The Biggest story Jesus is calling us into is the kingdom of God, and the king himself has opened his door to each and every one of us. We are all invited into the great party where the lord is the host and he has brought all there is needed, you just need to be...
Jesus draws us to the loving father, He urges us to seek and pray in confidence, He on multiple occasions said that the father would answer our prayers, but some prayers go unanswered. So why do prayers go unanswered? We are being invited further into the loving father to make us aware of the complexity...
Intercession simply means to petition an authority for something. Should we ask God for things, being that he already knows what we need even before we need them? How should we ask if we should? And does it even make a difference that we do? Jesus knows our prayers make a difference. Your prayer can...
It is more important that you pray, even when your prayer is just a phrase, a sentence, a breathe. It is important that you pray because your father in Heaven longs to be with you and prayer is the means through which we experienced life with the father. Jesus teaches a few things about what...
The followers of Jesus must have noticed something about how Jesus prayed that led them to ask him to teach them how to pray. Even though they were from a culture that had regular prayers, there was something about how Jesus prayed that was different and drew them. It is that Jesus enjoyed prayer. For...
Jesus has been inviting us To follow Him and become his disciples and learn from him so that we can find rest. But The biggest impediment that hinders people from following Jesus is hurry.it is the greatest enemy of spiritual life in our day the evidence of our souls being hurried is how busy we...
“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” This was an unpopular message of Jesus. In fact, so many people stopped following him when they heard him teach or preach like this. This is a message so unpopular in our culture of self-gratification and do-whatever-you-want...
It seems that for Jesus and later the apostles it is never enough to just believe. We are called to believe and put it into practice. To be not just hearers but also doers of God’s word. Practice is an integral part of discipleship and transformation. You do not become all the things God has...
Here is the thing, here is the mystery and good news. Through faith in Jesus Christ, we are a new creation. God has already called out of us who he created us to be. When God looks at you he is not seeing anxious Betty, or lustful Edgar or prideful John. No, he is seeing...
To become like Jesus we must carve out time and space to spend time with Him. This is learning to practice the presence of God, learning to be in 2 places at once. At work and with Jesus, at the shopping malls and with Jesus, everywhere we are and also with Jesus. This is the...
