Welcome! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe via e-mail and stay up to date with new posts. Thanks for visiting!This week, we are calling for a week of prayer for the upcoming elections.  Please take some time each night to pray for God’s wisdom and guidance. [...]

If you feel like you’re in a rut and that you’re prayer life could use a kick start or if you’d just like to expand your prayers to beyond the usual, check out these two resources:
Daily Prayers from KenBoa.org - this one is available either as a daily e-mail, rss feed, or simply by going [...]

Meditation on Scripture
“The nature of water is soft, that of stones is hard; but if a bottle is hung above the stone allowing the water to fall drop by drop, it wears away the stone. So it is with the Word of God; it is soft and our heart is hard, but the one who [...]

In class last week, I light heartedly mentioned how I was really tired from a long day the day before. But, apparently, for many people, lack of sleep isn’t just a small occasional problem. According to a recent study by the Barna Research Group, 71% of adults look forward “a lot” to a good nights [...]

Prayer Continued
Recap from last week

Prayer is something that we learn – we start where we can and God will move us along
Prayer can change things
2 things are needed to begin: Time & Place
“Simple Prayer”
Turning our wandering mind into prayer

Intercessory Prayer

Ephesians 1:16-17, 6:18

Philippians 1:4

Colossians 1:3, 9-10

1 Thessalonians 5:25

1 Timothy 2:1

Intercessory prayer is prayer that is offered [...]

Prayer
“We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners.” – Thomas Merton
“True, whole prayer is nothing but love.” - St. Augustine
“Lord, teach us to pray.” – Jesus’ disciples
“We look upon prayer simply as means of getting things for ourselves, but [...]

It seems that one area in which almost every Christian feels they need to experience growth in, is in the area of prayer. Many feel that either they don’t prayer enough, their prayers aren’t heard, or they simply don’t know how to prayer, among many other feelings. Prayer seems to be one of those simple, [...]