Devotions from James Smith’s book, The Good and Beautiful Life We were designed to be in fellowship with a loving and holy God. Our religion is not just to get us to heaven…no, it is to get heaven into us! If you remember this author from past devotionals, he talked all about having the right…
Devotions from Haase’s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer When we pray, Deliver us from evil, “we will never be delivered from evil until our egos are willing to put God back where he belongs and take a backseat to God’s will and kingdom.” Most of us have experienced at least one tragedy in life where…
Devotions from Haase’s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer As I wrote yesterday when we pray, Lead us not into temptation, we acknowledge that we all experience temptation that comes in different degrees but is always enticing and seductive. John Cassian, describes 8 thoughts Satan confronts us with in our spiritual lives. They point toward our…
In this post I want again to start with a quote. This is from William Shannon, “Wordless prayer…..is humble, simple, lowly, prayer in which we experience our total dependence on God and our awareness that we are in God. Wordless prayer is not an effort to ‘get anywhere,’ for we are already there (in God’s…
Devotions from Haase’s book, Living the Lord’s Prayer As we pray, Lead us not into temptation, we acknowledge that we all experience temptation that comes in different degrees but is always enticing and seductive. We often rationalize and justify our actions when we yield to the temptation. John Cassian, describes 8 thoughts Satan confronts us…
Devotions for 2-3 from Haase’s book on Living the Lord’s Prayer As we have been wounded we need inner healing. The first step is that it is always done in the presence of Jesus who is the Divine Physician. He is the one who heals, comforts, and consoles us. Secondly we need to review the…
I want to begin this post with some thoughts from M. Basil Pennington, a Cistercian monk, who taught on Centering prayer, “God is infinitely present. He will not push himself into our lives. He knows the greatest thing he as given us is our freedom. If we want habitually, even exclusively, to operate from the…
.Devotions from Haase’s book Living the Lord’s Prayer To be sensitive to the hurt of another’s heart is the essence of merciful compassion. Our very eyes can show compassion to another, even when they are not asking for forgiveness. In trying to understand the hearts of others and accepting them with compassion, we sometimes discover…