KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Kneemail - Prayer
HOW DO YOU build a "sanctuary" in your busy life; a place where you can meet with God...? Build a "closet." Isaac's closet was in a field (Genesis 24:63). Peter's closet was on a housetop (Acts 10:9). You must fashion...
HE HAD WORK to do... He was active and involved. But He also knew that He couldn't do it all without meeting alone with the Father. He refused to be tyrannized by the immediate and urgent. He knew that the...
ONE SUMMER I had the privilege of hearing a concert on the Potomac River in Washington, D.C... The orchestra was performing the 1812 Overture. At one point in it there was cannon fire. The cannons didn't try to hit anything;...
THIS PAST WEEK, the eyes of the nation were fixed on Washington, D.C. and the historic inauguration of Barak Hussein Obama, the 44th president of the United States and the first black to be elected to the nation's highest office......
WHENEVER YOU FIND yourself going through times of testing, there is always a reason...a very good reason... In fact, there are several reasons. Testing times are to: UNCOVER something: When God allows pressures and trials, it is so that you...
ON FEBRUARY 26, 1829, A Jewish boy named Loeb Strauss was born in a cottage in the Bavarian village of Buttenheim... As a young man, Loeb changed his name to Levi and wound up in California where he opened a...
JOHN MACVANE WAS a reporter for the National Broadcasting Company during World War II, and his broadcasts from the battlefront kept Americans riveted to their radios... One day in November 1942, while he was in North Africa, he was told...
WE RAISED PIGS... We raised about a thousand pigs a year. In one field we had two or three hundred little oinkers running around. Every day, at four in the morning, as I'd walk into the field to feed...
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,...