add them to your vocabulary, too.

How can the psalms become your faithful companion too?