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Question: "Why is daily prayer important?" Answer: Quite simply, for followers of Jesus Christ prayer is the best way to communicate with God. Prayer is the vehicle for daily dialog with the One who created us. The importance of daily communication through prayer cannot be overestimated. It is so important that it is mentioned over 250 times in Scripture. So why is daily prayer so important? First, daily prayer gives us an opportunity to share all aspects of our lives with God. Second, daily prayer gives us the chance to express our gratitude for the things He provides. Third, daily prayer provides the platform for confessing our sin and asking for help in overcoming that sin. Fourth, daily prayer is an act of worship and obedience...

During this season when we think about friends and family it is this that is on our hearts if they are not walking in the light: Father, through Jesus I request and receive the promise that whatever we ask according to Your will, You Hear, and if You hear, we have (1 John 5:14-15). Thank you for hearing the prayers we have prayed for others, especially friends and family members, but also strangers and the lost we have witnessed or have received gospel tracts explaining salvation... Answer prayers we may have forgotten but You have not... Thank You for Your Word which is like the rain and snow which come down from Heaven, which never returns void, but goes forth and accomplishes the purpose for which it is sent, namely causing...

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? (King Solomon, Ecclesiastes 4:9-11). Life on Earth as we have known it is history. It started when we removed prayer and Bible from schools in 1962 & 1963 and legalized "the shedding of innocent blood" in 1973. That fact was was given an exclamation point on September 11th, 2001 and every time since Columbine where we hear sickening news, I.S.I.S. horror and the like like Southerland Springs or Las Vegas. We stopped asking God every morning to "lead us not...

What do I think our biggest enemy is ?I'd say busyness. Because how can you give time to spiritual things if things are always popping up to distract you, or hamper you from proceeding?And it's not as simple as some might reply,"It's up to you to find time". {Except the problem is, we don't have control over every circumstance.}Let's say someone plans to pick up something from the store, then after that do Bible study the rest of the day..But on the way to the store, the car breaks down. You get towed 20 minutes away{lost time},then you have to explain the problem, and they tell you 3 hours to fix it . So you either have to go back there, or wait.{Lost time from Bible study.}Some things pop up , and some things if you put them off you...

This is an update to my other blog post Sexual Sin...ish?. God put this topic on my heart a few months ago, and after some intense research after my original post, this is what weighed on my heart. We all know, as believers, that sex before marriage or sex outside of marriage is a sin. It tells us that in the Bible. But what about the topic that nobody wants to talk about… masturbation? It doesn’t say it in the Bible anywhere, so it must be okay right? No. No no no no. Thinking that is wrong on so many levels. I’ve heard other believers say ‘it’s human nature’ or ‘God did give us sexual desire’ so it must be okay. I’ve heard people say it depends on what leads up to it weather it’s a sin or not. Like thinking lustful...

This is not a popular or easy teaching, but the meat of The Biblical Teaching emphasizes there is a massive purpose for trials. Picture it as if a currency of your country had some tremendous exchange rate in another country: for instance 1 U.S. Dollar is worth approximately 287 Greek Drachmas presently. It says "the sufferings of this present age are producing a weight of eternal glory far beyond comparison" (2 Cor 4:17, see also http://biblehub.com/romans/8-18.htm ). So suffering is worth far more than that in heaven... In the same way, human trials, persecution and suffering "in this present age" is worth "far beyond comparison" of any human exchange rate, and is an eternal teasure in heaven, which neither moth nor rust can destroy...

What is the state of our relationship with God? Are we conformed to the world while yet proclaiming His name? "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him." (1 John 2:15). The Lord addresses this, and many other issues, in Matthew 7:21-23. These Word’s are hard to read as it forces us to evaluate the depths of our hearts. Why is this important? Because too many seek out what they want to hear and follow those who will use this to establish themselves before men. Choosing not to seek the truths from God, but to heave their ears ‘itched’. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will...

I can tell you a lot of similarities between this world and hell,but not many differences.2 differences__living in this fallen world is temporary, until we die or the Rapture.but hell is for eternity.Also, the physical discomfort,the flames and heat in hell. But the similarities are far more. First, hell wasn't created for man,but he went there because of inherited fallen nature from Adam. This fallen world wasn't Gods original plan for man, but we're here because of original sin.Second, Hell is distinguished from Heaven by the fact that there's suffering and we don't have the perfect atmosphere of Heaven. This world is different than Heaven because of the imperfections.Check! In Hell, people suffer.Here, because it's the devils world...

(Please forbear me in any typographical or grammatical errors, I am so not perfect) God is still in the business of “calling.” Just because you don’t understand another person’s call, does not give you authority to speak against them. I would caution you not to judge that which you do not understand. Instead of praying that God deactivate those of His calling, you may ask Him to give you a better understanding of His purpose for your own life, that He may bestow upon you a greater calling. Sometimes God tells us to be still, yet at other times He tells us to speak out, yet, in neither directive, is He first obligated to acquire man’s approval . . . NO MAN. While wasting time trying to determine another’s...

As I read through all the prayers listed, though many are great and pressing needs, I am amazed that more do not consider the glory of God. That is why Jesus taught us first to pray That His Father receive Honor, then his Kingdom would Come, then His will be done. Jesus seemed to have this concern about His Father in Heaven's Name, His Kingdom and His Will being accomplished. Unless we are reminded, we all gravitate toward earth and forget, much less consider or pray about, these first topics contained in Matthew 6:9-10. The secondary part of The Prayer Jesus Taught covers our essentials and our needs -- provision, forgiveness, protection from sin and deliverance from evil (Matt 6:12-14). Every condition mankind suffers from...