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JOHN BUNYAN Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God […]
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JOHN BUNYAN Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God […]
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APPROPRIATING WHAT IS THERE A ship in distress off the Canadian coast, with its fresh water supply completely exhausted, sent out an S. O. S. for fresh water. The reply
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SPIRITUAL FULCRUM There is an “Archimedean” point outside the world which is the little chamber where a true supplicant prays in all sincerity, where he lifts the world off its
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MARTIN LUTHER ON BREVITY The fewer words the better prayer.
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DILIGENCE AND PRAYER: LORD SHAFTESBURY (1801- 1885) On a rainy day in 1885 a funeral procession wound its way to Westminster Abbey. In it were people from all walks of
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PERSISTING IN PRAYER AND PRESSURE In 1873 a group of women at Hillsboro, Ohio, met and prayed and then read the 146th Psalm. Then they prayed and pleaded with the
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SUCCESSFUL RELATIONSHIP Someone wrote the editor of THE CHRISTIAN HERALD to ask how a couple could be assured a happy, harmonious marriage. The editor answered by telling about two children
TWO DIMENSIONS OF PRAYER If you’re a tennis player, you may be familiar with The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey. Gallwey points out that when we watch
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DEEP LISTENING One of my favorite stories about listening comes from the depression years. A young man saw an ad in the newspaper for a telegraph operator. He hurried to
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PRAYER AT THE HOUSE OF DYING Dear Lord, the Great Healer — I kneel before You Since every good and perfect gift Must come from You. I pray, give skill
RUSSIAN PROVERB Pray to God, but row for the shore.
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EDWIN KEITH Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.
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CLOSING PRAYER These are the gifts I ask of thee, Spirit serene — strength for the daily task; Courage to face the road; Good cheer to help me bear the
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EMERGENCY NUMBER As my boss prepared to go on vacation in another state, I kiddingly asked him to leave a telephone number where we could reach him at least once
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LIFT UP YOUR HEAD When my son was a toddler, washing his hair was always a problem. He would sit in the bathtub while I put shampoo on his hair.
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PRAYER AND POWER There is enough of God’s power available to answer every prayer ever prayed in His will. Leonard Ravenhill in Why Revival Tarries, p. 156, writes: “One might
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POWER OF PRAYER In late May I was admiring my lovely, green, blooming cantaloupe plants. The foliage was hearty and spreading rapidly. Then, in mid-June and throughout July, a drought
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CHILDREN’S EVANGELISM A while ago my friends were amazed to hear their five year old daughter, Lindsay, telling her little friend about Jesus. The children were sitting on the front
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CHILDREN, TEACH US TO PRAY I was sitting in with my wife one Wednesday evening as she was teaching a five-year-old’s Bible class. It came time to have some animal
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DISPUTING THE POWER OF PRAYER There was a small Kentucky town that had two churches and one whiskey distillery. Members of both churches complained that the distillery gave the community
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