prayer
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This poem is a poetic dialogue with Jesus, and among the great poignant and pretense-breaking prayers ever. Let’s pray… When I became a Christian I said, Lord, now fill me in, Tell me what I’ll suffer in this world of shame and sin. He said, your body may be killed and left to rot and
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Afraid? Terrified? You’re in good company. Let’s pray… Psalm 10:12-18 Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless. Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, “He won’t call me to account”? But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to
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“What is God DOING?” “What was He THINKING?” Let’s pray… Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! “Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?” “Who has ever given to God, that God
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Once, when King David had a down day, his prayer became a prophecy. Today is the perfect day to pray it, too. Let’s pray… Psalm 16:7-11 I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right
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I can just hear Linus Van Pelt proclaiming these words to Charlie Brown under a bright spotlight at a Good Friday service… “…Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.
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(Take a few minutes of your quarantine and have a talk with the Creator of the Universe—your Heavenly Father and Best Friend. You can’t lose.) Just because He’s wonderful. Let’s pray… Psalm 8 O Lord, our Lord, How majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. From
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(Take a few minutes of your quarantine and have a talk with the Creator of the Universe—your Heavenly Father and Best Friend. You can’t lose.) Walking by faith can be tough, especially when all seems dark. Let’s pray… As the rain hides the stars, As the autumn mist hides the hills, Happenings of my lot
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“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him
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Back from ministry in Ireland—high time for another great quote. Jesus prayed for all His future followers—us—that we may be “one” as He and His Father were one. What did He mean? What should we do? C.H. Spurgeon had an idea… “Are you alive by the life of Christ? Does God dwell in you, and do you dwell in him? Then,
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A.W. Tozer’s opening line caught me off guard. When the shock wore off, it began to make sense… “Make sure that you don’t substitute prayer for obedience. Prayer is the oxygen of Christianity, but if we pray without preaching the gospel as we have been commanded to, we are drawing near to God with our lips,
Jay McCarl 