Prayer is not a soft spiritual hobby. Scripture describes it as wrestling, battling, even groaning with words too deep to speak. If prayer doesn’t exhaust us sometimes, maybe we’re not praying the way Jesus and Paul did. Real prayer is a fight — against self, sin, and Satan.
Sometimes God’s silence in prayer feels cruel. But silence is not absence — it’s teaching. It forces us to confront whether we love God’s gifts more than God Himself. The right way to pray is not to demand a voice but to learn to stay when the heavens feel mute.
As we have come to understand the gist of this lesson, what are we to do while this Great Controversy wages on throughout the earth and within our hearts? What is clear is that we know we can’t do this on our own. Is there help provided? Pr Chifamba addresses…
All the questions one has about the Great Controversy can be answered in the Bible. The Bible tells us how this Great Controversy got started. It will also tell us what the stakes are is this battle, how humanity got involved, and why our own roles are so important in…
We often treat prayer like chess — if I say the right words, God will move the pieces in my favour. But real prayer is not manipulation; it’s surrender. It’s saying, “Your will, not mine,” and meaning it. That’s the kind of prayer that bends us, not just heaven.
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