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Finding Help In Troubled Waters

This has been a particularly difficult week, and I confess to have fallen prey to anxiety and fretting. Worry can give small problems such long shadows that they become giants of immense, irresistible proportions. But on the other hand, I fully realize that there is no enemy too strong or foe too powerful to stand [...]

Finding Help At The Throne Of Grace

Do you have a significant need that has not been met, or an urgent prayer that hasn’t been answered? If so, I’m right there with you—and I bring good news. God has made provision for such times: “Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy [...]

Our Helper In Prayer

“Seeing then that we have a great high Priest?Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. Let us come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need” (Heb. 4:14, 16).

Our great Helper in prayer is the Lord Jesus Christ, our [...]

Prayer That Changes Things

Despite my best intentions, I’ve often been disappointed in the lack of results from my praying. Since the death of my wife, however, I can honestly report more effectiveness than in any previous recollection.

But why? Perhaps because the trauma of death forced a shift in focus. Presenting God with only a list of needs no [...]

To Him Alone Who Answers Prayer

After 30 months of agonizing preparation, countless prayers and the support of many who stood by me and helped me, I am now in a new house. I am thrilled for the fresh start in a place untainted by difficult memories, many brought on by the death of my mate and companion of 40 years.

Unlike [...]

What It Means To Pray In The Name Of Jesus

“If you ask anything in my name,” Jesus promised, “I will do it.” (John 14:14). What an incredible confidence this should infuse into prayer! But do we tap the power and potency of heaven simply by tacking the words “in Jesus’ name” onto the end of our prayers? No. There’s more involved.

Let me explain from [...]

Are You Running With Me, Jesus?

What good could this priest, cigarette dangling precariously from his lips, possibly communicate about Jesus? So despite having received the book as a wedding present, the flagrant flippancy of the priest's picture on the dust jacket drove me to mock both book and title. The pages merited but a gratuitous flip.

Then probably 35 years ago, [...]

When We Get The Unexpected

I'm not sure what I really expected. Retirement finally arrived–but cloaked in surprise. Things are not always what we think they will be.

My first day off, for example, broke a multiyear streak of wellness. And cloud of puniness shadowed me for days thereafter. Not what I expected.

Of all I had planned to do that first [...]

Power In A Mother’s Prayer

I recently received an e-mail from a mother who gave me permission to share this excerpt with you:

“We have had simply terrible things going on here with our son ‘Bill.’ I won’t give you any details, but please, please pray hard for him. Things are really critical right now. I have cried so over him [...]

The Power That Moves The Hand Of God

From the journal of James McAlister, August 10, 1997:

The struggles of Lonnie and Michelle Teague to adopt Katie have come to the forefront this morning. Mary and Jan Simmons prayed for them, and Mary had a specific word of encouragement about their situation: Through Saul's failures and fear of the people, God rejected him because [...]

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