Prayer affects God. It prompts God to move in ways that he may not have otherwise moved. The whole of Scripture tells us that he hears and answers the cries of his people. One of the purposes of the Bible is to stress the great importance of asking God for both the physical needs [...]
God created prayer for our benefit, not as a burden. God appointed parents to pray because it is a privilege and a blessing to lift up the needs of our families before a God who is infinitely able to meet those needs. Prayer was given by God to be a means by which we [...]
When I was a kid, I had a friend who had an obnoxious little brother. When he didn’t get his way, he started to scream. When I say scream, it wasn’t your typical little kid throwing a fit, but he would scream so loud and so hard that he would literally [...]
It always seems strange to me that we are so dependent on air to live. Our physical bodies are remarkably strong in some ways, but absolutely totally fragile in others. Without air, that little kid was out cold in about a minute. It is sobering to think that, for most of us, just a [...]
