OH FOR A WIFE LIKE THAT! In a recent issue of Partnership, William Petersen writes about the strong marriage of Sarah and Jonathan Edwards of 18th century New England. Though very different in personality they…
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THE FIRST PRAYER IN CONGRESS Given by Rev. J. Duche, Chaplain, December 17, 1777. O Lord, our heavenly Father, High and Mighty, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who dost from the Throne behold…
MARRIAGE The Irish have a ring called the Claddagh. It is often used as a wedding ring. Engraved on it are three symbols: a heart, a pair of folded hands, and a crown. The heart…
BATTLEFIELD PRAYER One of the fiercest battles of the Civil War was fought at Kennesaw Mountain near Marietta. The night after the battle a young twenty-year-old Union Army captain lay wounded. The stretcher bearers came…
CHRIST AND PRAYER Luke 3:21; 4:1-13 Christ prayed before his temptation. Luke 6:12-16 He prayed before appointing the twelve. Luke 6:12, 17-49 Christ prayed before the Sermon on the Mount. Luke 4:16-32; Mark 1:21-22 Christ's…
BRUNNER ON PRAYER As children, lost in a woods, are fearful of the sinister darkness -- and then, suddenly, hearing a sound from the sombre blackness, a familiar voice, a loving, seeking, helping voice, their…
A PRAYER by Max Ehrmann Lord, let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, May I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of…
ON BEING THANKFUL Every Sunday morning, when I lead the pastoral prayer in our church, I tack on a list of things for which we can be thankful to God. I try to be creative…
A MODERN PRAYER O Son of God, we beg, we beseech, we supplicate, we petition, we implore You to hear us. Lord, be good to us. Christ, make things easy for us. Lord, deliver us…
WHAT TO PRAY FOR Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men and women. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, but pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then…
A PARISHIONER'S PRAYER FOR A PASTOR You may be able to adapt this in either a sermon or your church newsletter, to help instruct your people how to pray for you. Our Father, this man…
AND GOD WAS THERE Private James Day of New York found these words on the dead body of a soldier who has not been identified: Look, God, I have never spoken to you, but now…
PRAYER IS Prayer is need finding a voice. Prayer is embarrassment seeking relief. Prayer is friend in search of friend. Prayer is a quest in the darkness of midnight. Prayer is knocking on a barred…
RECOGNIZING AN ANSWER TO PRAYER Bill was sitting in his house during a torrential downpour. As the floodwaters reached the bottom of his front door, some friends came along in a rowboat and called to…
JOHN NEWTON ON PRAYER By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge…
WHAT WE THINK WE NEED "Surely," one sometimes hears it said, "it is absurd to try to change the will of God. Who are we that we should tell God what to do? If we…
MURPHY'S PRINCIPLES OF PRAYER 1. People forget to pray for others in direct proportion to the frequency with which they say, "I'll pray about that." 2. In any prayer group at any given moment, 95%…
MOTIVATED PRAYER A husband and wife from California were motoring through Texas. They saw a tornado coming and, of course, they were afraid. The husband pulled the car off to the side of the road…
AUTHENTIC PRAYER It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for "A" when our whole mind is in reality filled with "B". We must lay before him what is in us, not what…
PRAYER -- COOPERATION WITH GOD To know and love God directly is to come to know what we are. All true Christian pray also presupposes the further step, that there are things He will have…
