Personal Prayer Power Blog

A reader recently emailed me about her worries and fears for her grown son.  I’ve struggled against fear myself, especially when my elderly father seemed to have lost his will to live.  One thing that I’ve  discovered is that facts and statistics can’t make your feelings of worry and fear go away.  You can’t “talk yourself out of” your fears.  That’s because your attitudes are based on facts over which you’ve layered your past experiences.  And of course if you turn on the TV, you’re liable to be shown everything that can go wrong anywhere in the world on the nightly news like a plane bursting into flames on a runway!  That’s why prayer is really the only way to handle a crisis situation.  That’s because prayer touches the part of you that transcends the rational and gets you in touch with the unseen spiritual side of life.    This kind of prayer isn’t the kind where you simply shoot up requests to God hoping things will turn out all right.  I’m talking about the kind of prayer where you develop a close relationship with Jesus and are able to interact with Him and hear what He might be saying to you through others, through the Bible and through His answering thoughts that come quietly into your mind. 

In the Personal Prayer Power video series in session 6 on Crisis Praying I talk about a simple way to pray during a crisis that leads you into a quiet setting with Christ, a place where you stop trying to solve all of your problems and where you simply rest knowing that He’s there and that He cares. 

May you know that Jesus is with you today and always.