Posts Tagged ‘Prayer’
What Activates Faith in the Power of the Gospel?
This article first appeared on the website of Gospel Fellowship Association Missions, here. We republish it here with permission. People who are confident in the power of the Gospel will proclaim it. They will be burdened for the Gospel to spread to the world. But experience teaches us that our confidence in the power of…
Read MoreHow to Pray in Dark Days
“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints” (Eph 6.18) In military strategy and warfare it has been said that “knowing is half the battle.” In the history of warfare allies have signaled each other with drums, flaming arrows, signal fires, smoke…
Read MoreThe Leadership Crisis: Searching for Answers (1)
The churches of America have entered a major leadership crisis. Many churches don’t have pastors and cannot obtain one. The number of churches without qualified spiritual leaders is multiplying by the day. This vacuum of leadership has hit every denomination and group. This situation is a relatively new one for Bible-believing American churches. How Do…
Read MoreThree Eggs
Life was wonderful! Paula and I finished college and on the heels of marriage began deputation, which was actually our extended honeymoon. Nine months later we moved to southern Texas to study at a Spanish language school, which we excitedly saw as the final hurdle to becoming missionaries to Mexico. I was 24, Paula was…
Read MorePraying for One Another
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin…
Read MoreGod Hears Us When We Pray
We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error (I John 4:6). And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he…
Read MoreHow to Spend an Hour in Prayer
Do you feel that you cannot pray because you run out of things to say? One of the most practical ways to solve this problem is to combine Biblical meditation with prayer. Here are some practical steps to do this: Write down a prayer list of people or needs for which you need to pray.…
Read MoreGod Gives Wisdom
One great enemy working against us in our pursuit of God’s wisdom is well-intentioned friends and family around us. People seek to draw us back again to the wisdom of this world. They think they know what is best. They say they are looking out for us, but they are diverting us from the path…
Read MoreWhat Do We Do Now?
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee (Psalm 102:1). I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication (Psalm 142:1). Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all…
Read MoreAncient Mariners, Psalms, and Prayers
I’ve always been intrigued by The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It’s an old poem. A long, old poem by a guy named Coleridge. Out of the whole thing, I think the part most of us have any knowledge of is this one: Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. Coleridge wrote this…
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