Watch and Pray!
All night long the Son of God remained in prayer. What would He have discussed with His Father during these hours? When He was in…
Dependence in the Life of Jesus
Pragmatic or Dependent?
The Risk After Blessing If the Lord uses us for a special task and blesses that ministry, there’s a danger that we’ll attribute at least…
Secret Prayer As the Source of Strength
 Luke shows us that the prayer of the Lord Jesus in the wilderness (see Luke 5:16) was followed by the power of God in His…
Expect Answers to Prayer
The Lord Jesus lived in the expectation that God would answer His prayers. With Him, this went so far that He could say publicly in…
Are Your Ears Open When You Pray?
Early Prayer The faithful Servant of God was in the habit of getting up early in the morning to start the day with prayer. In…
Your First Priority Sets the Tone for the Day
In Mark 1 the schedule of a day in the life of the Lord Jesus is described. Since it was Sabbath, He went to the…
Joy in Heaven
Prayer That Delights Heaven The dependent attitude that the Lord Jesus showed in prayer brought joy to heaven. His life of prayer was like an…
Prayer Comes before Service
In the Temple at Age Twelve Even at the age of 12, Jesus was sitting in the temple in Jerusalem—with the conviction that His Father’s…
Pray in Every Place!
The Lord Jesus as Our Example It’s the explicit will of God that men pray in every place. The Son of God is our great…
Pray without Ceasing!
The Lord Jesus as Man deliberately took the place of dependence on God. With prayer He began His public service at His baptism—and with prayer…
Truly Authentic, or More of an Act?
The Praying Man in Luke’s Gospel The evangelist Luke especially shows us the humanity of the Lord Jesus. He is presented there as the praying…
Dependence and Trust
Prayer as Dependence and Trust God is completely independent of every created being. He is the blessed and sole authority, who does not need anyone…
The Dependent Man
God Became Man God became man and lived among us. What a tremendous truth! The eternal Son of God came as a dependent child into…
The World after the Flood—Who Holds the Reins?
After God had judged the world through the flood, He made a new start with Noah and his family. But again, the people failed. Instead…
The Renewal of Our Mind—Why Am I the Way I Am?
Now that we have dealt with some of the dangers of the world, we turn to the positive side of Romans 12:2, “be transformed by…
The Example of Abraham—Are You an Armchair Christian or an Overcomer?
Abraham: Calling and Failure in Egypt That the world is a danger for believers, which can have a lasting negative influence on our lives, is…
The Consumer in these Frenetic Times
Abel is murdered and Seth is born. He names his son Enosh, which means ‘weak’ or ‘mortal’ man. The awareness of their own weakness and…
Passing Time, or Redeeming the Time? — The Descendants of Cain
After the fall, the descendants of Cain tried to make their lives as pleasant as possible through possessions, music, and inventions of all kinds in…
Trust or Mistrust? — A Lesson from Paradise
Distrust in the Garden of Eden About 6000 years ago God placed Adam and Eve in a wonderful environment in paradise where they lacked nothing.…
Conformed or Transformed?
Motivated by the Mercies of God In Romans 12:1 we are told to offer our bodies to God as a living sacrifice. One question we…