Posts Tagged With: prayer

Online Course and Resource Update; Prayer Always Needed

I presented two great opportunities to you in my August 14 post. Here’s an update.

My Bible study, A Traveler’s Guide through Suffering and Joy, is still on sale, but the price has risen, so now you can buy 2 books for the price of one rather than three. Still a great deal.

My second opportunity presented was about an online class I planned to start this fall. It is being delayed. Here is what’s up:

I am working with a tech man to help me update my website, hoping to add some printable resources and video recordings. I think that’s all I’ll be able to handle this fall, and I will let you know when they are uploaded on my website for you to use and share.  I will also let you know when we’ll be ready to proceed with the online class/community in which we’ll travel through the Bible study. Please pray over all of this! Thank you!!

New Season Of Prayer

Is there ever a time not to pray? No! The time is always now (I Thes. 5:17). There is no doubt that the Holy Spirit is wooing and moving, as He did over the formless void of the watery, deep darkness in Genesis 1:2. Let us pray in agreement with the Spirit.

Lord, through the darkness of Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom, we hear Your voice exclaiming, “Let there be light,” and You are banishing darkness from hearts now softened through the light of the gospel proclaimed by Charlie and by Christ-followers around the globe. Here we are, Lord! Send us. Use us. Connect us. Bring healing through Christ’s death for us and His resurrection, as one, two, tens, thousands, and millions call to You.

“All who call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13), for “if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that

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As the Years Go By: Meaningful Breaths

I opened the dashboard for this blog this morning wanting to write a new post. I’ve taken a break from writing, for the most part, since Thanksgiving. I needed the breather. While we are ten days into the new year, it is yet the new year, so I say with you, “Welcome to 2025!”

As I looked over my dashboard (the interior of my WordPress blog), I found that two readers recently had pulled up a very old post of mine dated January 17, 2012. (This blog was birthed in November of 2011.) At that time this blog was part of my ministry as the curriculum director for Troy Christian Schools in Troy, Ohio, although I was living in Arizona. My articles were short then because they were written mainly for parents of our students, and I posted more often.

The following is my January 2012 post which I find to still be relevant, as well as gentle and refreshing. It is short.

Let our work inhabit our prayer. Let our prayer inhabit our work.

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Take a read:

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Genre: Prayer: For Whom? Gabe

My dear readers,

Today, I am supposed to address point two, Genre Identity, of our six points on The Reader-Navigator’s Map. Instead I’m going to ask for prayer. Yes, prayer is a genre, a category of communication both spoken and written. As a kind of literature, I can integrate it into our second point!

Prayer is a lifeline to the Lord. Like oxygen, we cannot live without it. Today, I want to ask you to pray for a 13 year old boy who is wasting away and will die without intervention — a miracle. This young man has dealt with neurological issues for years and has developed, probably from prescriptions, a disease called Akathisia, plus he has developed an eating disorder. Akathisia simply means” the inability to sit”; it is a movement disorder, an anxiety disorder. Combine this with an inability to eat or digest most foods, liquid or solid, and you can imagine the results. Continue reading

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Prayer for a Blessed Life

I told you about the teen girls’ all nighter I was to have last Friday night, so let me report. It went very smoothly. It ended up being the smallest one I’ve had with only five girls coming, but you put five teen girls together, and they have a grand time. I had lots of yummy food for them: Paul’s famous enchaladas, veggie plate, chips and salsa, banana bread, brownies…..  The girls had plenty of room and gathered in several places to chatter, chatter, chatter. One girl played my piano for quite a while and demonstrated a pleasant and broad repertoire. One girl loves to sketch, and showed her stack of fashion drawings and made some more.  They chose some games from my wicker game chest. They stayed up late and I went to bed, trusting them not to burn the house down. Continue reading

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Within My Wardrobe

Within the wardrobe of my heart, I can be close to God.  Over time He changes me, transforming me to be more like Jesus. In my last post, I wrote of Lucy and the Wardrobe she entered that changed her life. We read Rev. 3:20 in which Jesus invites Himself into our inner world to live with us. I also introduced you to Ruth Myers little prayer book.* Here is her “most basic act of worship” prayer: Continue reading

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The Other Side of the Door

You remember that Lucy thought it would be worthwhile (though her siblings did not) to try the door of the big wardrobe which was in an otherwise empty room in the professor’s sprawling country residence in England. I’m referring to C.S. Lewis’ book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The four children were exploring the house on a rainy day. However, it was Lucy’s sense that the wardrobe was worthy of exploration that changed her life as well as her sibling’s lives. Young Lucy was given wonder-filled uncommon sense. Continue reading

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