Reading Time: 4 minutes“God always answers my prayers,” that’s what Pastor Price said and he didn’t mean it in that trite, evangelical, I’m so special, “God answers all prayers sometimes he says yes, sometimes he says no, sometimes he says wait a while,” way, he meant God always gave him what he asked for.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMs. Connie always experienced extreme pain in her ear when flying. When the plane would begin its descent she’d feel like she was being stabbed in the ear with an ice pick. Now, because her husband had changed jobs, she was going to be doing a lot more flying . Every couple of weeks she’d be flying back and forth, from home to San Francisco.
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis quote of George Müller’s pretty much sums up our goal as a church…
Reading Time: 3 minutesM.’s family has a bunch of dogs, some Pit Bulls some Chihuahuas. A few weeks ago they discovered one of the Pit Bulls with its mouth locked around the neck of one of the Chihuahua’s, her daughter S.’s pet.
Reading Time: 4 minutesI like this one because if played out over an extended period, about two years. Too often we call it quits when the answer doesn’t show up right away and we end up missing out on what God wants us to have.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNitz shared a beautiful testimony of answered prayer with us yesterday at church. A friend was in the hospital with a blood clot in her lung, a very serious condition, the friend couldn’t even get out of bed or move around. Nitz felt led to lay on the bed with her friend as she read
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome more testimones of answered prayer from the last couple church services. – N.’s friend, an elementary school teacher, was quite distraught about being moved to a different grade level. N. told her not to be upset, let’s pray, God will help you. They prayed, N. said there was a very strong anointing of God
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJesus taught that God wants to answer our prayers, but most Christians have been taught about prayer in such as way that, as Charles Finney put it, “Their prayers were just such as God had promised not to answer.” I want to change your picture of prayer by showing you that even after God says “Yes!” to our prayers we still won’t receive the answer if we fail to do our part. Video, lasts about 35 minutes.
Reading Time: 7 minutesMost Christians have been taught about prayer in such a way that, as Charles Finney said, “Their prayers were just such as God had promised not to answer.”
Reading Time: 7 minutesMost people think about prayer like a kind of slot machine. You put your coin in, pull the handle, and hope for the best. Nothing you do can change the outcome and when your prayer isn’t answered it’s not a big surprise. But if you actually stop to look at what the Bible says about prayer you’ll be shocked to discover that the Bible talks about prayer like it’s a sure thing, a certainty, a guarantee. The Bible pictures prayer as something more like a garden. It’s a sure thing, everyone can have a garden, but it requires effort on our part. There are things we must do, conditions we must meet to receive the answer to our prayers. (Read the rest of this post on my blog here: http://goo.gl/D62Ru )