WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU PRAY

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU PRAY Getting your prayers answered: Our prayers can be answered. This assurance transforms the Christian life from an ordinary low level to higher ground of special partnership with God. The key is this: We must get in line with God’s great purposes. Aim your prayers and desires in the direction… Read More ›

Often great blessings bring great dangers

Often great blessings bring great dangers. However, things pleaded for in prayer can be safely granted by God without risk of making us flabby and presumptuous. How can this be? Because real prayer has its own built-in safeguards in that it is a definite discipline in itself – if we really are praying. Those God… Read More ›

PRAYING IN JESUS’ NAME

PRAYING IN JESUS’ NAME By Harold E. Burchett A key phrase that opens to us the heart of the New Testament is: “In Christ” or “In Him.” Related to this is our present subject, “Praying in Jesus’ Name.” Grasp that truth and you can approach the God of the universe with a confidence befitting to… Read More ›

Discipling—Upbuilding—Outreach

Picture yourself seated on one end of a park bench. On the other end is a street person with ragged, soiled clothing and grimy face. You strike up a conversation and point him to the Savior, using Scripture verses from Romans. Next day is Sunday and you are seated on the end of a church… Read More ›