So often, it feels as if we are saying our prayers into a great unknown abyss.  Prayer is an act of faith that tests our endurance while we wait on God.  The hardest kind of praying, to me, is praying for people I don't know and will never ...

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12

There is a lot of controversy over what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit.  John MacArthur says that when a person becomes a believer in Christ, he or she is immediately filled with the Holy Spirit.  He said, "Every Christian, ...