prayer
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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…
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A New Year… To Refocus
A Blessed New Year. I pray you had a Merry Christmas reflecting on the love of God coming down for you. This Christmas season was a deep one for me actually. Here’s a bit of honesty… Over the holidays, I met with many people who are experiencing deep loss. So, I found myself continually reflecting…
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Prayer: A Language of Love
I find, the more I pray for someone, the more I love them. Prayer is undoubtedly a language of love. Perhaps that is why we are called to pray for our enemies. This challenged me today… Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes… “In prayer we go to our enemies, to stand at their side. We are with them,…
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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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A Sweet Aroma in The Midst of Trials
I loved a devotional as I enjoyed my morning coffee on the deck… It told me that in the midst of trials, our prayers are a still a sweet aroma to Christ. When I was in my deepest pit and called out to Him, it was sweet to Him! It wasn’t received reluctantly. My friend, it…
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A Sweet Aroma in The Midst of Trials
I loved this devo as I enjoyed my morning coffee on the deck… It tells me that in the midst of trials, our prayers are a still a sweet aroma to Christ. It tells me that when I was in my deepest pit and called out to Him, it was sweet to Him! It wasn’t…
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Why Prayer Malfunctions
“Probably the number one reason why prayer malfunctions in the hands of believers is that we try to turn a wartime walkie-talkie into a domestic intercom. Until you know that life is war you cannot know what prayer is for. Prayer is for the accomplishment of a wartime mission…But what have millions of Christians done?…
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Spiritual Protection Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for your Holy Spirit who leads and guides me today and fills me with all needed gifting and graces. Help me to discern between the righteous and the wicked. I am God’s child. I resist the devil and declare that no weapon formed against me will prosper. I put on…
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Prayer— Battle in “The Secret Place”
“We must have a specially selected place for prayer, but once we get there this plague of wandering thoughts begins, as we begin to think to ourselves, “This needs to be done, and I have to do that today. Jesus says to “shut your door.” Having a secret stillness before God means deliberately shutting the…
Following and Trusting : Encountering God Out of the Box 