The New Year is here and everyone is setting goals and making wishes on what they want this year. So here are 3 things to pray for this new year. Years ago when I was a working at a camp for a summer, I began to practice praying for long periods of time. I spent the first part of …
The Importance of Community During a Loss
When you experience the loss of someone you love, whom do you turn to? Are there people around you that can comfort, love and support you? We all need community going through a loss, who is your community? This past week (September 29, 2015) my amazing brother-in-law had unexpectedly passed away in his office, leaving my sister and 3 children …
What To Pray For?
Have you ever wondered if your prayers were too selfish? Have you ever wondered what to pray? How do we pray for things? This is my last post on the C.A.T.S prayer pattern. The S stands for “Supplication.” Supplication is simply asking for something. In prayer this is where we typically spend most of our time asking God for help, …
How Thanking God Strengthens Prayer Life
We are taught early on as Christians to thank God for the things in our lives, specifically giving thanks before we eat. But how can thanking God strengthen our prayer life? The third part of the acronym C.A.T.S is Thanksgiving or giving thanks. The first thing that comes to mind when I think of giving thanks is, praying over …
How To Have Personal Worship Time
When talking about prayer we quickly think about asking God for things. But how often do we think of worship? Worship should be an integral part of our prayer life and our lives in general. Worship should be a daily habit not something that only happens in a worship service. I remember going to camp every year in high school. One of …
The C.A.T.S Prayer Pattern
Prayer is a staple component to any healthy Christians relationship with God. But many Christians do not know how to pray. Prayer is something that is hard to grasp. I remember when I was a young teenager my father began to take us through a book teaching us how to become men of God. Through this time and the next …