Tag: Prayer

THE TWO ROOMS

ByDr. Mark February 10, 2026 0 Comments
“They are Your servants and Your people whom You redeemed by Your great power and by Your strong hand. Please, Lord, may Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and the prayer of Your servants who delight to revere Your name, and please make Your servant successful today and grant him mercy before this man.” Now I was the cupbearer to the king. And it came about in the month...

IT’S TIME TO TAKE A KNEE…AGAIN!

ByDr. Mark June 21, 2025 3 Comments
“The vice-regents and governors conspired together and then went to the king and said, “King Darius, live forever! We’ve convened your vice-regents, governors, and all your leading officials, and have agreed that the king should issue the following decree: For the next thirty days no one is to pray to any god or mortal except you, O king. Anyone who disobeys will be thrown into the...

WHEN YOUR PERSISTENT PRAYING PAYS OFF

ByDr. Mark April 18, 2025 0 Comments
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8 NIV) My granddaughter called me Tuesday night and informed me that she got the job for which she was praying. She got a job at a location just 15 minutes from her...

YOU’S ONE OF HIS PEOPLE AREN’T YOU?

ByDr. Mark February 27, 2025 0 Comments
“If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray…”  Forgive the English in my title, but don’t’ form a resistant attitude to what I have to ask of you. Criticize me from a textual versus contextual perspective if you so desire, but don’t circumvent the critical question, that is if you are one of God’s people.  In a time where the exodus of men from...

OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES TO OUR PRAYING

ByDr. Mark February 27, 2024 0 Comments
“On another Sabbath he was in the synagogue teaching, and a man was present whose right hand was deformed. The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees watched closely to see whether he would heal the man that day, since it was the Sabbath. For they were eager to find some charge to bring against him. How well he knew their thoughts! But he said to the man with the deformed hand, “Come and...

PRAYER TIME

ByDr. Mark February 18, 2024 0 Comments
“With all prayer and petition pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, stay alert with all perseverance and petition for all God’s people.” (Ephesians 6:18 The Amplified Bible) It’s Sunday morning, again! There will be people who see this day as THE day to go to God in prayer, and more importantly, go to Him in prayer, primarily to petition Him to intervene in what...

KEEP PRAYING

ByDr. Mark March 29, 2023 0 Comments
"Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up." – (Luke 18:1 NIV) Many times, we are driven to prayer by the happenings, especially unexpected, unwanted, and undesirable happenings, and untimely, shocking news accounts.  For some, our prayer lives become heightened for the moment and perhaps at most for a few days.  For some, we just pray...

PAUSE!

ByDr. Mark March 16, 2023 0 Comments
“I want everyone everywhere to lift innocent hands toward heaven and pray, without being angry or arguing with each other.” (I Timothy 2:8 Contemporary English Version) On Monday and Tuesday evenings, I have the privilege of doing one-on-one tutoring with my great-grandson.  Think about it.  How many of us have had such an experience in our lifetime?  I haven’t.  Actually, I never met...

YOU CAN FIND HIM!

ByDr. Mark October 23, 2022 0 Comments
“The God who made the world and everything in it, this Master of sky and land, doesn’t live in custom-made shrines or need the human race to run errands for him, as if he couldn’t take care of himself. He makes the creatures; the creatures don’t make him. Starting from scratch, he made the entire human race and made the earth hospitable, with plenty of time and space for living so we...

THANK GOD PRAYING IS NOT ON AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM

ByDr. Mark October 13, 2022 0 Comments
“We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but he is ready to hear those who worship him and do his will.” (John 9:31 NLT) Often the audiences laugh at a comedian’s routine because their jokes contain something that they can relate to by their personal experiences.  This past weekend, a well-known comedian was sharing a humorous exaggeration of his experience on an automated system,...