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Prayer Transforms Landfill

In his book An Unstoppable Force, Erwin McManus shares the story of how prayers resulted in what can only be called a miraculous re-creation.

While ministering ...


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A Mother's Lesson in Prayer

Author Brandon O'Brien writes in "His Name Was Tim”:

His name was Tim, and he was the bane of my existence. I can't remember now any ...


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Woman Boldly Asks God to Address Storm

Pastor and author Tony Evans was in Columbia, South Carolina, to preach at a crusade being held in the University of South Carolina football stadium. ...


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Archbishop Richard Trench on Prayer

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance … it is laying hold of his highest willingness.

—Archbishop Richard Trench


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Power Encounter in Ghana

I once met a brother from Ghana, West Africa, who was completing his PhD in the School of World Missions at Fuller Theological Seminary. During one of ...


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Man Ignores Answer to Prayer

A businessman was late for an important meeting and couldn't find a parking space. As he frantically circled the block, the man got so desperate that ...


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God Heals Woman's Eyesight

When I was a boy, my sister left our home in Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, and traveled to Central Bible College. She had always had a lifelong problem with ...


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CEO's Prayer Saves a Business

It was 1986, and the world was crashing around David Green. In the offices of his multimillion dollar hobby and craft business, Hobby Lobby, he read the ...


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Man Prays at Wailing Wall

A journalist assigned to the Jerusalem bureau takes an apartment overlooking the Wailing Wall. Every day when she looks out, she sees an old Jewish man ...


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Prayer for Mother's Recovery Goes Unanswered

Pastor Randy Frazee shared this with his congregation:

My mother was dying. I went to God and made a special request. By her bedside I prayed 50 times. ...

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