Tag: prayer
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Life Verse
31So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.–1 Corinthians 10:31 This summer my wife, kids, and I were at a Family Camp weekend up at The Woods camp. https://www.thewoodscamp.org. We were challenged to prayerfully choose a verse of the Bible and make it our family’s…
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Non Sequitur
1Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. 3So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” 4But when Jesus heard it he…
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Jesus’ Word Was Enough
49The official said to [Jesus], “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. 52So he asked them the hour when he…
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When was the last time you prayed this?
4As for me, I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me;heal me, for I have sinned against you!”–Psalm 41 Here’s what this powerful verse teaches us. A prayer like this should be often for you sin against God often. It maintains a humble, dependent perspective with God and a sobering reality regarding our sins. This is another…
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The Sinner’s Prayer
6Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. 7Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD! 8Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. 9He leads the humble…
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Three Questions
1And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. 2He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. 3And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ 4For a…
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Wrestle in Prayer
24And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day. 25When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.”…
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The Steward’s Prayer
10Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor. 11And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go…
Joel M Bradshaw 