Pray about Everything

Posted on October 18, 2019 by ablogonprayer

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God (Philippians 4:6).

“‘In everything’ — not simply when our house is on fire or when our beloved spouse and children are gravely ill, but even in the smallest matters of life. We are to take everything to God — little things, very little things, even what the world calls trivial. Yes, we are to take everything, living all day long in holy fellowship with our heavenly Father and precious Lord Jesus.”*

*L.B. Cowman, Streams in the Desert, p.386.

Pray for Others as you would have them Pray for You

Posted on October 14, 2019 by ablogonprayer

Someone we love is sick. When we heard, we stopped everything to pray.

I remembered that when my husband was driving, alone, over treacherous ice-covered roads, this friend knelt down in his living room, bent his head to the floor, and prayed silently for quite a while. My husband made it to safely to his destination.

Now it’s our turn to pray for this brother of ours.

May God be glorified once again!

God to whom we pray created the Milky Way

Posted on September 17, 2019 by ablogonprayer

He determines the number of the stars
and calls them each by name.
Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit.
(Psalm 147:4-5)

Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Stolovy (SSC/Caltech).

Stand in Awe of God

Posted on September 16, 2019 by ablogonprayer

We are small. Our earth is the white dot at the ten o’clock position between Saturn’s bright main rings and the thinner grey-brown ring.

I ask, “What is man that you make so much of him, that you give him so much attention (Job 7:17)?”

I wonder why when, “I call to God, he hears my voice (from Psalm 55:16-17).”

And then I remember, “God is love. . . . For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (1 John 4:16; John 3:16).”

Photo credit: Infrared, visible and ultraviolet light by the Cassini Imaging Team at NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.