Articles Tagged 'Pray' (Page 2)

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Bringing God's Grace through Love and Prayer

Phil Ware shares Scriptures, stories, and ideas to help us prepare for the hour of worldwide unified prayer for our broken world, especially focused on love and prayer as a source of hope for our broken world.

Prayer is a holy moment. We invite the eternal and divine grace of God to invade our hearts and change our lives and the lives of those we love.

With Arms Uplifted and On Our Knees

Phil Ware invites us to share in prayer in all the seasons of life and especially know we have an all-season God who longs to hear our prayers, especially prayers for a change in our world's messes.

God is faithful to us through all the seasons of our lives. He isn't a fair-weather God.

New Year with New Hope

Phil Ware explains the unified, simultaneous, hour of prayer on January 1 and December 31 as all the time zones gather together to pray.

Imagine if we all came together at the same time and prayed for God to intervene and help us overcome our world's problems!

Beyond Trite Slogans to Real Help

Phil Ware writes about Romans 8:22-29, the bondage to decay that our world faces, our own troubles and hardships, and slogans that we often use and abuse to try to encourage people who are grieving, wounded, or hurt.

How can we say these things and really mean them when trying to help those who hurt?

Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Abba Father

Phil Ware and Doug Peters remind us what it means to pray to God as our Abba Father and then give us some pratical ways that we can experience God as Abba in our prayer life.

How do we combine both reverence and familiarity, respect and intimacy?

Where's the Power?

Phil Ware focuses on Jesus' promise to send the power of the Holy Spirit to empower the church and our need to seek and use that power!

What happened to the power that Jesus promised to us?

The Scandal and Grace of Jesus' Cross

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins lead us into worship in song and the Word to experience, proclaim and rejoice in the power of the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.

For us, the cross means everything because at the cross God meets us with overwhelming grace and love that know no limit.

Sowing to the Spirit: Finding Power from on High

Phil Ware reminds us that God wants us to know that we have the Holy Spirit present and at work with power in our lives!

We can trust God's promises that the Spirit is at work in us!

Valuing Women of Faith and Courage

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins invite us to worship God and celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit as we are transformed to be more like our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Happy Mother's Day! Today is Mother's Day in many part of the world, so let's celebrate women of faith and courage who have blessed our lives and empowered the work of God in our world.

Waiting in Expectation

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins invite us to worship God and celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit as we are transformed to be more like our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

We can approach each day with hope and expectation because of God's faithfulness.

Living My MUSD #6: Shared Prayer through Forgiving Redemptively

Phil Ware opens the New Testament and reminds of a great way to live out our mission while under social distancing, prayer because prayer has always been a virtual way of blessing others.

Living My Mission Under Social Distancing

Living My MUSD #5: Shared Prayer through Interceding Personally

Phil Ware opens the New Testament and reminds of a great way to live out our mission while under social distancing, prayer because prayer has always been a virtual way of blessing others.

Even when confined to our houses and limited in our travels and frustrated with social distancing, we still have the incredible ability to pray for others.

Living My MUSD #4: Shared Prayer through Empowering Missionally

Phil Ware shares some practical ideas on how to stay on mission even while practicing social distancing.

I get done only what I pray for!

Living My MUSD #3: Shared Prayer through Communicating Purposefully

Phil Ware shares some practical ideas on how to stay on mission even while practicing social distancing.

My prayers for others mean much more to them when they know what I have prayed for them!

The Power of Affirmation

ToGather.church for March 22, 2020

Luke's account of Jesus' baptism and the Father's response provides our focus for today: They remind us of how powerful loving affirmation can be!

Introducing ToGather

This is an introduction and explanation of the purpose of ToGather!

We covet your prayers, comments, and suggestions as we begin what we hope will be a blessing to Jesus' people.

He Entered Your World

Max Lucado reminds us that Jesus longs for us to draw near to him in our times of troubles, problems, challenges, pain, and trials.

God drew near to us in Jesus, so why would we not come to him with our challenges, troubles, and trials?

Teach Us to Pray 13: Ending Praise

Phil Ware with Doug Peters help us finish our study of The Lord's Prayer and focus on how it points us to the 'coolest" Father of all.

For many, the added ending is not a good thing, and it is certainly NOT a 'Jesus thing'!

Teach Us to Pray 09: Recalibrating Need

Phil Ware with Andy Johnson remind us that our prayer is for the bread we need today, not the extravagance we want for ourselves.

Our prayers often treat God as if he is the free Amazon delivery service for our every whim and want.

Teach Us to Pray 05: Holy Presence

Phil Ware and Andy Johnson remind us how important reverencing God is when we pray.

We cry out together, as Jesus' followers and family, for God's holiness to make itself known in undeniable ways in our fallen world.

Teach us to Pray 04: Abba Father

Phil Ware and Doug Peters remind us what it means to pray to God as our Abba Father and then give us some pratical ways that we can experience God as Abba in our prayer life.

How do we combine both reverence and familiarity, respect and intimacy?

Teach Us to Pray #3: Together Experience

Phil Ware, with the help of Grady King, reminds us that prayer is a together experience in much of experience and God calls us to share this experience together, then Grady King gives us some added insight and an exercise to help us through the next week.

When Jesus taught on prayer in the Sermon on the Mount, he shifted from individual prayer in private to prayer shared with others

Teach Us to Pray #2: Prayer School

Phil Ware, with the help of Chad Higgins, continues his series on Lord Teach Us to Pray focusing on learning from Jesus.

Growing in prayer, feeling a connection with the Father, and being formed to be a useful vessel for Jesus to use to bless others is a journey.

Teach Us to Pray #1: Devotion

Phil Ware continues his series on prayer this week, focused on the early church's devotion to prayer that they learned from Jesus.

When Luke summarized the heart of the early church, he chose to highlight one particular word —

Teach Us to Pray Intro: Don't Just Do Something...

Phil Ware begins a series of messages built around the disciples' request to Jesus to teach them to pray with today focusing on our need to pray first.

'I wish I had time just to sit around and pray,' my friend said. He walked away in a huff!