“Would you know who is the greatest saint in the world?” asked William Law. “It is not he who prays most or fasts most...but it is he who is always thankful to God, who wills everything that God wills, who receives everything as an instance of God’s goodness, and has a heart always ready to praise God for it.”

Dr. Marvin Powers told our Sunday School class of his experience of learning that although he was committed to following Christ, he had not totally surrendered.

The man Jeri had thought would someday be her husband announced he was moving away and ending their relationship. The thought filled her with pain.

God eagerly receives our prayers because when we bear others’ needs in prayer as though they were our own, we allow Him to do what He could not have done if we had not prayed.

“God used prayer and fasting to change my ministry,” said Dr. Ronnie Floyd, Chairman of the National Day of Prayer. I heard Dr. Floyd give the following at Fasting & Prayer in St. Louis.

For centuries both Jewish people and Christians have considered Solomon's Song of Songs to refer to our relationship with God. Amazingly, God looks upon His relationship with us in nuptial terms!

Audine McChesney was going for a walk when she felt a strong urge to stop at a home across the street. She had briefly met the woman who lived there, and was sure they had nothing in common.

It’s interesting to consider Jesus’ comparison of Solomon and the common field lily. Jesus’ audience, no doubt aware of Solomon’s splendor described in 2 Chronicles 9, must have listened with wonder when Jesus Jesus said, “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin…even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these” (Matt. 6:28, 29).