Prayer
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Lessons From the Bike Trail: A Sunday Night Surprise, Part 2
(FYI, Part 1 is here) Two days into the broken ribs adventure, my right lung collapsed (in doctor’s lingo, a pneumo-thorax). Later, the trauma surgeon would surmise that it truly began at the time of the accident on Sunday evening, but the actual collapse and thus the symptoms didn’t show up until about 30 hours… Continue reading
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The Prayer That Shapes You
They say environment shapes you, so when possible, choose your environment carefully. If you can get in, Harvard sounds amazing, but if a disproportionate percentage of professors there are atheists, why not just pick another school? But it’s not just environment that shapes us – prayer shapes us too. Now that’s not the primary thing… Continue reading
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Getting Prayer “Right”, Part Four
“Lead us not into temptation.“ Sin. It is the destroyer of joy and the decimator of peace, and because sin is always a move toward autonomy – life alone – sin also keeps us from love. And now consider these three: joy, peace, and love – are they not the three things we want most… Continue reading
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Getting Prayer “Right”, Part Three
“Give us this day our daily bread.” This is the moment where you ask God for all your needs…and for the desires of your heart. Some might argue that you should constrain yourself to the first category. Go ahead if you want. But if you do, recognize that your supplications (requests) will be limited to… Continue reading
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Getting Prayer “Right”, Part Two
Image by Pexels from Pixabay “Hallowed be Thy name.” Here is the greatest prayer we can ever pray. I thought this morning, as I lifted it up: “It is THE prayer of my life.” Make it yours too. There are two main thoughts in this compelling, opening line. First, it is a request that God’s… Continue reading
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Getting Prayer “Right”, Part One
Have ever wondered if you were getting prayer right? I certainly have. Especially in the times when it didn’t seem to be “working”. There are, after all, many ways to pray. Should you pray using a list, or just “freewheel” it? Pray silently or pray aloud? Pray in a group or pray alone? How about… Continue reading
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The Kind of Praying that Changes the World
I saw a prayer motto in a church years ago that struck me as right…and WRONG: “Prayer changes me.” OK…sure. Of course, praying changes me. And for the record, I need to be changed. But the sign seemed to suggest something else – that I shouldn’t expect answers to my prayers – I should just expect to be… Continue reading
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Walking vs. Running
I went for a walk today…and a few hours later, I went for a run. The walk was better. Here’s why… The walk, you see, wasn’t about fitness, just about prayer, though there might have been some side health benefits along the way. But I didn’t do it to get my heart in shape, at least not my physical… Continue reading
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The Day I Heard the Voice of God
There aren’t a lot of days in my life I can say that I know God sent a message intended just for me. But there are a few. This is one of them… It was the fall of 1998. We were living in Lake Forest, Illinois, and I had spent the year interviewing for senior/solo pastor positions. I… Continue reading
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Shamelessly Persistent Prayer…and Glorious Answers: The story of Daws
My own prayer life has been significantly impacted by the prayer lives of others, and one of these is a man named Dawson Trotman. Like King David, Daws was a man after God’s own heart and was used greatly by God to start The Navigators, a Christian organization emphasizing a personal walk with God, evangelism, discipleship and Scripture memory. The man… Continue reading
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