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.

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 ...

Thank God for the privilege of prayer and learn daily to ‘Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you’ (1 Peter 5:7).” — Billy Graham. Deepen Your Prayer Life With This Free Resource. When you fill out the form below, we’ll send you a powerful resource on four Biblical principles for effective prayer.

Nov 26, 2017 · Prayer, which is made possible by the gospel and shaped by the gospel, works the same way. God gives to us; we don’t give to God. We ask; he gives. Prayer depends on what he has done in us and for us, and on what he will do in us and for us. Jesus teaches us to pray and to freely ask our Father for the desires of our heart:

The Scriptures tell us that we are to pray for one another and also assure us that God hears and answers prayer. When you receive Christ into your heart, you become a child of God and have the privilege of talking to Him in prayer at any time about anything. The Christian life is a personal relationship to God through Jesus Christ.

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.

Mar 11, 2014 · Lord, make me so mighty in resisting the bait of frenzied productivity that I never cease to enjoy the still waters of prayer and your sweet presence (Psalm 23:2; Isaiah 46:10; Luke 10:42). Lord, make me so mighty against the deadly undertow of self-reliance that I am never ashamed to trust your arm, like a child with his father, in every ...

Mar 21, 2025 · 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.

And what you have left is a kind of lifeless vestige that most people think of as "the prayer meeting" - weak, uninspired, small-minded. A heart of prayer and a movement of prayer for missions is sustained by focusing on something else first that life is war and that God is sovereign. 3. The Awesome Place of Prayer in the Purposes of God for ...

Feb 17, 2015 · The place to start in praying for our enemies is the prayer that the Lord taught us to pray. Whatever else you pray for your enemies, pray for them like this: Father, grant that my enemies — my colleague who snubs me, my wife who belittles me, my child who disrespects me, the ISIS member who wants to kill me — grant that they would come to ...