“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 poor man: small business. The…
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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 God could help him do…
“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, they each took a few…
“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 posted on a downtown New…
“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. All three were on their…
“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 a new direction. He went…
“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” is ever loyal, now matter…
“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 — through prayer, or meditation, or…
“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 presented with a large supply…
“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 to make pick-ups of legal…
“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 spell ‘God’ with the wrong…
“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 with children it was extremely…
“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 know I haven’t lived a…
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 bubble gum, a crumpled up,…
