Prayer: Keeping Your Muscles Fit

Because you have just returned from a pretty intense journey, your “prayer muscles” have been used quite a bit and may even be a little sore.  You prayed about going on the trip.  You prayed before the trip.  And you prayed during the trip.  Just as your physical muscles need to be used in order to get strong, your spiritual muscles also need to be used to be spiritually fit.  Now the question is, “How can I keep spiritually fit after the trip?  How should I be praying now?”

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Prepared for the Task

By Bonnie Lisech, Deeper Roots Publications

When you consider the complexities of life, especially before, during, and after your mission field experience, do you find it difficult to place a priority on the reading and study of Scripture?  Most of us do, but we need to realize what we forfeit when we fail to obey the words of 2 Timothy 2:15.  In 2 Timothy 3:16-17, we find the benefits of the intentional study of God’s Word.  What are the benefits of study?  What do we forfeit if we neglect study?

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A diary . . . really?!? The Truth about Journaling

I remember the first time I was told to “keep a journal” during a short-term mission.  I thought, “What?! Write in a diary?  I don’t think so!”  But I did what I was told, and it changed my mind completely.  Let me tell you what I learned.

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