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Four Parts of Prayer: Adoration

“Pray at all times in the Spirit with every prayer and request, and stay alert with all perseverance and intercession for all the saints”

Ephesians 6:18 CSB

 

The Bible is clear: we need to pray. But how? There are over 650 different prayers in the Bible and a they vary in regards to the situation and content.

A lot of times, our idea of prayer is asking for things. Is this wrong? After all, Mark 11:24 says, “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours” (ESV). Continue Reading...

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My Prayer

As I’ve written before, school is our mission field.

It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:7-8 ESV).

Jerusalem is what the disciples knew, it was where they spent their time. The place that we currently spend our time and that we “know” is school… it’s our Jerusalem.  As we go back to school, we are going back into our called mission field. Continue Reading...

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How Our Prayer is Different

Prayer is an integral part of any Godly man or woman’s life. Yet, it seems a lot of us don’t understand and appreciate it as well as we can and should.

That’s one of the reasons the posts in the next few weeks are going to have a large emphasis on prayer, starting with this one: understanding how the way Christians are called and able to pray is unique from others who pray.

This is something that is important to understand for many reasons. One of the biggest of these being that it can give us a realization of the importance of prayer that we often seem to forget as a culture. Continue Reading...