Abiding Meditation: The Back Gate

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried out to my God. He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry came before Him, even to His ears. Psalm 18:6 NKJV Prayer is the back gate that is left open even when the city is besieged by the enemy. It is the way upward...

On Prayer

Pray regularly; daily, three times a day, hourly, moment by moment. Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God. Paraphrase, Scott McNight

Before And After

Give ear to my words, O Lord. Consider my meditation. I need your help my King and my God. Every morning to You I pray. Every morning I lay out the pieces of my life on your altar. And I look up full of expectation for fire to descend. Psalm 5:1-3, Adapted Here King...

On Prayer

Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness, for we do not know what to pray for as we should. But the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He...

A Sinner’s Morning Prayer

O my Savior, help me. For I am slow to learn, prone to forget, weak to climb. I am in the foothills when I should be on the heights. I am pained by my graceless heart, my prayerless days, my poverty of love, my sloth in the heavenly race, my unclean conscience, my...