MY SPIRITUAL BROKENNESS STOPS ME FROM PRAYING All of us know what it’s like to feel the weight of our own brokenness. We have days, weeks, months and even years where we struggle to live the kind of lives God wants us to live. As a result, our guilt and shame often drive us to […]

THE LINK BETWEEN FAITH AND ANSWERED PRAYER The Bible seems to teach that there’s a direct correlation between the amount of faith a person has and whether or not they’re likely to see God answer their prayer. E.M. Bounds said: Jesus Christ clearly taught that faith was the condition on which prayer was answered… When the saddening […]

BEYOND THE GUILT-TRIP When churches want to motivate people to pray, they will typically describe prayer as a ‘spiritual discipline’. Sometimes they will speak about having a ‘quiet-time’. And they will often talk about ‘being more committed’, ‘making prayer a priority’, and how we ‘ought to be praying more’. The problem is, all this talk of ‘commitment’ and […]

Can our prayers change the course of history? If the answer is no, then asking God to do anything seems fairly pointless. But if the answer is yes, then prayer makes an incredibly significant difference. Here’s at least three reasons to believe that our prayers can change the course of history… FIRSTLY, NOT EVERYTHING HAS BEEN DECIDED […]

GOD’S MIND CAN BE CHANGED People give up on prayer for all sorts of reasons. Some don’t believe that prayer really accomplishes anything. Others feel like God is unable to make a difference. But perhaps the most common reason we stop praying is because we believe that God has said no. And certainly this make sense. There’s […]