Three Positions of Prayer

From Proverbs 6, Doug Small explores the things God "hates", focusing on why the seventh, sowing discord among brethren, is such an abomination to God's very nature.

Obstacles and distractions have a way of making us either bitter or better. Whatever happens we can trust that God's sovereign purpose will be fulfilled in the end. Think about it: if His plans and dreams for us are extraordinary, His means of achieving them are extraordinary too.

"You can't always know when God is using you the most." Often when you wonder if God is even present, He will actually be performing His most glorious work. His grandest purposes can be fulfilled in the worst of places.

"And after that God was entreated for the land" (2 Samuel 21:14). Normally King David is given the credit for the ending of a three year drought that had punished Israel for their treatment of the Gibeonites. But what if this was a govenment decision not made at God's counsel and direction?