This season is packed with so many activities that so often we get to Christmas Day before we even have a chance to stop and reflect on what it means to us. We sing the carols but rarely pause to consider their significance. We miss the 3rd, 4th, and 5th verses that carry so much…
Recently someone commented on my article “5 Strategic Ways to Recreate Your War Room” and asked the following question: Could you explain one thing to me, though? What is meant by writing out your prayer strategy (#3)? I see people say that all the time, but I’m not clear on how to do that. This…
What if prayer wasn’t as complicated as it seems to be? What if it could be as instinctive to use as breathing and as simple as having a conversation with our best friend? The wonderful answer is that it can be! Our human nature tends to take very simple things and complicate them, because the…
I’ve been walking with the Lord for nearly 50 years, and I must admit that one of the spiritual disciplines I have found so hard to master is prayer. While it seems so simple at first, we find ourselves complicating it. The more complicated it becomes, the more we find ourselves avoiding it – and…
Even though reading God’s Word daily is one of the most basic Christian disciplines, it is also one of the hardest we do on a consistent basis. If in juggling everything you have to do in a day, you find yourself putting off your daily Bible reading, only to find that you never seem to…
few years ago, I bought the book Fervent by Priscilla Shirer. Reading that book, paired with her earlier film War Room, dramatically changed how I viewed prayer and spiritual warfare. I realized that for most of my life, I’d approached personal development and spiritual growth randomly, almost like I expected it to happen all on…
