By Dr. James Denison, pastor of First Baptist Church of Midland, Texas, in 50 Day Spiritual Adventure Manual – Daring to Dream Again Lord, forgive me—I’ve failed you again. Some believers wouldn’t consider it a failure, but I know better. It’s not prayerlessness, nor evil thoughts, or vain imagination. No, I’ve failed you in a […]
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The Jesus Prayer Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, (inhale slowly) Have mercy on me, a sinner. (exhale slowly) “Breath is directly connected to both the autonomous nervous system and the voluntary nervous system. In other words, we can control our breathing, and it goes on automatically when we are not aware of it—unconscious, asleep, […]
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Drop the Rock highlights We surrender as much of ourselves to as much of God as we understand. Surrender prayer God we want to… “change fear into faith, hate into love, egoism into humility, anxiety and worry into serenity, complacency into action, denial into acceptance, jealousy into trust, fantasy into reality, selfishness into service, resentment […]
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Asher Yatzar Blessed are You, Hashem our God, King of the universe, Who formed man with wisdom and created within him many openings and many hollows. It is obvious and known before Your Throne of Glory that if even one of them ruptures, or if even one of them becomes blocked, it would be impossible […]
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Prayer of Thanksgiving for Surprises For a friend’s unexpected call, for a letter unforeseen, for the sunlight bursting through thick clouds, for a porpoise frolicking in the water, for seals basking in the sun, for an invitation to dinner on a lonely eve, for a request to “come along”; for all the wonderful surprises of […]
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by Walter Wangerin “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” Luke 22:42 Night. There is a cold light falling from the indifferent stars—a light like the finest of snows, pale on the ground, pale on the hair and shoulders of a sad band of […]
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Knowing all this-that prayer is dangerous, that it moves our language into potencies we are unaccustomed to and unprepared for it continually puzzles me that so much prayer sounds so limp, that prayer is often so utterly banal. The limpness and banality may be no more common in pastors than in laypeople, but they are […]
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The Romans Road to Salvation (Memorize this) Romans 3:23 My Reality: Ruin “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 6:23 My Just Reward “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 5:8 God’s Remedy “God demonstrates his own […]
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