I stumbled across a great book the other day by Anne Graham Lotz called The Daniel Prayer-Prayer that Moves Heaven and Changes Nations. She bases the book on Daniel 9 where Daniel prays a powerful prayer while the Jews were in Babylon near the end of their 70 year exile. The Jewish people had been hauled off there because of their continued sin of sacrificing their children to the god Molech. While Daniel was reading the Old Testament book of Jeremiah…
The day after we were married over fifty-five years ago, the Supreme Court of this land handed down the edict that prayer was no longer allowed in schools. In January 1973, just forty-five years ago, that same court made abortion legal. According to the Center for Disease and Control, at the end of 2013, there have been 51,888,303 abortions reported to that department since 1970. The Bible tells us in Hosea 8:7 that if you sow the wind, you’ll…
Most of us have heard of God’s promises. We used to have a little box of scripture promises on the kitchen table. I’d pull one out each morning. Now I read them from my Bible and my devotional book. I’ve discovered many more than the ones in the little box. God is true to what He says He will do. Most have conditions like, “If you’ll to this, I’ll do that.” The closer I look, the more specific His promises…