Let God Be True

I am writing this so I can have notes of what I am learning and so I can be accountable to do what I am seeing in the scriptures.  I am not sharing this to convince anyone, but to show in the scriptures what was written so you can make up your own mind.   What Is Prayer? I am very aware of the fact that anything we do out of habit, can very quickly become a formula.  God is the giver of all good things and it can be so easy to look to the things He gives, rather than to Him and who He is.  Prayer should never be reduced to a shopping list of requests - of things we need or want.   I just recently heard someone say that he asked the Lord to teach him about prayer.  That night he had a dream where he saw himself and the Lord sitting at a table at a street cafe.  They each had a cup of steaming coffee.  There was no conversation, they were just enjoying each other’s company.  Prayer is relationship with God, it is a constant conversation connecting with Him, being close and still enough s

A lot of people are waiting on God, trusting that He will heal them, deliver them, free them.  The reality, however, is that "you cannot leave up to God what He left up to you".  To understand what that means, you not only have to get into the Word of God and get your mind renewed, but you have to believe that the Bible is the absolute truth and believe it enough to act upon it.  You need to get to a point where you see it as the unfailing Word of God that can be trusted - NO MATTER WHAT! I was listening to an interview with a well-known Evangelist the other day.  He said he was preaching at a conference and was referring to basic Bible principles.  While he was talking, he heard a comment coming from the audience that they didn't believe what he was saying to be true.  He was shocked and asked what they meant, to which they replied that there is a lot in the Bible they don’t believe.  I think that might be indicative of many Christians today.  They say they believe the B