At the beginning of 2007, gospel singer Yolanda Adams prayed for an opportunity that would allow her to spend more time with her young daughter. The answer came in a telephone call asking if she'd be ...

Are you believing in what you’re praying for? What is God trying to tell you through your prayer life? Maybe you have grown ...

As a seminary professor, I get questions like this all the time. And while my answers typically differ based on the context and the person asking, there’s one element I always incorporate into the ...

On any given day of the week, in Jacksonville, Florida, the Shields family — Dad, Mom and eight children — start their day by dedicating their minutes and hours to God with a prayer known as the ...

One quarter of our readers say yes. They voted for Option 1: “I believe that God answers my prayers.” It is hard to say exactly what it means for a prayer to be answered. I do know people who believe ...

To say that prayers are answered isn't the same as saying that God answers prayers. In the first case, a thought manifests as reality. You wish, intend, or ask for an outcome, and the outcome ...

There seem to be two schools of thought: one tells us that prayers, chants and songs must be regimented. Each word, pause and tone matters; the other school of thought tells us that God values ...

As we step into a new month in this sacred season of Lent today, we are reminded of God’s unfailing promise: He hears and answers prayers. In a world where many question whether their cries reach ...

If you believe in the power of prayer, would you please pray more? More and more, I’m convinced that the world would be a much better place if we took prayer more seriously. Prayer is not just a ...

HockeyDad asks, "Why do people pray to God to help protect them? Then, when said protections fail (ie. car accident, cancer, etc.), they turn back to prayer to ask for healing? Seems that if God ...

Undoubtedly, many readers have had the following thought (or something similar in its logical structure): "Every time that I am in the shower, the phone rings." Of course, there are three other ...