One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 NIV Teach us – Heschel wrote: “Prayer as a way of speaking is a way that leads nowhere. The text must never be more important…
“Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease. Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you…
It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1 NASB Pray – Perhaps you feel like I do. Tossed on the waves. Sparks flying upward. Tohu wabohu. The…
So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer. Ezra 8:23 (NIV) Petitioned – Ezra’s statement shows us the proper protocol for answered prayer. It does not guarantee that the answer we receive is the answer we hope to receive, but it tells us that answers do come. The proper…
pray without ceasing 1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray – “But have you really prayed about it?” That’s what the woman said when the discussion turned toward prayer about possible choices ahead. “I’ve prayed about this, but I just don’t know what God wants me to do.” Answer: “But have you really, really prayed about it?” Implication: …
“Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You;” 2 Chronicles 6:19 (NASB) Prayer/ Pray – English has one word. So does Greek. But Hebrew has more than a dozen different words…
“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of other people so that they will notice you. Otherwise you cannot expect any reward from your Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 6:1 (translation R. T. France) Practice Your Righteousness – If you grew up anywhere near Baptists, you probably remember the children’s Sunday school…
“And when you pray, you are not to be as the hypocrites . .” Matthew 6:5 Pray – We all agree that prayer is essential for a deep relationship with the Father. Almost all of us would say that we need to pray more. But far too often we stumble around in prayer. We don’t…
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord! Psalm 150:6 Praise – In the end, it’s haleluyah. If my life amounts to nothing more than praise for God, it will have reached its zenith. In fact, David tells us that the purpose of all creation is to praise Him. The Hebrew is…
