It’s one thing to be grateful when you are hungry, and food is placed before you, but it’s something else entirely to remember to express gratitude when your belly is full and your needs are met.
Maintaining a prayerful mindset helps us to stay in tune with God. As we make instant supplication for His will in our life or in the lives of others, we invite His intervention into the moment, thus releasing His blessing.
Some prayers require shoe leather, like visiting a friend in the hospital.
Bob Hostetler suggests using games to help guide your prayer life.
Edie Melson finds comfort in God’s ways being too great to understand.
A simple sticky note can help remind you to breath, to pause, to pray.
Just like our physical bodies need to stay hydrated, so does our spirit.
An Old Testament practice reminds Bob Hostetler to bless God in our comings and goings
An easy way to let go of stress, focus on your blessings and live a life of praise.
When you find you can’t pray, when the words or thoughts or feelings just won’t come, go to church. There’s a reason we’re called to praise God together in church, and you’ll feel the “we” of worship.
What is it about nighttime that magnifies fear? I suspect we’re vulnerable then because the devil wants us to forget that God “has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.” (Colossians 1:13)
Give us this day our daily bread? I find myself praying it, thinking of those for whom their daily bread is not to be taken for granted. It’s not just me and mind, it’s ours.
