Jan 1, 2015 · How to Persevere in Prayer. If you are struggling to maintain a healthy and vibrant prayer life, you are not alone. Every lifelong journey of prayer comes with seasons of dryness or discouragement. These resources were crafted to help you endure the valleys with hope and rebuild your communion with God.

Apr 27, 2016 · Prayer is objectively real — a real God, real communication, real work, real answers. But it also comes in a million shapes and forms. Prayer happens in seconds — short moments in the cracks of our day — and it can happen for hours at a time, even throughout a whole night. Prayer is conscious, personal communication with the God of the ...

Nov 25, 2022 · And while such difficulties can reflect something wrong within — a heart overgrown with worldly cares (Luke 8:14) or hiding unconfessed sin (Psalm 66:18) — Jesus’s teaching on prayer is striking for its realism. “Ask, and it will be given to you” may sound straightforward enough on the surface: a simple cause followed by a sure effect.

Apr 30, 2018 · Prayer in the power of the flesh relies upon human ability and effort to carry the prayer forward. We all know what it is to feel deadness in prayer, difficulty in prayer, to be tongue-tied, with nothing to say, as it were, having to force ourselves to try. Well, to the extent that is true of us, we are not praying in the Spirit.

Jan 2, 2017 · 1. Set prayer apart. The more we pray, the more we want to pray. To do this, you need to build it into the rhythm of your day any way you can: set alarms, leave notes, put it in your day planner. Prayer is a practice that requires discipline and perseverance, and we should own the cost. Prayer is the greatest act of our day, and we must fight ...

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).

May 17, 2024 · Image the God of Prayer. Finally, alongside modeling prayer and teaching about prayer, image the God who hears prayer. The generous, loving, patient earthly father teaches with his life that God is a generous, loving, patient heavenly Father. But the selfish, short-tempered dad has hammered a deep dent in his children’s understanding.

A hunger for God : desiring God through fasting and prayer / John Piper ; foreword by David Platt and Francis Chan. p. cm Originally published: Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, c1997. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4335-3726-4 1. Fasting—Religious aspects—Christianity. 2. Prayer—Christianity. 3.

Dec 31, 2000 · Stoking the Prayer Fire. We take a week each year to focus on prayer because prayer is the breath of the Christian life and because almost nothing decays so fast in the fallen human heart as the desire to pray. In other words, nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

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.