Prayer - Desiring God
2015年1月1日 · In five short verses, Jesus himself taught us how to pray. Transforming glories can be seen in these most familiar words of “The Lord’s Prayer” if we will slow down enough to see them. In this series of three labs, John Piper puts the text on the screen and helps you mine more for your prayers.
Seven Simple Daily Prayers - Desiring God
2016年10月12日 · Take Psalm 86, for example. Here are seven simple daily prayers drawn from David’s prayer. 1. Listen to my prayer. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace. (Psalm 86:6) David wrote an entire book of divinely inspired song-prayers to God, so you would think he might know that God hears all our prayers.
Articles on Prayer - Desiring God
2024年11月11日 · Heart-Deep Prayers Why We Prioritize Spiritual Needs ... Article. Prayer A Reader’s Guide to a Christian ...
Prayer for Beginners - Desiring God
2016年4月27日 · Anything and everything, every day. Don’t be afraid to pray big prayers, and small ones. 7. Be willing to ask one more time. Jesus knew we would lose heart in prayer, specifically that we would pray for things for long enough that we would start to question if God was listening or might ever answer. But he didn’t want us to lose heart or ...
Prayer: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic | Desiring God
2024年1月6日 · Over time, his prayers (and soul) were slowly and deeply conformed to “the Bible’s prayer book.” Along with the Lord’s Prayer and the Psalms, he collects and shares a number of other extremely practical paradigms and guides for daily prayer, ranging from short and simple models to longer and more involved ones. Entering the Happiness of God
Bend the Ear of God: Three Wonders of Christian Prayer
2024年11月20日 · For Christians, there is a special relationship between our prayers and our having the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 6:17–18 says to “take . . . the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication .”
Seven Prayers for Those You Love - Desiring God
2019年10月5日 · We’re so used to seeing our church family Sunday after Sunday (and more), we may have forgotten just how vital fellowship is to the Christian life. Apart from the mercy of God and the prayers of others, however, any of us could “be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13) and wander off in love with this world (2 Timothy 4:10).
The Valley of Vision: A Reader’s Guide to a Christian Classic
2024年1月14日 · The beauty of this collection of prayers is multifaceted, traversing the entire scope of the Christian journey from the depths to the heights. The prayers express the deep desires of the heart and the perplexities of our Christian experience in language full of deep reverence for God on the one hand and, on the other hand, a down-to-earth sense ...
Lord, Let Me Die: Mercy for Those Tired of Living - Desiring God
2022年3月13日 · I wager that anguished prayers for death are the most common. They come in the winter of life, when even songbirds are too cold to sing. Job, a righteous man without rival on earth (Job 1:8), now sits in the ashes, boils rising on his skin, surrounded by accusing friends, and plagued with a heart too heavy to carry.
The Main Ingredient in Effective Prayer | Desiring God
2013年7月18日 · It’s what I used to think. But that’s the skim-milk meaning. It’s what happens when we fly by the text without questions. Our broken bent is to make the burden of this passage something to do with us. We simply settle to think that, if we want our prayers to be effective, then we need to be righteous. But this reading doesn’t hold up.