How many children in your community know how to balance a checkbook? How many adults do? Financial illiteracy adds challenges to already difficult situations. If someone is struggling with poverty, not only does that person need employment opportunities and training. He or she also needs life skills to sustain that employment and provide for his … Continue reading Prayers for Community Organizations: Junior Achievement
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4 Things to Know about Generational Healing
Generational healing prayers are among my favorites. Why? Because I have seen such powerful changes through these prayers. Consider this: Because of the power of Christ, you have the ability today to stand in for entire generations of your family and repent for generational sin. God can bring redemption and realignment to your family line, … Continue reading 4 Things to Know about Generational Healing
Amazing Dream about Inner Healing
Last night, I had a weird, freaky, but also amazing dream. In the dream, I was placed inside a vision and I was supposed to write about it. I was put inside the enemy camp. I was surrounded by demons of all shapes and sizes, including big ones taller than a two-story building. I could … Continue reading Amazing Dream about Inner Healing
Will You Take the Journey?
You don't have to read very far into the book of Acts to learn how treacherous were the journeys taken by the early Christians, especially the Apostle Paul. Travel in the ancient Mediterranean was challenging in ways we can't even grasp today. When they weren't traveling by boat, they were on foot, with the danger … Continue reading Will You Take the Journey?
The 3 Most Effective Prayers
The most effective prayers are often the simplest. Here are three of the shortest and simplest prayers you can pray. They are also among the most powerful prayers you can pray. Yet they are often the hardest and the most neglected. 1. I confess Confession is a way to acknowledge sins that are hidden and … Continue reading The 3 Most Effective Prayers
Are You Feeling Someone’s Grief?
We all feel for others. When a loved one is down, we feel down as well. We even feel pain for people we don't know. A news broadcast might show a family that is grieving after a tornado destroys their home. We feel that pain as if it's our own. Human empathy is a beautiful … Continue reading Are You Feeling Someone’s Grief?
English Lessons in a Polish Suburb
The atmosphere was quiet, as I waded through calf-deep snow toward a little apartment on the outskirts of Poznan, Poland. The light through the windows was inviting. This kind of winter was new to me, a Florida girl. The night sky was a deeper blue, as the moonlight reflected off the snow. Continue reading in … Continue reading English Lessons in a Polish Suburb
The Beauty of an Ordinary Moment in Belarus
I crossed the border between Russia and Belarus at a tumultuous time in the late 1990s. I had a lot to worry about—and to be excited about. I'm amazed at how, so many years later, what stands out in my memory isn't the dramatic backdrop. It's an ordinary moment with a student whose name I … Continue reading The Beauty of an Ordinary Moment in Belarus
What Are Prayer Cloths?
Prayer cloths are a wonderful way to share healing prayers with your loved ones. A prayer cloth is a tiny piece of fabric that you pray over, and then you give it to someone in need of healing. They can carry it with them in their pocket. It is a constant comfort and reminder to … Continue reading What Are Prayer Cloths?
Praying through Scary Moments
I was house sitting in the countryside. It was a big house on a hill in an isolated area of a mostly rural county. Except for the dog and the cat, I was alone. I was relaxing on my day off when I looked out the window and saw a man walking around the property. … Continue reading Praying through Scary Moments
Adventures with God 