Personal Prayer Power Blog

A friend recently emailed me that her husband was attending a seminar on entreprenuership at a university.  Her husband is a small business owner with a successful chain of family owned hardware stores.  My friend wrote:

My husband says that everyone there has high foreheads and big heads, indicating a lot of brains.  There are resumes of all the attendees and my husband’s is the shortest one.  Most are Deans and have published extensively.  Still, he can learn if he gets past the intimidation factor.

I wrote my friend back that her husband probably has more practical experience of how things work in the real world than all of the professors who have done case studies and made up theories and published them.  My friend’s husband is really the expert in my eyes, because he’s actually done what the professors have studied so extensively.

This has great bearing on prayer.  Maybe you’re like me and you’d rather be a prayer entreprenuer than someone who studies theories about prayer.  When I decided to get serious about interactive prayer, I started from scratch and set aside all of the theories expounded by  those who sit around talking about prayer in its ideal form and not about how it actually works in complex, hectic modern life. 

My vision is to help people actually try praying in different ways.  I think it’s a healthy part of the process to try things even if they don’t work out.  I personally have made a few honest mistakes that helped me find out what really works in real life and what doesn’t.

I believe that there are many different ways of praying during private prayer that are unique to our personalities.  Only the individual can discover how they best hear from and communicate with God.  At least that’s my theory.  So try it out!    

Yesterday I received an email from a woman named Martha in

In response to a chapter our pastor asked us what our need was for spiritual growth.  My answer was about prayer…but I did not want to read about prayer, I wanted to experience it in new ways or at least dialogue with other Christians about their prayer life.  I went home that night and read my Guideposts Magazine and there was your article.  I went on your website and after reading your samples, I felt strongly about this being an answer to my desire.  Thank you for being a part of my spiritual growth.

            Actually, Martha is the one to be thanked, because she has honed in on the heart of what I hope the Personal Prayer Power series brings to God’s world.  When Jesus called the disciples He didn’t say, “Come and follow me and I will make you philosophers, theologians and teachers of rules.”  Instead He said, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.”  (Matthew 4:19) 

Jesus announced a Kingdom where we’re active partners with Him in bringing about changed hearts, including our own.  Prayer is our power source where we receive guidance, strength, forgiveness, healing and clarity of vision.  It’s an active place where things happen between God and me. 

Please don’t go through the Personal Prayer Power video series simply sitting there listening.  Go home and sit down daily with God and try the activities.  I have complete confidence that something will indeed happen between God and you when you do.  And it will change your life.