Purposeful Prayer & More

Things were looking good. My coaches, who were already well-established in the ballet world, knew my goal was to enter into a program after high school that would lead to me becoming a professional ballerina in...

When we develop our attention to rejoicing, we get stronger, and the stronger we are, the easier it is for God to...

I don’t know about you, but I don’t like it when my plans are hijacked by someone else. A week in advance, my husband Miguel and I made plans to go garden and grocery shopping on a Thursday evening. In contrast, my oldest daughter, Dionne, had...

Why would you want to go on a personal retreat with God? To experience more of God. To review how God has provided for you in the past. To receive God’s perspective on your life’s roles. To discover more of God’s agenda for your life. Henry Blackaby, in Spiritual Leadership, states that we often make plans and then ask God to bless our plans. Seek God’s agenda first, and then...

“I’m praying that you move here.” Shocked, I asked the friendly stranger to repeat her words. I had retired just a few weeks prior, at least on paper, and my little schnauzer and I were on...

For the first 13 years of her marriage, Juri could not recall a day that she and her husband didn’t fight. But since learning to call on Jesus, the couple has now gone 12 months without fighting. Her story has inspired many others in Korea to...

Do you feel like you are in a barren time in your walk with God? Be encouraged that before God uses many people in the Bible, they were taken through the

The dangers in space require that astronauts wear special suits for protection. There are two kinds of spacesuits that astronauts wear. One kind is worn during lift-off and again on re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. The other one is...

Imagine that there was a young boy born to a poor family. As the boy got older, he worked hard and saved up his money to go to college. When deciding what to get a decree in, he asked God, and God...

The thunder rumbled; lightning flashed in the darkening atmosphere. Olaf believed that God could divert the storm, so that is what he asked his heavenly Father to do. When Olaf put forth his petition before Heaven, the storm...

When we surrender there is a power from the Lord that is unleashed. Why? Because we let go of our agenda and allow God, the Infinite and All-Knowing One, to work in ways we cannot imagine.

I was awakened at a very young age to what sounded like fighting in my parent’s bedroom, and what I saw was something no child should ever see, and that was the abuse of my mother and the raging temper of my father. We moved a lot, and in my child’s mind, I didn’t understand why we moved more than other pastors’ families. I would settle in and make friends, then we would move again, changing schools every few years. As I grew into middle school and was old enough to understand, I became aware of...