Perhaps 99 out of every 100 Christians, when they pray, set their mind simply to ask God for something. They may be asking God for a healing, a job, a happy marriage, a favorable lab report from a cancer test, etc. Certainly the prayer of petition (sometimes called impetration), is authentic prayer, for it [...]
In referring to the bee, the Bible says, ‘The bee is small among flying creatures, but what it produces is the best of sweet things” (Sirach 11 :3). The inference is that good things can be produced from a relatively insignificant instrument. The Israelites depended on the ever-active “busy” bees not just for plant pollination, [...]
