Your day starts off with the baby screaming and there is simply no time to pray. The question isn’t when to pray or how long to pray. I know that you want to pray. Very much so. When you think there is no time to pray, how do you find the time? I am a mom with seven children. I burned the candle at both ends for many years and in fact, I often still do. I would work into the evenings preparing for homeschool the next day and wake up around 5am to nurse a baby and start my day. There isn’t a free moment when you have been up during the night and then wake to a toddler or nursing baby … [Read more...]
5 Powerful Reasons for Praying Scripture
You might have seen encouragement for praying Scriptures as a way to turn prayerlessness into prayerfulness. It is powerful when a woman becomes a warrior in prayer in her closet be it literally a closet or binder where she records her requests and prayers. Today I am excited to delve into prayer again as I continually ask my Lord, "Teach me to pray!" This is the journey I want to be on as I include praying the Scriptures in my prayer-time with the Lord each day. I want to grow, not in the words or wordiness that I choose but in the motivations of my heart. My words aren't always … [Read more...]
5 Motivating Reasons to Grab onto God in Prayfulness
Are you moving towards prayerfulness as you grab onto God? The best way is to just start praying frequently throughout your day and say, "Lord, teach me to pray!" I shared my honest struggle with prayerlessness the other day and assumed that you have a similar dilemma in your prayer-life. It seems like the disciples struggled in the same way too. Not that there is any excuse for a lack of enough prayer in your life (mine especially) because when we get a 'D' in prayer, we should just start praying again. Grab onto God with Persistence Is it your prayer that you will pray more and with … [Read more...]
Lord, Teach Me to Get Beyond Prayerlessness
I struggle with prayer and sometimes my efforts border on prayerlessness. My desire is to pray fervently but I desperately need the Lord to teach me to get beyond my feeble attempts. When life throws a curveball at me, I want to be ready to pour out my heart to the Lord for the situation in my life or that of others. I don't want to be grappling for words and find emptiness because I didn't daily walk closely with God. I spend time in God's Word daily and yes, I do pray. But I want to go deeper with God because He is my supreme treasure. I need the Lord to teach me to go beyond … [Read more...]
Praying For Your Children For The Rest Of Your Life
You raise your children for the first 18 years of their life but the need to pray for them will last for the rest of your life! Voilà! Parenting season is finished! Now you can do the things you have always dreamed of doing but were too busy raising children to do. FORGET IT! None of that happens! (Omartian, Stormie (2009-07-01). The Power of Praying® for Your Adult Children) My kids have grown and my nest is empty, but as Stormie shares in her book, my job is not done and things will happen in their lives that will keep me on my knees for the rest of my life! Even when our adult … [Read more...]
6 War Room Bible Verses for Fervent Prayer
Fervent prayer is something that we rarely see these days and maybe that is why we are losing ground in so many areas. We are living complacent lives and have forgotten that we should be in an all-out war against our enemy. Our enemy is unseen so we forget he is real. He is cunning and makes himself out to be fun and interesting so that we don't draw our battle weapons. It is high time that prayer became an integral part of our day. And because of that, I am intentionally going to be taking on this challenge myself. I am asking that you join me as we learn how to really get … [Read more...]
How To Pour Your Life Out in Prayer
When you pour your life out in prayer, it makes our service to our families more effective than any other effort we can give. We can spend hours of time cleaning our home and quality time with our children, but a poured out life of prayer will produce eternal results like nothing else. Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 John 5:14 This is where I have failed the most. No matter what season of life you are in, you can start to pour your life out in prayer today. God loves it when we keep growing closer to Him and He … [Read more...]
How to Build Your Prayer Life on the Word of God
When you build a house it needs a solid foundation or in time it will shift and crumble. When you build your prayer life on the Word of God it has a solid foundation. You will be able to withstand the trials of your life without shifting or crumbling under the pressure. Digging Deeper: Daniel 9 I was reading this chapter today and noticed something I had never seen before. Isn't it amazing how you can find something new in the Bible each time you read it? Just as Daniel came to serve as one of the top three government officials in Babylon, it was wiped out because of their sin. And this … [Read more...]