Apprentice 2 Jesus

Prayer

  • 6 minute prayer challenge

    In the short bursts of opportunity, I can’t look at them as inconvenient times any more. I need to see them as invitations in the Spirit to rise to a challenge. Read more

  • Little faith and breakthrough prayer

    19 Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” 20 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faithas small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be… Read more

  • Prayer for the day

    Where there is charity and wisdom is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor worry. Where there is poverty and joy there is neither cupidity nor avarice. Where there is quiet and meditation there is neither solicitude nor dissipation. Where there is the fear of the Lord… Read more

  • The hardest prayer

    Sometimes the only thing to pray is, “Lord, break me.” It is incredibly hard. It grates against our pride and ego and sense of “victorious living”, etc. But this may be the best prayer. And as a result, our lack of willingness to pray it is probably what holds back genuine outpouring of the Spirit.… Read more

  • The lack of lament

    I am beginning a book by Soong-Chan Rah called Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times. It is a series by IVP that does biblical commentary within the application of current cultural commentary. This one is on Lamentations. His claim is we have no songs of lament in our American Christian culture. We… Read more

  • The essence of revival: raise the dead

    He thought he came to preach a nice sermon, collect a small check, have a nice lunch, and then go home. He didn’t know the assignment that day was “raise the dead.” Read more

  • We look to accuse

    Our tendency too often is to look to accuse. When bitterness sets into my life, I look to the problem of something rather than what GOOD is there. I gain a critical spirit. Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal… Read more

  • The new journey we begin

    I can beat myself up over past failures to pray and press in. But the Spirit presses me on! Read more

  • The ability to ACT

    Lynne Hybels has an excellent piece in The Washington Post about responding to the migrant crisis in Europe. There are several agencies you could donate to as well as action in prayer and action in going. Friends, there are things TO DO. A call to some action is necessary. We need to see the need, the crisis,… Read more

  • The people who know their God

    I’ve been meditating on the thought of the Daniel Generation that started HERE. The foundation to all of it is we must know God. If we do not truly know God, if we are not grounded in him, the American Church will head into a new “Dark Ages.”  Not “America.” The American Church.  As I have tried to prepare… Read more