by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 23, 2016 | Power, Prayer
Those who forget the lessons of the past, or those who never learned them, are doomed to repeat them. I saw a photo meme tonight on Facebook that said, “If you blame Obama for our racial divide, hit LIKE.” I didn’t hit LIKE. I don’t blame...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Sep 23, 2016 | Prayer, preparation
Today’s New Room Conference workshops that I attended were on prayer. I know that the Lord has had me working with a mentee on prayer in recent months most likely because of the oftentimes weak quality of my own prayer life. It has been an ebb and flow kind...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2016 | Prayer
An insight and morning meditation shared with me by a friend….. “An individual observed that God “invites” us to pray. It’s not a command. When one thinks of the word invite, it is often in a positive sense whereas the word command often...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Aug 26, 2016 | Prayer, Uncategorized
“Prayer…….is rebelling against the status quo of a world going awry. It is refusing to come to terms with an unjust, dark and evil world, as if it were all we were meant to have, as if there was no one or nothing that could change it; prayer is...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | May 20, 2016 | evangelicalism, experiences, Prayer, self examination, self-awareness
I have been a member of the Confessing Movement almost since its beginning. Below is its preface to a UMC post about The General Conference’s vote to defer decisions about the sexuality petitions until a plan could be offered by a commission to be appointed by...
by Cathy Boyd Byrd | Mar 13, 2016 | Prayer
“……the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous person availeth much…..” As I think about prayer, there are a number of things that challenge me. Keeping a prayer journal or prayer list, written or mental, of all of the prayer needs...
