Jesus told the disciples “on that day you will pray…” So, first, we can see that prayer belongs to the New Covenant believer! Then Jesus continued and said that the way we pray would change once we came to the New Covenant.

I’ve several times heard and read T.L. Osborn tell how after he discovered the finished work of Jesus Christ, it took him two years to adjust his prayer-life accordingly.

In this GGN newsletter Steve McVey and Peter Youngren share with you some very helpful...

A new and important look at Jesus’ story about the persistent woman and the judge.

I used to believe that it increased the likelihood of having my prayers answered if I prayed constantly about the thing that concerned me. I thought the longer I stayed on my knees about it the better off the outcome would be. I don’t believe that anymore. God doesn’t need me to convince Him to act on my behalf. Jesus once told a story that illustrates the heart of the Father toward us:

Now He was...

Faith is essential in our prayer life. As we discover that faith is restful, we will experience that prayer is restful too.

Faith is easy.  It is simply yielding to and resting in Jesus’ ability.  The apostle Paul asked the Galatians believers, “He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith?” (Galatians 3:5). 

Put this question in contemporary language.  Do you receive the Holy Spirit and does God...

“God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.” This was the kind of scripture I would not do without, especially when I wanted to really pin people down based on what they hadn’t done in order to be accepted by God. Anything that made people feel inadequate and inferior was like a great revelation that I often shared.

Struggling to be worthy

What humbleness meant to me was all about how it looked from the outward. What grace meant to me was so limited; it was just about...