Our family has had a particularly stressful few years. One afternoon my husband and two teenage daughters reflected on how the women in our family…
View More Casting Up PrayersCategory: Friday Devotionals
Prerequisite for Prayer
In college it didn’t take me too long to learn what the term “prerequisite” meant. When I looked through the academic catalogue—yes, that was in…
View More Prerequisite for PrayerFruitful Abiding: Equipping Others to Know and Use Their Spiritual Gifts
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart…
View More Fruitful Abiding: Equipping Others to Know and Use Their Spiritual GiftsPraying for What is Lost
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost,” Luke 19:10 Have you ever used the self-checkout lanes in Walmart? I…
View More Praying for What is LostWhat I Learned through Recent Struggles
“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing,” 1 Thessalonians 5:11. During the last six months, I have been…
View More What I Learned through Recent StrugglesPrayers of Simple Faith
“Why didn’t you pray for yourself, Mom?” My daughter and I were laying in bed together praying and, when we were finished, she asked me…
View More Prayers of Simple FaithMore Like Jonah Than I Want To Be
I am Jonah. It’s not a very flattering idea to think about, but it’s true. Like him, I need to be saved, rescued out of…
View More More Like Jonah Than I Want To BeGetting practical about praying through the dark winter of the soul – Part 2
After more than twenty-five years in ministry, I’ve found I’ve experienced two kinds of prayer. Reactive and proactive. Reactive prayer knows I need God. It…
View More Getting practical about praying through the dark winter of the soul – Part 2God is Always With You
Mommy, I’m scared! I woke up to those dreaded words in the wee hours of the morning somewhere between dreams. My incoherent mommy brain couldn’t…
View More God is Always With YouPraying through the dark winter of the soul – Part 1
It’s been quite the winter. Storm after storm has punished the land, bringing complications, delays, and cancellations. It’s also been quite the winter for my…
View More Praying through the dark winter of the soul – Part 1