
What Prayer Can Do: A Gentle Prompt
A nurse is given the task of caring for the teacher who tormented her daughter years earlier.

A nurse is given the task of caring for the teacher who tormented her daughter years earlier.

Here’s a way to break the cycle of aggravation when it’s clear another person is not going to (or is unable to) change.

In my heart I prayed for some help through this, some wisdom, something to hold onto…

Often we pray because we remember God’s faithfulness in our past circumstances; it gives us the courage to believe.

I walked the prayer for blocks. Slowly it began to pound its way into my heart.

If God already knows what we want, why do we bother praying for it?

In this excerpt from Daily Guideposts 365 Spirit-Lifting Devotions for Women, a mother's faith is restored in a most unusal way.

Best-selling author, Sue Monk Kidd, shares one of her most God-conscious afternoons.

When I close my eyes in prayer, I search for the face of God, like the face of a loved one who wants me to do my best.

In this imperfect world, things aren’t everything. But in them and through them we can show our love.
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