One Sabbath day, Lydia went to the river’s shore that had been designated by the Roman authorities of Philippi as a place of prayer and worship for the Jews. There she met Paul and Silas, who had been in Philippi only a short time. While others along the river may have rejected Paul’s words about Jesus, Lydia accepted them and became a believer (Acts 16:14).

Once she believed, she made a confession of her faith to her whole ...

The prophet Jeremiah was not a popular man. When he declared the truth God had given him – that Judah would soon start 70 long years in captivity — the people threw him into prison.

Yet in such dire circumstances, Jeremiah learned something profound about prayer. Jeremiah 33:1–3 says, While Jeremiah was still confined ...

When Paul penned his stirring testimony, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7), he most likely was not pulling a random metaphor out of a hat. Nearly every person in the Roman Empire would have thought about one specific race ...

To pray, “Thy will be done” is to seek the heart of God. The word will means “strong desire.” It is where we learn what God desires. What is his heart? His passion? He wants you to know it.

Shall God hide from us what he is going to do? Apparently not, for he has gone ...

[Jesus] withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, knelt down and prayed, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” — Luke 22:41-42

By Elisabeth Elliot

When I was young I had the idea that I would somehow have to annihilate my own will before I could properly pray to ...

They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers. Acts 1:14

Monica never stopped praying for her son. She had raised Augustine in the Christian faith in their small town in Algeria, but when he was a teenager the family moved to Carthage in ...