I pray not because I want to be delivered whenever I have a hardship and only when I have a hardship. I pray not because others tell me to. I pray not because my parents have always prayed before dinner. I pray not because I feel the passionate stirrings of the Holy Spirit in my
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This week, my Bible study and I looked at thankfulness in the Bible. Looking at the prayers of faithful people in the Scriptures isn’t a bad way of teaching yourself how to pray—and when once you look, the whole book is littered with prayer after prayer of thankfulness, moment after moment of rejoicing. In the
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Recently I’ve been thinking quite a lot about unanswered prayer—you know, the perennial question of what to think of a God who says “Knock, and the door will be opened” and then seems to ignore us quite often when we ask things of him. There are all sorts of answers to that question which I
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You see, and you turn – that is the thing, which for a moment casts open the beauty of all the world – all concentrated, all of a sudden, in a single melodic line – and you want to turn to the person besides you and say, Look! Look! I have never been happy before
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“Above all things and in all things, O my soul, rest always in God, for He is the everlasting rest of the saints. Grant, most sweet and loving Jesus, that I may seek my repose in You above every creature; above all health and beauty; above every honor and glory; every power and dignity; above
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What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? Psalm 8:4 What is man, that he should be clean? And he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean
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In my last post, I discussed some ways of jolting myself out of my functionally atheist rut—ways of remembering God in times and places that aren’t always conducive to doing so. In this post, I’d like to add another: praying through prayers written by other people. There are several good reasons to use set prayers
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