I thought I'd write about my experience with simple prayer. Though the past week has been fraught with sin and occasional victory, I found myself sliding into the rut I was so familiar with. When I tried to figure out what I was missing, the spirit whispered "Have you...
Sweeping meadows, covered bridges, fields of tall corn and a rambling old farmhouse. That is how I remember my childhood summers. Every summer I would visit my grandparents in southern Illinois. I would spend at least a month there in the countryside surrounded by...
A travelling salesman who lived somewhere in the United States. He had had a busy week and was returning to his home town. He stopped his car for a break at a roadside coffee shop. As he sat drinking his coffee he heard a girl quietly crying in the next booth. He...
Last night I took a journeyTo a land across the seas.I didn't go by ship or planeI traveled on my knees. I saw so many people thereIn bondage to their sin,And Jesus told me I should go,That there were souls to win. But I said "Jesus, I can't goTo lands across the...
Cardiologist Randolph Byrd at San Francisco General Hospital performed a double blind study of patients in that hospital's cardiac care unit. Patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups ... those receiving intercessory prayer by committed Christians unknown...
A missionary on furlough told this true story while visiting his home church in Michigan...While serving at a small field hospital in Africa, every two weeks I traveled by bicycle through the jungle to a nearby city for supplies. This was a journey of two days and...
A hospital chaplain visited a delightful old lady in the hospital. As he approached her bed he noticed that with the index finger of one hand she was touching, one by one, the fingers of the other, with her eyes closed. When the chaplain spoke to her she opened her...