As we wait and pray, God weaves his story and creates a wonder. Instead of drifting between comedy (denial) and tragedy (reality), we have a relationship with the living God, who is intimately involved with the details of our worlds. We are learning to watch for the story to unfold, to wait for the wonder.
Paul E. Miller
God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden.. The best gift of the desert is God's presence.. The protective love of the Shepherd gives me courage to face the interior journey.
prayer desert god
If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love.
story prayer god
Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.
self prayer will god
Everything you do is connected to who you are as a person and, in turn, creates the person you are becoming. Everything you do affects those you love. All of life is covenant. Imbedded in the idea of prayer is a richly textured view of the world where all of life is organized around invisible bonds or covenants that knit us together. Instead of a fixed world, we live in our Father's world, a world built for divine relationships between people where, because of the Good News, tragedies become comedies and hope is born.
story prayer god hope
God is a person, and his universe reflects his personhood. The closer something is to the character of God, the more it reflects him and the less it can be measured. Things such as integrity, beauty, hope, and love are all in the same category as prayer. You can tell their presence and even describe them, but you can't define them, simply because they are too close to God's image.
creation prayer god
Prayer is asking God to incarnate, to get dirty in your life. Yes, the eternal God scrubs floors. For sure we know he washes feet. So take Jesus at his word. Ask him. Tell him what you want. Get dirty. Write out your prayer requests; don't mindlessly drift through life on the American narcotic of busyness. If you try to seize the day, the day will eventually break you. Seize the corner of his garment and don't let go until he blesses you. He will reshape the day.
tenacity prayer god
When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,.. Not on the Master's hand. Often when you think everything has gone wrong, it's just that you're in the middle of a story. If you watch the stories God is weaving in your life, you.. Will begin to see the patterns. You'll become a poet, sensitive to your Father's voice.
suffering story prayer poet god
wonder story prayer god
Prayer is a moment of incarnation - God with us. God involved in the details of my life.
prayer incarnation
Learning to pray doesn't offer us a less busy life; it offersus aless busy heart.
prayer
We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.
We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.
In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.
The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.
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