Self Examination

Have you ever asked yourself, “Does God really know me? Does he really love me?” I know I have asked myself this question countless times throughout my life. This world has a way of hiding truths from our hearts, and important details like this one can get lost in the path and obstacles of life. I tend to be a thinker, and as a thinker, I often ponder about life, our society, our nations, our world, analyzing and seeking to understand things from different perspectives, such as histo ... [read more]...

The saddest thing that is taught in the North American continent is that we only cry out to God when things are going bad. We can pray when we are sick, we are told. When times come that look like we are going to be overwhelmed, then seek God. There are far too many teachings on this. Don’t get me wrong, I am not against calling out to God in times of trouble, but how sad it must be for God, when that is the only time we pray to Him. Jesus didn’t die for us so we can have a safety net for wh ... [read more]...

There has been a wide debate about whether God answers prayer or is indifferent to us. Some say that God always answers prayer as long as we believe He will. This is taught by those who teach the prosperity gospel. Some say there are too many people for God to listen to each individual prayer. This is believed by those who don’t want to follow after God’s truth found in the Bible. We are going to take a look at the three answers that God gives to prayer, and the scriptures that back them ... [read more]...

Many times when we don’t get the answer that we want in prayer, we think, “Well, I am just one person and God doesn’t have time to hear my prayer. ” We think that God is so big and we are so small that somehow our prayer gets lost in the sending. We just don’t realize just how big God really is. We also forget that we can ask God to listen to our prayers. This doesn’t offend him that we ask him to listen anymore then we are offended when a child says to us, &# ... [read more]...

Now that we have defined what prayer is (see part 1), let’s move a little bit deeper. Before we get into warfare prayer, we must also understand what intercessory prayer is, for one leads to the other. Let’s start with what it is not: it is not a one-time prayer said as an afterthought in your prayer life; it is not a prayer said once, then forgotten. It is not praying for someone while your mind wonders to other areas, and it isn’t something you pray for offhandedly as you rem ... [read more]...

Before we get into warfare prayer, we must define what prayer is. Prayer is simply talking to God in everyday language. You bring your thoughts, requests, desires and needs to God. It should be for more than this, though, for prayer ought to be for praise, adoration and worship as well. The Lord’s Prayer is often misused. When the Lord Jesus taught us how to pray, He didn’t mean that we were to repeat the prayer over and over again until we thought we had said it enough times; it was mean ... [read more]...

There is a pattern that I have begun to notice in life: the enemy really does hate us, but especially when we are trying to live for God. In hindsight, I see now how much of a hold he had on me in my past. At the time, I didn’t understand that it was him encouraging the negativity, the anger, and the unforgiveness in my heart. It has taken time in my ever growing faith, in Jesus my Lord and Saviour, to finally overcome those old thought patterns and habits. Admittedly, he occasionally stil ... [read more]...