Prayer - Desiring God
2015年1月1日 · How to Persevere in Prayer. If you are struggling to maintain a healthy and vibrant prayer life, you are not alone. Every lifelong journey of prayer comes with seasons of dryness or discouragement. These resources were crafted to help you endure the valleys with hope and rebuild your communion with God.
Prayer for Beginners - Desiring God
2016年4月27日 · Prayer is objectively real — a real God, real communication, real work, real answers. But it also comes in a million shapes and forms. Prayer happens in seconds — short moments in the cracks of our day — and it can happen for hours at a time, even throughout a whole night. Prayer is conscious, personal communication with the God of the ...
Seven Steps to Strengthen Prayer - Desiring God
2017年1月2日 · 1. Set prayer apart. The more we pray, the more we want to pray. To do this, you need to build it into the rhythm of your day any way you can: set alarms, leave notes, put it in your day planner. Prayer is a practice that requires discipline and perseverance, and we should own the cost. Prayer is the greatest act of our day, and we must fight ...
The Main Ingredient in Effective Prayer | Desiring God
2013年7月18日 · The main ingredient in effective prayer is emphatically not us. Often Misunderstood. Many of us find James 5:16 to be a familiar verse: “The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working” — which is also translated, as an ESV footnote spells out, “The effective prayer of a righteous person has great power.”
A Simple Way to Pray Every Day - Desiring God
2017年2月6日 · Praying the Lord’s Prayer as Luther recommends helps us to seek a greater awareness of Christ, other people, and God’s broader mission in our prayers. 2. Discipline our wandering minds. Our minds drift so easily in times of prayer. One moment I’m praying, the next I’m thinking about that email I need to reply to.
What Should We Pray For? | Desiring God
2006年11月10日 · “From time to time, our prayers need a jolt out of the rut they have fallen into.” Prayer remains one of the great and glorious mysteries of the universe — that the all-knowing, all-wise, all-sovereign God should ordain to run his world in response to our prayers is mind-boggling. But that is the uniform witness of Scripture.
A Prayer for What I Need Most - Desiring God
2012年9月21日 · I need more of Jesus in me so that I will be “rooted and grounded in love” (verse 17). Your greatest commandment, Father (Matthew 22:37–39), your Son’s last commandment (John 15:12), and the greatest of the Spirit’s gifts (1 Corinthians 13:13) is …
Six Prayers God Always Answers - Desiring God
2017年11月26日 · If we want to grow and mature in prayer, we don’t need to set a timer. We don’t need to learn new contemplative methods, or build a prayer closet in the woods. But we do need to become better ask-ers. We need to realize that we are all walking disasters apart from grace, men and women who need God every step of every day.
Be Devoted to Prayer | Desiring God
2002年12月29日 · Then there is Sunday morning that includes prayer in song and other ways. If assembling for prayer is not part of your devotion to prayer, make 2003 a breakthrough year. Both-and: free and formed, alone and assembled. D — Desperate and Delighted. Being devoted to prayer will mean that you come to God in prayer often desperate and often delighted.
Seven Prayers for Those You Love - Desiring God
2019年10月5日 · Lastly, and most clearly, we need God to fulfill his work through them — to complete it and make it fruitful (Philippians 1:6, 11). In short, we need him to glorify himself in all that they (and we) do. Thank God for Grace You See. If God answers these prayers, we will see the fruit over time — and we should thank him as often as we see it.