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.
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Do You Recognize Answered Prayer?
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.
Pray Anytime
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…
Does Psalm 144 Contain a Unique Strategy for Stopping Riots?
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.
Didn’t God Answer Your Prayer?
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.
God is My Shield
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.
The Lord’s Prayer – Teaching Children How To Use It
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."
The Battle for This Website
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.
Streams in the Desert for Today
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.
“Jesus Was Too Busy to Pray Too”
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.