3 Tips on Prayer for Amateurs (Like Me)
You don’t have to be an expert to pray.
You don’t have to be an expert to pray.
Whether it’s keeping healthy snacks at hand or emotional eating, long time Guideposts contributor Roberta Messner shares her experience in balancing sudden weight gain and how to keep them off as soon as you notice.
Listen as three Guideposts employees talk about the role of faith in their daily lives. Follow three life-long friends as they solve mysteries with the support of faith in Guideposts’ newest fiction series, Secrets of Wayfarers Inn.
In this story from September 1989, popular actress Marla Gibbs shares how she came to understand that when it comes to faith, the first step can be the toughest—and the most rewarding.
Why it’s important to let God help you with stress.
“I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.”—Isaiah 42:6–7 (NIV)
“Therefore, I tell you, do not worry
about your life, what you will eat or
drink, or about your body, what you
will wear. Is not life more than food
and the body more than clothes?”—Matthew 6:25 (NIV)
“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied, “and a few small fish.”—Matthew 15:34 (NIV)
Finding that worship can soften a hard heart
Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away…—Joshua 3:15–16 (NIV)
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.—Psalm 23:1 (KJV)