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...]
Learning to Pray Through Bible Journaling
Learning to pray is something most of us take little time for. I want to open your heart up to the idea of praying when you are Bible journaling by creatively expressing Scripture to God. How easy is it to just draw or paint onto the page of your journaling Bible without giving a thought to the words you have selected to feature? I've done that more than once! What I want to share is about how you can create an atmosphere that invites God into your experience of journaling. Creating a God-Atmosphere Draw near to God through your artwork. Create a God-Atmosphere. Creatively … [Read more...]
Take Time and Get Alone to Pray
Do you take time to get alone and pray? I have to be honest with you, I struggle in this area too! I hope this challenges you today. I love the example that Jesus sets for us in this passage to take time to get alone to pray after He had been ministering to all the individuals who came to Him. I want to challenge you today to take even a few moments to get alone to pray. It will recharge you and prepare you for the next moments with your children, husband, co-workers, or individuals you are called on as women to serve. Digging Deeper: Luke 5:12-16 Key Verse: Luke 5:15-16 We are … [Read more...]
How To Get Started on Your Bible Journal
Do you want to bring your Quiet Time to the next level? Having a Bible journal is the way to record what the Lord has impressed on your heart. I have loved how I have grown in my relationship with Jesus through using this simple too I have been Bible journaling for years and finally thought that I would share about HOW you can get started in this adventure. First off, there is no right way or wrong way to Bible journaling. For years I have used either a spiral notebook or a 3-ring binder to contain my journaling. You might even type your notes into Word or Evernote. Whatever. Just get … [Read more...]