Discover the Power of Praising God When Becky Harling was diagnosed with cancer over ten years ago, she begged God for healing. A friend of hers had another idea. She challenged Becky to spend twenty minutes a day in praise. Becky thought, What if I’m not feeling thankful? But as she intentionally praised God, she began to experience new joy—and her relationship with God has never been the same. Now, in The Thirty-Day Praise Challenge, Becky guides you in praising God for twenty minutes every day for one month. Arranged topically, the book includes music selections to enhance your praise journey and creative ideas for continuing the habit of praise. As Becky writes, “If you take this challenge, your faith will grow more than you dreamed possible. You will experience more joy, less insecurity, more courage, less anxiety. Thirty days of praising God. Are you ready?”
Intentional Gratitude and Praying for Others Will Change Your Life Forever.Release the power of gratitude right now for total victory and all-around restoration.Can you praise God 31 minutes a day for 31 days?That's the deal: Don't pray for your personal needs for the next thirty-one days. Just wake up every night and praise God for thirty-one minutes, and do it nonstop for the next thirty-one days. Can you do that? Can you try to avoid worrying about the situation in your life right now, no matter how threatening it seems, and intentionally praise God every night for 31 days? At the time of writing this book, the world is currently going through very perilous times. So many things had happened - the COVID-19, the many deaths, the global lockdowns, the vaccine theory, and the many other problems. We had just finished our month of Divine Direction, and I was thinking, "What will be our prophetic focus for the next month?" In the course of searching my spirit for several days, I felt that we can praise God even in the mess. I felt in my spirit God calling us to praise Him, no matter what. I think the devil is trying so hard to keep us in the worry and fear trap. He is trying so hard to make us see reasons to murmur, quarrel, and look away from God's goodness. He's got good partners in the media and they're doing all they can to ensure we never have reasons to think about faith, prayer, and God's love. So we created the thirty-one-day gratitude challenge to be a guide to praise God and pray for others over a 31-day period. This book is a revised edition of the first book, 28 days of praise, published in 2018. It is a compilation of praise words and inspirations for the next 31 days. Intentional praise is a powerful weapon of spiritual warfare. It will defeat your worries, fears, confusions, and spiritual battles and command the release of God's voice to you, peace, assurance and breakthrough. When we intentionally choose praise in the face of many seemingly unanswered prayers, we choose to believe that, yes, even though life is not yet going as we desire and pray for, God is still a good God, and can be trusted.As you follow this devotional and praise God from the depth of your heart in the next 31 days, watch out. The power of God will be released to calm your anxieties, defeat your battles and fears, and release your hanging blessings and answers to your prayers.
Imagine waking up like you did as a small child, happy to be alive and excited by what the day will bring! We all start life this way...rising with the sun and beaming with JOY! Then we encounter disappointments with the inevitable loss of innocence and it gets harder to get up in the morning with a smile on our face. Being happy comes from making choices that become habits. If happy habits aren't modeled for us we don't create happiness as a way of being. So this is an invitation - to anchor happiness habits into your daily life through fun, heart warming and practical suggestions. Just one suggestion a day to create a life filled with happy moments you will cherish for a lifetime. The choice is yours; keep doing what you're doing and experience more of the same or give it a try for 28 days - the time it takes to anchor a new way of living a heart centered existence.
Release the power of praise right now for total victory and all-around restoration. Intentional praise is a powerful weapon of spiritual warfare. It will defeat your worries, fears, confusions, and spiritual battles and command the release of God's voice to you, peace, assurance and breakthrough. This powerful praise guide and devotional is a follow-up to our annual 21 Days Fasting and Prayers. As we concluded this great and powerful fast, we had the question: WHAT NEXT? After fasting and prayer, what should I do next? What should I do to remain in faith as I await answers to my prayers? This is the answer to that question. This 28 days praise challenge is based on God's revelation that He deserves our praise and worship whether we have received answers to our prayers or not. We chose praise because we know that faithful is He who promised, and He will also keep His Word in our lives. When we intentionally choose praise in the face of many seemingly unanswered prayers, we choose to believe that, yes, even though life is not yet going as we desire and pray for, God is still a good God, and can be trusted. As you follow this devotional and praise God from the depth of your heart in the next 28 days, watch out. The power of God will be released to calm your anxieties, defeat your battles and fears, and release your hanging blessings and answers to your prayers.
For anyone who longs for a consistent prayer life yet struggles with distractions, doubts, or knowing where to start, bestselling writer and beloved speaker Chrystal Evans Hurst offers a simple and heartfelt method for having meaningful conversations with God, one day at a time. The kind of intentional, fervent prayer life we'd like to experience often seems intimidating or just out of reach. Chrystal knows how that feels and shares her own relatable journey through the challenges and joys of deepening her prayer life. Showing up to pray just one day at a time, Chrystal found a simple yet powerful practice that made consistent prayer amazingly doable. A warm and encouraging writer, Chrystal shares the same supportive help she found for talking with God specifically and intentionally throughout the day. With relatable stories and timeless Scripture, The 28-Day Prayer Journey offers three prompts each day to guide you through an easy yet intimate prayer experience. From giving thanks, hearing God, and making requests to simply knowing what to say, Chrystal gives practical explanations and easy steps for the core tenets of prayer, including: Praise and Thanksgiving--offering gratitude to God Repentance--seeking forgiveness from God Asking--presenting your requests to God Yielding--surrendering to God The 28-Day Prayer Journey will strengthen your faith and transform your life with the profound experience of communicating with a loving God. Whether you are new to prayer or well-versed in communication with God, this hopeful and supportive guide will help you experience God's presence in ways you never have before through the practice of meaningful prayer.
Messy Beautiful Love delivers an incredible testimony of grace that offers hope for today’s marriages and a spark for rekindling love. Love gets messy. Financial problems, sickness, aging parents, a chronically unhappy spouse . . . trials will inevitably come that threaten your marriage. No matter how long you’ve been married or how strong your relationship is, sooner or later you are going to have a mess to clean up. Messy Beautiful Love is about cleaning up messes God’s way, exchanging your ideas for His, and being prepared for both the best and the worst that marriage has to offer. When you surrender your relationship to God, then and only then will you experience the blessing of marriage as He intended. This is the blessing of obedience. Messy Beautiful Love is an invitation to that obedience. The cynical world says marriages don’t last, but God knows better. Tune out the world and tune in to Him. When you do that, a beautiful marriage is not only possible, it’s inevitable.
“We’ve all had situations in our lives where we just couldn’t see how we’d make it through another day. With this book, you’ll be encouraged and lifted up by Rachel, a friend who understands how to seek God’s strength and healing in the midst of the pain!” —Lysa TerKeurst, author of It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way Learn to overcome obstacles—one step at a time through your faith in God. Life often sends hard things our way: illness, financial struggles, broken relationships, and so many kinds of loss. Sometimes we can’t imagine a way forward. So how do we keep going when everything is going wrong? Rachel Wojo has learned that hope rises to greet us when we find the strength to take One. More. Step. Like you, Rachel has faced experiences that crushed her dreams of the perfect life: a failing marriage, a daughter’s heartbreaking diagnosis, and more. In this book she transparently shares her pain and empathizes with yours, then points you to the path of God’s Word, where you’ll find hope to carry you forward. One More Step gives you permission to ache freely—and helps you believe that life won’t always be this hard. No matter the circumstances you face, through these pages you’ll learn to: · run to God’s Word when discouragement strikes · replace feelings of despair with the truth of Scripture · persevere through out-of-control circumstances and gain a more intimate relationship with Jesus Rachel identifies the reasons you may tempted to quit and shows you where to find the courage to keep going, one step at a time. You’re not alone. So don’t give up. God won’t let you down. That’s a promise.
The choice of a devotional book is more personal than most. This kind of reading is not merely for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment. No, with this kind of resource you’re expecting and praying for something more. You want to hear from God, receive His direction, and be refreshed in the depths of your soul. Only God’s Word can do that. So you need to choose wisely. With her first devotional book, Priscilla Shirer makes your choice easy. For even though she’s written multiple best-selling books and Bible studies, including the 2016 ECPA “Christian Book of the Year” (Fervent), even though she regularly speaks to thousands at conference venues and churches around the world, even though she was the lead actress in a #1 box-office feature film (War Room) . . . It all starts for Priscilla where it all starts for you. Alone with God. Alone with His Word. Eager to hear His voice. Prepared to humbly and obediently respond. She hopes, more than anything else, that the daily insights you receive in these pages will challenge, encourage, and strengthen you in every way. These ninety devotions from the heart of a mom, wife, encourager, and friend will Awaken you each day with fresh insights gleaned from the Spirit of God. Ready to help you mine the treasures of Scripture and fortify you for the day ahead. This devotional is . . . a good choice.
A new cover and additional questions for study and discussion grace this bestselling 28–day study (more than 525,000 copies sold) by respected teacher and author Kay Arthur. Readers of little or great prayer experience will discover practical insights to help them know how to pray, what to pray, and what to expect when they pray. Arthur sheds light on the instructions Jesus gave to His disciples for the perfect pattern of meaningful prayer and demonstrates how the Lord’s Prayer covers worship, praise, intercession, and petition and ushers an individual into the presence of God. This look at biblical prayer is refreshingly simple and exceedingly powerful—and it can transform the way anyone lives and prays. Ideal for individual or group study, and a classic resource for any home or church library.
One of the most powerful ways to love your kids may surprise you: develop a habit of praising God. In The 30-Day Praise Challenge for Parents, Becky Harling invites you to praise God for twenty minutes a day for one month. You'll be amazed at how praising God: Quiets your anxiety about your kids Provides a shelter of protection over your family Breaks the chains of generational sin Deepens your children's faith Strengthens your own spiritual life Arranged topically, this book includes a list of selected songs and creative ideas for continuing the habit of praise throughout your parenting journey.
