How to Pray for What You Need

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So, when we pray we need to ask God, “give me what I need today.” Then tomorrow morning, again we ask, “give me what I need today.” Tomorrow is secure.Read More →

How to Take Baby Steps in Prayer

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Learning to pray is like learning to walk. A friend of mine posted a video on Instagram of her baby girl’s first steps. Her chubby little legs moved awkwardly, knees coming up at funny angles and feet planting down in different directions. She wobbled from side to side. I held my breath waiting for her to fall at any moment. Except she didn’t. Instead, she giggled as she came towards the camera. The baby had not only discovered a delightful new way to move around, but she also walked towards the safety of her mother’s arms. No doubt, her mom had been encouraging her. IfRead More →

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There comes a point, when you need to move from being an observer and on the receiving end of prayers, to being a participant and giver of prayer.Read More →

God Moves In

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When our hearts are frayed and needy, God moves in. When our our thoughts are dark and dirty, God digs in.Read More →

When God Says No

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One request I have made to God has not been answered in the way I want. It makes me feel like a small child who only gets to look through the window of a candy store pleading with their parent for the goodies inside. You know how it is with young children—they whine and tirelessly ask again and again. I’m sure they are born with one mode: persistence overcomes resistance. How often do we give in, just for some peace and quiet? Yet for nineteen or more years I have repeatedly asked the same question—well, more like whined to God. And his answer has always been “no.” I’m stillRead More →

Who Should You Be Praying For Today?

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When my seven-week-old twin boys lay in hospital with meningitis, I depended on many things. I counted on the machines to beep rhythmically and tell me their hearts were still beating, I relied on the drips to administer the antibiotics, I trusted the doctors’ to give the best care, and I banked on a nurse to calm their fraught little bodies to sleep. Most of all, I depended on family and friends, and even strangers, to appeal to God to bring them through. We rely on other people’s prayers. Which leads me to ask, who prays for you and who do you pray for, notRead More →

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Difficult relationships are worth praying for because: Prayer changes our focus. When we consider who we pray to—God, who is much bigger than our problem and ourselves—it helps change our perspective. Prayer takes our thoughts away from the relationship giving us angst to think about God and rely on him. Prayer changes things. It invites God to come and work in our difficult relationships to help put things right. Prayer is a channel for our despair. In prayer we can speak freely to God about how we feel. We pour out our pain. We can be honest with God, having full confidence in God’s understandingRead More →

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One of the problems I have when a relationship isn’t going the way I expect, or if it has already gone sour, is I imagine all sorts of reasons why this has happened. Usually my thoughts are negative and way out of proportion to the problem. For instance, a friend hasn’t returned my text message and I start to think she must be mad at me, when most often it’s because she’s busy. Perhaps you do something similar. These reflections are like damaging arrows directed at our minds and hearts, and aimed to change our sense into nonsense. We do not want to give themRead More →