When Prayer Makes Sense

Max Lucado writes:

Prayer only makes sense when you have quit trying to do ministry yourself. I've learned that as things go smoothly, I pray less. ...

The Most Important Work

The future of the Christian work which is now being carried on with such great intensity does not depend upon curtailment or reorganization. It depends ...

Testing God

Prayer, coupled with loving obedience, is the way to put God to the test and to make prayer answer all ends and all things.

A Prayer of Clement

We ask you, Master, be our helper and defender. Rescue those of our number in distress; raise up the fallen; assist the needy; heal the sick; turn back ...

The Highest Human Goal

The goal, the highest good, of the human creature is that the knowledge of God and prayer to God converge.

Phone Blunder

Early one Sunday morning I was awakened by the telephone. Thinking it was my son playing a joke on me, I picked up the receiver. In a hoarse whisper, ...

Prayer Better than E-Mail

From the time when God became real to me, I knew that communicating with him--two way communication--was the most important thing in the world. To communicate ...

The Purpose of a Day of Prayer

A day of prayer should answer two questions: "Who are you, Lord?" and "What shall I do?"

The Longest Prayer

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but, as I live longer, and see more of life, I believe there is no such thing as getting through ...

Prayer Requires Submission

When we pray, we relinquish in a radical way our so-called sovereignty over the purposes of our lives. We subordinate our plans, schedules and life scenarios ...