Apprentice 2 Jesus

Prayer

  • Behind-the-scenes-power

    The true power of prayer is always behind the scenes. It is the power that generates the movement of God and we often don’t have any idea of the “true events” of a revival or miracle until later. What we often find out later is God was moving someone to prayer. Mark Batterson writes in Draw… Read more

  • “Willing” Your Way Back to Faith

    Psalm 77 is a place of faith for me. I read someone willing their way back to faith. They have been seeking God continuously, but to no avail. God seems to be silent. Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion? (v.9) But, then, a choice is made. To this I will… Read more

  • A Lament

    I don’t write poetry or songs. I can barely write sentences. But my heart is broken and I need to let loose in a lament. I’m not the psalmist and it isn’t inspired. The feeling of loss is overwhelming at times. I believe in healing and ask for healing and yet I watch people lose… Read more

  • Ancient Paths are So Cutting Edge

    The Lord proclaims:Stop at the crossroads and look around;    ask for the ancient paths.    Where is the good way?Then walk in it    and find a resting place for yourselves.        But you said, “We won’t go!” (Jer. 6:16) Ancient paths really aren’t so “cutting edge.” It’s the invitation of God. When someone under 40 mentions them, then they seem so “cutting edge,” but the realization… Read more

  • Jeremiah and the broken heart

    I grew up with the phrase describing Jeremiah as “the weeping prophet.” As I read through this powerful book once again, I find myself in a place of feeling that heart break. “Long ago I broke the yoke that oppressed you and tore away the chains of your slavery, but still you said, ‘I will… Read more

  • God hiding his presence

    But then you hid your presence. I was terrified. (Ps. 30:7b) Does that even terrify us anymore? If God hid his face from us… would that terrify us? What is an even more horrific thought to me is this: Would we even notice?   Read more

  • Being the prophetic voice

    There was a comedian I heard one time that said, “That person ministered in the pathetic.” Not prophetic, but pathetic. Too many times people think they have something to say and it turns out they’re saying nothing. To develop a prophetic voice, we need to develop a listening ear. To be the voice of God… Read more

  • What happens when we pray?

    What do we EXPECT to happen? One of my favorite prayer heroes was always in a spiritual fight. The Lord invited him to pray and stuff happened. The Lord would ask him to pray for places he had never heard of, so he would fast and pray until breakthrough came, often resulting in spiritual warfare… Read more

  • I waited patiently… okay… I didn’t

    I waited patiently for the Lord to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. (Ps. 40:1, NLT) I am not patient. There are times when the need is so severe… and so immediate… that desperation sets in and I am not patient. At all. The mistakes I make when I don’t wait are fairly numerous. It becomes… Read more

  • No place for worry

    When we really take in what Jesus is saying about the power of the Kingdom, we come to his amazing “guarantee:” you won’t worry. No matter how many times I read this passage in Matthew 6, I still choke on this passage. Worry. Anxiety. Things that keep me up. Things that wake me up. Things that… Read more