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Personal Prayer

Posted on July 20, 2015
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It’s hard to overemphasize the power of praying intentionally for specific people in their specific circumstances. Personal prayer engages our hearts in a way that doesn’t happen when we pray in general terms: Praying because we’ve noticed and listened and have a sense of how to pray, allows us to see God work step-by-step. Praying specifically opens our hearts to love someone in ways we never imagined as the details of their lives grow in importance to us. Praying for someone by name in the context of their life, moves our prayers from generic and general to genuine, compassionate and particular....Read more …

On the Radio – Walk the Way

Posted on April 24, 2015
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This is Walk the Way, brought to you by Q Place, I’m Jeff Klein. I met a couple in Detroit Michigan who wanted me to know their faith story – how they became followers of Jesus. It turns out that their neighbors had regularly prayed for what was at the time, the empty lot next door. Someday, a house would be built there and new people moving in. People they didn’t even know. Those neighbors prayed for their future neighbors, that they would be receptive to the Gospel of Christ, that they could begin a relationship and become friends. The...Read more …

Be Careful What You Ask for!

Posted on April 22, 2015
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My story might be similar to many of yours. For some time, God had been breaking my heart for those around me whose economic circumstances were different from my own. But I just didn’t know what to do about it. My church family has a strong, beautiful ministry heart and was reaching out to some lower income communities, but I lived in the opposite direction of those and the location made involvement a challenge for me. My heart remained broken and I continued to feel the nudge to enter in. I just didn’t know where to begin. So I prayed....Read more …

The Struggle

Posted on April 20, 2015
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When it comes to writing about prayer, I consider myself qualified to do so only as a fellow sojourner who desires to see people in my life to come to know Jesus. I want God’s power to flow through me for the advancement of his Kingdom. At some unconscious level, I used to think that someone’s conversion was up to me, my clever presentation of the gospel, my compelling apologetic, my solid argument. I thought it was my job to convict, confront, and convince others of the error of their ways. But—and is this really surprising?—more often than not my...Read more …