by David Macmillan WingspanPrayer | May 4, 2023 | Blog
Prayer includes admiring God, appreciating what he has done, and asking for him to act in areas of need. Our wants and needs (or those of others) can serve as access ramps to praying God’s desires. Agreement with him is at the heart of our prayer authority. And when...
by David Macmillan WingspanPrayer | Apr 6, 2023 | Blog
This is an add-on to the previous post on Inner Rest. We’re hemmed in by the One who is Alpha and Omega. He encircles us in love and guarantees his 24-7 protective care to all who trust him. Because we are hidden with Christ in God, we are living in the safest place...
by David Macmillan WingspanPrayer | Mar 10, 2023 | Blog
Inner rest affects prayer authority and enjoyment. It would be easy in a perfect world, but ours is a world of unrest. Trouble (and its assistant, bad news) is constant. Meds and treatments to cope with living is big business. If inner rest could be bottled and sold,...
by David Macmillan WingspanPrayer | Feb 2, 2023 | Blog
The current conflict in Ukraine began a year ago with Russia’s ‘special military operation’ in the Donbas region. Will this year mark its end, or see it escalate? The praying church is God’s agent of change and has a decisive* role in what happens. [*strongly...
by David Macmillan WingspanPrayer | Dec 27, 2022 | Blog
What a day to be alive. What a time to live my life. To have a destiny and call, and see it day by day unfold… And we sense the wonder of it all. We feel the urgency. There’s not a day to be wasted. Those words, from Lara Martin’s song, ‘This is Our Time’, express...
by David Macmillan WingspanPrayer | Nov 30, 2022 | Blog
The ability to feel awe and be amazed is God’s gift for wholesome enjoyment of creation. And our wow response is an important part of praying as admirers of the Lord. The biggest stirrer of our wow response is not the natural beauty of creation, but the magnificence...
