Tag: prayer
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(9′) Prayer Involves Reasoning from God to God
“’Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.’” ~ Isaiah 1:18 Prayer involves reasoning from God to God. That is to say, prayer involves reasoning: Who God is: In Daniel…
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(22) Filling Out Providence without Passivity or Presumption
“So, I went out at night…” (Nehemiah 2:13a).“After an all-night march from Gilgal, …” (Joshua 10:9a). ~ Nehemiah got some bad news about the city of Jerusalem being in ruins and prayed about it. Then he took up the matter with the king, praying even as he did, and got green signals to head to…
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(21) George Müller & Praying for Small Things
~ The following is an excerpt from George Müller on praying for small things: “A Christian lady said, lately, that thirty-five years ago she heard me speak on this subject in Devonshire; and that then I referred to praying about little things. I had said, that suppose a parcel came to us, and it should…
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(3′) Prayer’s Expectant Eyes ~ Part 2
~ What follows are some notes from George Müller’s autobiography The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord’s Dealings With George Müller. It is on the same theme that I have blogged on before, to wit, the expectancy we ought to exercise subsequent to prayer. To you I lift up my eyes, O…
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(2′) Prayer’s Expectant Eyes ~ Part 1
~ I find Psalm 5:3 to be interesting because it is not simply about praying, but it is also about how we are to watch and wait subsequent to praying. “In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly” (Psalm 5:3, NIV). O Yahweh, in the morning,…
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(10) Taking From the Lord vs. Receiving From the World ~ Jacob’s All-Nighter
“So Jacob was left alone, and a Man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the Man saw that He could not overpower him, He touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the Man. Then the Man said, ‘Let me go, for it is daybreak.’ But Jacob…
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(2) Prayer is the Best Form of Time Management
“Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” ~ Psm 90:12 ~ I am trying to process time in the Bible, and the thought once again is that: Prayer is the best form of time management that there is. Its better than the calendar, the clock, the phone, some…
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