Posts with the tag “prayer”

Good morning this is day 20 of our 21 days of prayer and because we gather together on Sunday morning we've chosen not to do a Sunday devotional, so this will be the final devotional for these 21 days...  Read More

Submission means the act of submitting. It also means the act of yielding to power or authority. To surrender to the power and the control of another. This definition comes from Noah Webster, who wrot...  Read More

“Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil.” (Proverbs 3:7, NKJV)Don’t be wise on your own eyesThe more that we think we know the less open we are to the Lord.There have been...  Read More

Today we're still following the encounter that Moses had with God at the burning bush. We're going to look at another perspective of this encounter.Yesterday we determined that Moses was curious at th...  Read More

Jesus is teaching us how to pray and we're digging deeper into the word where Moses is in Exodus chapter 3 and encountering God at the burning bush.When I think of this moment where Moses goes near to...  Read More

We've been talking in particular about our dedication and commitment to do God's will. This week we're going to focus more on how we receive instruction from God about what he wants us to do.Yesterday...  Read More

This morning we're going to reemphasize the powerful point that we made yesterday about presenting ourselves to God. It is our responsibility to present ourselves to God daily.Here's today's scripture...  Read More

Through prayer we experience a greater consecration and sanctification.Every time that we pray - "Lord, not my will be done…but Your will be done in my life" we go deeper with God.And we should expect...  Read More

This morning I’m going to try and illustrate the concepts of consecration and sanctification in under 5 minutes.Here’s our scripturesEphesians 2:10 NLT  For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us...  Read More

The reason that we have two seasons in the year where we focus on prayer is so that we can learn how to pray.No matter how long we have been born again and had a relationship with God we can always le...  Read More

Jesus knows what it is like to choose to do the Father's will. When He prayed in the garden He went back 3 times to declare to Himself, "Not my will, but Your's be done!". He has to refocus. We have t...  Read More

If Jesus had a will and He had to purposely lay down His will, so do we. The Father knows that we have a will, He created us with a will. Jesus showed us how to lay down our will so that we can take u...  Read More

Jesus wasn’t giving us a shortcut or a script in prayer when He was teaching His disciples to pray, He wants us to expect the help of the Holy Spirit in prayer. When we don’t know the will of God in a...  Read More

The theme of this 21 day season of prayer is a four word phrase from the prayer that the Lord used to teach His disciples about prayer in Luke chapter 11 -    “His Will Be Done”   Jesus actually said ...  Read More

Answers come when we pray. The Lord wants us to expect answers when we pray. He says call Me, and I will answer you. He has the answer we need and He wants to give us the answer....  Read More

Strength comes when we pray. We should expect to be strengthened as when pray. He infuses us with all that He has and all that He is as we depend on Him and spend time with Him....  Read More

In prayer, we can expect Jesus to give us His peace. The very same peace that Jesus walked in while He was here on earth is given to us by Him. It belongs to us....  Read More

Our will for His will.Are we willing to lay our will down in order to pick up His will? ...We can’t have both.“And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw and knelt down and prayed, Saying, Father...  Read More

God has given us all the same amount of time. It is up to us to give back to Him the best of our time, spent in prayer....  Read More

The first thing that we do in the morning becomes our priority and shows what we value most. Our first meeting should be with our Master. Pray first....  Read More

If Jesus prioritized prayer as His first thing in the morning, we should do the same....  Read More

Seeking His Kingdom first means praying and connecting to God before we do anything else.Matthew 6:33 (NIV) But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you ...  Read More

We are not called Christians in order to find a building and "do" church. And we are not asked by God to find time during the week when it's convenient for us to come to a building in order to hear a ...  Read More

Sadly the majority of the Churches today have replaced the power of God with the desire to be popular. In the effort to become likable to the world and popular in the world's eyes we have focused more...  Read More

You are responsible to pray for your nation. We are not waiting on God to do something about the United States of America, He has been waiting on the Church. Rise up!...  Read More

With all of the divisiveness in politics the Church has abandoned the Christian politicians. And actually turned it's back on them and blamed them for trying to do what's right....  Read More

There is no limit to the intimacy that we can experience with the Father. He longs to be known by us. He longs to reveal Himself to us. He longs to show us just how faithful and trustworthy He is. He ...  Read More

When we respond to the call of the Lord with "Here I am" the Lord rejoices and knows that we are a person of faith and humility that He can use for His purpose and a big time assignment. ...  Read More

Being still to listen for the voice of the Lord is a huge challenge in the "speed-of-light", noisy world that we live in. Yet it is necessary to shut off the distractions in order to shut in with the ...  Read More

Deny yourself breakfast if you need to in order to have your prayer and study time in the morning. Decide to not eat physically until you eat and exercise spiritually and you will get with the program...  Read More

We should "practice the presence of the Lord" so that our conversation with Him is woven throughout our entire day. Because the Greater One lives in us, we enjoy the privilege of communing with Him at...  Read More

Distractions come in many forms when it comes to praying and hearing the voice of the Lord. A phone call, a text message, the smell of food, the thought of something you forgot to write down on your T...  Read More

The first step for us to hear the voice of the Lord is to turn aside. We must intentionally get out of the rut of normal everyday life and draw near to the Lord. Learn to recognize when He calls our n...  Read More

Everyone wants to experience enormous results but very few people really want to change.We naturally get set in our ways and become comfortable, content and down right stubborn when it comes to changi...  Read More

To turn to God is to change your mind and purpose from what you want to do and what you think is right to what God wants to do and what God thinks is right. This change happens in the place of prayer ...  Read More

There is one steadfast rule in a time of fasting and prayer: Be led by the Lord. This is not some religious exercise that has a ton of rules and regulations where you earn some sort of spiritual merit...  Read More

Fasting and prayer is powerful and purposeful when we are prepared. Remember that the focus of fasting is giving yourself to God the same way that Jesus did...totally. When we devote ourselves to God ...  Read More

Prayer is the place where we experience the presence of God and receive His strength to persevere. When you grow weary and want to quit, go to the One that strengthens you with His strength and teache...  Read More

One of the reasons that God created us living spirits is so that He could communicate with Him. We are a spirit, we have a soul and we live in a body. When we contact God we contact Him from the spiri...  Read More

Receiving the spirit of wisdom and revelation is not by accident. We cooperate with the Holy Spirit in prayer to see things with the eyes of faith from the perspective of faith. God will take us to a ...  Read More