After His resurrection, Jesus told the disciples about an adventure that they were about to begin. They were about to be dressed in readiness by the Holy Spirit. Luke 24:49 says, "Behold I am sending forth the promise, stay until you are clothed with power from on...

Being a Christian parent is hard work. It's blood, sweat, and tears. But, praise God, He has given you some powerful weapons to help you be victorious in raising your children for Him. One of the most important things you can do for your kids is to pray for them....

Don't wait until trouble comes. Start now to undergird your children with the strong power of prayer. No matter how young or how old they are, they will benefit from your prayers. First of all, pray for your children's salvation. Then pray concerning the things...

Many people seem to have a wrong perception about God and prayer. So many people have prayed to a God that was hard to entreat, slow to hear, one that had to be pestered day after day, until one day maybe He would be persuaded to answer their prayer. When the truth...

"To err is human, to forgive is divine." - Alexander Pope When Jesus gave us the Lord's Prayer, He included forgiveness. He had lived a blameless life and had nothing to be forgiven for, but one thing Jesus did do was to forgive others and ask the Father to forgive...

When Jesus began to pray, He started by honoring His Father and glorifying His name. He surrendered His will to God and had a time of communion with Him before He ever asked for a thing. Today we might consider that to be "sucking up," but that is not at all what...

"But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking" (Matt 6:7). Jesus cut away some religious theology right there. I had always heard that if you just kept praying, God would finally...

I remember being in a service one night in a certain church and a lady stood up and said, "I want you all to pray for my husband, he is getting worse. He won't go to church and I have been praying for him every day for 25 years. He just keeps getting meaner." The...

Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. (Mark 11: 24) Many times we stop at verse 24 in Mark 11, but let's go onto verse 25 and 26. Have you ever noticed that every time Jesus taught on...

Prayer is designed to work for you, not against you. The Word of God was designed to work for you; but when you cross up the rules, it is like trying to play baseball with football rules. It does not work. Sometimes we use the wrong rules in prayer. There are...

Never pray your problem. If you pray the problem, it will get worse. If you pray the problem, you loose the ability of the enemy. Pray the problem and it will grow greater and your faith will flee away on the wings of doubt. Go to the Word of God and find out what...