Preparing to Pray

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7 NKJV) You’ve stolen a few moments alone. You retreat to your favorite place to pray. Maybe it’s the quiet of a prayer closet or the comfort of an easy chair....

Is God Your Source or Resource?

  And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple; Who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms. (Acts...

Are We Quenching the Holy Spirit?

    Do not quench the Spirit. (1 Thessalonians 5:19 NKJV) I step back as my husband throws some lighter fluid on the charcoal. “Now that’s a fire,” he declares with enthusiasm as he prepares to grill some burgers. The Holy Spirit is symbolized by fire...