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Pray Furiously
My reading through Psalms this morning brought me to some passionate prayers again. I then thought of a friend I spoke with yesterday who is going through a hard spot and I began to pray. Then this thought dropped into my heart: “Pray furiously.” It can be to pray “with anger.” But another definition of “furious” is “full of activity.…
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God’s Amazing Ability to Answer Prayer
When we pray with more shameless audacity (Luke 11:8, NIV), it is amazing how many more coincidences happen in our lives.
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Shameless Prayer
5 Then, teaching them more about prayer, he used this story:”Suppose you went to a friend’s house at midnight, wanting to borrow three loaves of bread. You say to him, 6 ‘A friend of mine has just arrived for a visit, and I have nothing for him to eat.’ 7 And suppose he calls out from his bedroom, ‘Don’t bother…
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Kingdom Freedom
The power of the Kingdom, the offer of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, is found in true freedom. It is about freedom from the things that bind us up. It is about being complete in God. The Kingdom already provides that power. We need to recognize it, then walk in it. That is the rub. Being “anger-free” or “lust-free” or…
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Great Followers of God Still Get It Wrong
Hezekiah was one who followed God to a greater degree than most kings before him. His story begins in 2 Kings 18. He not only follows God and does what is right, but he tears down the high places. He finally got rid of the bronze serpent Moses had used in the wilderness. There is this great tribute to his…
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Half Baked Asking
Compare two stories about asking in 2 Kings. In the first story we have Elisha. Elijah asks him what he wanted and Elisha immediately stated boldly, “A double portion.” He wanted the inheritance of the first born. He wanted the legacy of Elijah to rest with him. Bold. Decisive. The second story is the end of Elisha’s life and Jehoash…
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Hype
I will say on this on a blog. This will then automatically connect to my Twitter and Facebook accounts. So, what I’m about to say goes against how I am going to communicate it. That’s the hypocrisy of this exercise. This is about hype. It’s about how in the western Church we are all about what is “epic” or the…
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Elijah and Prayer
It irritates me that James 5:17,18 reminds us that Elijah was human just like us. Then, James goes on to tell us that Elijah prayed for rain to cease and it did. Then, he prayed for it to rain and it did. That stuff isn’t human. Right? But it is. Very human. And Elijah was human just like us. My prayers are far too…
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Fear of the Lord is the START of Wisdom
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all who follow his precepts have good understanding. To him belongs eternal praise. (Psalm 111:10, NIV) Holy respect is always a good start. It keeps me from thinking of God as my “beer buddy,” or some other inane term we like to think of when we want God to just like us…
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Give Us This Day
One of my daily practices is to wake up saying the Lord’s Prayer. As I begin to move around in the morning, I try to remember to slowly walk through the prayer and stop on key phrases so I can meditate more. It settles my heart and on anxious mornings when my mind is racing with things to do or…
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