The Nothing Blog

🎶  Worship Leader Grace Balint sings "Word of God Speak"  🎶 Think about  prayer  for a moment.  Seriously, why is it so hard for us to pray?  You know, the faithful, fervent kind of praying of those warrior women who meet God in their prayer closets and/or look forward to gathering with a small group of the sisterhood to bow the knee and passionately call on God. Those church ladies. Uh-huh. Maybe it's hard for us to pray because: We have to  deny ourselves  in order to pray. It's  work  to pray. Yes, it is! But as Christians we should be seeing prayer as a labor of love; love for God and love for people. To pray we have to give up the temptations that call us away from spending devotional time with God. "I don't have time in my busy schedule to pray." Really?  Wow. To pray we have to momentarily put down our cell phones to keep from checking for social media updates. To pray we have to stop our hamster wheel lifestyle  -- m...

🎶 Worship Leader Grace Balint sings Zephaniah 3:17 🎶 The tragic story of Lot's wife is told in Genesis 19. But the scene really begins in Genesis 18 with two angels [men, also messengers] of the Lord visiting Abraham and Sarah. The Lord told His friend, Abraham, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know." (Genesis 18:20-21). God hears our cries! God saw the wickedness was repulsive and rampant and planned to burn the cities to the ground. Abraham pleaded with God to spare the town (see Genesis 19:26-32) if at least 10 righteous people lived there. So in His mercy, God sent two messengers to lead Lot, his wife, their daughters and sons-in-law out of the town before He totally destroyed it. Here's the point, we see a glaring example of God's mercy in the midst of Abraham's prayerful pleading for forgiveness an...