With 48 pages of solid, Biblical direction and advice, Grace Goals contains tons of practical information, Scripture verses, printable worksheets and study guides to help you set and achieve your biggest goals — all from a Biblical perspective.
Click here to learn more. This helps cover the many costs of running this site and allows me to help provide for my growing family. Thank you! And yet, this is exactly what the apostles did. And it worked. Man, we Americans are busy people. Always running from place to place, doing a hundred things at once. Have you taken time in the still and quiet to really listen to His voice?
Or are you too busy rushing around trying to solve all of your problems yourself, without so much as stopping for a minute to hear from Him? Related: Struggling to Read the Bible Consistently?
Here are 7 Reasons Why. And once you asked, did you wait and allow God the time and space to actually do something about them? Or did you just barge ahead full steam, trying to find a solution to your problems yourself, without Him? Keep praying and seeking HIS will for your life! According to the Scripture about answered prayer we read above, God answers prayers when …. Brittany Ann is an author, speaker, and founder of EquippingGodlyWomen. Comment policy: All opinions are welcome here and friendly, edifying debates are encouraged.
However, comments that are rude, hateful, malicious, or spammy will be immediately deleted without warning. Your email address will not be shared publicly. Your Website if applicable. How we pray is just as important as what we pray for. In James we are told:. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.
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So why would we view the reception of the Eucharist as a private matter? I am not talking about your relationship with God. I am talking about your relationship with others. If you are like me and you believe the Bible is unchanging, having a broken relationship with another person actually has a lot to do with the efficacy of your prayers.
But, this is not simply my opinion. In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus said, "Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you've received it and it'll be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that you Father in heaven may also forgive your sins. Your horizontal relationships impact your vertical relationship.
Your relationships with each other have a direct bearing on your relationship with God. In a very small way, I can understand God's position, because I'm a dad. When my kids are fighting about something, it's usually about something insignificant. When they are fighting and then ask me for something, I don't want to give them what they're asking for because I care more about how they treat each other than simply giving them what they want. They need to fix the relationship between each other and quit fighting before they ask me for anything.
When you pray, maybe your motives are wrong. Listen to what the earthly brother of Jesus, James, had to say about that. And those motives are that you may spend what you get on your own pleasures. In our North American culture, we are some of the most selfish prayers on Earth. While so many people on Earth have nothing, we spend much of our prayer currency praying for more things. We pray selfish prayers when what God really wants is for us to pray selfless prayers. When was the last time you spent all your prayer time praying for someone else?
One interesting interaction in the Gospel of Mark tells us of a father who is concerned over his son. The son is caught up in some evil things. This dad is desperate, like any of us would be. He says to Jesus, "If you could do anything, could you just take pity on us and help us? Everything is possible for one who believes. He said, "It was done unto them according to their faith. We know that word of mouth is the best marketing. If there are people around you who aren't Jesus people, they can pick up on the fact that you don't actually believe in prayer.
Prayer is one of the foundational principles about being a Jesus person. It's like the characters in this old story. There was a pastor and a bar owner. The pastor was upset because there was a bar down the street and they were selling alcohol.
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