Faithwalk Ministries

In the book of James we are told that often we don't get what we pray for because we are asking with wrong motives so that we can use the answers for our own purposes. I have found that one of the most rewarding aspects of prayer is to begin by asking God what or who He wants me to pray for. That might sound a little strange at first, but if you really think about it, one of the things we are tryi...

Prayer is something we don't often get a lot of teaching on, we just kind of assume people will know how to do it. Although I don't believe that prayer is meant to be a formal or religious type of thing, I do believe that there are ways that we can learn to pray which will cause our prayers to be more effective. I'm not one to be real big on making sure you use certain phrases or say things just t...

We were created to have fellowship with God and to worship Him. Sometimes I don't think we really understand the purpose for this. Worship is more than just singing a few songs in a church service. We can worship God with our lives as we choose to surrender to Him and love and serve Him with all our hearts. It's easy to worship Him when everything is going well, but when we actually choose to wors...

Often times I find that we as believers can be pretty comfortable with relating to our Heavenly Father, since we all had an earthly dad, even if it wasn't the greatest relationship. Also, we can relate to Jesus, as He came and lived here as a man, so we are able to relate to what He might have been like. However, the concept of God's Spirit seems to be more difficult for us to really get our heads...

One of the things I get approached on very regularly is people wanting to learn to hear God's voice. in John 10:27 Jesus said that His sheep listen to His voice and follow Him. This is an area that I believe is very important, and yet there are also some things we need to be very cautious about. I believe without a doubt that God speaks to His children, and it's important we learn to discern and h...

Oftentimes as believers, we can go through our whole day without really being consciously aware that God is right there with us. We might give lip service to it, we know that God is everywhere, and yet when we run into difficulties or struggles, we quickly go other places to seek help or comfort. If we will begin to make a sincere effort to remind ourselves regularly that He is there, even picturi...

One of the biggest challenges I find believers facing when trying to get a closer relationship with their Heavenly Father is our tendency to attribute whatever characteristics we saw in our earthly father to Him. If our dad was angry, we tend to see God in that light. If our dad was distant or neglectful, then we will have a tendency to think God will treat us the same way. This can be a very diff...

One of the biggest things we struggle with in life is dealing with the hardships and trials that come to us all. In varying degrees, we all face circumstances at times that we would really prefer not to have to face. However, if we understand that absolutely everything that God allows into my life has been ok'd by Him for purposes oftentimes that only He understands, then I should have the ability...

Ever since the Garden of Eden, and the first sin, there has been a natural tendency in each of us to fear intimacy with God. The first thing Adam and Eve did was to hide themselves and cover their nakedness, because they were ashamed to be seen as they really were. God's desire for each of us is to understand that He has forgiven us completely, and simply wants to have a close, intimate relationsh...

Often as believers we focus on the fact that our sins were all forgiven when we received Jesus as our Savior. While this is absolutely true, sometimes we fail to realize that how we live as believers has a huge affect on our ability to be close to the Father. The writer of Hebrews urged us to get rid of the sin which so easily entangles. What that means is that while we may be forgiven, continued...

Quite often we think of Jesus coming to earth to die on the cross and purchase our salvation, which He absolutely did. However, there was much more to His coming than just that. He spent approximately 3 years ministering and doing miracles, and I believe there was more to that than just trying to convince us who He was. I believe He also came to show us how to live a life filled with and in partne...

Rick is a pastor who has planted churches in Montana and the Ukraine. God has called him currently to a ministry of discipleship to help raise up God's army for these last days. His heart is in helping people to discover and develop all that God has for them in the intimate and personal relationship He desires with each one of us. He is also currently writing a book on learning to walk in intimacy...

Rick is a pastor who has planted churches in Montana and the Ukraine. God has called him currently to a ministry of discipleship to help raise up God's army for these last days. His heart is in helping people to discover and develop all that God has for them in the intimate and personal relationship He desires with each one of us. He is also currently writing a book on learning to walk in intimacy...