Daily Spiritual Routines

Saying a prayer is like planting a seed.  We need to water it and weed around it.  Sometimes it can take awhile before it sprouts.  It sometimes takes patience to see an answer to a prayer.  We can keep the faith.  We can not make that seed grow, it will grow on its own if

I love the parable in the New Testament when a judge helped a widow, simply because she kept on asking.  He wasn’t the most quality of man, yet he said, “I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.” Then Jesus says something along the lines of, if this unworthy man will

Sometimes I write my prayers.  I do this in my journal and when I do, I love to use my purple pen. I write all my thoughts and all my questions, just like I am praying.  Somehow when I am writing I get into this receptive state.  I think because writing is much slower than

2 Second Prayers can be as powerful as 5 minute prayers.  Sometimes we think we need to stop and kneel to really pray.   However there are experiences when we don’t have time to do that. I call it Praying in the Moment. So if something comes up and you could use God’s help – just

Breathe – Be Still – than Pray! Take a moment to be still before you pray. Think “Be” as you are breathing in. As you breathe out think “Still” Do that two more times. NOW pray. There is power in stilling our minds and bodies before we pray. Breathe before you Pray today!   Mark 4:39

Years ago when I took Eternal Warriors I set a goal to pray 5 minutes each morning.  I was interested and timed how long my prayers usually lasted. I was embarrassed that my prayers lasted 30 seconds to a minute at the most.  It was hard to pray longer because I couldn’t think of more

I love the story of Joshua knocking down the walls of Jericho. God didn’t tell him to break down the door to the city.  God didn’t tell him to take a battering ram and knock down the walls. God told him to circle the city with his army silently for 6 days in a row. 

I love this story in the New Testament. Jesus is leaving Jericho and a blind man asks for help.  Jesus stops and calls for him to be brought near and he asked him, “What do you want me to do?” It is probably pretty obvious to everyone that a blind man would want his sight

I am excited about the upcoming 40 day challenge.  To make things easier for me with the Thanksgiving holiday I have pre-written some posts and have them scheduled for the first week of the challenge.  I am posting this to see if the automatic things I have set up work.  So I only have to