If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we serve is able to save us. He will rescue us from your power, Your Majesty. But even if he doesn’t, we want to make it clear to you, Your Majesty, that we will never serve your gods or…
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Pray, Christian, pray!
At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you. Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,…
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Put your oxygen mask on first!
Sometimes when I sit down to do my devotions I struggle with what I will spend those precious moments on. Of course I need to read the Bible and hear The Lord’s voice. And then there’s prayer. I need to set my day out before The Lord before I head…
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Prayer’s ultimate motive
And even when you ask, you don’t get [what you want] because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure. (James 4:3 NLT) How often do we think about our motives when we come to God in prayer? And even if we are conscious of our…
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Replacing cacophany with symphony
Cacophony – a harsh discordance of sound; a meaningless mixture of sounds. Not a word I use in a sentence very often. I don’t even recall where I first heard it. But I thought it was a neat word, and it stuck in my head. Interestingly, the only time it…