“Forget greatness; seek littleness. Trust more, strut less.”- Max Lucado Max Lucado begins Chapter 2 (“Father . . . Daddy”) of Before Amen by telling of the time his eldest daughter, Jenna, flubbed her piano piece at a recital. Midway through her piece, she forgot the next part. When her mental block broke, she completed […]
“Prayer is the hand of faith on the door handle of your heart. The willing pull. The happy welcome to Jesus.”- Max Lucado In Chapter 1 (“The Pocket Prayer”) of Before Amen: The Power of a Simple Prayer, Pastor Max Lucado states that “we all pray . . . some.” However, Max asks, wouldn’t we […]
“I know that I’m not strong enough to be everything I’m supposed to be.”- Matthew West “I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”- Philippians 4:13 “Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then just eat one of the pieces.”- Judith Viorst, children’s […]
“Be at peace with yourself and then you will be able to bring peace to others.”- Thomas A Kempis In Chapter 12 (“I’m Angry at Myself”) of Anger, Dr. Gary Chapman begins by listing reason you may not be at peace with yourself. When we experience anger at ourselves, it is because we: perceive ourselves […]
“But the chain reaction of faith defies gravity, defies the imagination.”- Mark Batterson In Chapter 25 (“I Dwell in Possibility”) of If, Mark Batterson states that before every breakthrough, someone first had to imagine the impossible. In fact, Pastor Batterson emphatically asserts, what if is not optional if God is for us. Mark’s prayer is […]
“But don’t despise the day of small beginnings. If you do little things like they’re big things, someday God will do big things like they’re little things.”- Mark Batterson “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.”- […]
“Knowledge, by itself, often leads to one-dimensional assumptions. But wisdom, true wisdom, leads to two-dimensional understanding.”- Mark Batterson “True wisdom has two sides.”- Job 11:6 As Mark Batterson concludes Chapter 18 of If, he asserts that two-dimensional thinking is thinking outside the four dimensions of space-time within which we exist. Pastor Batterson writes that the […]
“But when you fast and pray, God leans in a little closer.”- Congressman Tony Hall In Chapter 5 (“A $100 Million Dollar Fast”) of If, Mark Batterson discusses the topic of fasting- a time when God leans in. Pastor Batterson believes fasting is one of the best ways to break the power of the flesh. […]
Moving Mountains (Thomas Nelson, 2016) Moving Mountains: Praying with Passion, Confidence, and Authority is the latest book by John Eldredge, director of Ransomed Heart. Ransomed Heart is a ministry dedicated to restoring men and women in the love of God. The foundation of this book is prayer that works. In fact, the recurrent theme, or a suitable […]
“I believe . . . the most beautiful form of prayer [is] prayer for the healing of the heart and soul.”- John Eldredge In Chapter 15 (“Inner Healing- Restoring the Soul”) of Moving Mountains, John Eldredge begins by stating that prayer for the healing of the heart and soul is like the spring showers that […]
“Surrender, true open-handedness, on the question before me is crucial to hearing from God.”- John Eldredge John Eldredge concludes Chapter 12 of Moving Mountains by stating that the question of our openness to whatever God has to say to us forms unreserved obedience in us. This in turn deepens our holiness and our intimacy with […]
“We are pressing into maturity both in our own character and in our partnership with God.”- John Eldredge In Chapter 12 (“Listening Prayer”) of Moving Mountains, John Eldredge writes that “the single most-significant decision that has changed my prayer life more than any other, the one step that has brought about greater results than all […]