Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
3 John 2

Sometimes I get to thinking that God only wants to hear my "spiritual" prayers, the ones about salvation and overcoming sin and things like that.  This verse tells me otherwise... Anyway, how can I pray for you?

Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his face evermore.
(Psalm 105:4-6)

Remembering all the great things God has done for His people should inspire us to "seek His face," that is, to live in His presence and favor; and to "seek His strength," or to rely on it when we need help.  Both of these things are accomplished mainly by prayer, ours and others ( Read more... )

Rob Price, writing about Fred Sanders' book The Deep Things of God,  says the following about prayer:

Praying isn’t merely talking to God. To pray is to address the Father as only the Son may. To pray is to be lifted by the Spirit into the position of the Son. Nobody else gets to talk to the Father like that. Amazing. Amazing grace!

Christian ( Read more... )

And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
(Numbers 7:89)

This is the last verse of a very long chapter.  The other 88 verses comprise a detailed ( Read more... )

I can't find the fancy Bible verse about prayer I wanted to post.  But how can I pray for you?

There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
(1 Tim 2:2-6,8)

How can I pray for you?  Comment below, or email me if it's private.

You can pray for me, too.  This ( Read more... )

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD: Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.  I smote you with blasting and with ( Read more... )

He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.  And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son 
(John 14:12b-14, King James Bible)

It's time for prayer requests!  How can we pray for you?

Forgot to post this Tuesday, but that's not a problem.  How can I pray for you?  Write me a comment or send me an email.  You can be as vague or specific as you like.

Today is Candlemas, also known as the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord, and the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  It marks the day when the infant Christ was presented in the temple, and Mary offered her sacrifice for ritual purification after birth.  The story is told in Luke 2:22-40.

While in the temple, Mary and Jesus ( Read more... )