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Why Pray for Healing?

Prayer is theology in action. Prayer is a means of grace in that the Holy Spirit moves in our heart so that we may cry out to God. Prayer is prevenient grace in that when we don’t know how or what to pray, the Spirit intercedes for us (Rom. 8:26). Likewise, we pray according to what and how we believe. If we believe in error, or practice wrongly, that will have a negative effect in how we pray (Jas. 4:3). Even so, God’s prevenient grace is evident in that faith is a gift of God to unbelievers and believers. We pray as an exercise of faith, and sometimes we pray when we have little to no faith, but God graciously responds (Mark 9:24).

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Praying the Lord’s Prayer – Lent 2015

I have practiced praying the Scriptures for many years. Following is a compilation that I have been praying morning and evening during Lent 2015.

Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
  • “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might” (Deuteronomy 6:4-5).
  • “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, the whole earth is full of His glory” (Isaiah 6:3).
  • “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing… To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever” (Revelation 5:12-13).

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Forty Days with God

A message for Lent

The Lenten season lasts forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday. Forty is a number that is deeply rooted in the biblical tradition. For forty days and nights as the rains fell upon the earth, the future of humanity, and of all life on the earth, was protected within the confines of the ark of Noah. The inhabitants of the ark remained for forty more days as they waited for the flood waters to recede.

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