Prayer - Desiring God
Jan 1, 2015 · Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. ... Sermon. Be Devoted to Prayer. Dec ...
Messages on Prayer - Desiring God
Nov 20, 2024 · Prayer is an expression of faith in God’s power, fueled by a desire for more of him. ... Sermon. Praying ...
Be Devoted to Prayer | Desiring God
Dec 29, 2002 · Then there is Sunday morning that includes prayer in song and other ways. If assembling for prayer is not part of your devotion to prayer, make 2003 a breakthrough year. Both-and: free and formed, alone and assembled. D — Desperate and Delighted. Being devoted to prayer will mean that you come to God in prayer often desperate and often delighted.
Our Deepest Prayer: Hallowed Be Your Name | Desiring God
Jan 9, 2011 · But the prayer in the Bible that has gripped me most during this leave is the Lord’s prayer in Matthew 6:9–13. This is probably because, in God’s providence, I was memorizing the Sermon on the Mount with many of you. So week after week I was reviewing Matthew 6 in my mind, and so saying the Lord’s Prayer over and over.
Winning Battles Through Prayer - Desiring God
Jul 19, 1990 · Implicit in Hezekiah's prayer is that God cannot be defeated. Isaiah 37:16 makes this crystal-clear. God is the Lord of Hosts; He has made heaven and earth. This is the certainty behind Hezekiah's prayer: The Lord alone is God, the maker of all things and ruler of all things. He cannot be defeated. His counsels stand. He accomplishes all His ...
The Main Ingredient in Effective Prayer | Desiring God
Jul 18, 2013 · In each case, James encourages his readers to pray. Why? Because prayer is effective, which means, God hears his people and acts on their behalf. Then, in the beginning of verse 16, because prayer is effective (James 5:13–15), he says, “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed” (James 5:16).
Devote Yourselves to Prayer - Desiring God
Jan 9, 2000 · In a broad sense, prayer includes all that. But, speaking precisely, prayer is requesting, asking. That's why in Colossians 4:2 it says, "Devote yourselves to prayer . . . with (or in) thanksgiving." Thanking God should always be part of what we do in prayer. But prayer, in the strict sense, means requesting. So I define it as asking God for ...
Bend the Ear of God: Three Wonders of Christian Prayer
Nov 20, 2024 · Ephesians 6:17–18 says to “take . . . the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.” And Jude 20–21 says, “You, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit , keep yourselves in the love of God.”
Put in the Fire for the Sake of Prayer | Desiring God
Dec 28, 2008 · “Prayer is a wartime walkie-talkie, not a domestic intercom.” So Jesus says that our prayers get answered in proportion to the way the word of Christ is shaping our requests according to God’s will (see 1 John 5:14), and that prayer exists for the glory of God, and that prayer is a wartime walkie-talkie, not a domestic intercom.
Praying in the Closet and in the Spirit - Desiring God
Jan 3, 2010 · The question is the relationship between discipline and freedom and spontaneity in prayer. Discipline. By “discipline,” I mean planning to do certain things in regard to prayer, like. have a Prayer Week, or pray for before meals, or pray before an elders meeting, or kneel and pray in your wedding right after your vows, or at the beginning ...