Tag Archives: Prayer

“Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” (Psalm 37:4) “I’m done. We cannot have anymore. Three is it.” It was the beginning of December 2012 when my husband looked at me with a deadpan expression on his face as tears began to ...

Contemplating my latest reaction to my teenage daughter’s negative attitudes brought me to the realization that my overboard emotional response was rooted in fear.  In Matthew 10:31, Jesus specifically stated, ” Fear not,  you are of more value than many sparrows.”  Jesus knew the danger of giving in to fear.  ...

My story really began years before I first prayed for my dad. I was five years old when my parents divorced, and my sister was three. We moved a state away with my mom, and Dad got monthly visits and a week every summer to spend with us. Mom remarried ...

We wait. In lines… In traffics… For news–good or bad… For the weather to change… To recover from illnesses… We wait, and wait, and wait some more. So, why do we insist that it be different when it comes to waiting on the response to our prayers? Waiting is inevitable, ...

“No Lord. I don’t want to pray for him. It’s too much. I am so tired of going around the same mountain and having the same results. Rejection. Not of me, but of you. A constant overwhelming leftover attitude of disappointment. I’m tired of his selfish ways. Why should I? ...