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Stay Focused in Prayer

#1 Way to Stay Focused in Prayer

    Our minds can be very hard to corral wandering from one thing to another. Staying focused is difficult. Here is the #1 way to stay forced in prayer:

    How Do We Respond to Delayed Answers to Prayer?

      You haven’t blown it, Daniel, and God isn’t holding out on you. The angel goes on to explain that he was locked in hand-to-hand combat with a mighty fallen angel, a demonic power of dreadful strength, who kept him out of the Persian kingdom for these three weeks, and how he finally had to go get Michael (the great Archangel, the Captain of the Lord’s hosts) to come and help him break through enemy lines. “Now I am here, in answer to your prayer. Sorry its taken so long.”

      4 Keys to Effective Prayer

      Four Keys to Effective Prayer

        Prayer is the key in the hand of faith; prayer is the key to heaven. Journey with me and my personal examples as I share four keys to effective prayer.

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        Lord, Don’t Give Us What We Deserve?

          When we placed our lives in Christ, we exchanged our lives for His. We have no more fear of judgment of sins. We now deserve everything God died to give.

          What If What You Are Praying Against Does Not Happen?

            Personally, I choose to believe that God answered our prayers. Is it possible that I was making too much out of it? Yes. But what would you rather believe as a Christian: that God answers prayers or that there is no need to pray? We are told not to be anxious in anything but in everything by prayer and petition

            Sex Teaches Us About Prayer

            What Does Sex Teach Us About Prayer?

              What does sex teach us about prayer? Techniques of both prayer and sex are not the source of pleasure. The source of pleasure is the depth of relationship.

              Facebook Confessions

                Confession in our personal prayers often takes the form of dredging up every possible sin to bring before God. There is a scene in the movie, Luther, where Martin Luther is spending long hours in the confessional of the monastery to the point where the other priest is getting bored with him. Now I do not think God ever gets bored of us coming to Him. But I do think God wants us to know that sin has been dealt with. The purpose of confession in our prayers is not to get our sins forgiven. They are already forgiven. The purpose of confession is to remind ourselves of this truth and to thank Jesus for the forgiveness given to us. Confession is not to rehash the shame of sin, but to annihilate shame’s very existence in our lives.