Charles Lyons, Pastor of Chicago's Armitage Baptist Church, offers an example of the power of prayer: "During the 1980s the OA gang dominated our area. We created a prayer patrol of three or four team...
One young girl knew the power of specific prayer when she faced death head-on. In the midst of her sickness, she went to her pastor and asked what more she could do for Jesus in the short time she had...
Earlier this year, an urban church in Bristol, England, developed an interesting response to the high crime rate in its neighborhood. It developed "Prayer Patrols" that take place three times daily. V...
In an article in AARP magazine, Dolly Parton, legendary county singer, speaks of her dependence on prayer....
The Prayer Telescope The brilliant scientist Sir Isaac Newton said that he could take his telescope and look millions and millions of miles into space. Then he added, "But when I lay it aside, go into...
“My point is this: One of the best ways to develop your prayer life is to be attentive to the changes and growth that are occurring in your life as a result of prayer. The more you grow, the more you ...
USA Today recently discovered that people find prayer as effective as drugs for the relief of pain. The survey was sponsored by USA Today, ABC News and the Stanford Medical Center. The bottom line i...
A father sat down on one of the stools at the counter and lifted his son up to the seat beside him. They ordered food, and when the waiter served the meals, the father said, "Son, we'll just have a si...
In his book Falling in Love with Prayer (NexGen), Mike MacIntosh writes: "When I was a teenager I wanted so much to be accepted by my peers, and I decided that a foul mouth was a way to act like a man...
A little boy was overheard praying, "Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it. I'm having a real good time like I am.”Is this the unspoken prayer of many to whom we preach? ...
Recently Bill Keane's comic strip, The Family Circus, showed a little girl kneeling on her bed and telling her Mother, "I couldn't remember The Lord's Prayer so I said the Pledge of Allegiance."...
Even children understand the importance and power of prayer...particularly for themselves....
In his book Surviving Hell: A P.O.W.’s Journey, Leo Thorsness tells of the courage it took to worship in the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison in Vietnam. ...
C.H. Spurgeon once said, "Prayer pulls the rope down below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly; others give only an occasional je...
News reports have introduced us to a church choir director named Rocky, who wants to bring down gas prices through prayer. ...
The Associated Press told of a New Jersey fisherman who discovered a shopping bag filled with unopened prayer letters. The letters displayed variety. One man asked to win the lottery. A teen girl aske...
In the Detroit Free Press, Nancy A. Youssef reports that in response to a wave of violent crime - 104 homicides compared to 68 at the same time last year - the Detroit Police department took an unusua...
Dennis the Menace is often depicted kneeling by his bed and wording interesting prayers. ...
The family was on vacation when they came upon a playground. The little girl wanted to get in but the gate was locked. Her father explained that she couldn't play there because of the locked gate. "Bu...