How To Make a Prayer Journal – Part 6 (Elissa Roberts)

Forty-two months now that our adoption dossier has been in Ethiopia. Forty-two months of waiting. And the news doesn’t look great from Ethiopia–word of political instability, government staff changes, training of the new government staff causing delays in paperwork....

How To Make a Prayer Journal – Part 5 (Elissa Roberts)

“Did God actually say. . . .”  With those four words, the antagonist enters the story. Only three chapters into Genesis, and the enemy’s first words are the same words he baits us with today, “Did God actually say?” Satan loves to niggle just a bit of doubt in our...

How To Make a Prayer Journal – Part 4 (Elissa Roberts)

I don’t know about you, but I get distracted easily. One day I was praying for my girls while I looked out the window at the fall leaves swirling. Then I was thinking how I needed to get the girls’ fall clothes out which made me think I needed to look for fall shoes...

How To Make a Prayer Journal – Part 3 (Elissa Roberts)

What if you don’t know where to start? You’re staring at a blank piece of paper and a Bible full of words. Where to begin? A few months ago I was in the car driving back from visiting my parents in Mississippi, and I was thinking back to my pregnancy with my oldest...

How to Make a Prayer Journal – Part 2 (by Elissa Roberts)

If you had seen me on my run a few months ago, you would have wondered about the strange girl with her hands in the air and tears streaming down her face. Those are some God-moments I have out there on the asphalt with the sunrise painting the sky in sherbet colors...