Have you ever watched people pray with passion and think to yourself, “man I wish I had their zeal.” Well, I’ve done that. I have sat in many prayer meetings wishing I was connected but, in all honesty, I was bored. God wants to give us His heart. He longs for us to pray with the same passion He has.
When I was 15 something began in my life that has been consistent to this day—a prayer life. The seeds of my prayer life began in a surprising way—with an annoying person. I suppose God can use anything right? Maybe my story will encourage you to take the daily challenge and pray for that person that has gotten on your last nerve this holiday season.
So you have followed Jesus to the ends of the earth to preach the Gospel and then you are counted worthy to suffer for Him. You are put in prison with the possibility of living the rest of your life in that place. What will sustain you? How will you make it out with your relationship with God intact?
This past Friday, Andrew Brunson shared his story of being imprisoned in Turkey for three years and how a Korean couple visited him and snuck in one of Mike Bickle’s books into prison. This book helped sustain his prayer life as he listened to the drone of Muslim prayers day and night. They told him, “You will not make it out of here without becoming a Muslim.” In the video above, Theresa shares about how this same book changed her life and helped her have significant victory over fear.
Mike Bickle and the International House of Prayer have provided his book to give you for free in appreciation for how so many of you have helped sustain night and day prayer through your partnership with our family. Thank you!
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Our lives are SO busy. What does it do to the heart of God when we take a second during that busyness and talk to Him? Theresa shares her journey of becoming a mom and continuing her life in God with her children right beside her.
Why do we pray? Is it because we need God so desperately? Is it because without Him we really can’t go on? But does it actually matter if we pray? Does God even listen to us? In the video above I tell my own story of these wrestling’s and what I discovered early on that has propelled me to give myself to a life of prayer for the past sixteen years.