KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Prayer
NATIONWIDE, ALMOST FIVE million acres have been torched by wildfires this year... In Montana alone, 2,000 fires have raged over 457,000 acres. The Washington Post called it "a 100 year catastrophe" for the state (Susan Gallagher, "Western Wildfires Show No...
RICH MCCARRELL EXPLAINED to his young son how his secretary screened his phone calls at the office... He said, "If your Mom calls me and I'm busy, the secretary will tell her what I'm doing, and then Mom will decide...
JESUS TOLD HIS disciples to ask, seek, and knock... The original text uses words that indicate continuing action. In other words, Jesus said to keep on asking; keep on seeking; and keep on knocking. Our Lord has told us to...
OFTEN WE HEAR that "prayer changes things..." I have only one question. It deals not with what prayer changes, but whom. Perhaps we are under the illusion that it is the role of prayer to change God's mind. The astounding...
WHEN I PRAY... I can acknowledge that my help comes from above (Psalm 121:1, 2). I can acknowledge that if God is for me, no one else can be against me (Romans 8:31). I can see my unworthiness contrasted with...
I WAS SPEAKING at a summer camp and drove into town late one night to get a snack... About the only place open was McDonald's, so I hit the drive-through. When it was my turn, I rolled down the window...
GOD SEES, HEARS and answers "closet" prayers... God observes things which are secret from men, unknown to men. A thing does not have to be done publicly to be seen and rewarded by God. Recall how the Psalmist talks about...
...SOME PEOPLE WORSHIP their bodies... People spend hours at the gym, sculpting their bodies, yet completely neglecting their spiritual lives. ...Some people think nothing of getting up at the crack of dawn and heading to the gym for that hour-and-a-half...
WALKING PAST MY barn one day, I heard a frantic chirping inside, and upon investigation I found a bluejay beating its wings against the glass pane of the window... Had it not cried and squawked, I would not have heard...
CHECK OUT THESE impressive statistics on the power that Hoover Dam generates: . Water falls 530 feet into the seventeen enormous Francis-type vertical hydraulic turbines, which have a rated capacity of three-million horsepower. . In the record-setting year of 1984,...