Tag: Prayer
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Ditch Disappointment
The pandemic and the challenges of 2020 and 2021 have changed the way we see life, play, respect, and love. We’ve seen family projects on television and YouTube like dominoes and toilet paper tumbling throughout a house. We’ve laughed at dancing and exercising family videos. We’ve sung with live-streamed concerts and worship. We’ve watched golf…
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Key to Answered Prayer
We’ve lived in the Philippines, Italy, the East Coast, the West Coast, and the Midwest. Keith was in the Air Force for 22 years, and he transferred to different locations every three or four years. A woman asked my pre-teen daughter where she was from. “No where.” No place to call home. Shoulders almost touching…
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Power-filled Prayers: The Light of His Presence
Worship. Confession. Thanksgiving. Intercession. Anne Graham Lotz has gifted her readers with a power-filled glimpse into her prayer life. In The Light of His Presence: Prayers to Draw You Near to the Heart of God, she shares 40 intimate prayers that focus on today’s struggles, salvation, restoration, mission, and much more.
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Arise! 5 Keys to Jonah’s Prayer
Apply for that job, Karen. I don’t want to, Lord. It’s too big. I don’t know how to do all that’s required. Week after week, notices appear. Delete. Delete. DELETE!
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The Ultimate Promise
I’ve broken promises. One that haunts me is a promise that I made to our daughter when she was about 11 years old. I told her that I would pick her up when the library closed. Unfortunately, the library closed 30 minutes before I thought it closed. It was raining that night. I was horrified…
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God-Focused Prayer
Praise the LORD!I will praise the LORD with my whole heart,In the assembly of the upright and in the congregation.The works of the LORD are great,Studied by all who have pleasure in them.His work is honorable and glorious,And His righteousness endures forever.He has made His wonderful works to be remembered;The LORD is gracious and full…
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Are You Willing?
“For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, ‘In returning [repenting] and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.’ But you were unwilling,” Isaiah 30:15 The Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel is telling His people to repent, to turn from our wicked ways.…
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Praying Greatly Through Faith
“The faith which creates powerful praying is the faith which centers itself on a powerful person. Faith in Christ’s ability to do and to do greatly, is the faith which prays greatly.” E.M. Bounds Have you prayed a great prayer? A prayer that requests something that is impossible for you to accomplish? Was it based…
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A Prayer for America
Like King David and his army, we may feel totally defeated. Perhaps we’ve lost hope. America is in turmoil. God’s people are crying out to God as David cried out to God in Psalm 60. O God, You have cast us off;You have broken us down;You have been displeased;Oh, restore us again!You have made the earth…
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I Prayed for Death – God Gave Me Life
“God, I thought I was doing what You wanted me to do. I’m in college. I’m engaged to the man You prepared for me to marry. But, I’m in and out of hospitals. No one knows what’s wrong. What do you want me to do?” Silence. I endured three semesters; then, I gave up and…