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Learning Through Prayer

I have often learned much more in one prayer than I have been able to glean from much reading and reflection.


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The Day Niagara Was Silent

An estimated 500,000 tons of water rush over Niagara Falls every minute. On March 29, 1948, the falls suddenly stopped. People living within the sound ...


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Don't Limit God

Beware in your prayer, above everything, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what he can do.


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Some Things Only God Can Do

One of the great failures of the church is that we often try to accomplish with human systems what only God can do.


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A Prayer to the Educator

O Educator, be gracious to thy children, O Educator, Father, Guide of Israel, Son and Father, both one, Lord. Give to us, who follow thy command, to fulfill ...


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Sometimes You Get What You Need

Sometimes God is so touched by what he sees, he gives us what we need and not simply that for which we ask.


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A Prayer for Forgiveness

Do not think of the sins we have committed or of those we still commit. Put out of your mind the failings we give way to night and day. Do not impute ...


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A Single Word Saves

Let all multiplicity be absent from your prayer. A single word was enough for the publican and the prodigal son to receive God's pardon. ... Do not try ...


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Running Dry

I believe that if we are to be and to do for others what God means us to be and to do, we must not let Adoration and Worship slip into second place, "For ...


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Pray the Largest Prayers

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but ...


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