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PRAYER POWER UNLIMITED
J. Oswald Sanders Confession I will confess my transgressions to the LORD (Psalm 32:5) In considering our second lesson in the school of prayer, we reviewed thanksgiving and recalled the all too frequent times when we had failed to give God thanks. We have often deserved the rebuke that our Lord directed to the nine…
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PRAYER POWER UNLIMITED
J. Oswald Sanders Thanksgiving Give thanks unto the LORD (Psalm 118:1, KJV). The element in prayer is thanksgiving, which is the glad and appreciative acknowledgment of the benefits and blessings God gives, either to ourselves or to others. It is an integral part of prayer, not an addendum to it. Thanksgiving is to be distinguished…
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IMMORTAL LOVE – FOREVER FULL
Amazing Grace John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807–1892 To know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:19) Love is Silence—when your words would hurt.Love is Patience—when your neighbor’s curt.Love is Deafness—when a scandal flows.Love is Thoughtfulness—for others’ woes.Love is Promptness—when stern duty calls.Love is…
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J. Oswald Sanders Preface The supreme importance of prayer is tacitly admitted by most evangelical Christians. It is accepted as an article of faith. And yet there are few areas of the Christian life in which there are more regretful confessions of failure and disappointment. The Author does not pose as an authority on the…
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PRAYER & SPIRITUAL WARFARE
E. M. BoundsChapter 14 Prayer and the House of God And dear to me the loud “Amen,”Which echoes through the blest abode –Which swells, and sinks, then swells again,Dies on the walls — but lives with God! Prayer affects places, times, occasions, and circumstances. It has to do with God and with everything that is…
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LOVE DIVINE, ALL LOVE EXCELLING
Amazing Grace Charles Wesley, 1707–1788 This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. (1 John 4:9) We must never underestimate the power of love in our human relationships—whether marriages, family, business associations, or friendships. The divine love of…
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Morning & Evening
Believer, look back through all thine experience, and think of the way whereby the Lord thy God has led thee in the wilderness, and how he hath fed and clothed thee every day—how he hath borne with thine ill manners—how he hath put up with all thy murmurings, and all thy longings after the flesh-pots…
