Which is harder: PRAYER or WORK?

November 20, 2019

“The great people of the earth today are people who pray. I do not mean people who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray. They have not the time. It must be taken from something else. This something else is important. Very important, pressing, but still less important and less pressing than prayer.” -- S.D. Gordon

Which is harder – to pray or to work? Be honest. Which comes more natural when you have a problem that you can’t solve: to get up and try to fix it? Or to kneel down and spend some time praying about it?

For me, it’s a no-brainer. The harder task is prayer...by far! I know it seems counterintuitive, but it's true.

DEFYING DISCOURAGEMENT - Fighting Failure, Part 4

June 22, 2015

“Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.” 2 Corinthians 1:9

DISCOURAGEMENT - a feeling we're all familiar with. Why does God allow us to get discouraged when we're trying to serve Him and follow Him and obey His commandments? Shouldn't God be helping to make our lives easier? Shouldn't He be taking care of those things are causing us to be discouraged? Or is that possible that God would allow us to be discouraged to bring about some good for us?

That's the topic of Round 4 in the Fighting Failure series. In the message, we look at the Apostle Paul - a man of incredible faith and strength who one day found himself "despairing of life." How could this great man of faith feel so discouraged? And more importantly, what message was God trying to him through the discouragement?