Many people confuse aspiration with prayer. They are however, actually two different things, and while they may support one another when they align, it is not necessary that aspiration lead to pray…
God, Your presence underneath the noise of the demands of daily life fills my heart with peace. Your Word cleanses negative emotions that I don’t know how to stop on my own. Your grace works …
If you can't pray in a voting booth, where can you pray? And where would you need more to pray? "May You raise for us a government whose rule is for good and blessing, to bring justice and peace to all..."
There is so much to do and so little time to do it! All of us have known the disappointment of wanting more out of life than it can deliver. We have also known the frustration of having life deliver more than we have ordered, or so it seems. We have been...
Lord I look to you for help. Sometimes my anger is on the inside and sometimes it explodes on the outside, but I ask for Your support. I can’t do this without You. I want to be a person who has self-control, and I want to be able to ‘deny myself’ as You said. My …
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am follow…
"Teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud and not to trust in their money, which is so unreliable."
Prayer is one of those things we know we "should" do, but often don't know how. But perhaps we're making talking to God harder than it really needs to be.
Prayer is not a half-hearted ritual recitation of words; it is an outpouring of the heart.