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Testing God

Prayer, coupled with loving obedience, is the way to put God to the test and to make prayer answer all ends and all things.


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A Prayer of Clement

We ask you, Master, be our helper and defender. Rescue those of our number in distress; raise up the fallen; assist the needy; heal the sick; turn back ...


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The Highest Human Goal

The goal, the highest good, of the human creature is that the knowledge of God and prayer to God converge.


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Phone Blunder

Early one Sunday morning I was awakened by the telephone. Thinking it was my son playing a joke on me, I picked up the receiver. In a hoarse whisper, ...


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Prayer Better than E-Mail

From the time when God became real to me, I knew that communicating with him--two way communication--was the most important thing in the world. To communicate ...


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The Purpose of a Day of Prayer

A day of prayer should answer two questions: "Who are you, Lord?" and "What shall I do?"


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The Longest Prayer

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but, as I live longer, and see more of life, I believe there is no such thing as getting through ...


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Freed from Ego

A woman said to a guest at dinner, "We say grace at dinner each day to remind us around here that there is something bigger than our egos." ...


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Prayer Requires Submission

When we pray, we relinquish in a radical way our so-called sovereignty over the purposes of our lives. We subordinate our plans, schedules and life scenarios ...


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The Purpose of the Church

No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together ...


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