You know you love Jesus. You know you’re saved because of his great sacrifice. What you may not know is an ancient Christian prayer called “breath prayer”, and how it can help you to deepen your sense of the Holy Spirit’s presence. These are breath prayers: words from Scripture that fit into the space of a single breath. They are not verbal because you’re breathing while you’re praying. You pray the first short phrase while inhaling and finish the second phrase while exhaling. That’s it. Breath prayers do not replace classical prayers that Jesus taught. You go right on praising God, confessing your sins, petitioning for yourself, interceding for others,…

I’ve taught on discernment and listening to God for years, and in the past couple of years have prayed through the process with a few other people. But I’m starting to build an online course on how to do this, and want to do a lot of extra research so I don’t miss anything. There are truckloads of books and articles that teach how to listen to God, and I felt overwhelmed. So just a few minutes ago I prayed, “Lord, please give me wisdom to know what I should teach in the course. Help me understand what I should say.” Then I went to biblegateway.com to start my Bible…

Corrie Ten Boom (kor-ee ten bome) was born in 1892 in the Netherlands. She was a middle-aged woman in a middle-class home, never married, living quietly in her quiet town. Then the Nazi war machine rolled over the Netherlands, and hell erupted on earth… but heaven was stronger. The Hiding Place is Corrie’s autobiography that introduced her to the post-war world. She preached a message of the love and grace of Jesus Christ, of trust in God, and of forgiveness in the face of horrific evil. Then Corrie faced her greatest test in the form of a former Nazi guard. Did she believe what she preached? In Corrie’s Own Words…