Posts Tagged ‘prayer’

I returned recently from a 3 week family holiday. One of the great benefits of being away from home is the opportunity to meet with other churches. It’s good to hear other men preach, to share in the life of another congregation, to pray with another church. You can learn a lot by attending the prayer-meeting in another church.

2005 is at an end. For all of us this is a time for looking back. What have we learned over the past year? What work have we done for Christ? What mistakes have we made? What sins have shadowed our walk with God? What blessings am I most grateful for?

As part of my review of the year, I try to list out things I’ve prayed for over the past twelve months. In many cases I find I can say happily, ‘Yes, that prayer’s been answered. I was given what I …

Many of us find that the best time to pray is first thing in the morning. Speaking personally, if I don’t get up early to pray, I find it almost impossible to set my heart to pray later in the day.  We know that the Lord Jesus “rose in the morning, a great while before day, and went out to a lonely place, and there he prayed” (Mark 2:35).  He couldn’t face the day without spending time alone with his …

William Carey was perhaps the greatest pioneer missionary since the days of the apostles. Every Christian should be familiar with his story.  Born in 1761, he lived at a time when few Christians understood that they had any duty to evangelise ‘the heathen’ overseas.  Many evangelical leaders took the view that the world had been evangelised by the apostles, and that the Church had no further missionary responsibility.  Yet from the time that he was converted, Carey had a …

Have you marked Saturday 13th July in your diary? The office-bearers have agreed to set that day aside as a day of special prayer for the church. We would want as many of you as possible to join us in that.

Often in the Bible when God’s people set aside time to pray, they also fasted. So we have agreed that we will fast for the whole day or part of it.

What is fasting? It simply means doing without food (and sometimes even without …