Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.18.08 in Current Events, Prayer
Last night during my sermon on loving your enemies, I was convicted about something. That doesn’t happen very often—conviction while I’m preaching, I mean. I’m usually convicted about my shortcomings during the ongoing, ordinary, day-to-day stuff of life. But lats night while I was preaching, the thought occurred to me that …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 10.11.08 in Books, Prayer
I received a nice note from some new friends we met at Cannon Beach this week. After I gave a message based on Philippians 1:9-11 on how to pray for your grandchildren, I challenged the hearers (it was a retirees conference) to pray this prayer for their children and grandchildren. My friends from Bellingham, Washington decided to take that to hear…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 9.16.08 in Current Events, Missions, Prayer
Last night I began and ended my sermon with the challenge to pray, “Lord, do things I’m not used to.” When the pastor gave the invitation, the front of the church was filled with people—30-40, maybe more—kneeling and praying. The pastor said that he had challenged the congregation to say, “Yes, Lord, yes,” …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.4.08 in Personal, Prayer
Late last night I received an email from Michele Hoekstra saying that our dear friend Heather Bosgraf is having surgery today to remove a tumor at the base of her brain. When we were in Chicago ten days ago, we heard that Heather had not been feeling well, but it didn’t sound serious. “So much has happened today,” Michele said whe…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.15.08 in Prayer, Second Coming
We have just uploaded a new podcast featuring a message called Praying for Your Prodigal. You can download the file from the KBM website, listen to it online, or listen to it on iTunes. If you have a loved one who is a prodigal, listen to this message. God may use it to give you hope to keep believing, to keep on praying, a …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.3.08 in Evangelism, Prayer
When we asked one of the Josiah Venture missionaries if she comes from a Christian family, she replied no, but her mother has accepted Christ. Then speaking of her brother, she said, “He is not saved yet.”Not, “He is not saved.”But, “He is not saved yet.”Thus does faith work through hope. That little word “yet” makes all th …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 4.24.08 in Prayer
“I’m praying for you.”How often have we said those four words? Christians routinely promise to pray for others. And such a promise, whether deeply felt or not, is always a wonderful gift. How encouraging it is to be going through a hard time and have someone who loves you say, “I’m praying for you.”But there is …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.25.07 in Devotional, Prayer
In preparing my first message on spiritual warfare, I ran across this prayer taken from The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions by Arthur Bennett.O Lord,I bless thee that the issue of the battle between thyself and Satan has never been uncertain, and will end in victory.Calvary broke th …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 6.5.07 in Prayer
We have just posted a new sermon on the website:When You Pray, Never Give UpHere’s an excerpt:Many prayers we pray shouldn’t be answered because they are so shallow. If God answered every prayer the first time we prayed, we would soon become complacent in our faith. Because God conditions his answers on our pers …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 5.21.07 in Devotional, Interviews, Prayer
This afternoon I did a one-hour radio interview with Kerby Anderson and Carmen Pate on a program called Point of View. Near the end we took a call from a man who said that he struggles with resentment toward others. He asked a very crucial question. “Is there a prayer I could pray that will help me forgive, and if so, how o …
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