Let’s return this week to our study of contemplative prayer. We had been looking at the reviving of Lazarus in chapter 11 of John.

I am going to take a break this week from our series on contemplative prayer to make some comments and observations on something that is overflowing in our media here in the US—the reactions to the Movie.

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Intimacy with God brings peace to the soul and healing to our body.

I’ve been sharing with you now for weeks about the subject of contemplative prayer. This week I want to take “a little side journey” and talk about an incident in the gospels that speaks to the issue of “wasting time on Yeshua.”

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The Lord has given us a great gift in the testimony of Dale and Pearl Raatz. Their story is one of victory over a medically hopeless situation through skillfully applying the Word of God.

“But to which of the angels has He ever said: Sit at My right hand, till I make Your enemies Your footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?” (Hebrews 1:13-14).

Last time I shared some practicalities about contemplative prayer, the kind of prayer that Mary of Bethany modeled in Luke’s gospel. And I want to expand on that this week.

God gave everyone the (same) measure of faith, according to Romans, but what we do with our measure of faith determines our measure of success (Ro. 12:3b).