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The necessity of repentance
JESUS! How we need REPENTANCE in our lives! How we need to WAKE UP to the junk we call “treasure.”
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The discipline of waiting
Delay, with its apparent destruction of all hope, can be a deep discipline to the soul that would serve the Lord Jesus. We live in a restless, inpatient day. We have little time for preparation and less for worship. We feel we must be active, energetic, enthusiastic and humanly effective; and we cannot understand why inactivity, weariness, weakness and seeming…
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I need to know thirst
A teacher of the Word I highly admired shared a story from early in his ministry. He was leading a student group while finishing up his post-grad studies. God had brought favor on his ministry and good things were happening. He had a radical dependence on the Spirit through all the work. One night late he was feeling the pressure…
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Favorite passages
If there is any passage I could wear out in any physical Bible, it would be (and is, by the way I look in different translations and see I’ve already been there and marked it up incessantly) Ex. 33:13-23. Almost every day I have a prayer: Seek the favor of God. Moses leads the way for me. He constantly longs…
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Prayers for today
Pray for thirst in the knowledge of Christ today that will not quit.
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Beauty from the ashes
Majesty awaits the American Church.
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Power failure
I was reading through the Gospel of Mark and in Chapter 9 there is the story of the man who brought his son to the disciples and they couldn’t cast it out. By Mark 9:19 I wrote this question to myself in the margin of my Bible: “When will I get tired of my spiritual impotence?” When?
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Walking on Water
We’re not spiritual toddlers any more. It’s time to stop thinking that our 30 seconds of prayer is moving mountains.
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Prayer for the Day – Hunger
Deepen my hunger for you, O Lord. Let deep call to deep. Allow my heart to find new depths and new heights in you. Day by day. Let my heart be famished for holy knowledge. Then, let it be ravaged by your love. Day by day. Hear my prayer, O Lord.
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Is it God… or us?
The place of the miracle… the place of God doing something spectacular… is a dangerous place to be. We, as believers, need to plan. We need to work hard. But at the end of the day, if we have worked hard and planned well and something good happens… is it just us working hard and planning well? Is it just…
Tag: Spiritual hunger
