Be Devoted to Prayer - Desiring God
2002年12月29日 · Memorize it and pray it often. Pray the Lord’s Prayer and as you pray it put each phrase in your own words and apply it to the people you are burdened about. Pray the commands of the Bible: “Help me — help my wife, my children, the elders, our missionaries — to love you, God, with all my heart and all my soul and all my strength.”
Seven Ways to Pray for Your Heart - Desiring God
2013年7月19日 · You might choose one D per day. Or you could choose one D as a theme for a week and pray through these every seven weeks. You’ll also note that I have a verse for each prayer. But over time, as you pray, more verses will come to mind, and you might find it helpful to collect them so they are right at hand as the Spirit leads.
That Your Prayers May Not Be Hindered - Desiring God
Your prayer life in 1994 depends in part — under God and his enabling grace (1 Corinthians 15:10) — on how you choose to live at home and at work and in your private life of solitude. So another way to state the doctrine we’ve seen in these verses would be: do whatever you must do so that your prayers are not hindered.
15 Prayers for God’s Power - Desiring God
2014年3月11日 · Lord, make me so mighty in resisting the bait of frenzied productivity that I never cease to enjoy the still waters of prayer and your sweet presence (Psalm 23:2; Isaiah 46:10; Luke 10:42). Lord, make me so mighty against the deadly undertow of self-reliance that I am never ashamed to trust your arm, like a child with his father, in every ...
When We Grow Passionate in Prayer - Desiring God
2015年1月1日 · Which means, when we pray for perseverance we are not flipping a coin or thinking that it’s all up to us. Prayer does not mean we wring our hands in worry, or that we’ve come to a last resort. That is restless anxiety, not passion. Instead, foundational to the passionate prayer “God, no!
Prayer - Desiring God
2015年1月1日 · Study the Lord’s Prayer. 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.
Grab Hold of God: The Importance of Wrestling in Prayer
2019年5月5日 · Throughout the Bible, we see people wrestling with God. Moses wrestled with God, interceding on behalf of the people to change God’s mind. He pleaded with God. He gave God reasons to answer his prayer. He reminded God of his promises. And as a result, God often relented of his judgment (Deuteronomy 9:18–19).
Prevailing Prayer for the Spirit's Power - Desiring God
1990年12月30日 · The point is to show us that prevailing prayer—persisting, persevering prayer—is utterly important for us. And he stamps this truth on our memories with a shocking image of a friend who won't help without being bothered into helping. But then Jesus qualifies his point in verses 11–13 by saying that God is NOT like that friend.
The Very First Prayer: Why Man Began to Call on God
2022年3月1日 · Prayer begins with asking God to do his gospel work. This is presumably why Jesus can encourage us to pray unhypocritical, to-the-point kingdom prayers (Matthew 5:5–14). Prayer isn’t primarily communing with God, let alone twisting his arm, but asking God to do what he is already committed to doing (see Luke 11:5–13).
What Should We Pray For? | Desiring God
2006年11月10日 · Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. (Romans 10:1) Pray that God would direct the use of the sword. Take . . . the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. (Ephesians 6:17–18) Pray for boldness in proclamation.