When I was a young mother. I went up to our bedroom one day, knelt down and said, "God, let me work for You full-time." I didn't know if He would answer that but was just voicing the desire I found in my heart.

Praying with passion takes time, and the amount of time we allocate to prayer will be the true measure of how much we value it. Satan seeks to convince us we don't have time for prayer. What he doesn't announce to us are the losses that occur when we don't make prayer a priority.

Soon after Beverly LaHaye was married, each morning she would find her husband's socks rolled up in little round balls right where he had removed them. At first it was no problem. But after several months of picking up his socks, she noticed a slight irritation-not in her back but in her attitude.

While I drove to pick up a lady who had agreed to read the Bible with me, I was weeping for her, longing for her to come to know Jesus. The scripture came to me, "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him" (Psalm 126:6 KJV).

Several years ago I was working on two separate issues of the Women Alive magazine. One day I received an article in the mail for a future issue, and I sat reading it while waiting in line for the car wash.

One morning after Dr. Jack Hayford's father's devotional reading, he told his wife that he noticed Exodus 28 told the priests to bear the names of the twelve tribes on their shoulders to the Lord. Their names would be a memorial to God.