The biggest disconnect in our prayer and the most common reason we don’t experience change through prayer is because we talk more than we listen. Lloyd Ogilvie, Presbyterian minister who served as chaplain to the U.S. Senate in the 90’s, learned something transformational about his prayer life. He realized that he spent 90% of his prayer time talking to God and 10% listening. He decided to reverse it by listening 90% and talking 10%. Do you know what happened? He found mor

Do you remember why we looked at key verses through Philippians? This was an exercise to take one to two verses that we could “listen” to for a week. I wanted you to see what happens when we consciously listening. If you did that for yourself, whatever I added was extra. I want to destroy the idea that listening to God takes more time than we have to give. It takes focus, yes. It takes a mindset. However, It is not always about carving out a bunch of time. When my husba

Too many times we come to God so full of what we want to say that we don’t give Him time to speak. We pour out our hearts because we’ve been told we can. We rehearse our fears. We ask for what we think will make something better. But we leave empty because we didn’t give God the same amount of time to speak to us. Or we just don’t know how to hear Him. I think that’s what is behind everyone’s desire to deepen their devotional life. We want to hear from God. We just aren’t

We are questioning people. We came by this skill naturally. We amused our parents with our first questions. Then, we frustrated them with too many questions. Then, we made them feel incompetent with questions they couldn’t answer. We’re good at asking questions. We just aren’t very good at waiting for answers. This is especially true when we ask God that question about to burn a hole in our heart. It is the question that we feel demands an answer. The question that we b

I’m geographically challenged. You don’t want me to give you directions to get anywhere. I get turned around in a shopping mall! It’s not that I get lost, exactly. I just take longer to get where I’m going. I hate it when my insecurity in this area keeps me from enjoying something. So when a new friend from Hood River invited me to explore Indian Creek Trail, I was excited. No fear of getting lost; I would follow someone who knew the way! Then, last Saturday, my husband asked