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Praying Bold Prayers
I just came back from an incredibly refreshing prayer retreat. It is so nice to be challenged in the Word and in prayer. One of the great challenges came from the messages and the Lord speaking to me right off the bat. It was basically this: NO MORE NICE PRAYERS. The thought for me is here: “Nice prayers don’t reflect…
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The Path of Longing
4 Make your ways known to me, Lord; teach me your paths. 5 Lead me in your truth—teach it to me— because you are the God who saves me. I put my hope in you all day long. (Ps. 25:4-5, CEB) The nature of the Kingdom is to ASK. It is also necessary that when we ask… we wait for the answer. Too often…
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One Thing I Ask
I have asked one thing from the Lord— it’s all I seek— to live in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, seeing the Lord’s beauty and constantly adoring his temple. (Psalm 27:4, CEB) Being away on prayer retreat, this is one thing I need to keep in front of me. I need to ask just one thing. I may have my…
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The Place of Intimacy in Prayer
The first few days of this week I get the privilege of being away at a prayer retreat. Three days of coming aside and hearing from God. I am so incredibly excited! This week as a church we are reflecting on prayer and intimacy. We are reading Psalms 23-32. All of these are psalms by David and give us insight…
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The Pain of Intercession
Moses offers us a picture of intercession. It is probably a picture we would rather look at and observe than imitate. Intercession is hard work. Israel stayed at the base of the mountain and let Moses do the climbing to God. Intercession calls us out. To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure…
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Moses Knew the Ways of God
One of Dallas Willard’s mantra is this: The nature of the Kingdom is to ASK. Moses is a picture of asking. He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel (Ps. 103:7, NIV) Israel knew what God did. Moses knew why God did it. We have that choice. Moses did. How did he know the ways of God? He asked. If you are pleased…
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Changing the Mind of God
11 But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, “Lord, why does your fury burn against your own people, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and amazing force? 12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘He had an evil plan to take the people out and kill them in the mountains and so wipe them off the earth’? Calm down…
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Our Impatience in Prayer
The people saw that Moses was taking a long time to come down from the mountain. They gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come on! Make us gods who can lead us. As for this man Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t have a clue what has happened to him.” (Ex. 32:1, CEB)…
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The Ineloquence of Prayer
A.W. Tozer: When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a…
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