Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural. — Oswald Chambers After God provided a miraculous son to Abraham and Sarah, He asked the unimaginable. God told Abraham to bring everything needed for a sacrifice to the top of the mountain and there Abraham's faith rose above any expectation. The author of Hebrews gives us some insight into what happened in that moment: " By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death." (Heb. 11:17-19) We might think this story is about Abraham's faith but we would be missin...
When I accepted a position as a principal 9 years ago, I became the person who knew and carried around the hurts, anxieties, trauma, losses, and difficulties of all those children and adults. The only way I knew to deal with all of that heavy burden was to lay it at Jesus' feet. I came morning after morning and petitioned God to care for each of these precious people with greater compassion and mercy than even I could imagine. So, that's how I became a praying principal.