The Breastplate of Righteousness
This devotional can help you understand why we need spiritual armor, and especially the importance of the Breastplate of Righteousness and what it is.
This devotional can help you understand why we need spiritual armor, and especially the importance of the Breastplate of Righteousness and what it is.
Do you recognize answered prayer? Probably you do when you pray about something big and see quick results. But it’s not always so easy when you pray about small things or when the big prayer request isn’t turning out the way you hoped.
Our guest blogger, Dr. Marilyn Murphree, shares this devotional about prayer. Why We Avoid Praying for Others Many times we avoid praying for someone because we are struggling with the same or similar problems. We think, “When I get my prayer answered, then I will have faith to pray for someone else. Until then I…
We fight an ongoing spiritual battle through prayer, speaking God’s Word, and binding and breaking the power of these demonic spirits. Only God can train us for this warfare.
As a child I was taught that God always answers prayers. However, His answers are not always giving us what we want. Sometimes His answer is yes; sometimes it is no; and sometimes it is wait.
If we understand that this battle actually exists, we can pray against these forces and bring the victory that Jesus won for us into every situation.
How We Can Pray Like Jesus Taught Us To Pray
Start your prayer with words of praise and worship to God. An example is, “Lord, I worship You because you are so wonderful.”
Nightmarish thoughts of having to copy and paste every article on the site and start from scratch in building three years worth of posts all over again started playing in my mind.
It takes time for God to paint a rose. It takes time for God to grow an oak. It takes time for God to make bread from wheat fields. He takes the earth. He pulverizes. He softens. He enriches. He wets with showers and dews. He warms with life. He gives the blade, the stock, the amber grain, and then at last the bread for the hungry.
The sun was setting, Jesus had just put in a full day. It was time to relax. But then… the people brought ALL who had various sicknesses, and He healed them all.