Ecstasy in Prayer: Revelation
When the Lamb opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven. God listens to us as well as speaks to us. We are taken seriously. We realize dignity. He demands silence so that the…
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The Humility of Prayer: Lamentations
Jeremiah prophesied and experienced the exile and the captivity of the Jews to Babylon in 586 B.C. It lasted for seventy years: Jeremiah 29:10. If the Exodus was a story of deliverance and the exuberance…
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The Intimacy of Prayer: Song of Solomon
Solomon’s love song may be interpreted as the relationship of a man and a woman in marriage, the relationship of God with His people (Israel/Church), or as the intimacy that develops between Christ and a…
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Vanity of Prayerlessness: Ecclesiastes
People are obsessed with becoming something other than what they are meant to be. We become self-indulgent in fulfilling our desires, usually in the arenas of more money, sex, power, or adventure. At first, everything…
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Walking In Prayerful Wisdom: Proverbs
I receive your words as the reality and the authority for my life. I will store up your commands and guard them with my humble and obedient life. Your Word will make me whole and…
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The Language of Prayer: Psalms
The Psalms are a prayer book giving us a language for responding to the God who speaks to us. They give voice to the entire experience of being human (celebration and lamentation, instruction and direction,…
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Desperation and Prayer: Job
In A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, Eugene Peterson states that “To be human is to be in trouble. Job’s anguish is our epigraph: ‘Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.’ …
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Poetry and Prayer
Wisdom is living in response to the sovereign and saving grace of God. It is living in a godly and skillful way in whatever conditions and circumstances that come our way. The way we think…
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Encounters of the Divine Kind, Conclusion
Incredible people and intriguing stories are all a part of God’s greater creation and salvation narrative. As we obey the command and participate in the opportunity to share the good news of the kingdom of…
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Encounters of the Divine Kind, Part 2
The commission of Jesus Christ to His followers is to proclaim the good news of His kingdom to the nations of the world. This commission is also a command to be obeyed by each follower. …
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