Three Tools That Make Intercession Joyful

I like to walk the lane in front of our house and pray before I go to bed. Because it is dark there are few distractions. The roundtrip is exactly one mile and takes about 20 minutes. It’s perfect. However, a while back I sensed something wasn’t right with...

Continue In Prayer!

In Colossians 4:2 Paul exhorts the Colossian church to “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.”The word “continue” implies that the Colossians are already praying. Paul doesn’t exhort them to start praying. He asks them to “continue”...

Do You Pray?

In his book, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, Donald Whitney records the following. “During the 1980’s, more than seventeen thousand members of a major evangelical denomination were surveyed about their prayer habits while attending seminars on prayer for...