Tag: Prayer
How Well Am I Submitting to God?
Our 21 Days of Prayer concludes with the difficult question, How am I doing in my submission?
How am I dealing with temptation?
Improving Your Prayer Life
How about some good, practical tips to being more fulfilled in your time with God?
Ten Tips to Help Your Prayer Life
Greg Koukl
For a few hardy prayer warriors, talking with God is as easy as breathing; it happens almost effortlessly. When you ask them how they do it, they simply shrug and reply, “I just pray.” Unfortunately, that’s about as helpful as John McEnroe saying “I just hit the ball,” when asked for some tips on more effective tennis. It may be easy for him to “just hit the ball”, but most of us hackers need a little more fundamental instruction to get the job done. With that in mind, we’ve included here some practical guidelines that might make your time with the Lord more fruitful. Not all of the suggestions will apply to your particular situation, but if you begin by incorporating a few of them, I’m confident your prayer life will improve.
Finish the article here.
How Am I Doing in My Relationships?
When Jesus tells us to pray “forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors,” he may be pointing us somewhere unexpected.
How Is My Trust?
Jessica Kelly walks us through “Give us today our daily bread,” and helps us ask ourselves, How is my trust?
How Am I Doing in My Service?
Guest Jumpstarter Crystal Copeland teaches about applying “Your Kingdom come, your will be done” to our lives.
Getting Good at Prayer Isn’t the Point
By John Ortberg
If you ever feel guilty about not praying enough, raise your mental hand. If someone at a party were to ask you: “How is your prayer life these days?” (which, by the way, is a great way to kill a conversation at a party), what would you say? Is the state of your prayer life determined by how often you pray? How long you pray? Is it measured by how many people you are praying for, or how much faith you pray with, or how many prayers get answered? …
The goal of prayer is not to get good at prayer, not to see who can spend the longest time in prayer. (Jesus said not to pray like the pagans who believe they will be heard because of their many words.) The goal is not to pray with greater feelings of certainty, or greater eloquence, or even greater frequency.
The goal of prayer is to live all my life and to do all my ministry in the joyful awareness that God is present, right here, right now. This is the prayer-filled life that can sustain and empower a life of ministry.
You can hopefully read the full article here, though it may be behind a paywall where I have a subscription. If you want to read it and can’t, message me and I can probably get you either access or a copy.
How Am I Doing in My Worship?
As the Lord’s Prayer encourages us to pray, “Hallowed be your name,” we ask ourselves, “How am I doing in my worship?”
Learning from the Lord’s Prayer: Our Father in Heaven
How can “Our Father in Heaven” help us grow in our faith?
