Last week, I mentioned in three years of following Jesus, the only thing the disciples asked Jesus to teach them was how to pray. They may have asked Jesus to teach them other things, but this is the only one recorded explicitly in Scripture.[Luke 11:1] Today, many Christians pray, but how many of us were …
Do you know how to pray? How do you know you know how to pray? I often hear Christians say they’ve prayed about a particular thing or situation, I say it too, but often those prayers don’t make a tangible difference. Sometimes, it seems we’ve become so familiar with the routine and act of praying …
Have you ever noticed how much judicial language there is in the Bible? There are several mentions of words like law, justice, judgment, courts, etc. The first five books of the Bible are called the Torah (the law of God as revealed by Moses). One of my favourite things about how the Bible is its …
Does it ever feel like God answers your small prayers almost immediately but then stays silent on your big prayers? You are running a couple of minutes late for a train and if you don’t catch the train, you’ll be late for work. You mutter almost absent-mindedly, “Lord, please make the train late, just this …
The word genie has its origins in 17th century France, but in 1992, it exploded into our vocabulary because of the Disney animation, Aladdin. The main protagonist, Aladdin, is a streetwise hustler who teams up with Genie, a powerful wish-granting being who lives in a mysterious lamp, to win the heart of a princess and …
Last week I wrote about the importance of spending time in prayer. We know that communication is vital to sustaining a healthy relationship, therefore, the same principle applies to our relationship with God. However, a relationship with God is very different from all our other relationships. For instance, God is all-knowing, all-powerful and sovereign amongst …
