Those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good. — 1 Peter 4:19 If our kids always behave and our boss is always pleased and our home is always orderly and our bodies always feel good and we are patient and kind and thoughtful and…
Compelled to Pray
Compelled by Problems in Our World Daniel’s prayer pulsates with this type of emotional conviction. His life for sixty-seven years had been difficult at best. As an old man, he lived through another violent regime change as the Medo-Persian Empire overthrew the Babylonians. His position was uncertain under the new ruler. He may have…
Prepared for Prayer
A Prepared Place for Prayer Daniel had a specific place designated for prayer: an upstairs room in his home to which he withdrew three times every day.1 His preparations may have been as simple as setting aside this particular place where he could be undistracted and undisturbed. I’m convinced we all need this kind of…
Pleading with Confidence
Is faith a gift that some people have been given and others have not? No, faith is a choice. There’s an old story, a favorite of mine, about a veteran tightrope walker who, after demonstrating he could push a wheelbarrow filled with sand across Niagara Falls on a tightrope, asked the applauding crowd for a…
Prayer That Is Answered Immediately
Prayer That Is Answered Immediately Daniel had seen with his own eyes the sacred golden vessels that had been used in temple worship of the living God used at a pagan feast for the pleasure of a spoiled, drunken Babylonian king.1 He knew the city of Jerusalem itself was nothing but ruins. And the temple…
You Don’t Need Seminary to Understand Scripture
I know prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes people. But if you don’t have somebody visible that you can pray with, somebody that you can call and tell what your needs are — and I have to be careful myself. I don’t want to depend on my prayer teams for prayer and…
Jesus In Me: Watch Session One
Watch Session One of the Jesus In Me Online Bible Study with Anne Graham Lotz! Through the Jesus In Me Online Bible Study, Anne Graham Lotz invites us into a space to wrestle with all of our questions about the Holy Spirit. As you dive into Scripture, you’ll discover how to live in deep relationship with the…
Loving the Person Of the Holy Spirit
One of my deepest, richest joys has been discovering by experience who the Holy Spirit is in every step of my life’s journey. ~ Anne Graham Lotz, Jesus in Me, page 9 WEEKLY SCHEDULE Day 1 3-Question Study—John 14:21-24 Day 2 3-Question Study—John 14:25-27 Day 3 3-Question Study—John 16:5-7 Day 4 3-Question Study—Romans 8:9-11 Day…
Jesus In Me: One Thing I Know for Certain
I have heard the Holy Spirit spoken of as an “it,” a feeling, a dove, a flame of fire, a ghost, an emotion, or even an ecstatic experience. He is referred to as the third Person of the Trinity, as though He is the least of the Trinity, or a postscript to the more…
When Your Grief Is Almost More Than You Can Handle
I remember well the day my husband, Danny, gave me my engagement ring. We were sitting on the couch beside the fireplace in my parents’ living room. Inside a little black velvet box was the most beautiful ring I had ever seen. It was exactly what I would have selected had I done so myself.…