Here are some things this practice has taught me:
1. I have learned how important it is to pray Scripture over my children. It is broadening out my prayers for the girls more than what I naturally would think on my own.
2. I am reminded how important a routine is for kids. If I feel like it is late and try to skip this part of the prayers, she lets me know.
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This tradition makes the bedtime routine long, but it is also very rewarding having this one-on-one time with them after being gone at work all day.
What an amazing thought from Carey Casey of being so close to God. To sit in His lap and feel His protection as our Dad.
…Although seasons in our lives when God is silent may be important in our spiritual growth, they can also be deeply disturbing. As a result we often attempt to solve the problem of God’s silence with simplistic explanations of complex situations, lopsided applications of Scripture and platitudes of premature comfort. We are afraid to simply wait with the mess of problems unresolved until God Himself unmistakably intervenes, as He did on Easter Sunday.
Taking on the heart of flesh requires moving out of the heart of stone. The stone has been removed, but you need to move out of the tomb.
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Maundy Thursday reminds us of what Jesus went through leaving His glory and taking on our sins. Check out aspects of the service and how it can grow faith.
By withholding forgiveness I could very well be hindering God’s provision and plan for those I care about. The power of forgiveness is the path of life.
Shame will keep you from approaching God with your requests and keep you from living out who God has called you to be. Here are some thoughts from the book.
“Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?” – Read 15 Francis Chan quotes on prayer that will inspire you.
Fasting is abstaining from anything that hinders prayer. – Horatio Boner
We live in two worlds—or better, in one world with two parts, one part that we can see and one part that we cannot. We are urged, for our own welfare, to act as though the unseen world (the rest of reality) is, in fact, more weighty and more real and more dangerous than the part of reality we can see.