Burden | Joy | Prayer | Short Shorts
PRAYER You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. Kahlil Gibran
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Prayer
Poetry | Prayer | Risk | Servanthood | Service | Social Witness | Stewardship
WE CANNOT MERELY PRAY We cannot merely pray to you, O God, to end War; For we know that you have made the World in a way That man must
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Communion | Consecration | Fellowship With God | Perspective | Prayer
NEWTON ON PRAYER The great and devout scientist, Sir Isaac Newton said, “I can take my telescope and look millions and millions of miles into space, but I can lay
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Bible Study | Discipleship | Discipline | Loneliness | Meditation | Prayer | Risk | Simplicity
SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINE I am inspired by the practicality and rigor of Dallas Willard’s book entitled The Spirit of the Disciplines (Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1988). Willard writes: “My central
Care | Discipleship | Discipline | Evangelism | Prayer | Service | Simplicity
GRACIAS I have found a number of helpful passages in Henri Nouwen’s book Gracias! It is the journal he kept while spending a six month pilgrimage in Bolivia and Peru.
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Discipleship | Discipline | Faith | Hope | Life | Prayer
PRAYER Prayer is the ongoing cry of the incarnate Lord to the loving God. It is eternity in the midst of mortality, it is life among death, hope in the
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Christ | Consecration | Discipleship | Discipline | Fellowship With God | Perspective | Prayer
MOTHER TERESA When I met Mother Teresa in Rome, I saw immediately that her inner attention was focused constantly on Jesus. It seemed that she saw only him and through
Communion | Confession | Fellowship With God | Loneliness | Meditation | Prayer
SOLITUDE AND SILENCE Seek for a convenient time to search your own conscience, and think often of the benefits of God. Abandon curiosity and read such matters as shall stir
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Adversity | Communion | Fellowship With God | Heaven | Peace | Perspective | Prayer | Trial
PRAYING FOR THINGS OR GOD? I remember one day in Tibet, when I was in prison. The stones of that prison were like flowers. There was nothing in these stones,
Burden | Discipleship | Faith | Prayer | Providence
TWO ANSWERED PRAYERS — OR LARCENY? Margaret Burke went to St. Jude’s Church daily for nine days in February 1984 to ask St. Jude, the saint of desperate causes, to
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Apathy | Communion | Consecration | Discipleship | Discipline | Prayer
HAWAIIAN PRAYER In the book Walking On Water there is a quote by a Hawaiian Christian, Mother Alice Kaholusuna: “Before the missionaries came, my people used to sit outside their
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Business | Communion | Failure | Prayer | Understanding
BUSINESSLIKE PRAYER The president of a major Twin City, Minnesota company was saying the evening prayer at dinner one evening at home. It became a fairly long prayer, and at
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Burden | Faith | Healing | Miracles | Poverty | Prayer | Providence
AN ANSWER TO A MOTHER’S PRAYER At one point during the winter of 1940, my husband, a house painter, was temporarily unemployed because of the weather, and the textile plant
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Communion | Death | Fellowship With God | Poetry | Prayer
GOD BE IN MY HEAD God be in my head and in my understanding. God be in mine eyes and in my looking./God be in my mouth and in my
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Defeat | Faith | Obedience | Perseverance | Prayer | Satan | Success
INTERCESSORS Intercessors are the powerful ones. Intercessors pray for others until God releases His grace and resources upon them. Intercessors wage spiritual battles with the unseen forces of darkness —
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Confession | Forgiveness | Prayer | Repentance | Sin
THE LORD’S FORGIVENESS Psalm 51:11 “Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.” The most vivid experience of that anguished prayer and its answer
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Busyness | Communion | Conflict | Evil | Leadership | Ministry | Prayer | Priorities
MINISTERING OUT OF THE QUIET I get so much personal help from Christianity Today’s Leadership Library Series of books. A recent one was by Eugene Peterson, pastor of Christ the
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Communication | Concern | Consecration | Fellowship With God | Prayer
PRAYER’S STRENGTH Prayer covers the whole of man’s life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects
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Communication | Consecration | Discipleship | Fellowship With God | Poetry | Prayer
BEGIN THE DAY WITH GOD Every morning lean thine arms awhile Upon the window sill of heaven And gaze upon thy Lord. Then, with the vision in thy heart, Turn
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Faithfulness | Guidance | Holy Spirit | Prayer | Success
SPIRIT MOTIVATED PRAYER Dr. Raymond Edmond of Wheaton College had not been in Uruguay as a missionary very long when he became deathly sick. In fact, the Uruguay nationals had
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