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A Prayer Where God Does All the Talking
Confused, Stressed, Angry, Helpless, Hopeless. That’s everyone since Eden’s Fall. Humanity ruined God’s perfect creation—but the Maker still speaks amidst the ruins. Let’s pray—and let Him do the talking… Come and see the works of the Lord, the desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he…
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Smooth Air in a Turbulent World
Here is a patch of smooth air in a turbulent world by Pastor Tim Brown of Calvary Chapel Fremont, CA. Ah, the difference the right words could make if only believed… In the over-heated rhetoric flowing from the murder of George Floyd and the protests and riots that dominate TV, radio and social media, I’ve…
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A Prayer for Crazies
A world gone crazy is nothing new—it just reminds us how much we needed God all along. Let’s pray… Many are asking, “Who can show us any good?” Let the light of your face shine upon us, O Lord. You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound.…
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God’s Night Music
A nocturne is music inspired by the night. Twenty-eight hundred years before Chopin composed his nocturnes, someone sang out in the deep darkness of night. Join their song—let’s pray… As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When…
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A Prayer when Waiting is Agony
Waiting for God to answer can be agony. King David was having ‘one of those days’, so he prayed this prayer. Join in… I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet…
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Don’t Forget to Remember…
“Here are recorded the names of Americans who gave their lives in the service of their country and who sleep in unknown graves. This is their memorial. The whole earth is their sepulcher, comrades in arms whose resting place is known only to God.” —Inscription at the Garden of the Missing, American Cemetery, Colleville-sur-mer, above…
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Praying Scripture
A Rabbi once said, “Reading Scripture is the highest form of prayer because that’s when God does all the talking.” Here is a Scripture that prays gloriously—the Word of God praising its Author. Join in… “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms…
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POTD: A Prayer of Gratitude
We have more reasons than we know to give thanks to God. Here is another. Let’s pray… Master of the World, it is not on the basis of our righteousness that we lay our requests before Your presence, but because of Your great mercies. — The Siddur (Jewish Prayer Book) Amein.
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POTD: A Prayer of Love and Joy
Among the great prayers given to mankind—every word is a perfect, every phrase a dance—it will leave you breathless in the joy of the God Who loves you. I dare you not to smile. …of David O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise;…
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POTD: Feeling Dry? Here’s a Desert Prayer
In a desert? King David was many times, and this is what he prayed. Let’s join in… O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary…
