Our Father, Our King, You are our only hope. In times for great distress, You lift us up. In times of joy, You are our celebration. We rejoice in You, O Lord, for You never fail. You have lead us in paths of righteousness. Your protection hovers over us. You give us peace. We praise…
Our Father, our King, for You are King of the universe and we are your grateful subjects, we give you our praise. You have redeemed us. You have brought us out and called us forth. You are unfailing in mercy, unimpeachable in justice, unrivaled in compassion, unfaltering in love, unending in goodness and unequal in…
Please read the following prayer request. And if you have any requests, please post them as a comment on here. (Patrick put a link from the homepage to this page so you can easily get back to it.) Also, if you haven’t listened to The Hebrew View of Prayer you should. -Skip Skip, will you…
But He searching the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit Romans 8:27 But – There is no more important word in prayer vocabulary than this one: de. “But” God knows. How we need to dwell on this word! Lost in the wilderness, terrified by our loneliness, we can only answer one of…
for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; Romans 8:26 Groanings Too Deep – Sometimes prayer is simply silent agony. Sometimes the heart is so hurt that there just aren’t any words left to say. Sometimes there are only…
He who turns away his ear from listening to the law, even his prayer is an abomination. Proverbs 28:9 Abomination – The Hebrew principle of measure for measure applies to a lot more than eyes and teeth. Waltke points out that “if a man, on his part, is deaf to instruction, then God, on His…
From time to time, some of my graduate students produce some very good work. I thought you might like to see what Barry Jenkins had to say about prayer. A Theology of Prayer By Barry L. Jenkins Introduction It is necessary to state the obvious at the beginning of this work entitled A Theology of…
Why do you pray? No, really. It’s not a stupid question. Why do you pray? If you’re like most of the people I talk to, your answer will be something like this: “I pray in order to ask God to take care of needs in my life and in the lives of others. I pray…
“Pray, then, in this way.” Matthew 6:9 Pray – Do you say the Lord’s Prayer? Most of us do. We have since childhood. It’s part of the liturgy now. But I wonder if we actually pray as the Lord instructed. You see, Jesus was not teaching us a prayer. He was teaching how to pray. …
A study of Philippians 4:4-7 (4) Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice! (5) Let your forbearing spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. (6) Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. (7) And the peace…
