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Let me ask you a question. When you pray and ask God for something, how do you go about asking Him? Do you beg Him over and over to give you exactly what you want? Do you try to negotiate with God saying, “If You do this for me, then I’ll do this for you”? Or do you pray with a submissive heart, asking that the Lord work out His will in your life?
Read MoreFrom that very first page, all the way to the back cover, I asked God to give me patience over and over again. And as I continued writing out my prayers, no matter how big or small my circumstances seemed, I wrote about them, asking for wisdom and guidance and grace and understanding and…you guessed it…more patience.
Read MoreWhat would it look like if we prayed boldly and courageously for God to surprise us with His answers? What if we prayed with confident expectation that God would come through for us? What if instead of praying with the intent of avoiding disappointment, we prayed in anticipation of God’s diving appointments?
Read MoreConsidering the fact that Psalm 37:4 is likely one of the most frequently quoted verses in Scripture, I heard this verse for the first time at a very young age. And to be honest, I pretty much zoned in on the “he will give you the desires of your heart” portion of the verse and gave little thought to the rest of the passage. So as I got older and experienced the pain and disappointment that came from unfulfilled desires and unmet expectations, you can imagine my frustration, because God wasn’t seeming to hold up His end of the bargain. But I had it all wrong.
Read MoreI started writing down my prayers during the summer before my senior year of high school, and I’ve been keeping a prayer journal ever since. I’ve written down prayers about anything and everything: friends, family, boys, basketball, work, money, etc. If it was on my heart, I wrote it down. And now after over ten years of writing down my prayers, it has been the biggest blessing to be able to go back through these journals and read about how God was working in my heart and to see how He answered the prayers I wrote down.
Read MoreI was reading back through one of my journals this morning, and as I was, I came across a prayer. It was a prayer I heard Lysa TerKeurst pray on a podcast she appeared on as a guest. And I remember loving the prayer so much when I heard for the first time that I set an alarm on my phone to go back and write it down when I got out of the car.
Read MoreA month before my wedding day, I got to experience a really cool full circle moment. It was one of those moments I couldn’t help but smile and silently thank the Lord that His plan was better than mine and that He was in the details even when I couldn’t see how He was working and what He was doing.
Read MoreA while back, I was talking with one of my friends about prayer, and she said something that really struck a chord. She said, “Kristen, I just feel like my prayers aren’t getting anywhere. It’s like I’m trying to talk to God, but it feels like He’s on His lunch break and He’s not hearing me.”
Read MoreI’ve always been a big fan of journaling. In fact, I’ve kept a diary since I was five years old, even though at that time, all I had to write about were my kindergarten boyfriend and what make-believe games my little brother and I had played that day. Regardless, I’ve always loved writing in a journal. It’s the way I like to process my thoughts and get everything that’s going on in my brain onto a piece of paper.
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