Prayerful Pondering

by Pat Luffman Rowland

Category: communication with God

  • Last week, I wrote on the benefits I reaped when I took a day to pray with no petitions, just thanksgiving.  At the close of my blog, I encouraged readers to give it a try. Sally Chambers took that challenge and sent me this message:  Pat, I just wanted you to know I read your blog…

  • For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD (Isaiah 55:8 ESV). It feels good when we know we are using the gifts God has given. There is a sense of completion in our work. But what about the times we see our service as something here, something…

  • “Drip down, O heavens, from above, And let the clouds pour down righteousness; Let the earth open up and salvation bear fruit, And righteousness spring up with it. I, the LORD, have created it” Isaiah 45:6 (NKJV). _____ A grey cloud hovers overhead. It is the promise of drink for dry ground and the uplifted…

  • Psalm 78:70-71 — He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens; from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance. (NIV) I suspect there were a few during David’s time that imagined themselves to be king material.  They no doubt whispered of…

  • When the Spirit does not open the Scripture, the Scripture is not understood even though it is read. –Martin Luther The Amplified Bible says that Selah (often used in the Psalms) means “to pause and calmly think about what you’ve read.” When we do this, we digest the words and their message, rather than move across…