Make Prayer Beautiful
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S3 Ep 145The War I Didn't Want to Fight in the Garden …
And what I needed to learn about fighting the battles that need to be fought, and not only the battles that I want to fight.
S3 Ep 144What If a Preacher Leaves You Feeling On Edge for a Few Days?
It's possible. A few possibilities to consider.
S3 Ep 143When a Church Service Leaves You a Bit Off … for a Few Days
Navigating the challenges of group worship.
S3 Ep 142A Reflection on Goals and Missed Goals, Numbers and Gratitude
The Lord teaches his ways, every day. (And if you want to participate in the second half of the month, praying the prayer of Jabez, sign up here: https://praybig.me/jabez)
S3 Ep 141Are the Dry Heaves Catching? And Other Unknowns in the Realm of Prayer
A topic I've never heard talked about. Do you have a story that relates?
S3 Ep 140Graphic Novels, Unexpected Intensity, and the Spirit of Death
How much I need to ask and keep asking, "Lord, teach me to pray."
S3 Ep 139Reflections on the Mental Aspect of Different Games
A tribute to my college mentor, and his fandom of the Denver Nuggets … in the late 1990s. Hold out hope!
S3 Ep 138What the Fast Food Restaurant Taught Me About Accusations
One of the strongest corrections I've had in my life.
S3 Ep 137We Get to Define the Culture We Want!
With a reminder to affirm those around you.
S3 Ep 136The Gift of a Good Cheer
Because the world would be less of a good place with less of our gifts in it.
S3 Ep 135The Desire for Clarity Before We Move Forward …
And the reality that almost always, we have to muddle through. And you can order Righting of Wrongs here: https://happybooks.me/esther
S3 Ep 134The Word Exuberance … in All Its Meanings
And a reminder to stay curious before the Lord.
S3 Ep 133Miraculous Healing of Arthritis!
A testimony and a tutorial.
S3 Ep 132The Miraculous, Completely Unlikely, Change of Mind
For all of us who need a little reminder that prayer works.
S3 Ep 131A Story of Transformation
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S3 Ep 130The Lord's Promise in the Rainbow
In some places, June is a month of rainbows; how beautiful to have a prayer.
S3 Ep 129How the Desire to Never Be Despondent Is Not a Right Goal
Thinking about hope, and how the point is relationship, not performance.
S3 Ep 128The Vital Need for a Lifting of Darkness
And what a pulling and chopping motion surprisingly demonstrated.
S3 Ep 127Celebrate the Celebration!
Rocks, clouds, bugs … what a world the Lord has made!
S3 Ep 126The Testimony of the Blown-Out Tire
Complete with (probable) angel sighting!
S3 Ep 125The Difficulty of Stating a Large Request … and the Greater Difficulty of Stating a Small Request
Prayer itself … so challenging.
S3 Ep 124In the Weeping Room with Jesus
Such a precious gift, given on occasion.
S3 Ep 123Resting in the Lord
The sweetness, even without a clear vision.
S3 Ep 122The Sweetness of Being with Jesus at All Times
Whether we rest in the Spirit or not, God is with us.
S3 Ep 121Resting in the Spirit: Scriptures and Experience
Because this happens, even if it doesn't happen often or everywhere.
S3 Ep 120Sudden Onset Headaches: A Vital Need to Get the Word Out
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S3 Ep 119The Unusual Winning Streak in Settlers of Catan
Some thoughts about walking in favor.
S3 Ep 118True Confessions of a Failed Fast-er
Growing in grace and the knowledge of truth.
S3 Ep 117The Sudden Desire for Fire to Come Out of My Mouth
And the sudden, beautiful answer the next day.
S3 Ep 116What an Unexpected Question Taught Me About Hearing God's Voice
Seriously … one of my favorite breakthrough moments in recent memory.
S3 Ep 115A Report on Different Processes of Discernment
The Lord gives us what we need to pray effectively, but he gives it in different ways.
S3 Ep 114What Is a Seer?
This shouldn't be a surprise, but a seer sees.
S3 Ep 113Sudden Onset Sickness … Two Weeks After the Sacred Assembly
Some thoughts on the potential to get suddenly sick.
S3 Ep 112Calling Out the Gifts in Others
An easy exercise to start calling people into their identities.
S3 Ep 111The Sweet Provision of the Hidden Plate of Food
A modern day little multiplication miracle
S3 Ep 110"All the People Shook Because of the Fear of the Lord and the Heavy Rain"
Happily this was just a quote and not a reality for us.
S3 Ep 109What Sinus Pressure Might Mean to a Prayer Warrior
One prayer that released my sudden, repeated sinus headache.
S3 Ep 108The Glory of a City-Wide Corporate Prayer Meeting
And how I could have felt shame, but didn't.
S3 Ep 107Praying Over Pillars in the Opposite Spirit of Samson
When the courthouse pillars shivered, and the Lord sought to build up, not tear down.
S3 Ep 106Praying Over Generational Trauma with a Seer
And the great cloud of witnesses look on.
S3 Ep 105One Hundred Years After a Lynching
A community's journey to reconciliation.
S3 Ep 104Walking in Faith: How a Simple Act of Obedience Can Bring Deliverance
Celebrating walking on holy ground.
S3 Ep 103The Unexpected Gift of a Gavel
A moment of spiritual warfare and victory.
S3 Ep 102A Quick Prayerwalking Tutorial
Listen to the Holy Spirit, and do what he says … even if it's unexpected.
S3 Ep 101The Shock of "I Could Think About Moses and Elijah Coming to the Mount of Transfiguration for Days"
What?! Why? Days? Wrestling through an unexpected statement.
S3 Ep 100The Former Laundromat Transformed to a Thin Place
The possibility of shifting even a physical space for the king.
S3 Ep 99"O You of Little Faith"
What if this wasn't a correction, but a commendation?
S3 Ep 98Don't Miss What the Lord Is Doing
Lessons from an almost rainy Sacred Assembly.
S3 Ep 97The Beauty of Cross-Pollination in Church
Beautiful practices from a Sunday morning service.
S3 Ep 96Let it Rain: A Precious Space for Encounter
The magnificence of corporate prayer and soaking.