Recently I had an experience of feeling like I had lost my connection with God. I worried that I was doing something wrong, which was causing my spiritual progress to recede, but as I prayed about it I had a few realizations. Recently I had an experience of feeling like I had lost my connection with God. It was the first time that had happened in any significant way since I had committed my life to Jesus, about a year…
What is your concept of service to God and neighbor? Being a true servant of God requires us to internalize the idea of serving, and have it permeate our every word and action. During my morning prayer and reading routine the other day, I kept coming across snippets about service. I have to be honest, the concept of service is something that I never really considered as something that needed to be an intentional action in my life. I guess…
About year ago, I realized that prayer needed to be a part of my daily routine. But, first, I had to figure out some of the basics of how to pray. As I have started down the path of daily personal prayer, I was surprised to learn a few things, and I will share them with you! I am a little bit of a late-comer to the whole prayer scene. Even though I was raised in a family that went…
God’s plan for us is for the LONG HAUL. We may not see what that long-term outcome is going to be, but we can trust that he has our eternal best interests at heart! It’s hard to wait and trust! Especially in this age of super-fast technology, waiting for anything just seems to get harder and harder. Consider, for instance, when your computer screen is displaying that little hourglass, or that churning circular cursor that means ‘wait’, and it seems…
