Extraordinary Prayer - Expecting Great Things

Today in my reading I have been looking at the description of the temple. I am amazed at the simple elements of it and its focus. Lord, you have reminded me today the importance of being clean, clean, clean before You. I remember that Petra song that spoke of this and the importance of God seeing me as clean. Today I have been studying the Temple that Solomon built and today I have been focused on the bronze basin that was in front of the temple as a basin to purify and make clean the priests prior to entering into the presence of God. Lord, this makes me think of our practices to hurry up and wash our hands or wash ourselves so as to begin the day, to present ourselves for work. But this act of cleaning is important and vital to our lives. It is often what makes us healthy as we was off the impurities. I think of the addition of soap that helped us even further be clean and yet there are other products like Norwex towels that focus on the article that is doing the cleaning. We need ou...

Been a while since I posted on here. Lately I've found some readings of my mom in which she had paper she had taken from "Our Daily Bread." This excerpt is titled "Praying with Confidence" and she clearly liked it and thought it was important for she saved it. It reads: The Scriptures were written by people who felt the same desires and discouragements we face. They too were dismayed at times by their circumstances. They knew what it was like to cry out to a silent God, to come to the end of themselves, and to feel their emotions going "over the edge." Yet the people of the Bible are important to us because they lived long enough to recover their sense of joy and confidence in God.  As we struggle through our own fears and disappointments, we can find renewed hope by using their thoughts as a path for our hearts and prayers. Psalm 42 is a good example. Here is a verse from that psalm, and a suggestion for how you might use it to fashion your own prayer...