A Simple Way to Improve Our Devotions and Prayers
By julia-attaway1 min read
I’ve found that using the word and has a positive effect—not only on my children, but on my prayer life as well.
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Prayer for Senior Moments
By Rick Hamlin2 min read
If you ever have those moments when your brain goes blank trying to remember a name or a word, welcome to the club. How prayer can improve your brain power and expand your memory.
“Tweeting God”: Two-Second Devotionals
By julia-attaway1 min read
Devotion isn’t about talking at God. A right relationship requires talking with Him. Which means pausing to listen after sending up a two-second prayer.
Praying Through Hard Times
By Rick Hamlin2 min read
How do you pray when you’re worried about your job, your savings, your security? The best thing I’ve found to do when I get too worried about myself is to pray for someone else.
Finding the Right Direction for Devotion
By julia-attaway1 min read
One thought piled upon another: needs, desires, petitions, frustrations. Listening to myself, I thought, Wait a minute—where is God in all this?
Turning Fault-Finding into Prayer
By julia-attaway1 min read
Just as I begin to judge the girl at church with the too-tight clothes and too-high heels, just as I begin to pity her parents, I remember to pray for her instead.
Two Kinds of Prayer
By Rick Hamlin2 min read
Prayer doesn’t always take me to a quiet, peaceful place. Sometimes I need to pray for all the things that swim in my head.
On Heat Waves, Outer Space and Prayer
By Edward Grinnan3 min read
Isn’t it true that so often adversity brings us together to look after one another? And one of the greatest ways we care for ourselves is with prayer.
Ten Prayers for Summer
By Rick Hamlin1 min read
No mosquitoes, no poison ivy, no airport delays, no deer ticks…what will you pray for this summer?
Listening to God, Part 3: Clearing Out My Ears for Prayer
By julia-attaway1 min read
It’s never hard to say we’re sinners in a general sense. The hard part is admitting in prayer the specific sins which block our hearing.
Prayers for Those Who Govern
By Rick Hamlin2 min read
It occurred to me that rather than giving those who govern a piece of my mind, I could give them something else in my prayers: compassion.
Listening to God, Part 2: Hearing Nothing
By julia-attaway2 min read
Four reasons I sometimes hear nothing when I sit down for prayer.