If you lose contact with the love of God, your prayer life will shrivel up like a dead frog on an expressway. The fastest way to revive your prayer life is to begin your time of Christ-encountering prayer each day by receiving a fresh infilling of His overwhelming love for you....

Too many people have turned their prayer lives into an anxiety session. They pray themselves into a nervous frenzy. They are more upset and worried about life after they are finished praying than when they started. This is messed up....

If your prayer life has become dry and boring, I can almost guarantee why. Most likely, you have made your prayer time more about your love for Him than about His love for you. It’s time to reverse your focus....

Let’s not make prayer too complicated. The greatest commandment is love. God is love. What motivates all true prayer is love...

Christ invites you to frequently spend an hour with Him in prayer just as He invited His disciples. Why? Very simply, because He loves you and He wants to spend time with you. ...

On this day, September 29, in the year of our Lord 1903, the Welsh Revival broke out. It was a sustained move of God that lasted more than 24 months....

When you love Jesus, it is easy to rejoice always. Jesus is your life, your joy, your fulfillment, your hope, and your purpose in life. We need the reminder to rejoice always....

There may not be a verse in the entire Bible from which we think we are somehow more exempt more than this one—pray without ceasing. ...

Simon and Andrew enjoyed their careers as fishermen in the family business. They were ready to walk in their father’s footsteps until they chose the footsteps of Jesus. The two words Follow Me changed everything. They went from cleaning fish to changing lives....

On this day, September 25, in the Year of our Lord 1949, Armin Gesswein facilitated a prayer meeting with two thousand people praying in a tent on one side of the street while Billy Graham preached his Los Angeles Crusade to ten thousand people on the other side of the street....

As people who enjoy serving Christ, it is always beneficial to make sure what juices us the most is not what we do for God, but what He does through us....

On this day, September 23, in the year of our Lord 1857, Jeremiah Lanphier knelt in prayer all by himself in the upper lecture room of Old North Dutch Reform Church in New York City, New York. He had rigorously distributed handfuls of invitations to this noon time one-hour business person’s prayer meeting. For the first thirty minutes, he prayed alone. A lesser man would have quit. Then someone jo...

On this day, September 22, in the year of our Lord 1967, Raymond Edman, beloved President of Wheaton College stood before the student body to give what would be his last chapel address and his final moment on earth. Dr. Edman was preaching about being in the presence of the King....

Tomorrow is the birthday of the College of Prayer International. On September 22, in the year of our Lord, 1997, the College of Prayer was born. 120 students gathered at Toccoa Falls College in Toccoa, Georgia for four days of encountering the manifest presence of Christ....

What makes the ground on which you stand holy is not your feet, nor socks, nor shoes; what makes the ground holy is the manifest presence of God. ...

On this day, September 19, in the year of our Lord 1906, the Holy Spirit of God swept through an orphanage in Khamgaon, India. God’s presence was so strong that the children stood for an extended time of silence, hands lifted up prayerfully to the Lord....

When you pray, no matter what else you ask for, you always want to ask for the Holy Spirit. ...

The size of your prayer life is largely determined by your hunger for God. You know God, but the big question is how much more do you want to know God? Since God is unlimited and He wants to make Himself known to you, the only limit to how much of God you have is how much you hunger to have....

All prayer is moving toward the ultimate vortex of the manifest presence of Christ—we want to know Christ better and better and better. ...

Imagine hearing God’s voice today. Whenever the Bible says today it is always good to pay special attention. God may be talking to you. If so, He wants your undivided attention....