- Prayer - Desiring God
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing Prayer is an expression of faith in God’s power, fueled by a desire for more of him
- A Simple Way to Pray Every Day - Desiring God
Personally, I tend toward praying inward-focused prayers that center on my confession, my problems, and my requests Praying the Lord’s Prayer as Luther recommends helps us to seek a greater awareness of Christ, other people, and God’s broader mission in our prayers 2 Discipline our wandering minds Our minds drift so easily in times of
- How to Pray in the Holy Spirit - Desiring God
What Praying in the Spirit Is Here is the key difference: in the flesh, we are pushing the prayers forward, while in the Spirit, we feel caught up in the way the Spirit carries the prayer forward Praying in the Spirit is experiencing the Spirit of life bringing prayer to life “Sometimes praying in the Spirit will not feel electrifying at all
- Prayer for Beginners - Desiring God
Don’t think now about praying for that need or desire for decades Just focus on today If God has given you a burden or a desire for another day, and you really believe that burden or desire might be from him, be willing to ask him one more time — one more prayer for relief, for reconciliation, for provision, for a breakthrough, for salvation
- How to Pray the Psalms | Desiring God
Colossians 3:16 indicates that the singing of Psalms will lead to a rich filling with the word of Christ It is therefore vital that we ask of every psalm just how it speaks to us of Christ It may show us Christ praying, and leading us, his church, in prayer It may speak to us of Christ’s kingship and rule (as in Psalm 72, for example)
- How to Keep Praying: Four Lessons from the Master
Michael Reeves notes how prone we can be to treat prayer “as an abstract activity, a ‘thing to do,’” rather than remembering “the one to whom [we’re] praying” (Enjoy Your Prayer Life, 30) Prayer easily becomes impersonal: “to pray” is to run down a list of names, sit or kneel in such and such place for so long, drive in the
- How Do I Pray the Bible? | Desiring God
What we are praying is the meaning of texts, not just words This is important So, for example, when reading part of the Old Testament history book that takes a whole chapter to tell a story, say, about Ahab’s wickedness I just read this morning (1 Kings 21)
- The Main Ingredient in Effective Prayer | Desiring God
To make it even clearer, he follows this with, “The effective prayer of a righteous person has great power ” That line is the second portion in a double dose of support for our praying James’s point is to repeat his theme to pray because prayer is effective His concern is not how prayer is made effective, but that prayer is effective
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