Tag: prayer
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Wishes
John 15:7 “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” From our earliest years we’ve learned to wish for things. It’s like when we blew out the candles on our birthday cakes as little children and were told to first “Make…
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If . . .
John 15:7 “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” One of the largest words in all the Bible is one of the smallest words: “if.” It’s a word that shows up 1595 times in the holy Scriptures. Because it’s such a…
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Lord, teach us to pray
John 15:7 “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” Do you pray? If you do, what do you pray for? What’s your asking based on? How do you know how to pray? Jesus’ instructions in John 15 give us some deep…
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How to speak – to our self
Psalm 62:5 “For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from Him.” Do you talk to yourself? It’s something perhaps everyone does at one time or another. Sometimes that “talk” is silent, as we roll various thoughts over in our mind. As we lie on our beds at night, sometimes waking…
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Great intercessor
Exodus 28:9-12 “You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel, six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, in the order of their birth. As a jeweler engraves signets, so shall you engrave the two stones with…
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Fear
Psalm 27:1-2 “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” How big is your God? I am convinced that if He is anywhere close to the greatness of the true and living God, all other things will…
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Carried
John 5:17-26 “On one of those days, as He (i.e., Jesus) was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Him to heal.And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was…
To Encourage You 