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THE MECHANICS OF PRAYER: Commitment — Holding fast to the hand of God
Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving. — Colossians 4:2 There are two ways to approach the subject of commitment to prayer. The first is the general admonition to pray...
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SOUL STRUCTURE: The Bucket Phenomenon
In something that I was reading the other day, I happened upon the author suggesting ways that God works with us in prayer. Not unusually, I had a number of reactions. The first is that we should...
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THE MECHANICS OF PRAYER: Believing in Prayer
It came to me suddenly the other that one very big key to successful praying is that we need to believe in prayer. It sounds obvious. It sounds simple. But it’s neither. We come to prayer in what...
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THE MECHANICS OF PRAYER: The Bill
For the most part, intuitively, we understand how prayer works. When I tell you that a prayer must be a telling of a truth, you nod because that makes perfect sense. When I write that you must be...
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MECHANICS OF PRAYER: Writing Our Own Prayers
This could be subtitled, or, what’s wrong with a lot of prayers out there, but I’ll be nice and just leave the title as it is. I’ve come up with about six(ish) things that I believe are essential for...
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THE MECHANICS OF PRAYER: Order and Evil
It takes a true commitment of time and application to even begin to feel the inner workings of prayer. One has to take a goal, something one truly wants to bring into reality, and swear to do whatever...
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THE MECHANICS OF PRAYER: A Matter of Time, and other elements
I don’t know if it’s my age. Or whether over time, having been exposed (as it were) to God for so many decades that the knowing that I’ve gained has formed grooves of its own in my brain and in my...
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MECHANICS OF PRAYER: Letting God Know You Are Serious
I realized that I was at THAT point in a prayer the other day: the point where I have to step out and get bold. In prayer, there are a couple of elements that are significant, both to the one praying...
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MECHANICS OF PRAYER: The Prayer That Is Never Answered (includes the Realm of...
In almost every way, in our relationship with God there is a continuum: an endless road that allows for progress, for improvement. For almost everything, in our relationship with God, there is no such...
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THE MECHANICS OF PRAYER: The Elements Of An Answered Prayer
Perhaps I haven’t covered this before. I can’t remember. And while having the intention to thumb through past writings, I tend to get distracted by other concerns. (This is known in the English major...
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THE MECHANICS OF PRAYER: In Returning And Rest Shall Ye Be Saved
I have always had the impression that people basically understand prayer. People know that prayers can be answered just the way we imagined. We know that prayers can be answered in a way we didn’t...
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THE MECHANICS OF PRAYER: The Worst Prayer
She sat there at the table. One hand covering a part of the other. Her sweetness so profound it creates its own kind of beauty. I want you to pray for a member of my family. I scrabble for my pen and...
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THE MECHANICS OF PRAYER: Praying For Someone With No Knees
Lately, there is something that I have been forced to sit quietly and consider: the act of praying for someone who doesn’t pray for themselves. On the surface it’s a no-brainer. Someone is in need of...
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My mother, not a kind or generous mother, told me that my first words were the Lord’s Prayer. I have always treasured that knowledge, holding it close as an affirmation of who I am. My badge of...
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