Prayer A to Z

1. That We would hear God come to us. We get this idea from the first three requests of the Lord’s prayer: “Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name; Your Kingdom come; Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” According to Th...

We get this idea mainly from the original Biblical words translated for us as prayer. Every Hebrew and Greek word I studied (three Hebrew words and eight Greek words) indicate that prayer is petition—asking God for something. It is an expressi...

In this first blog post on the definition of prayer, I have found from my study that there are many different definitions of prayer. One author, John R. Rice, says that prayer is nothing but petition. He insists that prayer is not meditation or commu...

It has recently occurred to me that, though I have written much on the subject of prayer, I think it would be good to take each of my five books on prayer and send out excerpts from them. The first book, Basics of Prayer, has ten chapters totaling 140 pages....

There is no better thing we can do on Thanksgiving Day than to look up to heaven and begin thanking God for His great love to us—for giving us His only Son, that he would die on the cross in order that we may have eternal life.

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