Jeremy D Sims

Watching Here’s where prayer takes some major effort. Watching is the part of prayer that we ask God to make us attentive and alert to the strategies of the enemy. You think that we would be praying this all the time. It’s here that we listen to God as he points out the way that the enemy is going to try to trip us up. A good plan here is to review your day. Do you have plans to hang out with your boyfriend or girlfriend? Do you have a…read more

Scripture Praying “Fasting and long hours of prayer do not build faith. Reading books about faith and men of faith and their exploits stir in the heart a deep passion for faith, but does not build faith. The Word alone is the source of faith”- EW Kenyon. The only reality is God’s word. Sometimes our circumstances seem to be contrary to God’s word. If God’s word says that you can be healed of your sickness, then believe it more than you believe the doctor’s report. I’m not saying that symptoms…read more

Confession “God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than our desires for Him”- Andrew Murray. Most of you have heard the story of King David’s spiral of sin. He lied, committed adultery and committed murder just to name a few of his issues. When confronted with his sin by the prophet Nathan, he finally felt the full-force of repercussions of his decisions. He then began to confess and repent. During…read more

Matthew 6:13 “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” Martin Luther is reported to have said that he went to bed with the fifth petition of the Lord’s Prayer, and woke up with the sixth. It makes sense. We go to bed reviewing the day and realize we need to pray the fifth petition, “forgive us our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors.” We wake up previewing the day, and realize we need to pray the sixth petition, “lead us not into temptation,…read more

Waiting Waiting? No one likes waiting. I don’t like waiting in grocery store lines or waiting at traffic lights. I stink at waiting. So what is waiting in prayer? Waiting on the Lord is basically the silent surrendering of the soul to God. “Waiting upon God requires our entire being. It is not drifting into daydreaming, but is rather an exercise that demands our keenest attention, our most alert frame of mind and all of our soul’s attention to the Heavenly Voice”- John Bisagno. Waiting is not praise, though it…read more