Category: Prayer
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The Prayer Slump
(3-minute read) There was a time when I felt that my prayers were less effective than they used to be. I wasn’t sure what had changed or how I had possibly gotten off. I decided to return to the beginning, and one day I asked the Lord, “Lord, teach me to pray.” The first instruction…
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Desire a Miracle
(2-minute read) “Lord, would you let me see a miracle that would take away my doubts?” At the time, I was 24 years old, and I had recently had a salvation experience with God. It seemed reasonable; God wanted me to believe without doubting. It took me years to understand why he didn’t do that…
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Weight
I’m a stress eater. The past few years have been quite stressful for our family, and my weight has ballooned. I decided to go on a diet, and although I was following the diet for several weeks quite strictly, I wasn’t losing any weight. I would lose a little one day and gain it back…
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St Petersburg Church
(3-minute read) Last Saturday night, we were invited to go with our friends Dean and Patti to their church in St. Petersburg, FL. The church had started a new thing in which, once a month during the service, they brought prayer teams to the front of the church and opened it to anyone wanting prayer.…
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Whispers
I developed an illness that, over several years, became much worse. In May of 2011, a specialist told me that a part of my brain called the hypothalamus was failing. There was no tumor or anything they could treat, and there was no organ replacement for that part of the body. My body temperature would…
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Time to Move
My wife, Jo, and I knew the Lord for less than a year when we started meeting once a week with some people who, when they prayed, something happened. We wanted God to answer our prayers, so we started copying some of the things they did. If we weren’t going off to go to church…
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Close the Door
Back in the early 1970s, with the best intentions, I was trying to do something I thought was for the Lord. I prayed and asked the Lord’s help, but nothing I tried worked. I was blocked at every turn, and eventually, it became apparent that it was the Lord stopping me. I was upset. My…
Walking the path 