Category: Prayer

Paul’s Four Life-Changing Prayers Part 1

It is so much easier to unlearn spiritual truths than to learn them. How many of us fill up our days with busy schedules and forget to prepare for eternity?

Thanksgiving Prayer

Reflections ministry associate Michael Stewart continues a sermon series on prayer at GraceLife Church of Pineville, inspired by Ken Boa’s Handbook to Prayer. Some summary notes on the sermon’s introduction are found below.  Reason for Celebration Thanksgiving marks the beginning of our American holiday season. Conversation among Christians

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Peter: A Case Study in Character

This article is a continuation of the article “Growing in Character,” which we recommend reading first.  Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in

Trusting God in Turbulent Times

Emotional, intellectual, and volitional obstacles can keep us from trusting and yielding to God, both for the first time and after we become followers of Christ. Trusting Him is especially challenging when life is difficult or doesn’t make sense from our perspective. But if we turn toward God, his Spirit in us will help us overcome these barriers, so that we’re able to trust Him at all times, no matter what’s going on around us.

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Four Life-Changing Prayers

[lead]Follow the apostle Paul’s example in prayer.[/lead] Use the following four passages from three of Paul’s epistles (letters) as a pattern of prayer for yourself and/or others Ephesians 1:17–19a “[I ask] that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a