Sep 4, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.Ephesians 6:18 Unfortunately, some of us have gotten the idea that prayer is supposed to be an intense and...
Aug 28, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Matthew 6:7 Once, while swimming in the ocean, I shouted an exceedingly short but extremely earnest prayer. Susan and I had gone to the beach in New...
Aug 21, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
People have made suggestions throughout the history of the church for how to make prayer a vital and regular part of our lives. Many tools have been devised. While tools and formulas for prayer can be helpful, they can sometimes become a distraction from a personal...
Aug 14, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do these things, you will never stumble, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:10, 11 My oldest...
Aug 7, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be...
Jul 31, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being...
Jul 24, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.Luke 11:8 In Luke 11:8, Jesus tells of a man who was insistent. He didn’t go away. He...
Jul 17, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.John 10:27 Jesus says powerful things about praying specifically. Remember the example Jesus uses of the man who says, “Friend, lend me three loaves”? The request was specific. Sometimes, I tend to get lazy...
Jul 10, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.Matthew 6:8 When I was growing up, I was often ill and seldom participated in athletics. By the time I was in college, I was so insecure about my lack of athleticism that I tried to compensate...
Jul 3, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
“Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.’ And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked,...
Jun 26, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.Matthew 6:12 There are many things that are hindrances to prayer, but the one thing I encounter more than anything else in counseling with people is the problem of unforgiveness. Improper relationships with...
Jun 19, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. – Psalm 37:4 If you don’t take delight in the Lord, you’ll have the wrong kind of desires. You can name it and claim it all day long, but you won’t have power in prayer, because you...
Jun 12, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God… Luke 6:12 Have you ever stayed up late doing something you like to do? Have you ever just lost track of time because you were so engrossed in something you were...
Jun 5, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
I’ve stated many times that it was difficult to step out and trust God’s leading when we moved to Tennessee to start the Ranch. But, we are so grateful for the privilege of moving here and watching what God has done. God is actively at work at Wears Valley Ranch....
May 29, 2024 | Weekly Devotional
I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife...
