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God has established prayer as the means by which we receive his supernatural help. And without supernatural help, we cannot live a life worthy of the gospel. Everything that distinguishes Christians from the world in a Christ-exalting way is a work of God’s supernatural grace. And God has ordained that this grace flows to us through prayer.
Jul 8, 2024 · A digest from Desiring God. Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. Prayer is an expression of faith in God’s power, fueled by a desire for more of him.
Dec 29, 2002 · Preach to yourself. Don’t let your sins and weaknesses and worldly inclinations rule you. God says, “Be devoted to prayer.”. Fight for this. 2. The needs in life, family, churches, world missions, and culture are huge and desperate. In many cases heaven and hell hang in the balance, faith or unbelief, life and death.
Apr 27, 2016 · Prayer is objectively real — a real God, real communication, real work, real answers. But it also comes in a million shapes and forms. Prayer happens in seconds — short moments in the cracks of our day — and it can happen for hours at a time, even throughout a whole night. Prayer is conscious, personal communication with the God of the ...
Jul 18, 2013 · Because prayer is effective, which means, God hears his people and acts on their behalf. Then, in the beginning of verse 16, because prayer is effective (James 5:13–15), he says, “Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed” (James 5:16). To make it even clearer, he follows this with ...
Jan 2, 2017 · Preparing to Pray. 1. Set prayer apart. The more we pray, the more we want to pray. To do this, you need to build it into the rhythm of your day any way you can: set alarms, leave notes, put it in your day planner. Prayer is a practice that requires discipline and perseverance, and we should own the cost. Prayer is the greatest act of our day ...
Oct 12, 2016 · Here are seven simple daily prayers drawn from David’s prayer. 1. Listen to my prayer. Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace. (Psalm 86:6) David wrote an entire book of divinely inspired song-prayers to God, so you would think he might know that God hears all our prayers. But over and over again, he still pleads with God ...
Feb 6, 2017 · Praying the Lord’s Prayer as Luther recommends helps us to seek a greater awareness of Christ, other people, and God’s broader mission in our prayers. 2. Discipline our wandering minds. Our minds drift so easily in times of prayer. One moment I’m praying, the next I’m thinking about that email I need to reply to.
Jul 19, 2013 · Desperation: Whatever it takes, Lord, keep me desperate for you because I tend to wander when I stop feeling my need for you. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word. (Psalm 119:67) Discipline: Whatever it takes, Lord, discipline me for my good so that I may share your holiness and bear the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
1. We must talk first about war. Because life is war. And it is utterly impossible for people to know what prayer really is until they know that they are in a war, and until they know that the stakes of that war are infinitely higher than the stakes in the Persian Gulf or in the Reagan-Gorbachev consultations. 2.
