• Home
  • About Off The Grid
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
Friday, May 23, 2025
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
Off The Grid News
Home Worldview

The Practice of Prayer, part 1: Keeping Faith

by Joanna H
in Worldview
Print Print
The Practice of Prayer, part 1: Keeping Faith
Share on FacebookShare on XShare on TruthEmail Article

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

—Romans 12:12


Many of us who spend time on this site feel called to live off the grid, literally and metaphorically: to detach ourselves from some of the comforts and assumptions of our culture, to learn to do more for ourselves, our families and our neighbors. This requires courage and a wide variety of skills. If it is to be done rightly, it also requires us to be rooted in prayer.

Prayer gives us guidance. In living off the grid we step back from some widely held ideas about what really matters in life. This can bring us closer to the truth, freeing us from our society’s blind spots.  It can also leave us at the mercy of our own blind spots. When we wait on God in prayer we open ourselves to the truths that may not come naturally to us.

Prayer dissolves self-righteousness.  As we try to live faithfully in a way that can be challenging and unpopular, it’s tempting to take refuge in a sense of our own purity and superiority to ‘the herd’. But when we stand alone before God in prayer we begin to see ourselves with God’s eyes. We see our faults with unsparing clarity. We also know God’s love and strength which allow us to heal these faults.

Prayer holds us in communion. Off-grid life brings many blessings, but it can also bring loneliness. In prayer we can lift those people who’ve made very different choices up to God, asking not that they be made to agree with us but that they hear God’s voice and grow into the people God made them to be. We may also become aware that some of those people are holding us up in prayer. Most importantly, in prayer we remember our union with God and in God, in whom we all are one.

Prayer, like the other disciplines of off-grid life, requires faithfulness on our part. If we are to experience its blessings, we need to make time and space for it, over and over again, whether or not we feel as though we are getting anywhere, whether or not we feel comforted or inspired. The practice of prayer keeps us constantly aware of what matters most to us, and opens our eyes so that we can recognize grace when it comes.

ShareTweetShareSend

Related Posts

How Christianity Destroyed Classical Culture

How Christianity Destroyed Classical Culture

by Bill Heid

The End of a Civilization and the Birth of a New World In ancient days, the clash between Christianity and...

Believe This And You’ll Never Be Alone Ever Again

Believe This And You’ll Never Be Alone Ever Again

by Bill Heid

Rediscovering the Power of God’s Personal Providence The doctrine of providence has long stirred debate, especially in how it relates...

Standing Strong and Speaking True: What Apologetics Really Means for Christians Today

Standing Strong and Speaking True: What Apologetics Really Means for Christians Today

by Bill Heid

What Is Apologetics, Really? Apologetics to some might sound like saying “I’m sorry,” but it actually means something very different....

Next Post
The Link Between Leeches, Austerity, And Street Riots

The Link Between Leeches, Austerity, And Street Riots

Please login to join discussion

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

children survival skills

6 Ways To Teach Your Kids Survival Skills This Summer

Garden Buddies: Vegetables That Thrive And Flourish Next To Each Other

The Health Benefits of Cucumbers

Not-So-Obvious (But Simple) Ways To Save Water In Your Home

Not-So-Obvious (But Simple) Ways To Save Water In Your Home

TRENDING STORIES

  • bubonic plague

    Is Another Bubonic Plague Pandemic On The Horizon?

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Waco Fertilizer Plant Explosion & A Look Back On The “Waco Massacre”

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Make Yourself 3 Times More Likely To Survive A Heart Attack

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • AI Surveillance Of Shoppers: Walmart’s Newest Tool To Grab Your Data

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • ‘Apocalyptic’ Microchip Implants Are Here – And Being Inserted Into People’s Hands

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

Subscribe to our Insider Newsletter

Huge discounts on off-the-grid gear and life saving supplements.






‘Off The Grid News’ is an independent, weekly email newsletter and website that is crammed full of practical information on living and surviving off the grid. Advice you’ll never hear from the mainstream media.

  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Extreme Survival
  • Survival Gardening
  • Off-Grid Foods
  • Worldview
  • Natural Health
  • Survival Hunting
  • Privacy
  • Financial
  • Current Events
  • Self Defense
  • Home Defense
  • Pain-Free Living
  • Miscellaneous
  • Off Grid Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
  • Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.