My friend Michael has a favorite saying for when God does something inexplicable in answer to prayer: It’s not odd, it’s God. For some months, Michael and a few others of us have been working on a major new endeavor. One of the first things Michael and another partner did…
“We haven’t done even half of what we had planned for this morning,” I mumbled as I stepped impatiently into the elevator that was to speed my husband Franz and me to an appointment on the 20th floor of a downtown high-rise. A few moments later, the elevator jolted to…
For years I nearly always closed my Meditation Moments radio show with the words “God is still on the throne, and prayer changes things!” Someone once wrote in and said, “I don’t find those words in the Bible.” No, they’re not in the Bible, but they’re certainly scriptural and express…
My flight to Uganda was booked for less than two weeks away. I sat in my room and counted the money in my wallet. I was trying to get from Thailand to East Africa to continue my Christian volunteer work there. God had told me He would provide the money,…
Why do some prayers take longer to be answered than others,and why do some seem to go unanswered? It’s impossible for us to know for sure, and there are probably a number of factors that come into play. One thing we can be sure of is that God always hears…