prayer

Have you ever been praying about something and suddenly a thought came into your mind that seemed important? Maybe you were asking God what to do about a job, a relationship, a decision, or someone you were concerned about, and then a thought came that seemed unusually clear. It is natural at...

Have you ever prayed hard about something—healing, a job, a marriage, a prodigal child, a financial burden—and then watched the answer you wanted fail to come? That is where many people get wounded by shallow Christian slogans: “Just claim it.” “If you had enough faith, you would have it by...

“Come boldly” sounds dangerous when the One we are approaching is perfectly holy and we are not. Why should sinful people believe they have any right to enter God's presence and expect Him to hear them? The Bible does not answer by telling us to become worthy. It points us to Jesus Christ...

Some prayers rise from the deepest places of a believer’s heart and still seem to fall to the ground unanswered. A child is sick. A marriage is breaking. A door we begged God to open stays shut. We asked in faith, we pleaded with tears, and the answer we wanted never came. What then? Scripture...

If God already knows what we need before we ask Him, why pray at all? That is not a foolish question. In fact, Jesus answered it directly. In Matthew 6, He was warning His disciples about false prayer. He condemned praying to impress people, and He warned against empty repetition, “for they...

Introducing Our In-Depth Bible Study on Prayer Prayer is one of those things Christians can talk about a lot without ever slowing down to ask what Scripture actually says about it. We know we are supposed to pray. We hear people say, “Just pray about it.” We hear promises quoted about asking...