Giving Up the “Gimmes”

Giving Up the “Gimmes”

The Word of God tells us much about asking for things in prayer. The Lord’s Prayer says; “give us this day our daily bread.” James 4:2 says; “You have not because you ask not.” Consider Luke 11:9; “So I say to you, ask, and it will...
Giving Up the “Gimmes”

Prayer That Avails Much: Praying Effectively

I have a feeling that if I were a dog I would be a bulldog. If a bulldog gets hold of something in his vice grip jaws he simply will not let it go. When a person is like that it is sometimes called “stubborn” on the negative side or “tenacious”...
Giving Up the “Gimmes”

Praying the Word of God

I was in a hotel room in Elyria, Ohio on an overnight business trip sometime during the winter around 1979. My company had assigned me what turned out to be about a four month project requiring me to spend one to three days a week in the Elyria-Lorain area near...
Giving Up the “Gimmes”

Prayer of Agreement: Don’t You Agree, God?

I would like to have everything in my life just so. Easy. Convenient. Smooth running. The best parking space just as I pull into the grocery store parking lot. Friends who are always there for me. A church that is always there for me. Finances that are always there...
Taking Direction From Prophecy (1 Corinthians 13:9)

Is God Jealous For You? (Corinthians 11:2)

“For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin.” Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians in 11:2. I once adopted a darling little Boston terrier I named Pepper Ann....