prayer

Our heart problem is the heart of the problem.

The former Washington state football coach who was criticized for praying openly on the football field has authored a book about the event.

Such secularism is understandable in a world as broken as ours. Here’s the problem, however: we’re well along the road Lennon imagined more than fifty years ago.

Today, if you have the blessing of hugging your husband, wife, child/children, mother, father, siblings, grandparents, other family members, or friends today, hold them tight, remembering the lives that were lost without goodbyes in Lewiston, Maine last night. Continue to pray alongside us as we learn more ways to pray over this tragedy.

How will you “pray for the peace of Jerusalem” (Psalm 122:6) and then help answer your prayer today?

Will God “fulfill his purpose through your life” today?

Let’s join this battle on our knees as we “wrestle against . . . the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12). Specifically, I encourage you to offer seven biblical prayers in these days.

Psalm 83 reads prophetically of what is happening in Israel right now. 

As war rages between Israel and Hamas, it is important to remember the innocent civilians caught in the crossfire. Here are five prayers for innocent Palestinians in Gaza that you can pray to help those who are suffering there.

The modern-day war between Israel and Gaza mirrors the events described in Psalm 83, a biblical passage that was written thousands of years ago, says author and Middle East expert Joel Rosenberg.