For many years, Jeanette Howard was a lesbian. After she became a believer, God began to show her that He had a different plan for her life. Although she tried to resume her lesbian lifestyle, she felt uncomfortable and out of place in it. What was once so appealing to her was now hollow.

When my husband was a boy, occasionally his mother would ask him, “Do you have a clear conscience?” If he didn’t, she would learn what was bothering him, and they would pray until his conscience was again clear.

“The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent” (Exodus 33:11).

In Common Sense Living, Edith Schaeffer recalls that when she was a girl in Shanghai, she went skipping along beside Dr. Hoste, the director of the China Inland Mission. He didn't turn her away but simply told her he was praying and that she could come along if she wished

Angela, a young wife from Taiwan, said her mother was Buddhist for many years before she became a Christian. After the mother accepted Christ, she began moaning at nights as though in great misery.

When I was in a prayer meeting with about twenty others, one of the wonderful ladies of prayer said, “Prayer is hard work. We don’t ‘just pray.’ When it gets hard to pray, we pray on through that until we are confident God has heard.

Betty Malz shared a life-changing experience in which God revealed her true nature. She was very ill, unable to speak, but at times very aware of God’s presence. One night various scenes of her past came to her, and in each one she saw not her excuses for reacting as she did but what God knew were her real reasons for her actions.

Just as there was a gate into the Old Testament tabernacle, there is a gate into the presence of God. "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise"(Psalm 100:4). Psalm 22:3 reminds us that God inhabits the praises of His people. God is present where there is joyful praise.