Make Prayer Beautiful

I kept being surprised by how the Lord uses communities and relationships, rather than individuals.

Lord, you can give it back to me or not, but I am laying it down before you.

Continuing to be okay with being a feeler.

Thinking about leveling up in our walk with God.

Lord, the challenge to live in faith in the work that you're doing.

When you'd be happy to build up a person, but they don't want you to do the building up. (Thoughts? Reply to [email protected].)

A fascinating question with a range of answers.

What an absolutely beautiful glimpse of stretching a bit in the walk of faith.

Maybe. I think the answer is: go to the place of peace, and there may be some different paths to get there.

Such a good question! Several possibilities, as there's more a specific end goal than a specific way to get there.

How other people think in unexpected and beautiful ways.

Maybe less thinking through all the ins and outs, and more simply living, as best we can, covered by the grace of God.

Thinking through different stories and people I've seen and talked to.

My first experience giving a short talk in translation, with a surprise twist at the end. So fun!

Protection and keeping the feeler gift at the right level.

Questions and comments on an idea I keep exploring. And subscribe to daily emails at https://praybig.me/email 

The grace to rest in the Lord's will, knowing that he highlights what needs to be seen.

Seeking to understand the gift in greater health and ability.

Five years after the fact … a precious realization.

And what Jesus had to say about it.

Not sure I have the best answer, but I am more on the praying side.

While people lost their minds, the peace of God was still present.

A glorious testimony of full healing after approaching the brink of death. LOVE.THIS.

Lord Jesus, make me more like yourself! 

And a treasured thought on why our presence matters.

Two stories from friends, heard a few days apart, that pushed my boundaries of what I could imagine possible.

Don't mistake action for progress, be content to stay still, but with a glimmer of direction, be ready to move … and then change direction.

When things don't go my way, I don't always think, "Wow, God! Thank you for protecting me!" … but maybe I should.

Lord, we want to be ready for all the connections you have for us!

The balance between waiting on the Lord and getting things done.

An exercise that once drove me nuts, now turned to eager anticipation.

Are we dreaming just for the present? One of my favorite ideas this year.

What to do if the song burning in your heart is not the song the leaders are singing?

Meditations on the scripture from Heaven in Business D.C.

Somehow this message got lost with the others in the series (Season 4, Episodes 56-78).

So personal to me, but I'm hoping also helpful to you.

Preferably in a way that the wider world would at least partially understand. Translation! It's a challenge!

Feeling too much emotion for the body to contain.

Crossovers between Old Testament sacrifices and contemporary worship flags.

Standout observations from a visit to the largest privately owned house in the United States.

It may still be God's perfect will. A small testimony.

Little thanksgivings I almost forgot to be thankful for.

The continued journey of learning to play.

I recorded this a few months ago. Today Abraham goes in for (we hope) his final appointment with the doctor. He is juggling again, and we are hoping for good news.

Business, missions, family, hospitality … asking for the MORE of God. And Manage Transition Well: https://happybooks.me/transition

A testimony that I don't much like, but has its own beauty.

A message that inexplicably kept making me cry … "Where now is the God of Elijah?"

Bat blood and control and other dark things? (An ASTONISHING testimony.)

One of my favorite stories of recent time! Praise God!

Hearing well, the prophets advising Hezekiah and David, and unsolved mysteries in the walk of faith.