Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from Him. (Psalm 62:5, a psalm of David) Jesus: Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28) Prayer is a time and space of rest. When you go through a season of stress, do you experience tension...
Show me Your ways, O LORD, teach me Your paths. Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in You all day long. (Psalm 25:4-5) My dog, a collie named Buckeye, walks with me every day. I have trained him to walk well...
It is good to praise the LORD and make music to Your name, O Most High, to proclaim Your love in the morning and Your faithfulness at night. (Psalm 92:1-2) My “prayer language” is not music, but I can still apply these verses to my prayer life. By...
The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7) Praying alone in your prayer closet is one thing; praying aloud in a group is another. It is an uncomfortable prospect for many. Last week, my small group...
Jesus: “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” (Luke 18:16) A little girl, who requested anonymity, put a card in one of the prayer boxes last week. She asked for prayer...
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is My word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to Me...
You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. (Psalm 91:5-7) I used to pray...
Behold, the glory of the LORD was standing there … and I fell on my face. (Ezekiel 3:23) Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” (Galatians 4:6) In...
The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised. (Job 1:21) Prayer is a place where your unarticulated attitudes are revealed and your thinking is corrected. My husband is facing open-heart surgery soon, and the surgeon has told us that the combined...
Jesus to Pharisees: On the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. (Matthew 23:28) Am I the only one who has done this? (And more than once!) Someone shared a concern or struggle...