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Praying With The Bible

Prayer is one of the most important activities that a believer can do. Prayer can be defined simply as talking and listening to God. There are many aspects to prayer. In the Lord’s prayer, Jesus teaches us about five aspects of prayer. The first aspect is praising God for who He is. Next is committing yourself to God’s [...]

What Hinders Your Prayers?

Let me start out by asking you the question “Does God answer your prayers?” What would you say? Does He answer all the time, usually, some of the time or never? We all would like God to answer our prayers all the time, but that doesn’t happen for many us. Why not? Unanswered prayer is a big [...]

Advanced Prayer Disciplines

Currently, we’re in a message series called “Powerful Prayer.” God wants our prayers to be powerful and effective. Yet sometimes, we are not sure why we should pray at all. Why should we pray? There are a lot of good answers to that question. As a believer, you should pray because God commands it. You should pray because you love [...]

What Is Faith?

What is faith? The dictionary defines faith as “Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, an idea, or a thing.” Faith is about believing in someone or something. People believe in all sorts of things. You got up believing that the sun would get up too. You ate some breakfast cereal, made from [...]

Looking Up For Guidance

Who knows what tomorrow holds? Not you, not me, no human being knows what tomorrow holds. Oh, people can make general predictions, but even those often turn out to be wrong. Virtually no one predicted the financial meltdown of 2008. Will 2010 be the end of the recession or the beginning of an even greater depression? No one [...]