Marti Pieper

I recently prayed with a woman who suffered from kidney disease. Her kidneys were very sick and did not function properly. I released the prayer of faith into her kidneys and commanded them to be healed and to function properly in the name of Jesus. With tear-filled eyes, she shared with me the next day

It seems old-fashioned now, but my family used to go to prayer meeting. A generous handful of us would exchange warm, family-style greetings and then get cozy in the church pews. Then people would start making prayer requests. Somebody would ask us to pray for their aunt who was having surgery. Somebody else would ask

Today I continue the blog series about helping children develop a complete identity with a look at the physical self. I’ve already written about the importance of several others. When you think about children having an identity related to their physical selves, what do you think of? Three Components of This Identity Physical Health: I remember when

  “Just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you” (Col. 3:13, NASB). Guilt is our friend. If you are like me, it’s a friend you don’t want showing up on your doorstep. But, more than likely, without it you and I would go on in wrongdoing until becoming dominated and defeated by it.

So many of God’s people have this backwards. Instead of lifting up the name of their Healer, Yeshua, they exalt the name of the sickness or disease that the enemy, Satan, is using to destroy them with. Philippians 2:9-11 clearly says, Therefore God highly exalted Him and gave Him the name which is above every name, that

There are only a few days left. Until it happens. The day I’ve dreaded for almost 18 years, but also looked forward to with a heart of hope and excitement. The day we’ve been preparing for and counting down to for months, but one I secretly hoped would never arrive. In just over a week, my little-blonde-headed-blue-eyed-boy-turned-handsome-incredible-young-man

In early June, it was my privilege and joy to teach hundreds of seventh graders about their identity. Because, I wanted them to understand how multi-faceted they are. I wanted them to choose to invest in all of themselves. It matters partly because identity controls behavior. Consequently, if children only know a part of themselves,

At the end of a long day, they gathered all of us kids around a huge fireplace at Quaker Ridge Camp in Colorado. It was the middle of summer, but this was a camp high in elevation that looked out over Pike’s Peak, so we came to the gathering place with our sweatshirts and wrapped

I called a mom with three active young children the other day. When she answered the phone, I said, “What are you up to today?” I laughed at her reply. With a sigh, she said, “Trying not to kill anybody.” She’s a wonderful mom, and I knew she didn’t mean that, but I could hear

“How are you?” If you read my last three blogs, you’re beginning to understand that this question that we are often asked, and that we ask our children, isn’t simple. If your son answers while thinking of his intellectual identity, he might answer “Great!” But, if answering with his emotional self in mind, he might have