Prayers in Pursuit of God Part 1 of a 11 How badly do you truly desire to be in the presence of your Heavenly Father? This was a problem for me because I had once felt so close to my Father that I would tell people "Because I am so inline with the will of God it doesn't even rain on me" And then one day August 8 2005, it did rain, and for reasons I don't understand I fell out of alignment with my Father. I once heard him speak to me all day long, but lately it has been as if He had forgotten my name, as if He was hiding Himself from me. In the next week or two I will be posting a series of 10 blogs that will deal with the issues of prayer. At the end of each blog I will post a prayer, like the one below. These prayers inspired by AW Tozer will open our eyes to a better understanding of scripture and a more passionate pursuit of our heavenly Father. When combined with regular reading of the bible ( I suggest the gospel ) I dare anyone that participates...

Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way. James 1:2 (MSG) How do we justify the teaching that God wants us to be happy when we see thousands of Christians suffering every day? Tormented in their own homes by solders of anti-Christian governments, and leaders of other religions, for no other reason than the fact that they call the name of Jesus. To indiscriminately teach that there is a relationship between our physical or emotional happiness and God’s will is setting new converts up to fail and misinterpreting sound doctrine. I have yet to find a single passage in the bible which teaches that there is a relationship between our happiness and God’s will. Yet the bible does teach us that God has ...

And if Christ be not raised,  your faith is vain;  ye are yet in your sins  ( 1 Corinthians 15:17 ) Second only to the divinity of Jesus Christ is the Doctrine of the Resurrection as a stumbling block for unbelievers. Those who consider the resurrection of Christ unbelievable argue that the early church fabricated this story of the resurrection to personify a lie they themselves conjured up. Or that Jesus Christ was a lunatic, a man of poor character who lived to deceive those that followed him. Today we will address the question, can we be sure of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. rection on your own. It’s just that important! The apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:13-17 not once but twice that if Christ was not raised than our faith is in vain. Consider this; If Christ did not raise from the dead we are believing a lie.  If Christ did not raise from the dead we do not have forgiveness of sin;  If Christ did not raise f...