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...
O God, You are my God, earnestly I seek You. My soul thirsts for You, my body longs for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. (Psalm 63:1, a psalm of David) On my morning walks I am noticing dying trees. The cause may be disease or pests, but I suspect the...
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel … You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? (Galatians 1:6, 3:1) To them, you are nothing more than one...
Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel's...
Pray continually. (1 Thessalonians 5:17) But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. (Luke 5:16) I do a lot of multi-task praying: ironing and praying, driving and praying (eyes open). How else can you obey the command to pray...