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| PRAY: Obediently PRAY: Compassionetly PRAY: Importunately PRAY: Incessantly PRAY: In the name of Jesus PRAY: In faith PRAY: Fervently PRAY: Boldy PRAY: In the will of God PRAY: In the Spirit PRAY: Abidingly |
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| A Benediction: May you now, by the power of the Holy Spirit, receive the spirit of prayer. May it become, in the name of Jesus Christ, the most precious occupation of your life. And may the God of all peacce strengthen you, bless you, and give you joy. Amen |
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| Simple Prayer: Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Often we are grieved by th meannesss and selfishness in our childrens requests, but we would be all the more grieved if they never came to us...We are simpy glad that they do come- mixed motives and all. |
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| God receives us just as we are and accepts our prayers just as they are. In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture, so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer. |
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| Prayer is nothing more than an ongoing and growing relationship with God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This is ecspecially true with Simple Prayer. Here, no one has any advantage. The bruised and broken enter Simple Prayer as freely as do the healthy and wealthy. |
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| The Lord loves us- perhaps most of all- when we fail and try again... |
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| Prayer of the Foresaken: Jesus' experience on the cross in which He cried out, " My God, my God, why hast thou foresaken me?" was, of course, utterly unique and unrepeatable, for He was taking into Himself the sin of the world. But sooner or later, we, too, will know what it means to feel foresaken by God. |
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