Prayer That Is Personal

When we pray for ourselves, our petitions usually center around what we think we need or what we are sure so-and-so needs. God sees needs in our lives ...

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Lord, Teach Us

God's promises are altogether too large to be mastered by desultory praying. When we examine ourselves, all too often we discover that our praying ...

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God Is Neither Psychic nor Policeman

Looking to God for ad hoc psychic direction in each situation is only a short step away from looking to Him for written rules and regulations for each ...

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Avoiding Offense

The daughter of our pastor was asked to give the closing prayer at her high school graduation. A Jewish student was asked to give the opening prayer. ...

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True Prayer Is Lacking in the Church

Far away from the Bible's example are most people when they pray! Prayer with earnestness and urgency is genuine "prayer" in God's account. ...

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Remembering Our Father in Prayer

When our children were small, we played a game. I'd take some coins in my fist. They'd sit on my lap and work to get my fingers open. According ...

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The Skill and Grace of Prayer

There is a great difference between the skill and the grace of prayer. The skill consists chiefly in a readiness of thought consistent with the various ...

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Submitting to the Divine Will

O Lord, grant that I may do thy will as if it were my will; so that thou mayest do my will as if it were thy will.

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A Humble Prayer

Lord, I know not what I ought to ask of thee; thou only knowest what I need. ... I open my heart to thee. Behold my needs which I know not myself. Smite, ...

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A Listener's Prayer

God

Grant me to be

silent before you--

that I may hear you;

at rest in you--

that you may work in me;

open to you--

that you may enter;

empty before you--

that ...

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