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...]
Why it is Important to Pray Through Your Fears
It is important to pray through your fears because when you don't, worry can overtake your thoughts until your body feels the effects of anxiety. Fear isn't healthy and it is so intertwined with worry and being anxious. You might have situations in your life that give you every reason to be anxious and worried sick with fear. Rebellious children! A marriage that is unraveling! The death of a special loved one! Financial strain! Do you anxiously imagine situations in the future? Are you stressed over little things because the big things are constantly on your … [Read more...]
5 Ways that Prayer Lifts Your Troubled Heart
God promises that He cares when you have a troubled heart. When you are going through troubled waters, prayer is the one thing that will lift your heart above your situation. You can find encouragement through verses in the Bible. I have found real encouragement in a verse this week that I never noticed before. Isn't it amazing how new promises can lift our troubled heart even though we read the Bible almost daily?! When something happens to turn your day upside down, do you pray? If you get into the daily habit of turning to the Lord when things stir your heart in the wrong way, … [Read more...]
Things As They Are: Mission Work in Southern India a Book by Amy Carmichael
You will experience India through the eyes of Amy Carmichael, veteran missionary of the early 1900s and founder of Dohnavur Orphanage in this collection of her early narrative writings. In this book, you will find an honest and raw view of India and Hinduism that was written to share with Amy Carmichael's supporting churches who were having difficulty believing her 'real' missionary story. Things As They Are is an amazing book written by Amy Carmichael, missionary to Southern India and first published in 1905. It has been out-of-print for many years and is now available through … [Read more...]
Learning How To Pray Like Elijah For God To Provide
Learning how to pray like Elijah for God to provide is much like working out for 30 minutes a day. It is hard. Each day I go downstairs and turn the screen on that streams my digital workout. I exercise for 30 minutes although most days my body screams "NO!" Why is it that even 5 minutes of concentrated prayer can be almost impossible to do? To be honest, I struggle to pray. I pray a little here and there all day but I want to learn how to really really pray fervently like Elijah. God Provides Through Elijah's Prayer Life! Elijah lived an adventurous life - if you take a good … [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...]
5 Prayers When Your Marriage is on the Rocks
Prayer isn't a magical thing that makes everything better when your marriage is 'On the Rocks' but prayer does work miracles. The Bible says that two are better than one and yet it often doesn't seem like that at all! It would seem that it is better to just be independent and get on with your life. It takes intentionality to make our marriage work because too often as women, we can be a hot mess of hormones flying in every direction. I believe we need to embrace our imperfection with grace and prayer. We need to humble ourselves before God and pray fervently (a word seldom used … [Read more...]
Do You Pray for Your Children’s Safety?
I am sure that you pray often for your children's safety, right? Why wouldn't you? You love your children dearly and you would never want to see them hurt or suffering. I am the same way with my children. Praying for the safety of your children is natural. Today we are looking at Psalm 57:1-11 in the Weariness to Strength Grace Study where we have three more passages to consider out of a total of twenty. Are you in the middle of raising your children? The task seems daunting and never-ending. The year when your child will turn eighteen seems like it will never come. And then it … [Read more...]
When Life Gets To You, Pray and Be Thankful
When life gets to you, the last thing we often think of is to pray or be thankful! I know that can be so true about myself! I am usually strategizing and overthinking the issues in my life and trying to find answers. But . . . Where is God in all of this? Why am I not doing what David did and praising God right from the start? Today, I am continuing through twenty posts for a 'grace-study' on Weariness to Strength. We are looking at Psalm 9:1-12 and following the readings in a chart that you may DOWNLOAD for FREE HERE!! How David Starts Psalm 9 When David sat down to pen … [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...]