I went to the Southern California Pastors’ Prayer Breakfast at Saddleback Church on Monday morning. Rick Warren has been hosting this prayer breakfast every Easter Week since 1990. Imagine the Saddleback Church auditorium filled with pastors from all over Southern California praying together. Heads bowed for Easter prayer. Would you like to join us? Here is a […]
Pray Like a Pastor
How to Pray for a Divided Nation
All of us who lead people have our own personal and political opinions. We can’t help it. We’re human. But as those commissioned to shepherd the flock of God, our thoughts ought to be first about caring for our people. I pastor a diverse church. Following the election, a ton of New Songers were hurting […]
How to Pray like Paul for your Church
I get tired of praying the same things over and over again for my church, so this week I accessed a prayer expert for his help on what to pray. Here are seven prayers that Paul prayed for the churches he knew. Together they’ll give you a week’s worth of biblical prayers you can pray […]
12 Prayers That Will Build Your Church
Jesus intends to build his church. And we want to play a significant part in that. Here are twelve prayers that will build your church. 1. Anointed teaching Lord, anoint every teacher in every room of our church this week! Place your Spirit upon the preacher, youth teacher, and every Small Group and Sunday school […]
Four Reasons I Don’t Pray
I hang out with enough Christian leaders to know that prayer is a challenge for just about every serious believer. Few of us pray as long or as fervently as we wish we did. The truth is, prayer is the most important action we can take in just about any situation. Satan knows this. Which […]
A Dangerous Prayer
Twenty-one years ago I prayed a prayer that has changed me more than any other. It changed my vocation, location, orientation, and just about every other “ation” in my life.The prayer? “God, I don’t ask you for much today. I just ask that you give me your heart for lost people.” Nineteen words. Twenty-one syllables. […]
Are you Ready to Discover the Latent Power of Prayer?
Put a pan of water on the stove and heat it up. For awhile it will look like nothing is happening. Then, when the water hits the magic number of 212 degrees, it expands and turns to steam. This water-to-steam exchange is so powerful that the first modern engines used it to power railroad engines […]
The Prayer I Pray Every Morning
1 Chronicles 4:10 contains one of the shortest, simplest, most powerful prayers ever prayed: “Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, ‘Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.’ And God granted his […]