prayer
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My Prayer for My Beloved Canada on Her Birthday!
God, I pray for my country of Canada on her birthday today! Thank you for the freedom we enjoy. May we be wise stewards of it, careful to show your love and light to those around us. Protect our leaders, policemen, firemen, doctors and nurses, peacekeepers, teachers, moms, dads, pastors, volunteers… all those given responsibility…
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3 Tips To Jump Start Your Prayer Life | Church Volunteer Central
Praying can be the most difficult when we need it the most. Here are three ideas to help you pray—even when you don’t feel like it! Such a simple post but so effective… http://www.churchvolunteercentral.com/uncategorized/3-tips-to-jump-start-your-prayer-life/
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Help, Come, Give, Forgive, Keep, Protect
Matthew 6:9-13 CEV “…Our Father in heaven, help us to honor your name. Come and set up your kingdom, so that everyone on earth will obey you, as you are obeyed in heaven. Give us our food for today. Forgive us for doing wrong, as we forgive others. Keep us from being tempted and protect…
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Raw Before God (Prayer)
Prayer is basic language… honest, true, and personal. It is the means by which we get everything in our lives out in the open before God. Only as we develop raw honesty and detailed thoroughness in our praying do we become whole, truly human in Jesus Christ, who also prayed the Psalms. (Eugene Peterson) Just…
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Don’t Over Analyze Yourself
A good reminder for me as I seek to transition healthily into my sabbatical… It’s all about my focus… “Know yourself” is good advice. But to know ourselves doesn’t mean to analyze ourselves. Sometimes we want to know ourselves as if we were machines that could be taken apart and put back together at will.…
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How Much He Wants To Give You!
“When you go to prayer, your first thought must be: The Father is in secret, the Father waits me there. Just because your heart is cold and prayerless, get you into the presence of the loving Father. As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth you. Do not be thinking of how little…
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Disappointment Restores and Resurrects
“We should praise God for disappointment because it drives us to our knees. Disappointment is like a dream defibrillation. If we respond the right way, we can restore our prayer rhythm and resurrect our dreams.” – Mark Batterson
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Need Prayer? | Mary DeMuth
Have you ever felt helpless? That all you can do is holler a few words to the heavens and ask for simple help? I’ve been in that place more times than I can count. It’s a good place. A hard place. A needy place. Where we realize that we can’t do everything. Usually during those…
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Religious Leaders: You Love Us, You Hate Us
Loving Our Spiritual Leaders: by Henri Nouwen… “Religious leaders, priests, ministers… can be admired and revered but also hated and despised. We expect that our religious leaders will bring us closer to God through their prayers, teaching, and guidance. Therefore, we watch their behavior carefully and listen critically to their words. But precisely because we…
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Hearing Voices
Continually I seek to hear the right voice and for the discernment in recognizing His voice. It comes by familiarizing myself with the Shepherd’s voice through focused time in His Word and in prayer… It is daily seeking to hear… The Still, Small Voice of Love “Many voices ask for our attention. There is a…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 