Prayer

“Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.” -R.A. Torrey “What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.” -Max Lucado Do you ever find yourself running from God? Maybe your running is on purpose because you’re angry at God or feel rejected in some way. It’s hard to …

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In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him…that we spend a while thinking about Him, meditating on Him, talking to Him, listening in silence, occupying ourselves with Him- totally and thoroughly lost in the hiding place of His presence.                                                                                                     -Charles R. Swindoll Come to Him to find rest. Matthew 11:28-30- “Come to me all who are weary and I will give you rest…” Think about Him. Phil. 4-8- “Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely; if anything is …

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    BLESS ‘em   I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.                                                                                                 -Samuel Rutherford   Have you ever been told by someone with the greatest sincerity, “I’ll pray for you” only to, the very next moment, question if they really will pray for you? Why do we do this? Maybe you’re the one who is the well-meaning friend who says that you will pray for someone only to accidently put it out of your mind soon after your encounter. Why do we do …

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We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.   – J.I. Packer     I’m a church brat. I never heard this term until I moved south, but that is indeed what I am. I was in the church 9 months before I was born and have never known any different…and I wouldn’t …

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“We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.”                                                                                                             ~ D.L. Moody    What do you think about the moment you open your eyes in the morning? Does your head pop off the pillow, excited for the day’s events? Maybe you’re not a morning person and one eyelid manages to creep open hoping…pleading…for another five minutes of silence. But wait, what are your first initial thoughts? Are you consumed by all of the hundreds of things that you have to do today that are rushing in to your mind, making you completely exhausted …

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