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  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Prayer, Part 11

    Have you begged God for help with your health? I have. Have years gone by and you haven’t seen answers? Yes. Does Jesus care? Yes, yes He does! It can sometimes seem as if the trial is never-ending. I have a feeling that it seemed like that for the woman in Mark 5:25-34. Yet, God…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Prayer, Part 10

    Heartache. Disappointment. Pressure. Outcast. Hannah (1 Samuel 1) had all of these things since she was childless in a time when children were everything. To make it worse, she was a second wife where the other wife had children and taunted her daily. While her husband loved her, she was so sad that she could…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Prayer, Part 8

    Hebrews 4:14-16, “14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are,…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Prayer, Part 7

    We have talked about our prayer life being talking to God. Prayer is directly related to our relationship with God. Popular opinion would say that you can live your life as you please and continue your relationship with God. However, just as our relationships with people are affected by our actions, so is our relationship…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Prayer, Part 6

    We have given a simple explanation for prayer, talking to God. This is absolutely true and prayer at it’s simplest form. However, we would be remiss if we didn’t look more deeply into prayer. There are requirements to come to God in prayer. We must come with a humble heart, confessing sin first and being…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Prayer

    1 Thessalonians 5:17, “Pray without ceasing.” This verse is one of the shortest in the Bible. Yet, it is powerful. Amidst the daily struggles of living with a disability and chronic illness, time set aside for prayer can be hard to find. Honestly, “survival tasks” with my conditions take a good deal of my strength…

  • Excellent Read

    Yesterday, I “read” the book Saving My Assassin by Virginia Prodan. It is an amazing story of God’s grace, strength, and protection through persecution. I strongly recommend it. It gives perspective on how to pray for those who are living in countries where they cannot worship freely.

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: Praying for the Persecuted

    Many of our brothers and sisters in Christ around the world suffer persecution for their faith. Today is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. 1 Corinthians 12:26 “26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.” Hebrews 13:3…

  • Daily Dose of Encouragement: 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18

    1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 “17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” Recently, a dear friend went through a lot. She was hospitalized again and had to go back to rehab. The road was long and difficult. Something she said to me struck…

  • Another Great Service

    Here is a great service for those of us who struggle to remember the power of God as we pray: