Apprentice 2 Jesus

Prayer

  • I’m Finished with Prayer

    It’s been a few months, but I’ve decided I am finished with prayer. The weak prayers I had been praying, the weak effort I had made… none of it was working. Thankfully, God invited me to ask in a different way. He began inviting me to see HIS agenda and then ask for those things. Since then,… Read more

  • Thankful for the promises

    The past few weeks have been powerful as I’ve prepared to time away in a prayer retreat, then asked God for messages for our leadership retreat. Now… it’s the work of fulfilling those promises. It’s the work of prayer. As I prayed tonight I once again pulled out Isaiah 61. I was using my Olive Tree Reader,… Read more

  • Understanding Prayer

    I’ve related to readers before Dallas Willard’s take on the Lord’s Prayer. As I think about how we can talk about prayer when it relates to the Sermon on the Mount, I began to think about my own prayer life. I walk when I pray. I love pacing the sanctuary when I pray. I love… Read more

  • Prayers We Need to Hear… and Heed

    This article in The New York Times features the Senate chaplain, Barry C. Black. The video is a montage from his prayers last week. 1. I pray to God I could get THAT man’s voice. 2. Knowing God won’t do that, I pray for this man’s gutsy courage to pray something so incredibly honest that BOTH… Read more

  • The Call of the Lord: “Just come and talk”

    My heart has heard you say, “Come and talk with me.” And my heart responds, “LORD, I am coming.” (Psalm 27:8, NLT) Coming out of a great leadership retreat last weekend, then through the fog of a touch of flu, staying focused on what God is asking of me in prayer has been tough throughout… Read more

  • Use this day as a wonderful “news-free” day

    All the news today will be about the incompetent government we have… but we already knew that! So, it’s a great opportunity for a news junkie like me to keep completely away from all news sources which will all parrot the same information. It’s a great day for prayer, because GOD doesn’t shut down his… Read more

  • Carry our dreams together

    We have been on our annual leadership retreat. This was a weekend when the Lord challenged us to truly SPEAK OUT our dreams. The biggest challenge was to learn to hear the voice of God and pray what HE asks us to pray. As I spoke the dreams God was giving me, I then invited… Read more

  • This is not the day to shrink back

    So don’t throw away your confidence—it brings a great reward. 36 You need to endure so that you can receive the promises after you do God’s will. 37 In a little while longer, the one who is coming will come and won’t delay; 38 but my righteous one will live by faith, and my whole… Read more

  • A new generation of bold faith

    May we rise up and insist not on our own ingenuity and skill, but let us call out for the very presence of God. We have become so skilled at drawing a crowd, but in our skill to draw a crowd, we have substituted that for the very presence of God. We have fallen into… Read more

  • Who do you think you are?

    Meditate on Romans 8. Let it sink in. Pray through Romans 8, declaring the incredible victory of WHO YOU ARE in Christ! 37 But in all these things we win a sweeping victory through the one who loved us. 38 I’m convinced that nothing can separate us from God’s love in Christ Jesus our Lord:not… Read more