Prayer
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The Surest Road to Victory
About 30 years ago, I was in college, visiting a friend’s dorm room at the University of Illinois. For whatever reason that day, I picked up a devotional book he had – which one I don’t know – and it included this little story of Joash and Elisha at the end of the prophet’s life, and I’ve Continue reading
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3 Truths To Encourage You to Pray
I forget that prayer matters. I forget God answers prayer. Though my loving Heavenly Father has been answering my prayers for years, I am too often like those Israelites who in one moment were miraculously delivered through the Red Sea from slavery, but in the next are crying out that God has forgotten them. I forget what He Continue reading
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The Smell That God Loves
Perhaps you’ve heard before that if you want to sell your house, when someone is coming for a showing, you should have fresh bread baking in the oven. If the scent of delightfulness is strong enough, people will pay full price without a counter offer. Well, okay, I doubt that is really true, but I’ll bet that Continue reading
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How To Become A Lukewarm Christian
“I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:15-16 (ESV) Steamy water cools off. Icy water warms up. Likewise, it is the natural tendency of men Continue reading
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What To Remember When You Walk Through Suffering
There are people who say that God never wants His children to suffer, that He only wants “blessing” for us and that suffering is never His instrument for this blessing. This, however, is a lie and if you believe it, you will spend much of your life in despair. You see, suffering is not the opposite Continue reading
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The Prayer of Faith
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. Matthew 21:21 (ESV) There are a few Continue reading
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Praying When I “Cherish Iniquity In My Heart”
How many Christians have been kept from prayer by this intimidating word in the Psalms?… If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. Psalm 66:18 (ESV) Answer: a lot. I’ll bet many Christians have been kept from prayer because of their understanding of this warning, but consider this insight from Continue reading
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