Jesus Prayer

others. Prayer for the Christian should be to him/her as natural as breathing. My wife and I take our church roster and lift up the names of our members in prayer. In church, the sharing of our testimonies with each other serves to be encouragement for us which in turn helps us to grow spiritually. When I hear the testimonies of the saints, I see how good God is to His people and how He is not a respecter of persons. My spirit man is bolstered by them, and I am more determined to live for…

I am going to select models of spirituality that bring me together with other people. So spiritual activities such as worship, fellowship groups, prayer groups, bible-study groups, and spiritual-formation groups would be the types of scenes where I would spiritually thrive (59). Learning and testing out this information has greatly enhanced my spiritual life already. I do thoroughly enjoy the company…

There are moments in the life of a Christian that are specially guarded in the deepest of the heart. Moments that mark a before and an after, moments that are extremely touched with the hand of God. Sometimes people go through experiences that makes them wonder if God is trying to talk to them, or if they are mistakenly assuming that something is from God and in reality is caused by human emotions. Truth is that God wants to communicate with us at all times, he wants to talk to us, even through…

relationship with Jesus helps me to give him credit in the good times and to endure through the tough times. This dimension has really helped me balance my relationship with Jesus and my schoolwork. I have a lot of support coming from God, my church family, my parents, and my friends that helps me to maintain and develop my spiritual wellness. Bridge Scholars PLUS has helped me to remind myself to keep assessing my spiritual wellness, so I am where I need to be in my relationship with Jesus. I…

nature differs from Cotton’s views. Edwards sees the bodily nature of faith expressing itself in ways similar to athletics: working outwardly in prayer or Bible preparation to make the heart stronger. The effectiveness of an athlete on game day is not possible without the preparation and practice previously put in. Similarly, these unseen acts such as prayer and reading the Bible are crucial in obtaining a persistent and strong heart that is able to vigorously seek the Lord. These are not the…

don’t drink much and never get drunk, and I’ll profess that I believe the Lord is my savior and died for my sins. Besides that, my logic takes over and I question too many things. Take, for instance, last Sunday in church. We’ve been called to prayer, so we stand and close our eyes. After a few seconds, when the preacher’s words were in full swing, I open mine back up! Then, I noticed something that I hadn’t noticed since my childhood.…

If God is good, why evil? If God is all-good (omnibenevolent), all-powerful (omnipotent), and all-knowing (omniscient), why does evil occur? These are the questions most suffering people ask concerning God. Most of the time, we blame God for our pain, sorrow, grief, and distress that happen to us. The question that come in our mind is why me? Last Wednesday, I was on call. When the nurse called me, she informed me about a woman who was lying on the hospital bed while her daughter is…

meditation and then prayer brings God closer to us as humans and we are sometimes not able to see ourselves and what we can do better; but by meditation and study, we can seek God’s will and way and come into it. The Anglican divine Jeremy Taylor declares, Meditation is the duty of all. I now believe this whole heartily, as I embrace meditation along with my prayer life; I would be able to walk and hear God clearly, without doubt and know he is speaking. Mediation leads us into pure prayers and…

My book is a biography of George Muller, The Guardian of Bristol’s Orphanage, by Janet & Geoff Benge. This is a really good Christian book. George Muller is Christian from Germany. In Bristol, a lot of people were dying from cholera, so they held a prayer meeting together to encourage one another. He assured that Bristol, where he is at now, is the mission field. In the mission field, he made breakfast club for the starving children who don't have home or parents or food to eat.…

Invitation to the Study of Religion, religion is defined on a scholarly level with a form of reductionism, by reducing things to actions, such as; “Sacrificial rituals, prayer, meditation” (Cunningham). The Muslim prayers, called salat are a way of making contact with Allah, their god. The word salat does not neatly translate as prayer but more like worship, or direct contact with God. After all “sacred spaces are religious centers at which the heavenly and earthly meet, sites that act as…