Happy New Year! Some people love New Year Resolutions and some people decidedly do not. If you make thoughtful and prayerful resolutions, then obey God as you work to embody them, good! But if your history is making a resolution then breaking it, each time you make a resolution you’ll have a little more negative history and and add a little more to your mental burden. BUT. If the resolution–if the CHANGE–is from the Lord, then approach it in a completely different way: God’s way! Ask Him for power, for light. Seek Him in the Bible and prayer every day. Listen for His voice. Remember that He does not act…

What if you knew a simple Christian prayer that could transform your experience with the Lord? This prayer doesn’t replace thanksgiving, confession, petition or intercession. It complements them by bringing you closer to the Lord and able to hear His voice more and more clearly. Why would you need that? ● Do you struggle with hearing the Lord? ● Do you read the Bible but you’re not sure what He’s saying to you? ● Do you check off your quiet time as another To-Do? ● Do you need to hear the Lord’s wisdom over a decision? ● Do you need to feel the Lord’s love in a circumstance? Then listen…

Imaging prayer (Christian contemplative prayer in the sanctified imagination) does great things in the pray-er’s life. Heh, forget “great things”, think “miracles”. The problem with talking about it though, at least for me as a spiritual director, is that a lot of people who are interested in it want to know its benefits. Of course they do! There’s nothing wrong with that. God’s Word is FULL of benefits, full of treasures and crowns: eternal life, poured-out blessings, answered prayer. These things are all true. It’s also true that imaging prayer can change your life, just like it did mine. God led me to the little book that started my journey…