“My helper, My Savior, Yahweh, come without delay” (Psalms 70:5). Two businessmen were struggling to resolve severe financial problems. One was a rich man: big business; the other a relatively […]
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“Lord, teach us to pray…” (Luke 11:1). A mother heard her son saying his night prayers. He was telling God what he planned to do the next day and how
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“Blessed be Yahweh, for He hears the sound of my petition” (Psalms 28:6). Just one week before his first communion, eight-year-old Torre attended Church with his grandparents. After the service,
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“Pray without ceasing” (1Thess. 5:17). The big blizzard of ’96 caused many businesses, schools and other institutions to close down. As the storm grew in intensity, a cardboard sign was
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“Lord, teach us to pray…” (Luke 11:1). It was Sunday evening, and the sexton came to lock the church. When he entered, he saw that three persons were still there.
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“And the Lord will guide you continually” (Isaiah 58:11). Prayer is positioning ourselves to receive guidance! Often we are like the young man who wanted to point his life in
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“A man can have no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends” (Luke 15:13). One of the attractions for dog owners is that “man’s best friend”
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“Pray constantly” (I Thessalonians 5:17). In the book For the Love of God, author Dr. Wayne Dyer writes about prayer: I find God by giving myself time every day —
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“All these will I bestow on You if you prostrate yourself in homage before me” (Matthew 4:8). A New York City pastor tells of the time when his parish was
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“Yahweh, hear my voice as I cry! Pity me! Answer me!” (Psalm 27:9). Tired of just “hanging around,” an elderly man took part-time employment as a messenger. His job was
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“John the Baptizer appeared…proclaiming a baptism of repentance” (Mark 1:4). Someone has said that “The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to
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“The He withdrew from them…and knelt down and prayed” (Luke 22:41). The story is told of an overworked mother of eight who lived in the 1700s. In her house jammed
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“God, be merciful to me a sinner” (Luke 18:13). Two shipwrecked sailors had been adrift on a raft for days. Desperate, one knelt and began to pray: “Oh Lord, I
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Lord, today I feel like … a used firecracker, a balloon with a hole in it, a dried-up pen, an empty soda-pop can, a worn-out shoe, a discarded blob of
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